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trslim @pawb.social

2w ago

What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?

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Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it's pretty fucking wild.
- At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.
- What?
  
  Computer silicon and transformer models
  
  They’re talking about computer chips. We dug up rocks, melted them down, and extracted the parts we wanted. Then we engraved arcane and imperceptible runes on and inside of them, using an extremely expensive and delicate process. Then we trapped lightning inside of them, and told them to show us videos of cats.

Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being "too powerful" or "unrelatable." They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a "boy scout," as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
- Superman probably pays more in taxes than Batman.
  
  That is probably because Batman doesn't pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
  And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, ... are funded by them.
  And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
  Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
- Overly Sarcastic Productions has done a number of videos they call detail diatribes that have focused on Superman. The summary of many of them is that Superman is his most interesting when saving people and not when punching villains. Even in larger team fights, he could save everyone or hold off the threat, but he can't do both so he needs the help of others.
- I actually love superman being a normal dude who saves people with a smile. He should be a good person in stories, because his strength isnt the point, his willpower to help everyone is.
- They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers.
  Okay, but he's a billionaire super-scientist who occasionally uses occult magicks. How does none of this qualify?
  Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America
  Sure, but how many modern day Americans could relate to growing up on a farm? Or getting a job in journalism?
  The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary.
  I think superheroes are largely defined by their villains. And Lex Luthor - as an individual who regularly does struggle to dominate the world (and periodically succeeds with mixed results) - makes an excellent foil for this exact reason. Superman is, at his heart, just a guy trying to do the right thing. Luthor is an ego-maniacal fascist who cannot conceive of having less than total control.
  The best Superman stories are ones that illustrate the practical limits of a seemingly omnipotent individual. It's Superman's struggles - his poor choices, his desire for human affection, his naive optimism, his inability to be everywhere at once - that make him relatable. The idea of Superman as a maximal human who still can't do everything has a way of taking the load of us, comparably weak and vulnerable people, who strive for just as much as a fictional demigod.
- Superman has the ability to remove Capitalists from power and chooses not to. That is why I don't care for Superman.
- Have you ever read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%3A_Red_Son ?
  I'm not a big fan of Superman stuff, but I found that one to be pretty interesting.
  
  It's a good one. That one and All-Star Superman are the two I always recommend to people.
- He's a power fantasy for those who if they had all the power in the world just want to use it to help

AMD > Nvidia
- There's simply no reason why a GPU should have proprietary drivers, when that is a core, basically inseparable part of a computer. You literally NEED one to see what you're doing with your computer (yes, integrated graphics also count).
  I mean, imagine if your sound card had proprietary drivers. The world would go nuts.
  
  Printers should not need drivers anymore. There should have been a standard protocol for them by now.

Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
- Yeah, the fandom is… Not great. It’s basically just an American anime, but the online fans are rabid.
  It honestly reminds me of the fandom for Undertale. If you only ever play the game, you’ll have a wonderful time. But if you ever do some online searches to try to dig into it further or find people to discuss it with, you’ll quickly discover that the online fandom is extremely toxic.
- I tried so hard but it just didn’t click with me.
  
  That's OK. No piece of art or media is gonna be everyone's Thing.
- My daughter introduced me to that show. I enjoyed watching it with her.
  Greg fucking rules.
- I think the fandom is so crappy about it because the show had to cut out most of the redemption arc of the big bads because it was prematurely cancelled. If so that’s pretty silly because it came about after the creator stuck up for a lesbian wedding being included.
- I'd say the same thing for generation 4 of My Little Pony.

I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
- I actually preferred the early days, I don't like most of the recent updates and I haven't played in probably a year. I can't really explain why except now it feels too busy.
- Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you'll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.
- stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
  lololololololololol
- What is no man's sky
  
  A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
  And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/

Charlie Kirk getting fucking holed
- If he's so pro life, why is he dead?
  
  If he was anti-vax why did get a shot?
- They had the actual footage was on YouTube. Well it was this afternoon at least.
  Will this be the new "Hey man, nice shot"?
- Literally just got banned from the red place for saying "lol, I don't give a fuck" for promoting or threatening violence.
- Brave and contrary.

The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices
- Especially toasted. So much crunch.
- Now that’s a spicy take
  
  I enjoy the heels (what I've called the ends of the loafs) because the crust helps with the structure of the sandwich. The fillings are less likely to break through the crust and spill out compared to the open pocket structure of the insides of the loaf.
- Crust is the best part of any food intended to have a crust!

