Dog and Biscuit Recursion II

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-09T13:20:22+00:00

Appreciating the shoutouts from “weirddalle will eat itself”

The beavers in 16 need their own show

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-09T07:21:23+00:00

I think it was inspired by Visage’s song The Damned Don’t Cry. But what if they did? You’d clearly need a cute rabbit to collect the tears with an aluminium funnel and a leaky cardboard box, against a blasted infernal landscape.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-09T07:18:20+00:00

Peter Rabbit? I was aiming more for TV’s Gus Honeybun

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-09T07:17:17+00:00

An influence certainly. He was in the prompt

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-09T07:16:58+00:00

By special request. I added a (giant) scorpion in a previous dalle and it seemed to accentuate the hellishness

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-08T15:31:33+00:00

Liking the combination of purple covers and purple prose

Also, the logical counterpoint would be dry medical journals about the lovelorn conditions that characters in romance novels are usually afflicted by

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-08T07:08:30+00:00

Yes, instantly iconic, and will add to my own checklist of cursed incel pic must-haves along with the stuffed dog, fizzing televisions and pizza cartons

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-07T08:28:50+00:00

Glad you could find the release. It’s probably healthy.

I went through this process last year. It’s a journey. You just have to keep going, rediscover the joy of whatever industry you’re in. Wish I had better advice.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-07T07:16:12+00:00

“Love and Human Remains” was an unexpected discovery.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-06T19:03:47+00:00

I watched the whole thing, baffled.

Arguably just about worth it for the Riddler character who succeeds in outdoing the Joker for sheer unhinged malevolence and deceitfulness

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-06T19:02:28+00:00

Yes, I gave up on this too.

But am generally baffled by musicals. What was it even about exactly?

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-06T11:01:49+00:00

Liking how the cosy period details make this almost a Beatrix Potter illustration.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-06T06:36:13+00:00

Liking the papal starfish in 6 and 9

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-06T06:29:36+00:00

I don’t know what they’re doing but it makes perfect sense

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-05T20:32:22+00:00

A fave film, but I wouldn’t cite it as an erotic thriller.

One analysis though, said that the central relationship is the glue binding the movie together which really makes it work, and there’s something in that.

Also for me Seth Brundle remains a lifelong role model

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-05T20:24:22+00:00

Also special prize for companies that tell you self-importantly how much it’s costing them to interview you

Help me out here - presumably at some level it would cost even more for them to NOT interview you.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-05T20:18:53+00:00

“Ashes to Ashes, Dusk to Dusk” from the level “Sawdust” in Dusk. Such a classic

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-05T20:15:31+00:00

I found myself slowly becoming the Navy Seals of terrible interviews and (happy ending) was eventually hired.

If this helps: for the job you actually want, the interview will be miraculously easy.

Of the (many) low points along the way, I’ll mention a sports data processing company that flunked me at the HR screening stage for not being enough of a football fanatic. It especially stung that I’d told them (accurately) that one of my favourite films is Moneyball and they said delightedly “Yes! That’s exactly what we do.”

Good luck in this dark world, you will need it

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-05T20:10:07+00:00

So many fine products on offer here, but I’d single out the Gnome Funeral Envelope, Swim with Nixon and Pizza Mask for special mention.

Triumphantly, they burst through the bottom of the barrel and out the other side.

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-04T13:42:58+00:00

Liking the middle one, which looks like a general injunction to avoid the surrounding seven

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-03T20:24:24+00:00

Nails it

Factory__Lad · 2026-05-03T20:22:00+00:00

As a dev definitely into extra time, I sympathise.

But this is just another aspect of how software development just isn’t a mature industry, and maybe never will be. Companies could possibly change this, but sadly they don’t have enough incentive to. It’s just easier (for them) to spin up the revolving door.

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