No? Is that common?
GooberEar
joined 11 months ago
I need to bookmark this for when I have time to read it.
Not going to lie, there's something persuasive, almost like the call of the void, with this for me. There are days when I wish I could just get lost in AI fueled fantasy worlds. I'm not even sure how that would work or what it would look like. I feel like it's akin to going to church as a kid, when all the other children my age were supposedly talking to Jesus and feeling his presence, but no matter how hard I tried, I didn't experience any of that. Made me feel like I'm either deficient or they're delusional. And sometimes, I honestly fully believe it would be better if I could live in some kind of delusion like that where I feel special as though I have a direct line to the divine. If an AI were trying to convince me of some spiritual awakening, I honestly believe I'd just continue seeing through it, knowing that this is just a computer running algorithms and nothing deeper to it than that.
Faustinus: Corn for dinner last night, Octavius?
Octavious: No, what's corn?
My closest biological family is mostly in the tolerant to supportive range of things. Nobody's perfect, obviously. Extended family is a mixed bag.
I'm actually not even sure what supportive means or looks like in this context. There are definitely close family members who don't make me or my sexuality feel like I'm any different and who I can unmask around. Most people are probably more in the "tolerant" range, where as long as I mask up, don't talk about it, and there's no controversy, they're okay with it on the surface. Still better than my pre coming out days when I had to hide everything, mask around everyone, and completely avoid certain situations entirely.
All in all, things aren't bad. The worst I typically have to endure is having my partner called my "mate" instead of the terms they use for unmarried heterosexual partners, being told that Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA because of course gay, trans, and racial minorities have it so much better than them, and frequently having to "agree to disagree" on just about every topic related to trans people for simply existing. Fortunately, no physical violence or threats come my way, I don't really use the social media platforms they do so I don't get to see the worst of their thoughts, and they're free to talk about me behind my back just the same as I am free to forget they exist except for a couple hours every other year around the holidays.
Debbie Downer: These monitor lizards are sizing each other up and are in the midst of their intraspecific threat display. Since neither lizard is particularly larger than the other, a potentially deadly altercation between these individuals could result in life long injuries or even death for the one that loses.
That's basically my Pandora experience. They'll have ads where if you click to watch a video, you'll get X amount of time, usually an hour, ad free. There's about a 50% chance the ad will cause the app to crash, but only AFTER the ad finishes playing. And once I start the app up again, it doesn't remember the offer or that I watched the ad. Same thing if I close the app, accidentally or otherwise. If I start it back up, that ad free hour is gone.
I said, I ASKED CHATGPT AND THE ANSWER IS "THE FEMALE SWAM AWAY EXHAUSTED AND A LITTLE RATTLED."
Capybara is short for Cabybaratheon, one of the houses from the Games of Thrones.
he's got white hair in the armpit and crotchinal region
I was just about to say. Figured it was bait but glad to see it was a joke.
I asked ChatGPT and the answer is "The female swam away exhausted and a little rattled."
Excellent! I've been hearing about this movie for years at this point. It makes me happy to hear that it's finally going to be released publicly.
The original (and even the other movies in the series) are/were guilty pleasures of mine and hold a special place in my heart. I just watched them all around Thanksgiving. It's hard to believe my parents let me watch this stuff when I was a kid.
Anybody know if they'll be leaning into practical effects or go for more realistic CGI? One of my concerns is that they lean into intentionally crappy and cheap looking digital effects, which is not really my thing.