Lost in what's forever more

Vi // He/him/his (male, cis) // 1991 Avatar art from TWRP's music video for "Starlight Brigade".

[explodingsilver]

I've seen some posts trying to make fun of former gifted kids by comparing them to former student athletes who insist that they could have gone pro if not for a specific injury, and those posts always backfire, because my reaction to them is "You're right, we should treat former student athletes with more compassion than we currently do"

[self-loving-vampire]

I went from being very physically active to getting the "your body doesn't make energy properly anymore" disability so I can completely understand the grief that comes with circumstances outside your control destroying parts of you you were once proud of and locking you out of the life you could have had. It's not a good feeling.

[ajaxgb]

The setting of Paranatural is like if you had a group of people working on a jigsaw puzzle, but each person decided to palm a dozen important-looking pieces and hide them under their bed so they can work on "the real puzzle" in secret. None of the people can figure out why the puzzle is taking so long.

[swagophile]

[anxious, concerned] im so fucked. theres so many things about me my friends would hate if they found out about. if anyone knew who i really am id be completely and torally despised [thinks a little harder] But thats fine. Everyone is like this. Its normal actually. Everyone is secretly evil but its not a big deal. Its like chill.

[echo-heo]

a sitcom is a genre of comedy in which you are sitting

[willowhelmiam]

The opposite of stand-up

[oru-tree]

Read a ghost story so you know

[oru-tree]

Read a ghost story so you can help me update the old relationship chart I made a while ago

[beesmygod]

oh my god oh my god. never be embarassed of this ive been thinking of making my own version of this kind of thing lately. im so delighted by this!!!!!!

[spectershaped]

It sounds like I am being cheeky and cutting when I'm like "I wonder what the median Animation Grunt from overseas (or even from, like, the studio's local Flatting Department or whatnot) thinks about AI rather than these showrunner types" but I think it's a legitimately interesting question (that I'm not super sure how I'd even try researching on my own, though). We've seen a lot of workers in desk jobs and such complaining about mandatory use of AI-ish widgets with no clear understanding of how you're supposed to "boost productivity" with it, and I think that's a much more compelling angle to tackle the issue of "AI" in the art industry than "it kills the soul of art" or "it makes so-called 'artists' lazy" whatnot. I do think the existence of synthography brings up some questions about art and the artistic process that are worth asking in good faith, but it seems to me that that's a completely different vein to tackle, and in a much less urgent manner, than actual labor issues that were extant before the technology even if they're changed by it to some degree

It just feels very, very weird to me to bring up stuff like "these are shortcuts for lazy people" when talking about the kinds of industries where people are absurdly overworked. It's correct that technology alone does not solve the labor issues inherent to how everything is run under the power of capital, but it feels like that is the more salient point and it's one that doesn't "debunk" AI itself so much as it further evinces the stuff that was going on before it appeared

[spectershaped]

Get his ass

[spectershaped]

I love how Paranatural has all sorts of different types of Person Who Keeps Doing Wordplay That Cannot Be Contained by the Narration Alone

You got your hammy villain types (Davy, Fauxbia, DuNacht), your cheeky little shits (Max), your more agressive little shits (Johnny), your hammy villain type wannabes (the Student Council), your guys who are clearly trying to sound wise (Dr. Bigfoot, Doorman), your Chuuninbyou Javert (Serge), your people who are constantly deflecting through humor (Sophie, Pleezdoo, Mayor Hijack), your theater kids (Penny), your underpaid The Joker (Rose),

[bish0ps]

accused of using too many ellipses... don't care... there's always more to come...

[acapmics]

[acapmics]

[spectershaped]

It was only a matter of time until I did one of these

[finalfantasyvii]

[spectershaped]

Still thinking about this Paranatural bit

[spectershaped]

It turns out there are minerals called adamite and eveite. So it's only a matter of time until some right wing media group tries to make Straight Steven Universe

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[batgirlsmell]

theoryslop. you only believe in it because it has evidence supported by and relating to the narrative and themes of the work