Interstellar
- Tenet
  I don’t care if it has plot holes. It’s still an awesome movie.
  
  I wish it had better a final act than two almost identical armies fighting in a desert. Reminded me of FPS games the late 2000s.
  
  I haven't seen it yet, what are the plot holes?
- C'mon Tars!
- Someone said interstellar was bad? Who said that?!!! Hold my beer.
  
  me, I said it

Speed Racer (2008)
Uniquely colorful, silly, wholesome, every single one of its frames oozes style and creativity. It's exactly what an animated adaptation should aim to be and will forever stand out against the blue and orange, brown and bloom palettes that plagued that era of media.
It's simply so visually exciting and fun.
- https://youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4
  This was the video essay that won me over to that film.
  Also this video (much shorter) is just funny: https://youtu.be/WC0YAJR6xQQ
- Not a great movie but the villain speech is one of the greatest of all time

Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.
BUT: a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all? b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest.
- The argument that these people act too stupid has become irrelevant since we had a pandemic.
- I worked in science, pre-clinical pharma, for 11 years before switching careers. I can fucking assure you that scientists and people really are THAT stupid about shit. Complacency from routines or experience is real as fuck.
- I used to be one of those people, that good and bad movies were black and white. I was stupid for thinking so.
  Movies can be good for different moods and audiences. Sometimes I want to watch a heart wrenching drama, Oscar style, and I can get up after it and think wow that moved me. That is a good movie.
  Sometimes I'm feeling in a funk and I don't know what to watch, o I want to watch giant robots punch aliens with minimal plot. That movie is also good, just for a different mood.
- Yes, once we saw how people behaved during the height of the pandemic I knew these people would be throwing themselves at the zombies.
  
  Can't get turned into a zombo if I'm already one! C'mere and gimme that hug!
- Have the characters act smart, and come up with better plot points so that there is still drama?
- Yeah, Im actually a big fan of Michael Bay's Transformers. Are they good? Ehhhh. But man i have so much fun with them, and Im glad they exist.

https://feddit.org/post/18578350
I also like Never Gonna Give You Up, even though that's generally not my style of music at all.
- Hard no on the food, but I'm with you on Never Gonna Give You Up. I sometimes klick obvious rickrolling links just to listen to it.
  I also unironically like Wonderwall.
- The food looks a little odd, but reasonable. The chocolate is... Someone replied saying chocolate tastes good with savory food, which is true, but IDK about that combo!!
  
  Salami + chocolate is probably a dud, but fries and chocolate? Give it to me! Or maybe not, I'm trying to lose weight.

Sonic The Hedgehog
- YES 100% Sonic was always cool.
- Specifically, Tamers’ “Sonic The Hedgehog Gets Stuck In A Hole Because He’s Fat”
  
  Sonic gets stuck in a washer machine.

~~The Force Awakens~~ The Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new direction
- My main gripe with TLJ is that the editing is a total mess. Multiple scenes lose continuity between shots. The most egregious example is the milk scene, which in addition to being gross and unnecessary, was clearly jammed in between two shots meant to be continuous. Rey and Luke start walking down a skinny peninsula, no space cow in sight, then hard cut to space cow and Luke milking it, then hard cut back to the end of the peninsula and Luke setting down his stuff.
  
  You know we drink milk from COWS right?
- Ooh that is one I vehemently disagree with lol. It was a ok movie if it was its own thing, but it wasn't a good star wars movie, it was worse for being in the sequel trilogy as opposed to a stand alone star wars movie, and it was even worse for being the middle of that trilogy. The more context you add the worse it is imo
  
  I've read that it could have been something if the third sequel didn't change direction again. I tend to agree with that, the lack of consistency hurt the sequels a lot - why make a trilogy of narratively connected movies if you can't even manage to get all the directors on the same page? Other than "I like money", of course.
- I like scenes, many scenes in the movie; the whole movie? Nah, it's not as horrendous as people make it out to be, but still…
  I love the whole scene in the throne room. Nice supversion of expectation, great execution.
  
  This right here is the way. Yeah they had some singular scenes that were very nice. They also had a Casino heist in the middle of a Chase sequence. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's that movie in a nutshell some really cool scenes right next to some of the stupidest shit you've ever seen.
  
