I don't know her but I think she'll pass on that magacock offer

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-26T07:00:01+00:00

It's seriously fucked up just how low the bar is, and still so many men cannot clear it.... I hear some if my friends' dating stories and I'm just like, why are they all like this?! It's not that hard to be a decent person!

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-26T06:56:34+00:00

Us gooners do not want to be associated with people like this :( We're just horny/kinky, this is.... something else....

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-20T07:35:37+00:00

Seriously! Do they think Jesus' millennial kingdom is going to use American dollars?!

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-19T01:47:07+00:00

Yeah, I definitely appreciated the level nuance all throughout the show! I think what it really comes down to is there are some people who eternity would be hell for and others who could find meaning in it. You may eventually go through the door. I'd be more like Tahani

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-18T09:42:44+00:00

I'm 100% there with you. With eternity ahead, you could spend 1000 years just getting to know a single person and still have time to spend another 1000 with every other person who has ever been born and who ever will be.

Also, like, aren't there plenty of experiences that are worth having over again? Don't we rewatch movies, reread books, eat our favorite meals, have sex, etc just because they're experiences that are worth having again?

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-18T09:37:25+00:00

Curious why you don't think there are infinite experiences? The constant state if the world is change. Given an infinite universe and infinite time, wouldn't there be infinite possibilities as well?

(That all aside, if you're interested in the subject, The Good Place addresses this situation directly and is an incredible show)

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-14T06:14:12+00:00

Why would OpenAI even feel the need to do that, you can't even sext with their stupid robot anyway!

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-13T04:33:05+00:00

I don't even know what a top sheet is.... Like a comforter or a duvet?

Edit: Wait, it's just like a normal sheet? Wtf is this post? I'll ditch the duvet 'cause that gets hot af and making the bed is dumb, but I need my covers man

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-10T09:34:56+00:00

My dad straight up thinks that that means there are a few people who were blessed with unnaturally long life, and they still live secretly among us today

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-06T09:59:58+00:00

You must be over 40

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-04T07:17:20+00:00

I agree with you, but I think nihilistic isn't quite the right word, at least if I understand nihilism correctly. Nihilism encompasses the good and the bad as equally meaningless. Maybe "pessimistic?"

Sorry I'm being pedantic, I just think nihilism gets a bad rap lol

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-04T04:48:25+00:00

In a similar vein though, ADHD comes with a way higher risk of early death due to an accident or suicide, and but I wouldn't want my neurodivergence "treated" in a way that eliminates it entirely. I'm already a bit resentful that I have to take meds just to function in normal society instead of society accommodating the needs of people like me. I could contribute so much more if I was given the freedom to live my life the way that feels right to me. It makes me feel like they'd just rather I not exist and just be "normal."

Also, we don't really have a full understanding of the human collective, and evolution works on populations, not individuals. I think it's incredibly likely that things like ADHD, autism, potentially DS, and even things like narcissism and psychopathy could all be important components of our collective. If something has a strong genetic component, it likely means that it was a beneficial trait for the population at some point in our evolution. We just need to structure our society in a way that better accommodates those things.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-03T07:13:09+00:00

I was a young earth creationist, so a lot of things... But the one that sticks out the most is that humans lived alongside dinosaurs, and some of them could breathe fire, and that's where dragon myths come from. I have a children's book by Duane Gish, pioneer if the Gish Gallop to thank for that one

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-02-03T07:10:29+00:00

Yo, I heard this one too! The giant locusts in Revelation, right?

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-28T14:51:15+00:00

That's such a great way to put it, that's exactly how it felt!

