Dick Fontaine posted:

Pennywise the Frown posted:

edit: I should've known. It's a young girl. ugh

Pennywise the Frown posted:

He's right about the nazi woman (she's actually just acting! ). She was hot. I haven't seen Ender's Game so I don't know who that is.

edit: I should've known. It's a young girl. ugh

LanceHunter posted:

The Indiana Jones 3 reference makes the timeframe for this extremely weird, but it is possible that they were still a kid themselves when Ender's Game came out. The phrase "at least at the time" would indicate that it was something in their past. Then again, the phrase "until I saw" seems to indicate the passing of some time between seeing Indy 3 and Ender's Game, making you think they were older when they saw it...

I don't know why I'm trying to mind-read some reddit creep, when the original reason I replied to this was to note that the Indy 3 nazi woman played a British villain in RRR. She is great at playing the character you can't wait to see get killed.

withak posted:

I think it is ok to think that the Nazi lady in Indiana Jones is hot while also not choosing to endorse the tenets of National Socialism.

Zero One posted:

*Adds "Horny is not endorsement" to the list of Something Awful rules*

Zero One posted:

*Adds "Horny is not endorsement" to the list of Something Awful rules*

Professor Shark posted:

What is the backstory behind the weird “my sister fake ponytail “ post?

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Superrodan posted:

I don't know if that was ever officially revealed but that post was super familiar and if I recall the speculation at the time was that the person writing it was either trolling, or more likely, someone with some kind of reduced mental capacity (because of the way they focused on repetition of odd details and responded to some questions literally with seemingly no capacity to realize when people were making fun of them or trying to egg them on)

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

mods of "/r/art" randomly permabanning real artists for looking too similar to AI, refusing to look at evidence to the contrary

https://twitter.com/benmoran_artist/status/1607760353278189568?s=20

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

mods of "/r/art" randomly permabanning real artists for looking too similar to AI, refusing to look at evidence to the contrary

https://twitter.com/benmoran_artist/status/1607760353278189568?s=20

e: the art in question:

Solar Tornado posted:

You can tell its real because the woman has fingers , duh

quote:

I haven’t read much at all in my life, but it is a deep desire of mine. Due to some learning disabilities / differences, reading has always been difficult for me so I have generally avoided it despite having an interest in it. But I want to try, so I’m looking for some recommendations.

One of the only books I’ve finished in my adulthood was My Side of the Mountain. I really enjoyed the story and I think the reading level was good for me. The length was very digestible. I think I really like wilderness stories but I’m open to other themes as well. I’d love some help finding some other books to try out. I’m guessing somewhere around middle / high school reading level, nothing too long. Thanks!

quote:

Hi all! Almost a year ago, I made a post on here asking for some book recommendations that might be good for an adult who struggles with reading. I want to say thank you so much for the tremendous amount of responses I received. They were all so kind and helpful to me. There was a lot of folks who asked if I could circle back to update on how my reading journey is going. So here’s the update!

I read several books this year! More than I’ve ever finished in my entire life. One of them I even finished in only a few days! I’ve dabbled in different styles & stuff to see what I like and what feels manageable. I’ve had good luck with some memoirs or similar kinds of biographical stories. I’ve had great luck with Steinbeck, as was recommended in several comments, and have gone for a few of his shorter novels. I’ve tried reading and listening to books in all the ways that were suggested and have found them all helpful in one way or another.

My biggest achievement was reading Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, a book I have always wanted to read. It took me all drat year but I read it cover to cover, and loved every minute. Frazier’s descriptions, of the landscapes specifically, are some of the most beautiful, and aching, things I’ve ever heard. I look forward to enjoying other books of his. I’d love more recommendations for similar books & authors if ya got ‘em!

I added many of the books suggested to me here to my list, though I haven’t gotten to many of them yet. I’m looking forward to diving into them more. I’ve used the tips & tools suggested here to find books that interest and suit me. There were so many great resources on my original post that were so helpful to me and I hope others found something helpful in them too. I felt nervous and uncomfortable making that post and all who responded filled me with such confidence and hope that I could enjoy reading. Thank you. So much.

Professor Shark posted:

That mod response is something else, Jesus Christ

EVEN IF I’M WRONG, I—-

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

mods of "/r/art" randomly permabanning real artists for looking too similar to AI, refusing to look at evidence to the contrary

https://twitter.com/benmoran_artist/status/1607760353278189568?s=20

e: the art in question:

Turpitude II posted:

it's cause ai is based on widespread art theft. almost nobody whose art was fed into the ai to be trained on it consented to it and they have no legal protection from it. similar ai generators for music were only trained on non-copyrighted music because if you fed music into it that belonged to music companies and ai returned anything remotely recognisable, they would sue. "validity of ai art as art" is misdirection, people would not give a poo poo if ai art was sourced legally and ethically. instead ai art spits out stuff that has faux-signatures and watermarks because they wouldn't get artists to put their art in willingly, it's all scraped from art sites.

"dorks" "stark raving mad" "frothy" lol. reddit-rear end attitude.

Professor Shark posted:

What is the backstory behind the weird “my sister fake ponytail “ post?

deep dish peat moss posted:

I mean even on these forums I've been told that I don't classify as an artist because my art is so "simple" that an AI could do the same thing

it was specifically about this


And the fact that I was feeding it into AI to make AI-generated versions of things I had drawn, like this:


A whole lot of dorks are really, extremely stark raving mad about AI. But none of them can clearly explain why, they just get all frothy about it.

deep dish peat moss posted:

I mean even on these forums I've been told that I don't classify as an artist because my art is so "simple" that an AI could do the same thing

it was specifically about this


And the fact that I was feeding it into AI to make AI-generated versions of things I had drawn, like this:


A whole lot of dorks are really, extremely stark raving mad about AI. But none of them can clearly explain why, they just get all frothy about it.

Professor Shark posted:

I think the art is cool and believe anyone who believes artist are replaceable doesn’t really understand art and is really just thinking about aesthetics

LanceHunter posted:

Someone gave a pretty good breakdown of the whole thing and how the language used was very in-line with some particular condition, but unfortunately those threads are enormous so finding the actual post is like finding a needle in several haystacks.

deep dish peat moss posted:

A whole lot of dorks are really, extremely stark raving mad about AI. But none of them can clearly explain why, they just get all frothy about it.

Gomez Chamberlain posted:

Extemely correct post.

Also it's not "AI" not even remotely.