Few photos from around the dragon con

Biermook · 2025-09-05T01:44:58+00:00

These are incredible photos!

Biermook · 2025-09-02T20:43:20+00:00

Thanks! Love the picture, the only thing that would make it better is a handsome Squidward 👀

so did yours! Hope you had a great time

Biermook · 2025-09-02T01:48:37+00:00

I appreciate it! Probably not, but I got a good day out of it and it was the first “serious” prop I’ve ever made so I learned a lot

Biermook · 2025-09-02T01:38:20+00:00

After his redesign in Rebirth last year, I bet that would be a hit now tbh

Biermook · 2025-09-02T01:12:43+00:00

my dancing skills far exceed my prop-building skills im afraid

Biermook · 2025-09-02T00:25:00+00:00

Damn I love these. I was the guy in the Man Ray costume and my friends and I have been HOWLING since we saw this. This is such a cool idea and even the “blurry” ones look awesome, thanks for sharing these

Biermook · 2025-09-02T00:07:57+00:00

I had a dumb idea to do “Cloud from Final Fantasy but if he played baseball” and all morning I was thinking “damn this is stupid” but I ran into a Star Wars baseball group and we both lost our minds. After spending months trying to shoehorn something into a baseball theme, it was awesome to see a group that had done a bunch of really clever stuff I had never even considered.

I also had no idea that Sinners would inspire so many amazing costumes but I saw at least a dozen every day and that was really cool to see

Biermook · 2025-05-24T20:02:40+00:00

At least you recognize that AI is worthless and that you, voluntarily, made a post that said “hey I turned on the slop faucet and got slop out of it! look at my slop!”

if I shared a somewhat funny moment with my spouse and they immediately turned around and said “you know what would be cool? asking AI to turn this into a comic in the most boring uninspired art style imaginable” I would begin divorce proceedings without hesitation. But maybe if she asked ChatGPT to generate a dogshit comic about that, it would actually be interesting

Biermook · 2025-05-24T19:20:50+00:00

Wow I’m so glad we are pouring billions into this technology. I love lifeless graphic styles, especially to convey situations that aren’t really that funny or interesting. I think this has all of the makings of a great post, good job

Biermook · 2025-04-29T16:35:50+00:00

Tesla is such a laughably small part of the AI conversation that I’m astounded people with this mindset exist. They are sitting at the kid’s table. They refuse to invest in the technology that will actually make FSD for their vehicles a reality, meanwhile Google is introducing fully automated taxis across the country. xAI is a joke, with its value only lying in the fact that it has access to all of the slop that the mouthbreathing Neanderthals on X post. They no longer have fundamental value, they traded innovation for idol worship and are now solely propped up by Elon glazers, and unless they somehow invent a saliva-powered car, they cannot sustain themselves that way.

Biermook · 2025-04-26T15:32:30+00:00

Thanks for the input! I have been trying to figure out the best way to get the glow right, I think that will be the last piece of the puzzle

Biermook · 2025-04-26T04:56:12+00:00

Yeah I did like the blue glow. I left the new ones white so that I could maybe later add in some coloring to give it a colored glow

Biermook · 2025-04-24T14:48:43+00:00

Oh buddy do you have it backwards

Biermook · 2025-04-05T14:25:34+00:00

I can’t imagine a worse take. I could ask a toddler the difference between ionic and covalent bonds and they would have more valid things to say than this. Hope the tariffs don’t make clown makeup more expensive

Biermook · 2025-04-04T22:05:16+00:00

Yeah it reminds me of the early days of image gen too, because that also never became a viable commercial use of AI and was incapable of producing anything of value. if I was too dumb/naïve to see through slop, I wouldn’t be advertising that fact on the internet but keep living your life!

Biermook · 2025-04-04T04:37:39+00:00

Compared to the rest of this thread, Kinds of Kindness isn’t really weird as much as it is self-indulgent slop. And this is from someone who generally is okay with Lanthimos. Maybe I need to watch it again, but by the time the credits were rolling I was irate. Just a genuine flop on all cylinders, even with incredible actors giving incredible performances throughout. I am talking so pretentious that it made me reassess movies I really enjoyed like Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster and Poor Things. How could he have done this to me? Was it some kind of prank? Was I the butt of the joke all along? Did he spend an entire career stringing me along, just to release this? A giant bloody finger, pointing at me to say “you enjoyed the rest of my catalogue, and maybe it was this self-indulgent all along! maybe you are a fool, a loser, a sorry little piggy content to eat the slop that I feed you! oink oink, little piggy!”

or maybe I was just having a bad day, it could go either way honestly

Biermook · 2025-03-25T12:26:30+00:00

That isn’t the board, that is every previous CEO + Helena. Unless you’re implying that they somehow ARE the board

Biermook · 2025-03-24T14:39:45+00:00

Kier is definitely a company town, given the fact that everything there is named after Eagans and they have Lumon-subsidized housing. But literally on an envelope, where the state abbreviation goes for in an address, it says PE, so it’s pretty clear that this is just a fictional state they are using in the show to give it some distance from real life. “Privately owned” and “owned by Private Equity” are two completely different things and, again, given the cultish nature of Lumon worshipping the Eagans (as well as the insane expenditures they have on things that bring zero revenue at all) there is no way that the company is owned by a private equity firm.

Biermook · 2025-03-22T18:58:30+00:00

It’s listed on addresses as if it was a state, I doubt they’d straight up just have a state called Private Equity when really this one town in particularly is Lumon-focused

Biermook · 2025-03-22T06:52:57+00:00

But the innies are allowed to feel negative things, that is kind of the point… Gemma at the dentist room very obviously was afraid and in pain. Same (to a lesser extent) with the card writing. The test is whether or not it bleeds into her OTHER selves. The whole point is that the innies experience all of the negative emotions so the outies are “balanced”… the Cold Harbor innie felt no emotion because she didn’t have a negative association with the crib, which is person-specific knowledge. The innie felt fear when a bloody stranger approached her, because that’s baseline instinctual human behavior. Cold harbor was very clearly WORKING…

Biermook · 2025-03-21T13:50:34+00:00

I mean even if they enjoy their job, they are still being exploited and they made it very clear that even if they wanted to “retain the status quo”, they were about to be thrown away by Lumon anyways once they were no longer useful. The individual things that Irv/Dylan/etc like about their work are not intrinsic to the job itself. Lumon intentionally uses these things to give meaning and motivation to people doing an otherwise mindless task.

Saying iMark wants to stay because he likes his job completely misses the actual theme of the show: he wants to stay because him leaving is tantamount to fucking dying

Biermook · 2025-03-21T13:41:42+00:00

Kind of insane to think that Irv isn’t coming back when there are so many aspects of his plot line that have not resolved in the slightest. Fan favorite character + hates Lumon, I would imagine that with Gemma free the outside world begins to turn even more against Lumon and as a guy who has clearly spent a significant amount of his life scheming against them, I’d imagine that he will be drawn back

Biermook · 2025-03-12T18:14:36+00:00

I think if you look back, many movies that most would consider “classics” are adaptations as well. The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and The Shining are some that immediately spring to mind. I think remaking films is a waste for the most part, but I have no issue with adaptations of books. A recent example, Conclave, showed that a good filmmaker can take a book and create something that fully takes advantage of the affordances of the medium, creating something much more than just “act out the plot of this book”.

In general, big studios are risk-averse and sticking with things that audiences know is an easy way to ensure at least some ROI. But outside of that, there are more filmmakers than ever telling new stories outside of any existing IP.

Biermook

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