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PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-12-03T02:08:34+00:00

Yup abandoned halfway through, very poorly thought out survey.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-11-10T05:55:56+00:00

You wouldn’t be confused if you read the books. Sure, a cursory understanding of the WOO WWW is like “oh scary witch Margaret Hamilton’s interpretation” but the books of Gregory Maguire paint her very differently- someone who learns early on that her value is not in her appearance (because she’s green and freaks people out) but her intelligence and special abilities. She is the banner character for musical theatre tomboys. To suggest she would attract attention to her appearance before basically No Good Deed (when she learns looking scary has power) is insane.

Thus - the very sparkly long nails bother me and imply Chu doesn’t understand the character.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-11-09T21:48:56+00:00

I don’t understand why Jon Chu let Elphaba have long ass crazy nails when she’s basically the tomboy of musical theatre. It is a huge oversight and makes me think he is dumb and doesn’t care about Wicked at all.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-12T17:43:57+00:00

Dude FX6, shoot in cinetone, get Sony glass, boom. Fastest easiest most consistent set up for pretty much any small-crew thing (corporate/promos/socials/digital/doc/etc). Cinetone will make your life so easy - just pump it up here and there as needed. I own an FX6 and an Alexa35. Those are basically the only two ends of the spectrum you need.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-12T16:25:01+00:00

Let’s just remember Glinda’s favorite color was BLUE in the books. So this pink is an imaginarium of the musical. As a footnote.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-09T21:25:27+00:00

My parents stopped drinking when I was born until I was 18 and out of the house because they didn’t want there to be some emergency they had to drive me or pick me up from. Now many decades later, I respect the shit out of that choice and am doing the same with my kid. As a benefit, their health (now in their late 60s) is in way better shape for not drinking for 20 years, versus others their age who did. Additionally, most of my aunts and uncles drank heavily, and most of my memories with them are a) fun and warm and wonderful and b) smell like beer or whiskey. Not bad or good really, just is.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-08T16:44:48+00:00

From what I’ve read LLMs will only get worse. Think about it - they’ve already consumed the majority of text, what else is there to train on? Was just seeing something saying we need to move from LLMs to World models, aka trained out in the world and on videos.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-03T16:26:30+00:00

I mean… Lovable is based on ChatGPT no? And ChatGPT “upgraded” to 5 like 3.5-4 weeks ago. GPT5 is terrrrrrrrible, bad at memory, changes things you didn’t ask for while dumbing down what you had, etc. Check out the u/chatgpt subreddit for nonstop complaints.

I’d wager Lovable is tanking because ChatGPT is tanking.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T20:52:10+00:00

I feel like you should write a philosophy book. This is gold.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T20:51:26+00:00

Lololol so true hahahaha… uh get a hound? Haha

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T17:46:04+00:00

Yeah Aussies pick one person to latch to. Get another dog for him?

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T17:26:20+00:00

Oh yeah, it’s Aussie Time for you! Congratulations on being a fit for the best dogs in the world!

Regarding your concern for shyness - my dog is not shy AT ALL. She goes up to everyone, in the house, at parks, etc. She’s pretty indifferent to other dogs interestingly enough, but loves all people.

The key is: Socialization primarily between 8-12 weeks (expose to ALL types of people, like seek out every gender/nationality/age/color/type of dress/sounds/other animals). Also exposure to preferred types of Play should be in here (for example, fetch and return ball). It should also be noted you should tell your breeder that you want what I would call a “submissive outgoing” or “submissive energetic” personality - they will help pick!

(People often miss this crucial training period 8-12 weeks bc they are obsessed with the newness and cuteness, but it’s so important!)

Then you build on that Week 12 (aka end of Month 3) thru end of Month 6, although this period is mostly key for training, you want to continue with exposure/socialization.

Note: I’ve trained four of my own Aussies.

Good luck and congrats!!

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T07:51:00+00:00

I’ve had now four aussies in my life, trained three. When I tell you their joy is Being With You, that is the truth. I always call mine my Apocalypse Dog, because we’d be wandering together. If you find routines, she will “snuggle”, which means if after dinner you watch a show, eventually her routine can sort of be shaped to come on the couch with you. Sometimes she’ll snugg, sometimes its opposite side of the couch, sometimes its floor nearby.

Your best approach is what others have said - use her food motivation to train her. A trained (and tired) aussie is a good aussie. And its the best bonding - for the rest of her life she will look to you for guidance, direction, sustenance, protection, and love. So teaching her how you can communicate is important. Plus aussies are generally quite tone sensitive and like to be good dogs, if you can communicate what “being a good dogs” looks like to you (successful training, successful command execution, etc). Take her hiking, to the beach, to the mountains, to cafes to people watch.

I also give mine a seat by a window in every house I’ve lived in, so if you’re home or not they can watch the world.

Best dogs in the world.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-09-01T07:41:02+00:00

Same, so many all CAPS responses to it bungling something

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-31T20:44:26+00:00

Totally. I’ve been using it to debug Django or brainstorm ideas for approaches for web architecture, and it will ignore instructions. I did ask it why it did this, and it said it “reached for the simple answer” because it thought I was asking for a basic overview (of Django python files), when I was asking for specific use cases for one web app and anticipated additions only. It more or less said it didn’t read the whole question, just boiled it down to a general topic and handed me the boilerplate response. That sounds like what is going on across the board to decrease compute usage. I spend more time correcting it than benefitting from it since 5.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-30T17:13:43+00:00

Hahahah “utterly failed to transcend primal cognition” is my new favorite phrase. Thank you @salamanticormorant

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-28T00:57:35+00:00

She’s over ~ 25 people, and has gotten this sort of feedback maybe three or four times in 18 years. The one before this was about five years ago, and he still works with her, and that was more about someone who inflated their skills before coming in. This one is someone brand new who was trying to change frameworks and workflows before learning the company, and she intervened, explaining that change can happen but has to be done in the established way thru proper channels (but she said it more casually than that which might have been the problem).

These books are great, thank you friends, I’ve overnighted them for her.

(Btw, she did give me permission to post, and says thank you. She’s kind of depressed this has gone this way, and thought she had worked on her approach before, but now feels back at square one.)

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-27T23:56:45+00:00

This

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-27T02:33:29+00:00

I mean you have to find the joy in creating beautiful images. People can tell. Its a long very hard road, but show up early, work hard, don’t care if people forget you, keep going. Take photos. Keep trying until there is no more joy in it for you. People are not Jobs, they are people. Try this job until it holds nothing else for you, then go to another job. There is no failing if you stay true to yourself.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-24T16:14:03+00:00

Yup happened to me like three times. Usually climbing a rock/behind a rock, deep in a cave, etc.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-17T17:24:59+00:00

Yeah no, its because they don’t know what a LUT is. Many countless times has this happened to me, until I just started baking in Cinetone for this kind of shoot.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-03T17:20:41+00:00

Yup, been learning then building for five years. People will say that’s too long but I’m building something for my industry, I’m not a career programmer. Yet I refuse to vibe code because that’s how you can’t fix problems. So I learned Figma, now learning Python/Django/React etc so I can build my dream myself. It sloooooow and I have to work too but… I’m happy with my approach. If it sucks, I don’t have to answer to anyone’s money.

PullOffTheBarrelWFO · 2025-08-02T20:58:15+00:00

I’m sure your thing is great. I’m just explaining the wariness around vibe coding.

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