  One of my main gripes with TLJ is that subversion of expectation kind of stops working when you do it like 5-7 times in one movie.
  The other main issue is that Cantonica should have had a 15 minute podrace scene instead of the giraffythingies.
- Do you mean The Last Jedi? Force awakens was the first of the new trilogy and was directed by JJ Abrams. If so, agreed.
  
  Ooops, fixed!
- I didn't hate the movie, but it shouldn't have been the middle part of a trilogy that he didn't have control over.
- I agree that TLJ was the best in the sequel trilogy. I still have very mixed feelings about it, but I do like a lot of it. And at least it was something different and unique, and I appreciate that.

A little ketamine just as the lsd or shrooms kick in.
- Just a little ket as a treat
- I don't feel the k is really necessary, I just recommend the psychs alone. It feels dumb that this is illegal.
  
  For first timers, start light, have a trip sitter.
- what does it feel like
  
  It's difficult to describe if you haven't tried drugs. Maybe a lessening of your ego and a different perspective on your life. The combo of psychedelic and dissociative gives a powerful experience. Best approached with a definite question or two about life for when the psychedelic bit calms down and the introspective bit starts.
  But also like Alan Watts says, once you get the message, hang up the phone.

I like listening to some of the shittiest songs ever made mixed in with some of the best songs ever made, on shuffle. About 6400 songs now, extremely different genres. Digbar was my 3rd biggest artist last year lol
- You should add MC Hellshit and DJ Carhouse’s “Live” (1996) to your list.

Nickelback. I don't know why they get so much hate, their music is actually decent
- Nickelback had a VERY distinctive style, to the point you could mix their songs together "This is how you remind me to wish you'd unclench your fists" style and people wouldn't notice. They're relative lack of range caused them to wear out their welcome a LOT faster than average.
  They deserve every last dollop of shit they got for No Fixed Address though.
- Some of there songs are dope
- They just got played to death on the radio and his voice is pretty distinctive so all the songs sound the same. And it's a bandwagon thing.
- It was like the stars aligned when Nickelback guy married Avril Lavigne. Canada’s finest together at last!

Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
- Vibe coding has a niche, which is people who can read, understand, and debug code, but can't remember the syntax or can't be arsed to write everything manually. It's good for blocking in right now, basically, and that's an entirely valid use of the technology
  
  Yes please.
  I’ve found ai useful as a tool especially when switching context to a different language or framework, as a quicker way to get the syntax and features, to generate a first approximation. It works and saves time
  vibe coding is a horrendous waste of my time doing code reviews. Don’t people look at the slop their tool generates and try to refine it? Why is it ok to waste my time like this?
  Edit: just did yet another code review generated with “vibe coding” and there is so much slop that will create maintainability issues in the future - did everyone forget the truism that code is much more expensive to maintain than to create? So much duplicated code, misleading names, useless and excessive tests, hard-coded strings duplicated, etc. …… and I found an entire generated function very close to identical to one the same guy already created
  
  Yeah, vibe coding is fantastic for “I want to give this input {a}, have it do {function}, and return result {z}” types of code.
  The issue is that being able to articulate that to an AI already basically requires you to think like a programmer. And many of the people getting into vibe coding don’t have that kind of mindset. They want to just go “give me a program that does {z}” and expect it to work.
- AI coding, “vibe coding”
  We call it 'slopping'
  
  Not everything AI generates is slop. It is only when used by commercial instances, like businesses and people who want to sell their art.
  Let me guess, you frequent the "Fuck AI" sub?
  
  No we don't
- Nice an actual controversial take. Im glad more people are getting into coding because of AI honestly. Anyone can code (not just a saying).
  Me im impressed sometimes, but its only good for scripting languages. Start getting into compiled or anything beyond templates and it falls on its face.
  
  Anyone can code (not just a saying).
  Anyone who is willing to invest the effort in understanding program flow can code.
  
  That was my experience a few months ago as well, but recently I've actually been using it almost exclusively with rust, the extra type safety and language safety features have helped a lot with the end code quality.
  Claude in particular has been really impressive with compiled languages, it does take a bit more hand holding to get something workable out than with javascript or python though.
- Yeah, take the enshittification out and +1.
  How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t it be awesome if people could do less of that, and do more personal stuff like “make this niche program to cuz I want to, and share it,” or “make a game as a passion project” because the bar to entry isn’t an expensive CS education?
  
