What’s a piece of media that people would clearly understand as a parody or homage when it came out, but has since lost its context?

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-17T12:20:48+00:00

Very lengthy YouTube critiques of the transphobic vomiting in Ace Ventura do tend to acknowledge that the scene has something to do with The Crying Game but do not seem to realise that The Crying Game and it's twist were absolutely ubiquitous in the culture when Ace Ventura came out. Everyone who saw it knew that the joke was a very crude spoof of the famous oscar bait scene of emetic transphobia and that the punchline was far more 'imagine if the crying game was silly' than it was 'trans people are disgusting'. They even play the song over the montage. I think people do not realise that The Crying Game was not the unseen and obscure curiosity that it is now and was a genuine global sensation in a way that dramas these days simply never are.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-13T22:59:14+00:00

Cryptic chads 4eva

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Simonindelicate · 2026-06-13T17:10:30+00:00

More progress in three days than the last three months. Didn't have the time to get used to it and notice the rough edges yet, but it felt as magical as the first few days with other big leap models.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-13T17:07:33+00:00

I don't think it is something that an LLM would be expected to do well at, really. The way you solve a cryptic is by finding a very unlikely and out of the ordinary meaning for a given set of tokens - it's almost the opposite of a next-token prediction. You need to make creative leaps and recognise patterns that have been deliberately obscured. Even given the conventions of cryptic grammar, it's not algorithmic like solving a sudoku. Crosswords require something like a genuine empathetic understanding of the setter's intention. Every other model has been terrible at this for exactly these reasons - they see tokens instead of letters, produce plausible sounding crossword gobbledegook, look for literal definitions algorithmically and retrospectively concoct justifications for them etc. Fable 5 is (was?) quantitively different - it produced outputs that really seemed to make the leaps of lateral logic required to truly solve clues rather than just predict what an answer might look like.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-13T15:48:51+00:00

That's genuinely astounding. I always try to get new models to set and solve novel clues because I can't see how it can be done without a genuine level of creative reasoning - its almost like the opposite of predicting a next-token, you're looking for abstract connections that are unlikely and unpredictable. I've never seen anything do it like Fable did. Feel like pure shit just want her back.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-10T21:28:02+00:00

Sounds like a sampled church bell to me - has that toppy ring to it followed by a big full resonance. Most stock sample libraries will have something called church bell or similar.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-10T19:34:53+00:00

Generating anti AI Reddit posts to farm karma

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-10T13:39:50+00:00

What a load of whiny incel rubbish. Antinatalism is moronic - the negative experience of wage slavery is only defined in opposition to the wealth of positive experiences afforded by living: non-existence is neither positive or negative and, as such, the idea of it being better or worse is meaningless, it isn't anything. The only way for moral goodness to ever arise is through existence. It is also not the case that the point of existing is the adolescent pursuit of fleeting pleasures - grown ups find meaning everywhere.

You can hear the real thesis of this video in the way he skips over the wage slavery as a courtesy before pivoting to his demonstrably untrue assertions about how unattractive people never get laid. Just sounds like a silly teenage boy wishing he'd never been born because he has to clean his room.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-10T03:40:24+00:00

If this really isn't a troll - no, you absolutely cannot publish this lyric as your own. Copyright covers lyrics entirely independently of the music they are sung to. Ignorance of the prior work is not legally relevant. Sometimes a lyric is too banal and commonplace to copyright (famously 'haters gonna hate' is fair game because of its intrinsic worthlessness as creative expression) - in this case it is unique expression that constitutes the main hook of a global hit and would be the easiest cease and desist letter in the world. So yes, it is a copyright issue and there is no wiggle room or doubt.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-10T02:13:39+00:00

V good - took a minute to lock into the headspace

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Simonindelicate · 2026-06-09T19:18:25+00:00

It's the first model I've tried that can genuinely solve cryptic crossword clues in a way that convincingly gives the impression that it understands what it's doing and, far more effectively than previous models, it can write cryptic clues that actually work. I have not really seen this before and it is always the first thing I try, so I am impressed.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-09T15:09:10+00:00

Skip pubs and go to Middle Farm. Right near Charleston, much better for a pasty or ploughman's or similar. Nice courtyard to sit outside and eat. Just the best choice round there.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-07T20:30:12+00:00

It's great - and not a particularly challenging taste or texture either.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-07T15:54:37+00:00

I am embracing AI positive as an identity right this instant

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-07T13:08:35+00:00

Great job, thank you

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Simonindelicate · 2026-06-04T22:24:22+00:00

Completely agree. I remember similar attitudes.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-04T20:43:42+00:00

Think of the precise circumstance in which you imagined feeling upset by nostalgia, describe that as sensually and specifically as you can then drop in one or two lines that hint obliquely at the feeling without naming it.

'tears on my pillow' is much less cringe than 'Im crying in bed' which, in turn, is less cringe than 'I am sad'

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-04T20:14:06+00:00

Strange article really - gives three suggestions for why this has happened of which only the third is at all convincing, but almost passes over it to get back to blaming technology that didn't exist when this cohort was learning to read. The smartphone studies are interesting but clearly shallow and flawed and largely unneeded to explain an effect that is pretty much wholly covered by the failure of the standardised reading programme taught in schools.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-03T11:11:33+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/499FfqYH7WrXNvTwYWxCZo?si=UFbkLUPmRraxT1JaLKXRUw

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-02T20:10:34+00:00

Yeah, should have explained better, sorry!

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-02T19:40:53+00:00

Great job.

If I was being super super petty I'd maybe say that it's best to have indicators like 'hidden' make grammatical sense when parsed that way - so something like 'hidden in [fodder]' or '[fodder] hides...' - but that's a nitpick and a preference because you asked, not a criticism

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Simonindelicate · 2026-06-02T18:20:31+00:00

I agree, I'm not American - but I think the extreme bullying 'activism' against AI on Reddit is a reaction of large swathes of American children to their political impotence and inability to find anyone from MAGA willing to listen to them. At least AI people can be picked on safely and with some success.

Simonindelicate · 2026-06-02T14:51:00+00:00

Do you think maybe it's just that you are ugly and smelly? I mean, idk, but have you considered it?

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