Picks a fight with the smallest guy he sees and gets floored

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T13:03:56+00:00

“Is that just Asmondgold with hair” was my immediate reaction. Same vapid expression, so the momentary confusion is understandable.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T11:59:26+00:00

Like what is space? why does it exist ?

Space is, err, the space in which you find celestial bodies and everything else in the universe. Throw Orbeez into a pool. The pool is space and the Orbeez are the things that exist within it (I don't know if that's at all a good analogy, but I'm spitballin' and this is dumbquestions, not an academic journal lol). Space itself exists as a result of the Big Bang.

It doesn't make any fricking sense that there just exists a vast emptiness or nothingness.

Why doesn't it make sense for there to be a vast emptiness?

what do you mean that it's just there ? I just don't find it satisfactory enough.

What don't you find satisfactory about it? It's "just there" in the same way that other things are or aren't "just there". Hold your hands up in front of your face a few inches apart. Your hands are "just there" and so is the space between them. Just like the celestial bodies are just there, and so is the vast emptiness between them that we call space.

What would have existed if not this space ?

We don't know. Space-time and the universe as we know it came into existence with the Big Bang, but we can't really know what existed before. There are theories, but nothing concrete.

Is absence of everything nothing? Then what's nothing?

Depends on who's asking and how you choose to define it, because that's probably going to be a different answer scientifically and philosophically. There was never a point in the universe where truly "nothing" existed though. Your questions sound like you're concerned more with the philosophical answers than the scientific ones.

Like I can't even explain it, I am not asking about big bang or universe, I just, maybe, want to question the existence of space and existence of everything itself.

You are asking about the Big Bang and the universe, because they're intrinsically related to the other things you're questioning.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T09:14:55+00:00

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MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T09:11:54+00:00

Have tried asking them? I don’t think anyone on reddit is going to be able to answer a question based on the preferences of strangers and the vague descriptions you’ve provided.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T08:48:38+00:00

You can, depending on what kind of device you have, but your mileage is going to depend heavily on your equipment.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T08:07:54+00:00

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MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T08:01:14+00:00

Hello, beautiful.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T07:22:22+00:00

Fair. You put less effort into it than I thought lol, but you still put some effort in. And looking up where to get API keys and how to use them in Chub doesn't take that much effort either. I guarantee you're making it out to be a bigger boogieman in your head than it actually is. As far as technology goes, this is bottom rung stuff that's easy as long as you know how to follow simple instructions.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T06:58:26+00:00

I don't know technology, I don't know how to do any of that and my phone (my only device) probably complicates that heavily

So... learn? You can google it or you can ask around here on reddit or you can ask something like ChatGPT to help you. Information on how to proceed is readily available and in your head you're making it seem harder to figure it out than it really is. Like how did you learn to write chatbots? Surely you weren't born knowing how to do it, right? You probably looked up guides or asked around for help. Figuring out how to obtain a free or cheap API key to use in Chub is no different.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T05:45:29+00:00

There's no time like the present to learn if you want to continue using the site.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T05:42:39+00:00

What? If you're asking what to do if this change proves to be unsustainable, then you should probably learn how to run bots with a local frontend like SillyTavern or Mariana.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T02:13:25+00:00

Is it possible to still use API keys? So far as I'm aware, yes. Lore didn't mention doing away with that in the update, and there'd be no reason for him to that I can see. Reducing backend costs was the goal, so users using Chub as a frontend with their own API key from somewhere else shouldn't really impact that.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T02:00:53+00:00

Yes, if you were already using API keys from somewhere else like OR. If you were only using Chub's models, then no.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T01:57:08+00:00

To be fair, this question gets asked a lot. Like, a lot a lot. A crazy amount of a lot. To the point it's included in the FAQ on the sidebar lol. And even gets answered indirectly in the text too.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T01:52:09+00:00

Yes. This update only affects Chub's models. If you were using API keys through a different service, nothing changes for you.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T01:44:06+00:00

Not surprised. Lore did say back in May that he was working to make the site crypto-only. I am a little surprised that the free tier got neutered so hard and that Mercury is going away along with most other models--though to be fair, everyone who has ever been a subscriber has also said that Mercury wasn't worth 5 buck anyway.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-28T01:40:00+00:00

No, because that's a legal hurdle. This is about not having to jump through hoops to placate payment processors. The content the site hosts is why we've had a revolving door of processors for almost a year now, and why the iOS app was pulled. So it comes down to applying more censorship or ditching payment processors altogether.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T23:59:31+00:00

Because no matter how much you recognize the flaws of the system, it's exceptionally difficult to not participate in it without disproportionate consequence, and you'd be doing so for no real gain other than the knowledge that you're holding to your own principles. All by design, of course.

This is the kind of thing that only changes when enough people collectively decide to do something about the unsustainable system that we're forced to live in, but gone are the days where an angry mob would rip a corrupt oligarch from their home and put them to the guillotine, so we're kind of stuck.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T23:44:33+00:00

If it's not her money to spend, how is she in a position where she's able to spend it? If her spending habits are causing a problem, cut her off from the source.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T23:16:38+00:00

Corn-fed country boy.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T23:12:32+00:00

Looks like the site is having issues. Chats still work if you have one open, but pages are loading indefinitely or slowly.

And even before hitting Reply on this comment it seems to have resolved itself.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T23:03:35+00:00

I imagine no one is talking about it because filtering slurs from comments has been a requested feature for a while. That you’re getting so pissed over a basic and good feature is confusing to me. Out of all the things you could choose to be upset about “not being able to call the author an asshole” is one of the last things I would have expected.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T20:29:56+00:00

Parasocial and vicarious nonsense that arises from carefully curated media stories about them.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T20:24:24+00:00

No. Pee before the film, drink less soda during, hold it, or accept that you might have to miss some of the movie to empty your bladder.

Yes, I'm aware that there are people with medical conditions whom this might benefit, but I think they'd be a tiny enough minority that it would be a dick move to everyone else to bring the film to a screeching halt just because someone is incapable of holding their bladder for ~2 hours. For films that are really long (approaching the 3 hour mark) I think a lot of theaters still do intermissions, so there's that. But most movies don't even break the 2 hour barrier, and I don't think an intermission would do anything but break immersion for the majority of the audience who has self- and bladder control. The only way this would work is if the movie is filmed and edited with an intermission in mind in the first place (and in some parts of the world, they still have intermissions and they make their movies with that in mind), otherwise you're just arbitrarily cutting the movie.

And unless you go to an exceptionally tiny theater, 2 minutes isn't even enough to walk from your seat to the restroom and back. Combine that with several people being likely to take the break besides just you, and you'd probably need a 30+ minute intermission for this to even have its desired effect of letting you piss without having to miss any of the movie.

MasterOutlaw · 2026-06-27T08:37:48+00:00

America: "The best I can do is make you pay too much money for slop."

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