  How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t
  Honestly, very little. Unless you're in a "not designed here" environment. There's a lot of open source applications/libraries out there that can be added to your project to get what you need.
  But I do agree, vibe coding can be great as long as it's just for one off small projects. Need to do a quick computation or a quick POC and don't want to spend the time setting everything up? Great!
  But if you want to build an application that's used by 1000 or even millions and receives regular updates? Please follow best practices / design patterns, etc... otherwise you'll be rewiring the entire codebase every time you want to add a new feature.

Vlogging is not vanity. It’s a special way to capture memories to share with others currently. And to view yourself and others in a time capsule, a stasis where you can view the old world
I want to view my vlogs as an elder and appreciate my memories, even more than I thought I did when I filmed them
- If that's your motive sure. If your motive is to become a social media influncer then...no.
- Idk I'm 50/50 in this one. I feel the production of video can have negative effects on being present in the moment and enjoying things while they happen instead of looking back nostalgically
  
  I don’t vlog enough to have this issue. I live in the moment

Cats. I used to be a dog person until I rescued this little red oxytocin potato.
- awwww that sounds adorable

Saving money. I take pride in doing my research and getting the best deal instead of just stumbling into the first store I come across and paying for whatever the sales person talks me into. The latter wouldn't even hurt me financially, it's just a thing of principle.
- This is me with travel I typically spend 2-3000 less than other couples when going to the same destination and end up in the same hotels.

While there were some truly awful moments in the last season of game of thrones, danaerys' arc was not one of them. Her going nuts was hinted at from the beginning and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
- The problem isn’t the heel turn, the problem was that it happened on like 4 episodes. Rushed and lacked the time to show motive.
  Of course a Targaryen would go insane in their lust for power. The game of thrones consumes everyone.
  It just sucks that the show runners were like “and then she goes nuts and loses it all ok? The end. We’re gonna fuck off and make Stsr Wars now.” and it was so bad they even lost from Star Wars lol
  
  See here's the controversial take. I don't agree with you at all. It was literally built up for the entire series and was the only natural conclusion. She was literally saying "I plan to break the wheel" from the start. That is not language a peaceful person uses. Her goals to begin with were those of a conqueror, and what we got was the natural end of that ambition when it crashes into reality.
  I think it was done beautifully, and the fact so many people bought into her side of things and felt betrayed is evidence of how well done it was.
  
  But she didn't suddenly lose it.
  She wiped out cities full of people before. But it took her doing it in Westeros for people to see that it was because she was insane.
- Everytime a Targaryen is born, the gods throw a dice
  
  If she didn't like a system that existed, she wanted to burn it to the ground, a person, burn them alive.
  Surely putting that person in charge couldn't go wrong.

Working out. Used to think it was too hard and I didn't have time. Pushed myself, started exercising at home and it's snowballed to protein loading, supplement taking, and lifting to failure. It's good to feel like jelly.
- I feel this comment in my bones. Now it's weird if I don't feel sore.

Gender variance. Cosmetics can be fun, and sometimes women's clothes are just so damn comfy.
- I'm a feminine woman, but damn do I love how I look and feel in a slightly butch pantsuit

Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.
Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.
- Pickup trucks in and of themselves as a concept is fine.
  The issue I an many others have with them is that they have grown to large, even here in Sweden we have got infected by American pickup trucks that has their bonnet at the same height as my 2021 Seat Leon's roof.
  That is insane.
  Get back to the size of 80-90s pickups, and I doubt you'll get a many complaints
  
  Exactly.
  The crew cab with a laughable bedsize, hood as tall as the average person, and clearly unused off road tires is what is unreasonable.
  A truck actually being used for work is totally fine.
  
  I agree 1000000% with this. Light duty pickups are amazing.
  Nissan used to have a light duty pickup everywhere, even the US, called the NP300 Hardbody that slowly morphed into the bloated "Navara" - except for South Africa. Nissan used to have this very Africa-appropriate tiny light duty truck, the Champ. Stellar vehicle. They made the same exact model from 1971 to 2008, and then replaced it with the Nissan NP300 Hardbody. Both are solid metal deathtraps, can be fixed with wire and string, but they're donkeys as well. Modestly sized and will just go forward (not too fast!) forever. Nissan never stopped making a light duty pickup because the Africa market demands it - something cheap and simple that carries and goes. No frills, not even good for a drive more than 4 hours because the seats are terrible.
  And don't get me started on the way Toyota ruined the Hilux. The only entity in the known universe that could destroy a Hilux was Toyota itself. Damn shame.
  Everyone driving these giant monsters wouldn't know a good economical work vehicle if it drove up to them and dumped a cubic meter of sand on them.
  
