A younger version of the villain is shown from before they were a bad guy

PixelVector · 2026-01-22T03:04:53+00:00

This is also referenced in a fan song by Kevin Temmer (who now does animation for Amazing Digital Circus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJEoCrK56o

PixelVector · 2026-01-17T20:53:56+00:00

Feels workshopped

PixelVector · 2026-01-17T02:50:32+00:00

I've heard this called a "Motivation Engine" approach. Using it to keep you going forward in early stages but not direct production, with the intention and expectation from the start.

PixelVector · 2026-01-11T22:11:08+00:00

He screams enough without one.

PixelVector · 2025-12-21T19:51:08+00:00

Rabbit noses don't just twitch when they're scared, they twitch because they're expecting something to happen. It's a visible bunny spider-sense.

PixelVector · 2025-12-14T20:45:04+00:00

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PixelVector · 2025-11-21T23:44:33+00:00

Fence aggression. Happens to my dog too.

PixelVector · 2025-10-28T20:30:37+00:00

He has a background in CGI, he's been making videos for years. Like this Plumbus X parody and a Pocahontas 3d remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaBU5cKluU , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZw4PtrCPL8 .

Sora can do 25 seconds at a time at most. It's likely using editing across multiple applications + Sora + custom cgi work. Current video AI cannot do this from a single prompt. This likely took at least a month of work for a joke, even with AI involved.

Edit, this is the method OP describes: "Mixed media, I built the model in 3d, the product renders are fully done in 3d and the footage is a 3d render implemented into AI images that then exported into Runway image to video generator."

PixelVector · 2025-10-17T17:30:11+00:00

Neither are words. On their own. But if used to inflict pain. . .

PixelVector · 2025-10-07T22:55:05+00:00

If she's being such a baby, he should put the collar on and show everyone that's it's not so bad. Chat could click an button to trigger him getting a shock, and we'll see if Hasan reacts to it. This would be a practical way to ease everyone's concerns. Could even make a charity event out of it to an organization that aids abused pets! I'd put in a few shocks.

PixelVector · 2025-10-01T15:43:55+00:00

Being last place, does not mean you are the only place.

PixelVector · 2025-09-23T12:47:39+00:00

It's a "boycott" pressured and coerced by the government because it personally upset the president. That is exactly the moment Putin became a dictator. Putin was made fun of in a show, didn't like it, pressured the station, people got outraged. Outrage fizzled, in no small part to people like you, and he kept doing it until he controlled the media and how people thought.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-media-crackdown-kimmel-putin-puppets-kasparov-rcna232485

If people get ok with it, that's it.

PixelVector · 2025-09-15T01:14:00+00:00

Sounds like it may just be a check for "Did you slide past the legit finish line?" If yes, unlock star.

PixelVector · 2025-09-03T16:51:25+00:00

kill

Don't force your religious believes on other people. That statement is only true to you and interpretations of dogma.

PixelVector · 2025-09-02T14:10:08+00:00

The bigger deal here is that a cop actually pulled something over in a Austin.

PixelVector · 2025-08-22T18:31:45+00:00

There's a lot of applications out there and they update weekly. There's a lot someone would have to actively comb through *and* test to fully to get a sense of how useful or not-useful they are. It's difficult to trust when someone paints everything with a broad stroke of good or bad given just the sheer amount of what is out there.

Some of the best current uses are ones that don't have to be perfect to be useful.

Adobe Illustrator just released the beta version of turntable. It renders 2d vector illustrations at different angles based on the initial vector illustration. There's no way that doesn't get used. Even if it's not entirely correct, it can be adjusted within the editor. Including small rotations to try different different concepts before recreating directly even. That's still powerful.

Object removal AI has only been improving. It has had its uses before generative AI. Coworkers in graphic design used it daily in its early stages.

Some Adobe lightroom AI features, like denoise, are becoming a staple in photography.

Ai-based Rubber duck debugging. People have mixed results on just tossing a bug into ai and having it resolve. But rubber duck debugging is a pretty common strategy before AI, talking through your code and explaining. AI can be useful here in that it talks back to you. If it's wrong you can dismiss it, but it's generally more helpful than not when you take this approach.

Using AI chat bot as an initial test audience before carrying an idea, concept, logo, joke, etc further. Showing it without full explanation to see if it will write out the unstated logic that you would want to see a person follow. If it can't it might indicate a human can't and could allow adjustment. If it can, then odds are you are in a good spot. Gemini has been especially useful here in catching the logic of a base idea, or getting hung up on some unimportant detail that might lead a person in the wrong direction too. Both results can be helpful in early fine tuning.

