doug

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[–] doug 32 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Even if I went offline, so far I have seen ai slop seeping into:

  • video games (even by big studios like Outlast Trials or COD)
  • smaller merchants at local events or malls
  • commercials (even big companies like Coke, Mazda, and smaller ads)

I can’t imagine how much worse it’ll get with the flood gates opened.

I would not want to be a stock photographer or model right now.

[–] doug 12 points 16 hours ago

One of the most fascinating After Effects tutorials I’ve ever followed (and of course the technology it’s mimicking) was how to recreate a CRT effect by dissecting three color channels from one another and placing them together close enough to fake the entire palette. It’s just fascinating how much our eyes can extrapolate from illusions.

[–] doug 3 points 1 day ago

I watch playthroughs of this for background noise sometimes. It’s just cozy nostalgia for me.

[–] doug 3 points 2 days ago

The Obamas produced an end-of-the-world movie a few years ago wherein a character gives the same idea as a realization; nobody’s in charge and we’re just flying by the seat of our pants. In any other context it wouldn’t have stuck with me, but it did ‘cause I saw their names attached to it.

[–] doug 16 points 2 days ago

Did you write letters to the editor every time you read Family Circus or Wizard of Id?

[–] doug 120 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

My wife and I went to what we thought was a suuuuper leftist bar in Berlin; Marxist stuff all over the walls, anti-Nazi stuff, etc., but the bartender stopped my wife from entering the restroom, accusing them of not being a cis woman. Sullied the whole goddamn vibe of the place.

TERFs are such awkward bigots in that they have no endgame other than to see your fuckin’ genitals. No safety, no greater good, just do you have a dick or not?

[–] doug 18 points 4 days ago

It’s called a line break. Now I know why you needed someone proficient in MS Word!

[–] doug 10 points 4 days ago

It’s a store, they sell clothes, I worked there.

 
[–] doug 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

THATS THE WORD I DIDNT WANT. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1!!

[–] doug 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Oh thank god that last word was “winking.”

[–] doug 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No it’s OK I was in the same boat reading some of these. Like yes, there is absolutely going to be some necessities dry up, but I do not care one iota that disposable, wasteful cheap shit is going to go away. Oh darn! Less waste!

I’m sure I’m missing something here; like the waste will probably go elsewhere, but I’m desperate for silver linings to this hellscape.

[–] doug 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God I wish the satanic panic had real satanists and dark magic behind it. That’d have been soooooo dope.

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