  I think those huge American trucks are cool too, but the size is more of an inconvenience than it’s worth, and they stand out and draw too much attention - which is a big reason I didn’t get one. I’m honestly surprised by how much attention even my ’07 mid-size Nissan gets, but luckily it’s all been positive.
  
  yepppp
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_BE5KPp18
  
  I have a 99 Tacoma and I love it, 283k miles. My aunt has a much newer Tacoma, 2016-2020, not sure which year but around there. When my truck is in the shop sometimes I borrow hers and when I do I can't park in my parking spot at my apartment because the truck is too big.
- Trucks are fun, 100%. Id love a small truck with a tow package, i don't need a gigantic Ram child-flattener but having something versatile and tall enough to clear some obstacles is always nice. RIP that little Mazda i got circa 2007 for $500 with no working gauges and a fuel leak, when it felt like driving i loved it.
  Honestly if those Slate (is that right? Im still half asleep) trucks take off I may get one
  
  I love my 99 ram and I can't imagine having a bigger truck for every day use.
  
  I love my Santa Cruz. I can get 40mpg highway if I drive it right.
  
  Just get a van instead, bro. They're way more practical.
- How often do you haul stuff you need a truck for?
  
  Crucially, that wouldn't be better carried in a van.
  
  I use it for work so pretty much every single day but that's besides the point. It would be awesome even if I had no need for one.
  
  Asking the real questions.
- The rise in pickups causes everyone’s insurance rates to go up because of the increased fatality of average crash now, they blow through our global carbon budget even faster, they make roads less safe for everyone, they drain your wealth away from your kids inheritance and directly into banks and oil companies. I know you love bankers more than transmitting generational wealth to your kids. Fuck them kids. The bankers need your money more.
- Speaking as a Texan, I associate the worst of truck driving with “being an ass.” It’s not always true, but man, if someone’s gonna cut me off just to be a jerk, it’s usually a lifted abomination.
  This though:
  
  This is fine.
  No, it’s magnificent.
  
  That small red truck is a truck of a man who truly is masculine. Doesn't give a shit what other people think, needs it to carry supplies, and didn't want to waste any money.
  Giant lifted trucks are the opposite of masculine. They're for showing off, desperately trying to get people to notice them, they arely if ever haul anything (if they even can anymore with the lift), and they wasted huge amounts of money.
  
  That looks like a huge truck, there's nothing small about it.
- I actually want to get a pick-up truck for furniture, not like one of these road monsters, but something reasonable, like a 2 seater with lots a bed space. Like an old Chevy or something.
  
  Why not a van? Can typically carry more and keeps it dry.
  
  Get a van instead. Don't start becoming part of the problem.
- I agree with 95% of FuckCars. Cars should not be the default in our society. Cars are at the root of why our cities suck so bad. We need to do as much as we can towards walkability, bikability, and public transportation. Cars won't go away completely, but they don't have to be so prevalent.
  The 5% where FuckCars goes wrong is people who don't know anything about cars talking about cars. Their treatment of trucks vs vans is one of those. Vans are useful for trades, and so are trucks. Let the workers decide which one they prefer for their job.
  Those workers usually don't need an F150 the size of a small house. They don't even want an F150 the size of a small house. That doesn't mean a van is necessarily what they want.
  
  Well, I've atleast got the two seater with a long bed so it's barely adequate for what I need it for at work. It's undeniable that a similar size Vivaro or Transporter would be more practical but I'm willing to trade some of that for a fun truck.
- I like these answers that are actually divisive
- I agree. I don't need the truck part very often, but when I do, it is so nice. I got a BEV truck and it's also stupid fast, especially for a truck. And it has outlets everywhere, 4x 110V 20A in the back plus a 220v 30A, and more 110V in the cab and the frunk! 130kWh of mobile power.
  The suspension is sloppy, the tires are squishy. But I don't mind that most of the time (I do wish the dampers were a just bit more aggressive).
- Out of curiosity, why did you buy it? It's so big and seems like a safety hazard for people, wasteful as well.
  What would've convinced you to switch back to something else? Or what would convince others to do so?
- Crazy watching you get downvoted for driving a pickup.
  Most of the people on these forums live in major cities and don't do any real work with their lives, so it's understandable.
  I guess I was mistaken for holding them to a higher standard.
  
