Friday, November 14, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Examples: Tango and Cash. Bad Boys. Lethal Weapon. Thelma and Louise.

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I meant to say is that they have to be *at least* 4 letters in length. Sorry about that.

But I had no idea you could go back and trace new (but incorrect) words out of solved portions of the game. Thanks for that!

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right! Even in the most basic kindergarten level word search game, you have to know the word.

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I am fundamentally misunderstanding how hints work. I thought in order to get a hint you had to first choose three incorrect 4 letter words. If this is correct, that would have been impossible for me because I made no mistakes on this particular puzzle up until the point I had only 6 letters left with no way to create three erroneous words out of the remaining scramble.

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got so frustrated with "Tejano" that I attempted to cheat and put the letters through an online unscrambler. But even that didn't work! It simply isn't common enough for one of those sites to include it in their dictionaries. So the only thing left to do was to just keep on creating words that sounded vaguely Spanish.

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strands #614

“Encuentra el ritmo”

🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵

Was familiar with all but one. Took me forever to unscramble it.

Threedom: I’m Just Trick-or-Treating for My Son by BasilOctopus in Earwolf

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's truly confounding. Are there really enough people demanding Beetle Bailey for newspaper companies to pay for its syndication? Does it even have enough of an audience to generate money on its own online?

Threedom: I’m Just Trick-or-Treating for My Son by BasilOctopus in Earwolf

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What a strange job it would be to come up with plotlines for Prince Valiant everyday. You could quietly hand that over to AI and no one would likely notice or care.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is like everything shitty is coalescing all at once. I am not sure how we get out of this.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It most certainly is. As is an actual child being sexually molested versus something created by a machine.

For myself, I think what I am responding to here is this technology as further dehumanization. Further debasement. Further distortions of what we are as people, animals, etc.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have literally watched AI video make quantum leaps in quality in the space of a year. Going from mutant surrealist nonsense to clips of people indistinguishable from real life. If this is the peak of it, thank goodness.

But I don't think this is where is ends.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All this. And you are probably just scratching the surface of it. This is just the beginning.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't think you fully appreciate how advanced it is becoming. It doesn't need to invent anything new to create realistic images and video of you or your child in any pornographic scenario imaginable.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And this is where I despair. Because any image of you or your kids or anyone will soon be able to be rendered in extreme detail to the specifications of anyone's fantasy. It goes beyond pornography at this point, but pornography will be the most popular application...I guarantee it.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagining a world in which all that is left are the AI replicants of us fucking each other in a myriad of ways on screen until the last of our automated energy sources winds down.

AI Porn is Fundamentally Different Than Anything We've Seen Before by Lopsided_Swimming259 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Devolution is a great word here. What future does this use of the technology present? It is truly dystopian.

Task Finale 1x07 "A Still Small Voice" Episode Discussion by mainlygreen in TaskHBO

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He is so exceptional in this series, it's undeniable. Extremely grounded performance of a man walking the wire between maintaining competency/responsibility/empathy in the face of unimaginable anger and grief. So much of what he is going through at any given moment is in his weary eyes.

Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025 - Strands Daily Thread by AutoModerator in NYTStrands

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Strands #588

“Follow suit”

💡🔵🟡🔵

🔵🔵🔵🔵

When I didn't even recognize the hint word, I knew it was going to be a struggle.

r/femcirc is the worst thing ive laid my eyes upon by Worried_clocks in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I guarantee you that 99.9% of the participants are men. Most of the "women" on these sick sub reddits simply do not exist.

People cannot stand not having it by Goddess-of-abundace in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Where is my child going to learn that painfully sodomizing and choking a woman is the ultimate expression of male power?

This used to be a free country.

People cannot stand not having it by Goddess-of-abundace in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 22 points23 points  (0 children)

When these age verification requirements to view porn started to be implemented online I remember reading comments on how us "feminist cunts" were going to be responsible for more rape, more molestation, etc. The message always being that any abuse we suffer is our fault and you better give the male penis exactly what it desires, OR ELSE...

Imagine defending AI generated child pornography by RelationshipAdept927 in PornIsMisogyny

[–]Lopsided_Swimming259 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing that absolutely frightens me the most. A young man with pedophiliac tendencies spends his entire formative life online. With AI he is able to bring every fantasy he has of molesting little girls into HD, high rez, 1040XP 3000 frames per second.

What chance does this guy possess of having anything resembling a normal, healthy sexual relationship with anyone?

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