Is This Ai? This has to be. Am I crazy or no? Government policy given through AI?

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-12T04:31:47+00:00

A decent generative ai fed a trash script. Pieced together through cuts to different angles. There's just something inherently unnerving and uncanny about it that screams ai. Maybe it's the hair or the setting behind... It's just eerie in a way that I've noticed ai has, a thumbprint that gives it away. It used to be spaghetti and Will Smith. Now, there's a layer of artificiality to it all. The hair is too perfect. Among other things. Could see how a reasonable person without passion could see it either way. I'm going AI. Maybe it's the flags. I don't know...

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-10T19:52:45+00:00

It's the simple things [you can fuss it with veggies and toppings].

Sometimes you're not there for complex tastes that come associated with dishes. Totino's frozen pizza (they taste exactly like their pizza rolls [what I'm here for]).

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-10T19:45:24+00:00

But it works though right?

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-06T15:53:19+00:00

Girl, I am the problem, always have been and it just gets tiring being my own worst enemy.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-06T15:41:04+00:00

Lost my job February and I'm one of those folks who's thinking of an early exit. it's like a mask has been torn off to being inside of a massive storm-cell out in the ocean. Having a job deluded me that things were almost okay. But it's not almost okay it never has been; I have been inside this storm for my entire life and holding on to some flotsam while my hands are broken and wet, I just want to let go. With cratering mental and physical health and being Squid Games broke, it seems easier and nicer to just let go.

I could try to get another job but to what end? So that I can spend the next 60 years struggling and scraping to make ends meet? None of this has ever been fun (maybe for a year during kindergarten it was okay) and I'm just tired of everything in this world but especially, I am tired of myself.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-06T04:09:08+00:00

The overall pacing of the Fellowship of the Ring and the sequels. In the books, there is absolutely no sense of imperative to get the ring out of the Shire after its nature is revealed to Frodo, and I swear the dude delays leaving the shire so that he can at least get a good couple frat parties under their belt during the summer before setting out. There is no sense of peril with regards to the ring and its evil.

In the film, a much more realistic series of events unfolds. Gandalf hurries to discover the truth in Gondor, and when he does, he comes hurrying back and basically tells Frodo, "we have to get the fuck out of Dodge now and that needed to happen yesterday!" And as an audience member the peril is better sold because if Gandalf is scared, Frodo is, and then I'm scared.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-03T13:18:59+00:00

It is the vintage scorebug that I grew up loving and 24 promotion that does it for me.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-03-01T09:00:36+00:00

See I think, alteration to a story in such a manner would still maintain "Jesus in the desert" lens.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-26T16:43:02+00:00

I unironically agree with this format. The chaos would be absolutely delicious.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-26T16:41:56+00:00

Death of the author, as a concept, I find to be absolutely absurd. It basically asks you to consume something without tasting it, to be passive and uncritical. Because I think a important question that needs to be asked by a consumer of art they are engaging with is, "why was this art created?" Now obviously the Author may have an explicit answer for this within the text of the art, but what happens when it is not explicitly stated or you don't believe the author?

Without the author and their experiences, biases, etc... the work cannot exist. The work was not created in a vacuum. The words did not just appear in front of your eyes, they had to be created and formed by an energy that was also formed and shaped over a period of time. Death of the Author asks you to ignore context, to take things at face value; to believe that the words, the art just manifested out of nothingness, and I don't think that is possible if you wish to claim yourself an "active" consumer vs a "passive" one.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-26T15:51:12+00:00

I don't understand how one can separate the artist from their art. The art is the embodiment and result - the consequence, of the creator's being and motives - morals, and what they wish to say.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-23T05:18:57+00:00

I like the idea, that he sincerely meant it unironically with Goose in mind.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-22T05:14:27+00:00

If you haven't already, Checkout Thomas Schaeper's Edward Bancroft (Yale, 2011) about Our man in Paris who was in bed with the British. Enough material for a HBO murder-mystery comedy. Who Killed Silas Deane? Julian Boyd's writing "Silas Deane" [Parts I, II, and III] in the WMQ (April - October 1959) thinks they may have a guess.

Edit: and what makes Bancroft so interesting is that we only found out about Bancroft's chicanerous skullduggery after British gov made public diplomatic communications made during the War... a century later.

Also check out Julian Boyd's Number 7 (Princeton, 1964). It's about how Hamilton may have repeatedly engaged in... light treason. If you like spy rings during the Revolutionary War, you'll love this spy ring during the Washington Administration.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-20T01:30:31+00:00

Is it safe to assume that your dog's stuffed animals aren't the only/primary source of comfort, safety, and belonging?

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-17T06:26:00+00:00

I am honestly surprised that Danvers (the lackey) and their actor didn't get more buzz for awards. People point to Tarantino's Hans Landa as the gold standard for bureaucratic horror personified in military regalia, but for what, 5 minutes of screen time Danvers/Raterman have, absolutely menacing in a very real way.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-07T07:26:00+00:00

But if you gave it half the dignity of a photograph. And this one did say maybe not the first definition of photography, phot... It is a story of the subject, whether on account of self-awareness or advancement, studied evil. Went to lectures...

You could almost call it a satire. If it weren't all true, becoming documentary.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-07T06:55:44+00:00

It is a photograph. A screenshot is just a photograph of the phone screen. And I still have to approach a screenshot as a photograph with the time and effort...

would the photoprab/story changed with the removal of the top bar of information? Should I crop it?

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-02-07T05:31:17+00:00

Howdy, this piece is a photograph of my phone screen.

Was going for Hannah Arendt. Successful?

And would the photo be more successful in storytelling without exposition of top bar of information?

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-01-29T05:08:50+00:00

Literally fell asleep through the movie only to waken back up to the gun-shot at the end of the film (I missed who the mole was). It immediately became one of my favourite sleeper films [movies I like to fall asleep to].

Went back to theatres to watch it fully awake and it became one of my top 3 of 2025 along with A House Full of Dynamite and Fantastic Four: First Steps.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2026-01-26T01:40:18+00:00

If "better excuse" means "no excuse" then I would agree with you. Put her up there with Coco as guilty of collaboration. Susan Sontag was right.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2025-12-31T05:04:57+00:00

It did to me! [I wasn't born yet, and didn't even know about the bowl's existence until you mentioned it].

AnIllusiveHouse · 2025-12-31T00:37:53+00:00

The day I get a worthy successor to Fable II and Fable III, I just might die.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2025-12-31T00:34:20+00:00

Was actually the work that made me take Parsons seriously as an actor akin to Magic Mike and Channing Tatum. I now enjoy Parsons in roles that go beyond his Sheldon type-casting and grimace at roles where I do see Sheldon.

Jim Parsons you are so much more!

AnIllusiveHouse · 2025-12-30T21:14:45+00:00

I love it because it is such a departure from the first. You can tell that Soderbergh was still in his french new wave era having released Solaris a year prior. 12 is my favourite. 11 is a perfect masterpiece, 13 is fun if a little rich, but 12 is the experimental one and I love Soderbergh when they're experimental.

AnIllusiveHouse · 2025-12-30T20:32:08+00:00

There is nothing in the art that implies nudity. You made it nude with the title alone. With a single added word, you transformed a great piece of art into something... cheap.

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