i think maybe its more that they need a rationalisation for why they were seemingly unengaged with their sexuality previously - also that a lot of people generally lack self-awareness of their sexuality, especially if you spend your time pre-transition trying your hardest to fit the mold
ok there are a lot of valid criticisms of A24 and the culture around them, but saying that the majority of their films are heartfelt twee indie movies or tiktok movies is completely untrue
like you can read down the list of A24 films on Wikipedia, if anything the ‘twee indie film’ archetype is surprisingly underrepresented, and the bulk of the company’s lifespan (and the movies that got them some reputation in the first place) are pre-tiktok explosion
came here to say this
‘Anger integer overflow’ has the same vibes as ‘Tommy needy drinky’
how do you try to do a power pose and come off with literally negative presence
Shakespearean comedy of errors but it’s one person constantly misunderstanding how to gender and getting into wacky misunderstandings where no one gets anyone’s genders right
maybe this website went too far in the anti-reddit atheist direction
name at least one (1) famous megan, you can’t
i understand where you’re coming from, but the idea that the Church designs anything for comfort and not as bare bones as possible so that it doesn’t distract from loving God enough is fun
fake news comm and its consequences etc.
it’s not, it uses stable diffusion
actually elon i was thinking we should have an incentive for it being late and UN-safe, thank god you’re a brain genius and set me right
it’s incredibly condescending to assume that you are seeing the whole picture and that anyone complaining is not
and then to double down by claiming that the people who are against this aren’t even worth it anyway cos they’re too young to vote right this second
and libs wonder why they keep shooting themselves in the foot
i don’t necessarily agree it’s the same thing as those examples, as the difference here is that the AI has to pull the art from somewhere i.e. directly from work someone else has done - if we’re talking writing, then you’d have to compare it to AI-written articles, or to plagiarising someone else’s novel for your own, both of which I feel the same way about
the closest ‘real world’ example i’d say is maybe something like Collage, and sure that’s pulling from all sort of sources and I don’t think it’s any less valid for it, but at least there is something to be said about the person having to make decisions about what to use, where to place things that I just don’t see as comparable to AI art. But again, just my opinion.
i think the thing about AI art is that it really lays bare how alienated we really are from the means of production, that people are so unwilling to inject any amount of human effort and would rather have something created for them by a proprietary piece of software than ever suffer the embarrassment of even trying to create something, which only further feeds back into that alienation. It’s telling that one of the very first things to come out of AI art as a ‘movement’ is stuff like NFTs - the most low grade, mass producible ‘art’ possible, solely aimed at trying to extract money from other people.
I’m also reminded constantly about the late 2000s/early 2010s discourse around ‘video games are art’ - in that a lot of this discussion is less about wanting to take a medium and genuinely bring it to a place where you can engage with it through artistic critique, and more wanting to steal a label and the perceived ‘respect’ of that label as a means to justify a consumer product
am i wrong to think this is going to become a major point down the road? from what I hear, it’s a lot of Midwest US that’s getting impacted due to the effect this will have on shipping, which feels like one of those things that becomes a catalyst for some greater economic/political tension down the road
not to talk over the loss of life or anything here, it’s a tragedy in of itself
honestly gave me chills first time through, i think its genuinely such a good decision to have such a stripped back boss track for the very last boss, given the tone, lore and atmosphere up to this point
and then DS3 
sounds like a good move tbh, as someone who plays a lot of Scrabble and Bananagrams there’s a reason 80 percent of the time I reach for the latter. The scoring in Scrabble is probably the most annoying part of it - the “meta” that forms around specific placements thanks to 3X scores, the amount of times you will all just sit there in silence trying to find the maximum score instead of having fun
very keen to try an updated Scrabble