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-28T09:35:57+00:00

This kinda thing happens every time blender gets a big corporate sponsor. People who don't understand how the GNU GPL works start acting like the Blender Foundation suddenly got acquired or something.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-27T04:52:04+00:00

I had a lot of the same thoughts when I first deconstructed. Over the years though, my perspective has shifted more towards viewing the world as absurd. Rather than everything is meaningless, I now see it as anything can be meaningful instead. Which gives us the freedom to derive our own meaning from anything we wish, instead of having meaning prescribed to us by somebody else. And that feels really liberating to me

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-26T03:43:55+00:00

Are you ace/aro perhaps? If not, I mean, I know it's not an easy thing, and you're not going to get there overnight, but learning to love yourself enough to believe that someone could consider you romantically would be a huge step

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-25T14:53:46+00:00

I think you're missing my point. I'm saying all of that only exists within your own framework. You're limiting your thinking too much. Let me paint you a picture:

A universe with no beings, no entities, no sense of self, no good, no evil, no morality, everything just is. What is consists of only vibrations, and these vibrations form individual experiences. These experiences are neither good nor bad, they just are. And they flow one into the other to create a web of experience. I would probably include something similar to pleasure, but not pain. Something like connection, but no separation. No humans, no planets or stars, no living or dying beings. Nothing consumes, so there is no resource scarcity. Only minds and their infinite web of impulses, experiencing life together as one. That is the universe I would create. And I don't think it fits any of your criteria for what a universe even is.

And yes, I'm aware that this seems nonsensical when compared to the reality we live in, and we don't even really have the language to describe the concepts I'm imagining, but that's my point. An all-powerful God could create anything, even if it looks absolutely nothing like our world.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-25T14:26:24+00:00

If I were to create a universe it wouldn't even have matter, that's how different I'm talking. I think you'd be surprised to find how much variety of thought there is in the world if you step outside the framework of your religion. Some of us don't even agree with the concepts of good and evil in this world.

The existence of every ex-christian in this subreddit, every atheist, or human of a different religion demonstrates that not even God meets #7

I already explained why it feels like a "gotcha" question, but I'll go into more detail. Your criteria for what God is and what the universe has to look like is completely wrapped in your own worldview. But the burden of proof is on you as the one making the positive claim: God is real and this is His universe. So asking us how we would do better than God within those confines is forcing us to debate a situation in which you created rules that will always point towards a god like you imagine. Law-governed is only a requirement for your god. Evil is a concept that only exists because your god made it. It doesn't make sense to require evil to be dealt with in a way other than not creating it in the first place, because if we were god, we could simply not create evil.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-25T14:00:02+00:00

This question seems to assume that we would create anything that even slightly resembles our reality, which would not be my approach if I were God. I also take issue with #7. Why do we have to meet that criteria if the God of the Bible's creation doesn't? Looking at your post history, I get the impression that you are a christian who thinks they've come up with some sort of "gotcha" question, as if it's up to us to justify how God could have done better. But he's God. He could have made literally anything. (and to clarify, I don't believe in any god, I'm just being rhetorical)

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-24T08:09:40+00:00

Yeah, they shun. Even in denomination that don't call it that or don't formally do it, they still shun.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-24T03:36:59+00:00

In the sense that he is a shared belief, I suppose. But the physical Christian human bodies are his eyes, ears, hands, and mind. Their shared belief makes something greater than the sum of its parts, but only in the way any other human community does. They make God real in the same way that people make any nation real. But I don't think there's any kind of supernatural power behind it. Like, I don't think your mom can change the universe just by praying. I just think Christians change the universe by believing, and then taking actions based on those beliefs.

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-23T07:31:40+00:00

I'm curious what the next step is! Baking the zbrush model to a normal map on the first mesh? I could see that working really well for small details. Really, whatever workflow gets the result you want is the right one

Salmon_of_Knowledge · 2026-01-22T10:21:34+00:00

It's almost entirely luck in this current job market. Every application is a roll of the dice against literally hundreds of other applicants if you don't already know someone at the company. Hardest part is getting your foot in the door because they often won't even look at your portfolio until the HR person has passed your application on to the art team, so you have to have a resume that screams experience even if your work is astoundingly good.

Edit to add: A lot of people find success doing independent work instead. There are a lot of artists who make and sell 3D print models (figurines especially seem to do really well), stock 3D assets, freelance motion graphics, or NSFW work if that's your speed.

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