Sort your fucking life out, mate

Just a big ol' nerd and all-purpose sleazy online jerk.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Man with a Thousand Names by Tim White

[nanivel]

Noise Marine Denatar in his glam punk era before DeathWatch :D

[zmpl]

it’s funny how we’re getting to the point in the AI lifespan where you can feel the desperation from tech companies to have you use their AI features. instagram has moved their AI effects to the top of the menu when you’re creating a post for your story, exactly where the draw/edit button used to be. gmail is creating one-click AI-generated replies right before you open up the text box. spotify put a beta AI playlist generator on the front page that looks just like a search bar so all of their users accidentally click on it when they go to search for a song.

tech companies are shaking in their boots trying to prove to shareholders that their investment in AI is worth it, to the point where they’re tricking their users into using the AI features even for a split second in order to fudge the numbers. like awww is your little environment-destroying toy not wielding the results you hoped for? so sad!

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

That, and the attitude to the police that's always like "Guh! You're making their jobs harder by making them have to follow all those rules! You should just let them follow their keen gut instincts and arrest anyone who looks shifty based on vibes!" is very strange to me.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

As an aside, it's always nuts to me that the police or whatever can slip up and be caught on camera being all "Oh, by the way, how is it going on making up crimes to arrest that guy we don't like for?" and it can be seen and known that they're doing it and it's all fake and made up but that doesn't really... seem to matter all that much?

It's just weird.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Orion II by Isaiah

[chungledown-bimothy]

Upside to stop and go traffic- I could get a picture of these absolutely iconic bumper stickers.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Could just be my imagination but it feels somewhat significant that nowadays when The Powers That Be try and sell you on the idea of the future it's less "It's going to be so cool! Things will be better!" and more "It's inevitable so shut up and stop whining".

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

On the one hand sometimes GW's endless self-referencing can be a little tiring, because it feels like they're just reusing the same material endlessly (because they, you know, are).

On the other, sometimes it feels like easter eggs, because honestly even I didn't know how old a lot of the lines in this cutscene were.

Behold! From the 2nd edition wargear book!

(Also in this instance they've kind of mashed together this and a couple things and eh, it's hard for me to be mad because I'm a huge mark. I just think it's neat!

[nintendometro]

Choose Your Character ‘Super Smash Bros.’ Nintendo 64

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Cover art: Peter Elson (United Kingdom, 1947-1998) The Variable Man and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick (1977)

[inorheona]

forget trying to explain dubstep to a victorian child, try to explain genAI to yourself from ten years ago. they invented predictive text on steroids and people take its words as gospel. ceos fully believe that glorified autocomplete can replace millions of employees and many people are fired or forced to edit machine's vomit. creative fields are in shambles, everything is slop. anyone can publicly make porn of anyone in one click, yes, including children. no, there are no consequences for that. nothing feels real. no one can apparently write an email anymore. I'd have a stroke.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Also, unrelated, but while Orks remain my favourite 40k jobbers par excellence owing to their ability (and noted proclivity) to be anywhere in basically limitless numbers, the close runner-up for me would, of course, be the lost and the damned.

There's just something so endearing to me about Chaos just having this explicitly limitless pool of generic minions. You need cultists? We got 'em. Also mutants, renegades, pirates, rebels - whatever you need, we got it! Are they an untrained rabble? Traitor guardsmen and their kit? A bit of both? Whatever you like!

It's not really represented on the tabletop anymore and hasn't really been since, say, the Eye of Terror codex (or maybe Vraks?) but these guys are doing the heavy lifting most of the time, you know? The numberless hordes of frothing lunatics and blithely evil meatshields for the CSM to throw around.

If you need someone for your marines to gun down by the score as they discuss something philosophical, they do a good job!

[redarmyscreaming]

Boirault machine, a French WWI experimental barbed wire crusher

[ultrakillblast]

FRITZ THE CAT (1972)

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

The BBC’s nominal commitment to ‘balance and impartiality’ always tickles me, because sometimes it’s galling when they’re giving a fair shake to someone or something that really, clearly doesn’t deserve it, but sometimes it’s just amusing.

Trump was in New York for the basketball. As he’s the president, this meant that, basically, a big ol’ chunk of the city around the basketball was locked down with security and checkpoints and such, which meant people had to wait long times to get in, couldn’t really move around easily, couldn’t go to parties, had to cancel parties, that bars that should have been rammed were deserted, and so on. Basically, his presence was a huge wet blanket over the affair, and people were understandably unhappy about it.

But the BBC did find at least one guy who could muster the energy to say: “I think it really put a damper on all the watch parties. But it's pretty cool he wants to show up and be a part of it."

Pretty cool.

Pretty cool he wants to show up.

Journalism! Balance!

One guy says it’s cool, yeah!

[zamagi]

how did they know

[sourcreammachine]

john raul porge and gringo