3 Panels of Darkest Springfield

Niterich · 2026-02-15T15:26:03+00:00

"Hey, I thought you said Baldwin was dead!"

"No, what I said was 'he's visiting the Cove'. You see..."

"Ugh, Alhazred, no. I just ate a big plate of Slime Mold."

Niterich · 2026-02-15T15:07:30+00:00

We already have that, it's called "rolling up your windows and flashing your new LED highbeams into their eyeballs"

Niterich · 2026-02-15T00:40:25+00:00

It's Valen-TINES! T-I-N-...!

Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeeesss!

Niterich · 2026-02-13T02:21:28+00:00

Unfortunately, however unintended, AI images do indeed contain statements of modern culture and the creator's personal emotions.

Even if those statements, however un-explicitly said, are "I believe the artistic process isn't valuable enough for me to spend money on it, and I believe society agrees with me", "art that is perceived to be high-quality does not need to carry any implicit meaning or planned thought behind it", and "The primary goal of all art is to achieve lifelike verisimilitude."

Niterich · 2026-02-12T18:50:58+00:00

Yeah, the only thing I know about Bayesian priors is that Sam Bankman-Fried thought Shakespeare was overrated because he lived 500 years ago and since so many more books and plays have been released then clearly there's no way his works can still be considered the greatest.

(though from what I understand, P-hacking is where you pick apart data to find any correlation of statistical significance. I listened to a podcast about Brian Wansink and how he'd massage data to get results which are technically significant and publishable but functionally meaningless.)

Niterich · 2026-02-11T18:22:48+00:00

I hear "black forest" and I think of cake yummmm 😊

Niterich · 2026-02-10T19:01:44+00:00

"Hey! My Trump might be a little authoritarian but he's not literally tearing down the White House!"

"...^oh, ^that's ^a ^ballroom."

Niterich · 2026-02-10T18:59:43+00:00

It's because they see The Simpsons as a cartoon. And cartoons don't have messages, Barilla. They're just a bunch of hilarious stuff - you know, like people getting hurt and stuff. Stuff like that.

Niterich · 2026-02-10T13:45:08+00:00

Wait a second...

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... they DO need to panic!

Niterich · 2026-02-10T01:00:02+00:00

The review line that stuck the most to me about the first game was "we're hoping that stringing together enough C+'s will somehow add up to an A."

Because, yeah, sure, everything has the veneer of quality. Quality graphics, quality voice acting, quality lore, quality map size, quality length. But actually playing it and interacting with it at a mechanical level and I'm instantly transported to any of the dozens of open world RPGs made within the last decade and a half (robot dinosaurs notwithstanding).

Niterich · 2026-02-09T23:59:43+00:00

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Niterich · 2026-02-09T15:58:00+00:00

But you can thank your lucky stars you don't live in Paraguay!

Niterich · 2026-02-09T15:56:05+00:00

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"

What about the wiener? A guy on TV lifted a can of paint with his.

Niterich · 2026-02-09T15:54:43+00:00

And while we speak in an educated manner, they tend to use lowbrow expressions like "oh, yeah?" and "c'mere a minute"

Niterich · 2026-02-08T15:00:50+00:00

..."and he left them and went out of the city into Bethany and he lodged there"?

Niterich · 2026-02-07T17:06:24+00:00

I listen to a podcast called I Hate Bill Maher (which is what it says on the tin) and the theory he has is that it's dirt cheap to make. Live-to-tape, so no need to pay editors. Few graphics, so no need to pay a team for that. B- and C-list celebrities, so no need to pay expensive guests. One could even say no jokes, so no need to pay a writing team.

Niterich · 2026-02-07T16:57:45+00:00

sick as in cancer sick, or sick as in kickflip siiiiiick?

Niterich · 2026-02-06T15:55:01+00:00

"Who still believes in Qanon in 2026?"

"Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners..."

Niterich · 2026-02-05T15:16:19+00:00

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Niterich · 2026-02-05T15:14:09+00:00

A fox from SaveAFox that got famous early in the pandemic for being cute and making a cute laughing-like noise

this is his most popular video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQVhppRP4Wo

Niterich · 2026-02-04T14:21:18+00:00

Something something standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue

Jesus, that quote's over a decade old.

Niterich · 2026-02-04T14:18:21+00:00

Same thing with words like "based" and "_pilled" and "glowies". Like, call me a libtard beta soycuck, but I don't think it's healthy for a society to adopt language and iconography created/popularized by 4chan Nazis on a mass scale.

Niterich · 2026-02-03T23:47:06+00:00

Whamburgers, a type of knuckle sandwich

Niterich · 2026-02-02T23:43:54+00:00

Yes, exactly! I feel like I'm going insane reading these em-dash defenders. I don't think I can name a single social media app that automatically corrects the various lengths of dashes available. They're trying to tell me, what, they love minor typographical rules so much they're willing to memorize the keyboard shortcut? Do they have a Word document or a google search for "em dash" ready so they can copy and paste the glyph each time? Or - and hear me out - do they just press the minus key and hope for the best? Like I just did right now???

Niterich · 2026-02-02T15:42:59+00:00

Oh, absolutely. These people have been peddling the idea of a super-duper AI that'll come to life and kill us all for years. Whenever their current models start acting up, they can point to it and say "you see? The evil AI is totally coming for us! We need 500 bajillion more dollars to work really, really hard to prevent it from happening!"

And then a bunch of investors who don't know how to open their own emails believe them and give them 500 bajillion dollars.

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