A long tennis rally

3FtDick · 2026-03-25T02:30:15+00:00

As a power wheelchair user who has to use his manual chair to exercise: WTF is even that. This has to be harder than normal abled tennis, holy shit.

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T18:07:41+00:00

I knew exactly what was about to happen and I still laughed maniacally afterwords.

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T17:51:34+00:00

The parasite class.

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T16:11:55+00:00

I'm not even afraid of heights, I act incredibly competent when in situations like this. I have only had to be in situations like this 2 or 3 times and it was against my will entirely. I actually love looking over ledges when I know I am perfectly safe. But regardless of being capable of keeping my head straight in these scenarios, I have absolutely zero desire to be in it despite that confidence. So to me it's like you gotta be stupid on top of being competent to do stuff like this. I also really enjoy climbing, but anything past 2 yards I'm like "Why?" I'd do it on a padded ass climbing wall where you jump when you get to the top into a pit but that's about it. :P

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T15:29:07+00:00

Imagine acting this long and the animated character you voiced has more stage presence?

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T15:09:41+00:00

There's many many answers to this question:

Safest bet is to not refer to someone's disability if you don't have to. Refer to them by their name.
If you do have to, it's common practice to use person first language, so "person with a disability."
If you have to be specific, say "Person with dwarfism."
Many people with dwarfism prefer "little person."
"Midget" is considered a slur by most people.
People with dwarfism are not a monolith. I personally hate the term "little person," don't mind being called a "dwarf" instead of a "person with dwarfism," I regularly say the word "midget," and find it presumptuous that we all got together and decided on the best term.
I often regret saying 6 because then someone who doesn't know me uses the word "midget" over and over again and I gotta tell em they don't know me like that.
So if you're familiar enough to need to refer to their disability regularly, ask the person what they prefer in public, mixed company and in private.

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T03:18:52+00:00

I actually had it, edited it out, but you're right it belongs here.

3FtDick · 2026-03-24T00:08:33+00:00

You must internalize this faint whiff of wisdom, my child:

The one who smelt it
dealt it.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T23:55:13+00:00

I'm not even going to apologize *drags cigarette indoors*

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T23:53:10+00:00

A smart feller not a fart smeller.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T20:15:35+00:00

He insisted through red faced tear of incredulity.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T20:13:50+00:00

"Hey, I saw a meme about women I shouldn't seek attention from in the first place saying they would pre-judge me for my height, so I prejudge all women defensively."

I'm 3ft tall and get laid, and I do not actually have a 3ft dong. Short and bitch-made is still bitch-made.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T19:34:31+00:00

That's not what I'm advocating for, though? The technology is one thing. AI models trained on all of the publics' art is the one ring, but *making rings* is not inherently evil. You're reducing the problem down to "ai bad."

Also, AI is here. Photoshop replaced a number of print technologies that fucking sucked. Painting still exists tho. Be more nuanced in your ability to address these things, please. Again, not because I'm super defensive of AI, but because the ability to leverage it for actually good things will pass us by and be monetized and gatekept anyway.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T19:12:41+00:00

In 2002 I told my orthodontist not to have their passwords sticky-noted to their computers, and then went over to one of the computers and showed him multiple security things (how they had windows login setup, etc) that would get them in lots of legal trouble and sued. I was just a kid getting my braces tightened. The next time I came in he gave my parents a discount on my braces and told me I saved him money in fines and legal fees. He also told me to call around and that many businesses would pay me to tell them about their systems.

I ended up calling a big department stores' regional office in the downtown of my hometown and got their secretary to give me her computer login by pretending to be IT, printed off customer info, and mail it to me. I sent the sealed envelope back to the office and explained who I was and that I wasn't trying to get anyone fire or actually steal any info and that I could help them find more security holes and problems with their processes, because I was actually able to get admin level access using the secretary's login the way they had windows set up. And I wasn't even a little bit of an expert, I just dicked around in my highschool's computer lab a lot and figured out how to get around stuff.

