Military Surplus & BBQ

Expect monsters and anime and comic books.

[seasonofhorror]

ALIEN

1979, dir. Ridley Scott

[shelderon]

I just recently had a customer come in who used Chat GPT to generate their own T-shirt proof. So they gave me that jpg and I had to cut the image out of the shirt and isolate it from the background just to work on it. The resulting image had the virtues of being both an incredibly complex design AND pixelated garbage. So I sent my post-cleanup image off to a vectorizing company and they had to use AI to clean it up into a usable quality. And the vectorizing was going to cost triple of their usual fee which was double what I had already invoiced the customer for setup. So 2 AI assisted artwork jobs and my time doing cleanup on the inadequacies of the first rendering. I hate AI generated garbage.

[kocalls]

[pinkhibiscus12]

this looks like something my grandma would film.

[angreav]

@glendathegoodone @moosemittens23 @russalex @ladyoftheteaandblood @starynighty @nuggsmum @scully2u @littlefreya @ladyharlequinreaperstuff @middleagedandoutoftouch @inkededucatednnerdy

[apolladay]

Which of my favorite 80s movies is your favorite?

Back to the Future 1

The Breakfast Club

When Harry Met Sally

The Karate Kid 1

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Princess Bride

Labyrinth

Heathers

Which of my favorite 80s movies is your favorite?

Back to the Future 1

The Breakfast Club

When Harry Met Sally

The Karate Kid 1

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Princess Bride

Labyrinth

Heathers

a different 80s movie

results

Voting ended onJun 3

[shelderon]

Man, don't make me have to choose between The Princess Bride and Labyrinth!

[nonconcept]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[oswinunknown]

BROTHER IM BACK AT SQUARE ONE

[anerdliveshere]

Ability to talk to animals but a chance of dying each time i use it

What about you, my love? @safetypinserenade-remade

[safetypinserenade-remade]

I can control time but only once a month 🤔 honestly that's okay. Fun time travel adventure each month

[shelderon]

"You can shape shift" "But using it leaves bold marks all over your body" Actually I like the aesthetics of the side-effect more than the power. Shape shifting was "Meh, this isn't going to be worth it." But like, I turn into an alligator and when I turn back I have anomalous alligator tattoo-like marks all over me? That is kind of cool and unique.

[l00ney-m00ny]

Some screenshots from my quick fly around this evening.

[fanservice]

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[blondebrainpowered]

David Attenborough in a cloud of butterflies in Paraguay, 1959

[rightstickdev]

it's been a while, have a fuzzy bug

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#you can teach babies sign language before words?#huh i guess i always assumed they'd gain language at the same rate regardless of whether it's spoken or signed

Babies gain language much earlier than they start talking. They can understand you before they know how to make the right word sounds with their mouths. Speaking, like writing, is a feat of incredible physical coordination that we generally undervalue because it's been muscle memory for years or decades, but it involves a lot of very precise coordinated physical movements that take a lot longer to learn than the words themselves do for someone who's new at this whole having a body thing. Complex language is also not all that critical for baby sign language. To a baby, communicating hunger via crying or via reaching towards your food isn't markedly different to communicating it with a hand gesture, and they don't need particularly sophisticated language skills to do any of those things, so you can start teaching them hand signs pretty much as soon as they have a concept of deliberately communicating with others.

Babies do need simple gestures, though, because they're not any better at coordinating their fingers than they are their lips.

[porterdavis]

This is weird, but it's good weird.

[enabianca]

[nostalgia-eh52]

[the-reblog-squad-deactivated202]

Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.

[shelderon]

I have too many ideas and not enough time to write them. I don't need AI telling me how to write it. I need AI bringing us down to a 4 day work week at the same salary.

[diesellesbian]

Since when has technology meant less work? There are 4 day work weeks out there without Ai. We had asperations beyond cooking around fires and living under tents and now that we have more and more technology we work harder and harder and now a lot of us cant wait to go relax in a tent by the fire. We should have listened to the fisherman's story about just sticking to fishing instead if building an empire so we can fish.

[shelderon]

@diesellesbian I didn't mean that as a literal thing that I want AI to do, or that AI could do, I meant that as something that would aid individual creative endeavor rather than replace it.

[diesellesbian]

There are books and youtube lessons and classes and shop keepers to guide you in improving your creative endeavors. To improve you can get sketchbooks, notebooks, scrap materials, dependent on your skill, a word processor if youre writing. I still like pen to paper for a distraction free brainstorm. Do the thing. Get reps. Get sleep. Just do it. Creativity is a talent, yes, but it's a muscle. Go to the gym. Dont get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery muscles look silly. Dont be that person.

[shelderon]

I've got 1 crowd-funded ongoing webcomic, a 2nd webcomic that I put on hiatus due to lack of time, 2 fleshed out novels that at least have written introductory chapters, 3 ball-jointed dolls with incomplete (hand sewn) outfits, and a half-finished puzzle box. What I don't have is time. I'm not even one of those people who is like "My 9-to-5 drains me of creative energy and I can't produce anything!" Just between my job and my home life I can just barely keep that 1 webcomic going, the one I can justify spending time on because it is monetized. (And I am more on the giving art lessons side of the market than receiving them) But comic subscriptions, art commissions and art lessons all seem to be in decline since the advent of generative AI. And yeah I find doodling in margins or pulling out my analog pencil sketch book is occasionally relaxing as well.

[morphmaker]

are there palm tree Ents