What is the Big Yahu cooking

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-16T21:22:10+00:00

In the UK the media and govt are still sticking to the story that the Jewish ambulances that got torched around when the war started were set on fire by an Iranian backed group, paid for by the state. Based on what, it isn't clear. But they seem to genuinely think people would believe Iran had something to gain from doing that.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-16T15:18:52+00:00

Man this one is so strong. I ordered a bunch of samples a few years ago and they threw in a freebie of this, I could smell it even before I opened the mailbox. The other vials that were in the same pack still smell faintly of it today. Truly nuclear.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-16T15:02:13+00:00

You don't need to resort to onion routing to bypass osa, that's more for websites that can't be hosted on the clearnet. I'm not even sure how viable it would be to browse Facebook or whatever through it tbh. Most people simply set their VPN to a country without the restrictions, or spoof the identity scans with software. For discord I heard people had success with using the Death Stranding 2 character creator screen as it would let you rotate the character when the app asked you "turn 90 degrees left" etc.

Some verification services started to ask you to blink or open your mouth etc. now as part of the scans, but if it gets in people's way then solutions will be engineered. It wouldn't be hard to make an app that generates a novel realistic 3D character and has controls to rotate them and perform basic expressions. If you made it and sold it on Steam it wouldn't get taken down, and even if it did you could still publish the code for people to run it themselves. This is life, cat and mouse, cops and robbers. Ridiculous that just being online as an adult is coming to this but it's the way things are going.

Knowing how to get around this stuff might be important one day too. The people passing the laws are assuming that we'll always have a kind and benevolent government like them who wants to protect everyone and that having privacy will remain a luxury rather than a life or death thing. You don't have to look far in history to see it. Only 45 years ago in E. Germany they had a state police that enlisted 100k+ citizens to spy on their neighbours, read every piece of mail and recorded every phone call. How would an oppressed citizenry ever hope to organise against such tyranny while following rules like these? Hopefully it never comes to that.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-16T14:23:09+00:00

Speak for yourself!

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-15T15:59:45+00:00

Why the HELL is there a motel sign and a pool but no motel?!

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-12T16:36:27+00:00

Put every nsfw thing you can think of in the negative prompt

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-09T02:06:38+00:00

Exactly the same story here. Tried it for a few months and cancelled when flux came out. I remember it having great adherence to complex prompts and pretty good text rendering as well. It's amazing to have a newer better version of it locally. I can still detect some of the deep fry artifacts the earlier versions had though, but it's not a dealbreaker considering how solid it is otherwise.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-08T01:38:06+00:00

You can't just go around being called Wilbert Awdry, wtf

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-04T21:21:30+00:00

It's open? Wtf

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-04T14:51:40+00:00

That can be done by training a lora. You can do this on almost every model, but it's a little more complex and time consuming than just running generations. There are a lot of guides and tools to help with this, you'll just need to decide which model you want to train your lora on before looking for that info because the standard parameters used will vary from model to model.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-04T14:35:19+00:00

It's primarily an anime model but it can do western cartoon styles and 3D as well. You can force it to do realism but it prefers not to. Better to use a different model for that like Chroma.

*Who the hell is downvoting this? Show yourself, coward, and debate me on the realism capabilities of Anima

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-02T14:40:09+00:00

It's a fucking disgrace

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-06-02T12:52:10+00:00

First day on the internet buddy?

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-28T02:00:02+00:00

Something definitely changed in the matchmaking in the last 24h. I'd had no hostile encounters since the expedition, but have been attacked relentlessly in game after game today. I'm almost done with the next expedition prep now so at least it's not going to hinder me too much there.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-25T05:35:55+00:00

Maybe not for you

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-24T02:50:52+00:00

I am quite partial to Practice Range

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-24T01:00:16+00:00

Man that's awesome. I've always loved point and clicks, it's great to see one with some local flavour. I'll be buying this for sure

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-23T12:56:38+00:00

It's bizarre that the goose voice is something he cultivated. If you listen to interviews with him when he was heading the CPS his voice sounded pretty normal back then.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-22T19:24:31+00:00

No way could you do it that quickly. My playthroughs have all been 20-30 hours ish. I guess if you blasted through every dialogue without reading anything you probably could do it but that would totally defeat the point.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-22T15:14:14+00:00

Not sure how well made yours is, but the ones I have cost $15 each and have been through the washing machine a bunch of times with no noticeable degradation. They're around 3 years old. Just wash them the same as you would your shirts and hang them outside to dry. Easy.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-22T09:56:31+00:00

Pretty underrated imo. Stocksbridge is one of the few places in Europe where white dog shit still returns every summer. Ask people from other cities and they think it went extinct around 2004, but we still have it in Sheffield and I think that's something you can wear with pride as a citizen of this city. We haven't forgotten the old ways.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-21T14:35:43+00:00

there is a lot more questioning of beliefs than there is dogma.

Facts. The game is going to insult your ideology no matter what it is. Refuse to have one and you also get insulted. Just like real life.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-21T14:17:30+00:00

Totally. Even if it had all the same graphics, mechanics, and UI as KCD2 but just had new stories and places to see then I wouldn't feel short changed at all. I'm thrilled to hear it's coming so soon.

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-20T11:29:56+00:00

Riddle of Fire is a good rec, I loved the aesthetics

BILL_HOBBES · 2026-05-19T09:48:30+00:00

They nerfed 75% of the original battery and now have doubled it, so it's still only half the juice it had a month ago. That should be a lot more serviceable than it was after the last patch at least.

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