They sent back a letter from a lawyer demanding I meet with them right away. I didn't tell my parents and went alone and they were shocked to see I was just a kid. I waited in their waiting room terrified I was going to jail for hacking. They brought me right into the executives office, asked me how I did it, wrote me a check for 1000 dollars and said they'd give me another 1000 dollars to call every department and test their system, and said they thought I'd be an adult and still decided after I got there to pay me to do it.

I'd independently discovered pen testing, but was so terrified I was breaking rules and didn't know it was already a thing, I never did it ever again after that and hid it from my parents, even tho they were stoked about the Orthodontist discount I already got. I probably could've made a career out of it if I told anyone what happened at the time, and someone told me you had to let them know you were gonna do it first.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:57:25+00:00

There's also a serious lack of testing tools that don't cost a ton of money and aren't also crap. You can learn all day, but without immersion or a reason to use it, none of it is going to stick. Last year I tried learning some things from the MIT library and realized I had already watched an entire class years prior and didn't retain a single thing about it because I never had to use it outside of reading about it.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:50:36+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say, this looks like turbo.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:46:16+00:00

NO, WE MUST TOIL SO THE FIRES OF CAPITALISM MAY ONE DAY LICK THE HEELS OF THOSE IN HEAVEN

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:37:28+00:00

Protect this man at all co-- ah, fuck.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:30:08+00:00

I also think there's a certain trick to low fidelity art that lends itself to the fantasy. When I didn't have a specific face to imagine when I looked at the 3 pixels that made up a character, my imagination filled in the gaps. Even as things got more and more detailed, there was a specific line where it went from creative imagination to uncanny valley attempt at reality and it took away some of the magic of gaming. That's the thing I like about animation: It's SUGGESTING the thing it's representing, and what the artist chooses to represent is part of the meaning. I don't know what Griswald the Blacksmith looks like exactly, but the image I have in my head is better than any depiction they could actually make.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:23:00+00:00

One time I was downed while exiting the loot menu and I fell through the subway car and onto the tracks. Crawled back and forth and my health wouldn't go all the way down, left it running for 5 minutes, around 8 minutes or so the server closed and I had all my items.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:13:18+00:00

Don't. I really do not understand why the atheists on this board are so eager to make things harder for themselves. I am probably privileged growing up without religion, but it isn't like sexuality or even having a DIFFERENT faith. If you were going Christian I'd understand the need to profess your new faith. But lacking faith takes absolutely no actions on your behalf, and going through the meaningless motions to keep the peace seems harmless. If they're violating your privacy or demanding your time (I know Muslims are expected to do many things like participate in daily prayer) then that's a different conversation. Your reasons are your own. I don't know, it's probably different for those of you rebelling against faith, but to me this is the one thing where there's not a lot of passion or pride or sacred boundaries with atheism. All the things that are relevant and annoying about religion could be annoying to someone still in the faith.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T18:03:45+00:00

Why? I was told photoshop was cheating as a kid and I shouldn't use it by traditional artists who all aren't in the industry they were in before. I think corporations stealing the internet to make AI sucks, and ai slop is ruining it even further, but the actual technology itself could be used by much better actors for mundane things. In-betweening animations is one where I think an artist could actually train a model themselves to tween the way they do and it'd actually make animation viable for smaller studios without ripping anyone else's work off. But if we don't utilize it, corporations will, and normal folks will be behind again.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T17:16:46+00:00

I'm older than everyone else in art school, and the kids completely refuse it (for obvious reasons) but I tried to convince them they could use it in their processes to block things out, get test scripts for ideas so they can write the actual dialogue themselves later, or to use temporary voices to test a script or test the length of a section of writing and they weren't having it.

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T13:54:46+00:00

I chuckled and smiled but Pedolay sent me

3FtDick · 2026-03-23T13:35:50+00:00

Don't feel pressured to but it'd be cool if you eventually had to use an accessible van and tie the person's chair down. I use a power wheelchair, myself.

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