  Uh, nope. Lived in rural America. Most truck drivers are pavement processes who haul something maybe a handful of times a year. The vast majority.
  There was not a shift from 30 years ago everyone driving tiny cars and hatchbacks to now where everyone became blue collar and needed a truck for work suddenly. It's corporate marketing. Corporations can get around fuel standards by making trucks instead of cars, so they convinced everyone that having a truck was somehow necessary, and the good people of the USA gladly ate it up making the f150 the most popular vehicle on the roads followed by the other truck models.
  Also, "most people ~~on these forums~~ live in major cities". Ftfy. It wasn't until I left my town in Iowa did I realize how many people there are. The entire population of thestate of Iowa lives in my one city.
  
  It's perfectly representative of the opinion asked for.
  Getting down voted is hilarious, because we're admitting "fuck you, this is actually awesome."

Bluesky and AT proto
The idea that you can just take your account and migrate it to different PDS is awesome.

Totally Spies 🥲
- I used to watch it in Arabic. Good times.
  And I'm not even a girl.
- Idk why but I randomly thought of that show recently, when I was a kid I took a bit of guilty pleasure in watching it when it was on TV ☺️
  
  French stuff at it's best!

High school of the Dead. I watched the anime because of that titty/bullet gif. I freaking loved that show. ~~Not so much the piss scene, but still.~~
- What piss scene? I Must have pushed it out of my Brain..
- Yes, indeed, please share the source for that piss scene. Asking for a friend.
- Yes the story is so fun. After the anime I also ready on in the Manga, which is also good. It's so sad that Daisuke Satō died so soon. Now it will remain unfinished.

Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve... Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
- I saw someone say charlie kirk used the getting shot tactic to avoid the question.
  
  💀💀💀
- someone shot charlie kirk?
  goddamn the trump admin will do ANYTHING to distract from the epstein horrors
- The shooter did demonstrate excellent control of that gun. Put a bullet through a carotid artery from beyond "saw it coming" distance.
- You would be surprised with how many old timers would agree with you if they weren't in a self enforced social isolation bubble. I've heard farmers at two separate gun counters completely dumb founded when they find out they don't need to fill out any paperwork to sell a gun to a friend. And that's just meandering around in my day to day. I can't imagine how regularly often Atwood's has to deal with them.

I saw this tread when it was just posted and I remember thinking "there is no way this is going to be still relevant tomorrow"
- welllll you are right lol

Twinkies. The perfect dessert.
- ^ This guy right here
- Have you had the banana cream Twinkies? Probably not as good as the OG ones, but definitely a nice treat when you come across them!
  
  drizzle some chocolate syrup on one on a stupidly large plate and sell it in Manhattan for $38.
- I hate twinkies as they are, but if you roast them over a fire they really do become perfect. All that extra grease in the bread fries it to perfection and the cream isn't as gross when it's molten.

i still think Balan Wonderworld was awesome. the single button controls were refreshing after three decades of controller bloat, the suits felt like a fun evolution of the character switching from LEGO Star Wars, the game is full of weird nooks and crannies that constantly had me thinking "i can't believe they thought of that," and the music and art kick ass. there are definitely areas that could be improved and i think we were all hoping for something more kinetic from Sonic Team alum but it's still ultimately one of the better AAA games in the last few years. i still don't understand the backlash, especially after the crickets Naka's previous and signifigantly worse game Rodea the Sky Soldier got

Silent Hill: Homecoming was the first thing to come to mind.
It's the only one I've really played and I thought it was great. I can understand how the Silent Hill community doesn't like it, but I also believe they're blowing their criticisms out of proportion to fit in with immature tantrum throwers.

Thief 4. Sure the story sucks and this is not my Garrett, but game play wise, this is the best Thief has ever been.