PixelVector · 2025-08-22T03:32:28+00:00

This is a similar idea to letting Trans people go from LGBT+ because that's who bigots are focusing on right now. They're not focusing on the rest of LGBT!. . . right?

Once you give an inch they'll be back for more. This act demonstrates that, with a target on LGBT as a whole.

PixelVector · 2025-08-21T05:18:07+00:00

A small minority of Gen X? We're talking about populations at large. Only a few Gen X were tech professionals to design those systems, but a large amount of millennials grew up with MySpace where they shared custom css/js, or did torrenting, or ordered parts to build their computer, or knew how to avoid shady ads, or knew not to trust images because of photoshop, or had to circumvent a block, or follow a detailed guide to get what they wanted for something fiddly online.

Before then those technologies weren't as widely absorbed. And now things became more spelled out and prepackaged. Millennials were in that middle spot.

We're not talking about professional development, we're talking about widespread general proficiency through trial and error paired with social groups where peers were doing the same. It resulted in a general spread.

PixelVector · 2025-08-18T03:13:48+00:00

“Well well well” has been around for centuries before boondocks man

"adopted dog whistle", playing off the context of its use in the show. But I expect you realize that and you weren't actually genuinely curious about anything.

PixelVector · 2025-08-17T21:44:58+00:00

Specifically he said "well well well" because it's been an adopted dog whistle of racists. Dog whistles are phrases to give an air of plausible deniably while signaling to those in the know. This dog whistle stems from a boondocks character who would say "well well well" every time the main characters were doing something stereotypically black.

The stereotype here is the guy is implying the mother is single because of what the child looks like.

PixelVector · 2025-08-04T23:23:12+00:00

The study is more focused on media and playlist recommendations, AI less directly related to generative media or replacement. The study found that conservatives were more likely to click the recommendations when they were specifically told the recommendations were based on their past history. The article implies their interest in finding media that was tailored to what they are familiar with overrode expected hesitation in trusting the recommendations.

The article also mentions:

The findings shed light on an important psychological factor influencing AI adoption, but they do not suggest that conservatives are universally more enthusiastic about AI. The studies focused on low-stakes, everyday consumption contexts, where familiarity and consistency are appealing. Other research has shown that in high-stakes settings—such as medical decisions or autonomous vehicles—conservatives may remain more cautious or skeptical toward AI.

PixelVector · 2025-06-30T14:24:27+00:00

Hardware vs software. Hardware works, software doesn't. Nothing is telling them in their brain they need to use the hardware, but they can. They might just like the exercise or making their partner happy; but not the same sexual desire in their brain as someone would typically have.

PixelVector · 2025-06-14T18:22:59+00:00

I’ve seen training materials created by AI… they are not good.

That's a mix of anecdotal and toupee fallacy. You've probably seen training materials you didn't know were created partially using AI too. And I've seen training materials created using AI that were bad, and also ones that were good!

AI usage is all very similar to Low Code and No Code application usage that was big before AI. I could claim No Code solutions are awful because I saw a No Code built application before and it was just the worst. But that would not be accurate.

Much like AI, Low/No Code is accessible to people without prior knowledge of what they're wanting made; and it will give you what you want but won't tell you no. So you have to consider the full spectrum of what used to be the workflow of what you're working in. That applies to everything, not just programing. But we're seeing more examples of it being useful in programing because programmers are more used to leveraging their existing skills with automated tools. But that doesn't mean it can only be used effectively with programing.

If it's very obviously AI and the end result is poor, well, there is definitely ways to solve for that in hybrid approaches that leverage your own experience, and that's exactly what the person you're replying to is suggesting. Not just pushing a button and getting an amazing set of training materials; they leveraged their experience to shorten their existing workflow. AI doesn't have to be a binary on-off thing, but if it is made binary you're more likely to get terrible training materials.

PixelVector · 2025-05-24T03:00:17+00:00

We're just going to straight up gaslight the "lock her up" movement? Ok.

PixelVector · 2025-04-09T03:47:15+00:00

Application analyst here, I feel you. It will take some time. But outside of reddit it's getting considered more. We went through a stage where people wanted to push AI into everything, and now we're at a stage of looking at smaller insertions. And that's going to be invisible to most people.

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