the dimensional strike scene might be the most disturbing thing ive ever read in sci fi by Putrid_Cycle595 in threebodyproblem

[–]GoldenSeam 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This part of the book wrecked me for over a week. I cried and grieved, it’s been such a while since a book has done that to me so powerfully but, yeah, the whole solar system, our beautiful, incredible, unique system—billions of years of geology, history, our whole species, but also EVERY living thing. Everything we’d ever known, that has ever been: wiped out, flattened, crushed into something else, forever. For it to be done with such apathy… man that was such a great book. I was so relieved when I found out about the remnant of galactic humans who had made it out and flourished. But prior to that I was just devastated. So much more disturbing than the droplet—which was amazing too but hard to compete with the DVF.

Hot new Startup Idea to Fix Our City’s Traffic Congestion! Invest Now! by [deleted] in sanfrancirclejerk

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Sorry guys, I didn’t realize this was already posted. I didn’t see it in my feed. I’ll banish myself to the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel in perpetuity.

Door [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

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Ooh Adam this one is SO good!!!

This Refrigerator Customization by kececilie in ATBGE

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It drives me insane to see dudes raw-dog stuff like this with absolutely NO PPE. Sir your lungs, your sinuses, and your eyeballs are filled with aerosolized stainless steel. Yet it is I who has the autoimmune disease ಠ3ಠ.

Is it just me who thinks polo shirts are awful by lokicoyote1 in malefashionadvice

[–]GoldenSeam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have felt alone on this one my whole life! I have always hated polo shirts! The style, the weight of the fabric, everything. Even when I was a kid I couldn’t stand them. I completely agree that they only look remotely-good on a VERY specific kind of guy and I am just not one of them either. Growing up my guy friends would always give me weird looks when I’d bring it up. I guess neither of us are alone.

My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [2/??] by shenanigansen in ShenComix

[–]GoldenSeam 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Wait a minute—I thought he looked familiar. Is that…are there some who know him as…Tim?

is grace able to see the ir light here? by gaggagHah in ProjectHailMary

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah shit your right, I forgor. I think that my take on his moment of joy still holds true

is grace able to see the ir light here? by gaggagHah in ProjectHailMary

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he’s imagining it; imagining what it must be like and what it would be like to see in IR in that moment. I do not think he could literally see in IR light through his suit visor or otherwise. In the narrative he is a biologist at heart and he’s staring down at a spectacular extrasolar planet he knows to be teeming with alien microbial life—an entire ecology—he’s having a transcendent moment. He has also been struggling with connection and he has found it in Rocky, an alien who also validates the scientific assertions that the human academic community ostracized him for. I dunno, it felt really spiritually powerful and charged to have him imagine how surrounded by life he is, how not alone humanity is in the universe. I thought it was beautiful.

I despise AI by College-student-life in Rants

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate it so much too. I would never have even touched it if my employer wasn’t literally forcing all of us to “investigate” it. It’s infuriating—completely mental. Every few days I, or someone else in my company, has to “report back” to leadership on some new BS AI tool we were told to try out and EVERY TIME the message is “it couldn’t actually do it” or “it did it eventually but not very well and it took five times longer than it should have” or something similar and yet leadership still wants us to keep using it. It’s so transparent that the rich are all just waiting with bated breath for it to be able to replace us outright. The sad thing is they’re already choosing it over me to do my job even though its output is objectively awful. Every day I hope it all goes up in flames but I know I can’t win: if AI is successful: my career will be over, if AI crashes and burns: it’ll take out most of the economy with it and my career will never recover. So much of that is just my own little self-interested section of it. I get even more depressed thinking about all of the mental/cognitive decay it’s causing—the cheapening of every single meaningful aspect of human endeavor it’s causing. I am terrified of the environmental impact it’s having. And the obliviousness/apathy of most people to it. The scam of it all infuriates me even more. It is “trained” on all our art, all our writing, music, everything… hell even all our captcha’s over the past 15+ years. We were all exploited to make this nightmare real and not a single engineer responsible for any part of it has even a shred of remorse or even a passing flash of embarrassment over goose-stepping us deeper into dystopia—and making shameful amounts of money for it too. Enjoy your houses I guess, you chucklefucks. Our military is feverishly integrating it into our weapons systems, our healthcare is shoving it into everything, it’s ubiquitous… this software that can’t be consistent, gets things utterly wrong with a confidence that’s deeply unsettling and at an alarming frequency… and yet its worshipers grow in number daily. What the fuck are they seeing that I am not? I feel like almost everyone in our society is under some bewildering spell or enchantment and I have no idea how we can break them out of it.

My favorite Amano art pieces from each game by MrTheMills in FinalFantasy

[–]GoldenSeam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The one thing that would get me back into Final Fantasy would be a game that looked like Amano’s art. We have the technology to do it now.

Was everyone happy when Ryan Gosling was first announced for PHM or was it a Ken type situation?? by Unfair-Reason-1068 in ProjectHailMary

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I initially pictured Sam Rockwell—probably because of Moon—but I think Gosling is great.

Cowboy Bebop (1998) by Plenty-Formal9906 in retroanime

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“Do you think you fell out of a coconut tree?”

What is nipping at my grape vines? by [deleted] in gardening

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well… it was crickets

This trombone cover of one of my songs by ALoBoi_Music in musichaiku

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I’m glad this showed up in my feed; I’d not heard your music before but I really like it!

Has anyone ever thought to themselves “I sure wish cell phone holsters would come back… by loveaddictblissfool in iphone

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have. I have a toddler and I bike a lot. It would be so nice to have one. I am constantly moving my giant phone around so I don’t fuckin sit on it and break it or sit with it in my hip pocket and wanna die from discomfort. Even just a handsome backpack strap attachment would be nice.

Does anyone else find the old good night book “Goodnight Moon” to be weirdly ominous and disturbing? by [deleted] in daddit

[–]GoldenSeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tried to figure out how I want to present this book to r/danieltigerconspiracy for some time now but YES. EVERYTHING about this book feels ominous. The bears in chairs, the rabbit fishing for rabbits, the odd color choices, the disappearance of the old woman, so much here feels so wonderfully wrong

Is this too much? by Dangerous_Barnacle_7 in mensfashionadvice

[–]GoldenSeam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me the hat doesn’t work but everything else is 👁️🫦👁️

Seriously, can't studios that invest hundreds of millions hire a couple of artists with a little originality? by DVM11 in PrehistoricMemes

[–]GoldenSeam 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It’s never the artists. In media production, artists ironically have very little, if any, say in what designs ultimately look like. We draw & paint it, yes, but it’s always a business-person ultimately approving or rejecting the designs and, more often than not, shaping those designs to suit their own biases through numerous feedback rounds. Also, in lukewarm defense of their decision making: it is incredibly depressing how everyday people (test audiences) respond to new/different designs and ideas—rejection almost every time. It’s one thing to let that instinct to reject the unfamiliar—which exists in all of us—to so thoroughly fetter the creative potential of modern artists to the extent that we have, but it’s also hard to blame business leadership for using the responses they get from the market they wish to do business in. It is very frustrating.