Furries. As a furry myself I don't get the hate

AI art (and AI in general). The amount of misinformed and outright wrong bullshit that gets levelled at me when I defend AI or point out something false is ludicrous. Almost every single argument against it was levelled at photography a century ago, much of that was levelled at pre-mixed paints before that, and what's left is either flat out wrong, or levelled at the wrong place
- Wait but why would someone defend ai art...
  Like the only reason I can think of is it maybe makes someone who is lazy feel good about themselves because they make a computer generated picture with zero effort (while stealing from real artists and feeding the megacorp machine) ?
  Sorry, this is on the same level of saying "well they denied electricity at first and this is just like that!" Braindead take.
  Carry on. (Yes im reinforcing your comment by even replying here, ha!!)
  
  i’m an ML/AI engineer, i could generate plenty of things locally or at the university on their systems without a megacorp involved anywhere in the pipeline at this stage.
  people would defend AI art bc they’re not conceited and do not hold weird selective views regarding what art is. that’s really all it is.
  people can hate the technology all they want but that doesn’t change the fact that what they’re actually mad at is the result of solely corporatism and capitalism. the actual technology itself is a fucking fascinating take on statistics and how to handle big data. what, megacorps abused math so now i’m supposed to hate math? i’ll never understand you guys!
  
  AI art requires "zero effort" in much the same way that creating art using digital cameras requires "zero effort."
  
  Wait but why would someone defend ai art...
  For the same reason that we defended computer-aided art back in the day after people had the exact same reaction to it.
  
  Here's my reason for it. Let's suppose that I have set a xylophone up outside near a rocky cliff face, and one day, some rocks fall loose from the top of the cliff and strike the xylophone in such a way as to coincidentally produce the melody of Bach's Prelude in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Is this melody any less beautiful, less artistic, because it was not produced by a human? Does it really matter whether the xylophone event happened before or after Bach's writing of the Prelude? If the xylophone event happened first, would we say Bach's authoring of the melody was superfluous?
  Consider this: there are 8 notes to a major scale, and so this means that there are only 32,768 possible 5-note sequences within one octave to make a melody out of (more if you count the timing of the notes, but the point remains). The possibility space of melodies is already implicitly formed by the medium. When Bach writes a 5 note melody, we say that he has created a melody - but we could just as well say that he discovered one of the pre-existing 32,768 melodies of 5 notes.
  This paradigm is true in visual arts as well. We can start with a small example: imagine a community of pixel artists making black and white pixel art images on a canvas of 32x32 pixels. Or you could imagine them as weavers of rugs with up to 32 weaves in and out in both directions, if you'd rather a low-tech example. There are a HUGE number of possible ways to choose to color in these pixels even just black and white. But the number is still finite. Now let me ask you this. Have you ever made visual art before? If you have, you probably know how the blank canvas full of possibilities quickly narrows down to constraints as your composition comes along. "If my figure is posed like this, I can't show both the elbow and wrist, unless I use a strange perspective...", "if I give them black hair, it darkens the composition too much and doesn't look as good, but maybe if I add more light it could work..." Etc. What is it that you're doing as an artist? You're narrowing down the possibilities, from the HUGE possibility space of the blank canvas, to narrower and narrower "acceptable" configurations according to the criteria of the goal you have in mind.
  Now suppose instead that I was doing really constrained pixel art - black or white only on a 3x3 grid. In that case there are only 512 possible artworks to be made. In that case, we COULD lay out all 512 of them, and just pick the one we like best. But if we were not very smart people, maybe we couldn't figure out this trick, and we'd have to use our artistry to explore the 512 possible canvases one by one. We can imagine an artist eventually choosing configuration #371 as their artwork. They probably won't think of as though they've chosen configuration #371, they probably will think of it like "I have come up with this new arrangement of pixels on the 3x3 canvas" - but in reality all they did was discover a possibility that has already existed since the beginning of time. Either way, I hope you and I agree that this person's pixel art, despite being small and likely pretty boring, is still ART. It's a work of art, although maybe not a great one. Now if I have a computer do the same process - explore this latent possibility space according to some criteria, finally selecting one possible configuration - and let's say the computer also selects #371. Are we going to say this is not art? But this would be paradoxical! It's the same image the artist made! Anyone who is familiar with the notion of "the death of the author" will see this is quite the same sort of principle. And if the computer happened to select #371 before any human did, would we then accuse the human of having "copied" the computer? Clearly not. This line of thinking, to me, is a strong one to defend AI images as possibly being legitimate and original art.
  As an artist, you cannot create a new possibility within the medium. You can only actualize a possibility that has always latently been implied by the constraints of that medium. This is why many musicians and artists often talk about "finding" a melody or "finding" a vision. They find it because they are searching. They are searching their own unique path through that massive possibility space. The possibility space is too large for us to just simply look at every possibility and pick the one we like best - so we have to explore it, choosing at every moment which direction is best to step towards next, based on what we've got so far, and what we think we've learned about the shape of this possibility landscape over our experiences as artists.
  
  Yes yes, "electronic calculators will steal jobs". "Electronic calculators will make us dumber." People have been crying wolf about technology for decades.
  
  Yeah that's a damn fine example of a really stupid take. Thank you.
  Lets start with the amount of effort it takes not being related to artistic value, otherwise your pictures would be worth more than Picasso's doodles, wh9ich is clearly bullshit. Plus the fact that's ableist as fuck - I recently suffered nerve damage and so can't actually control a pencil properly, and trying get painful, soi are you really saying disabled people can't and shouldn't create art?
  Now theft - it; not theft. No artist is denied their work, no copies are made, and it can't reproduce their work. It can mimic a style but most of the people who complain about that are the most derivative anime-style furry porn artists (no offence to furry porn, but what they create is no high art!)
  Oh, and I agree that the best ai, like most software, is run locally and is open source. Disliking megacorps is not a criticism of ai
  So yeah, thanks again for illustrating my point
  
  Lol at a luddite calling someone braindead.
- you’re gonna get endlessly downvoted here on lemmy for this but if it makes you feel any better i work in ML/AI and feel the same way as you and the other guy here comparing it to computerized art.
  people are really anthropocentric, short-sighted, and reactionary.
  i’m not convinced by weird capitalist myths of “originality” or “the human touch” or whatever weird fetishizing they wanna do…
  all art is predicated on that which came before, human or not. AI art is no different. artists shouldn’t be subject to the economy in such a way that something like generative art inspires such societal rage… in china genAI is popular with the youth and generally bc artists and artisans in china aren’t exploited the way they are in the west and are free to view genAI as a tool rather than a threat. why western commission artists direct their anger and rage at the machines putting their oppression on full display and not towards their oppressors and handlers themselves fucking confounds me. maybe people really are just, on average, kind of dumb. i keep looking for alternatives but nothing ever shows itself.
  
  The fact you think all art is predicated on what came before is absolutely stupid.
  If thats true, there would never have been anything new created. Ai slop generators CANT make anything new because they are limited on their (massively) illegally scraped input.
  Also thinking that originality and human experience are capitalist myths is quite humorous, that is a new take.
  
  People are kinda dumb, but the level of wilful ignorance displayed by the anti-ai crowd is equalled only by trump cultists
- Agreed. Obviously mega corporations suck, but AI as a technology does not NEED to be unethical. It sucks that because people want to hate on mega corps (rightfully so) they feel justified in tacking on any flawed argument they want to against AI.
  People have issues separating out complex bundles of issues into their separate threads and dealing with them individually. It's much easier to keep it all jumbled together and pass judgement on the whole lot. It's lazy thinking, which is ironically contrary to the virtues so frequently espoused in these arguments.
  Furthermore, like you said, many people have strong opinions on the issue despite not really having any understanding of the philosophy of art, history of art, or the technology itself. It boils down to the same sort of layperson's gibberish that gives us other bad takes like "abstract art isn't art, my dog could paint that!" or "this performance art is just a tax evasion scheme!". It reveals the tastelessness of the accuser. It's extremely frustrating that these people always present themselves as true art enjoyers, when in fact they are not.
  It reminds me of a time I was at the symphony, and the opening piece was a very avant garde one. It displayed wonderful chromaticism, really emotional chaotic passages, clever balancing of orchestral timbres...I study and compose classical music, I know music theory quite deeply, and for me it was a lovely piece. When it was over, this old lady next to me, all dressed up, complained that "that was just noise, not even music", and got all indignant about the bastardization of art. I'm sure she would have said the same thing at the debut of Rite of Spring, which she now undoubtedly "admires" and upholds as a masterwork. I would be surprised if she could name the notes of the key of C major. Yet it is precisely her lack of knowledge which gives her such a narrow view of the art she imagines herself to be a connoisseur of.
  Same exact phenomenon as I've complained about before on Reddit, with its endless art-boner for any realistic "impressive" pencil sketch, over something that is equally technically impressive and more emotional, but in a way they are too unknowledgeable to appreciate.
  It's just the way of art, I suppose.
  
  Yeah, spot on. Also The Rite Of Spring is one of my favourite pieces of music ever

arguing with vegans
- with vegans or against vegans?
  
  I consider it to be a mutual activity

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