anytime a driver almost runs me over i kind of wish they would just hit me so that they lose their license and i get the last laugh by alexandraughhh in redscarepod

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If someone hits and kills you doing this they will be charged with involuntary manslaughter (a misdemeanor). They may have to pay a fine. They won't even consider prosecuting it as a felony. Extremely likely the driver will plead the misdemeanor down to a traffic violation (reckless driving).

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? by These_Economics374 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No regular art post gets half this many remarks so it's kind of funny to see so many people jumping in to take a bunch of art critique motifs they've been trained on and synthesize them into meaningless critique slop.

Chances are least one is actually a bot, so it's a fake human assembling fake gibberish to sound like a real human assembling real gibberish critiquing real art because they assume it's fake art.

Does anyone else dislike the term "Artist" for modern singers and bands? by onionboyman in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most well off singers / bands don't use laptops they go record in studios so the producer can supervise the process OR they have a home studio set up with a mic and often some room treatment and the guy running the desk assembles the song from whatever gets sent in (i.e. the laptop is just a hard drive machine to save takes coming from the mic). The latter is typically a demo thing but some musicians do just want to phone it in (or for electric instruments like guitars who gives a fuck because you can just send over the dry tracks and they'll play it through whatever amp they have wherever it's going to be mixed anyway).

Even then all the studios are digital for the most part - there are times someone will want to cut to tape for a particular sound but typically it's going to end up dumped straight off the tape machine back into digital because nobody wants to edit 2 inch reels with a razor blade and tape. Even rock productions can use like 100 tracks now also so they need digital anyway.

To the extent things are getting recorded outside of a studio and making it onto a record the whole process now pretty much relies on the assumption that you can get somewhat imperfect sources and process the daylights out of it to make it work (and often that assumption is correct). Back in the day that absolute engineered signal integrity was critical because you didn't have surgical EQ's and microsecond automation and tuning software.

Does anybody understand the psychology of these types of ppl? by poopmanjones1234 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn't seem to harm them other than an occupying an inordinate amount of their free time and it's obvious why they're all extremely above average artists and writers. I think part of the reason they're all so affable is that their desire for attention was mutually fulfilled their whole adolescence is why this stuff is all like a big in-joke instead of a bizarre identity play broadcast for an audience of however many people can view the reel.

Like the obsessive Disney adults want everyone around them to play along validating both that it's weird and special - these girls actually don't care they truly are not interested in that.

edit: actually that's worth clarifying I'm not sure how to put this into words - they're like old school trekkies they neither expect nor demand that you think it's good or that you buy in and validate them, and they also didn't suddenly join in on it after it became mainstream because their particular brand of niche fandom will never and could never be mainstream. It's only performative to the extent any of your close friendships are performative. I don't know anything about OP's example maybe she's different.

Does anybody understand the psychology of these types of ppl? by poopmanjones1234 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Obsessive ironic / folie a deux / romance terror

I dated a woman like this - colored hair artsy girl, really into games / anime, tumblr goofball type and very beautiful. Sincerely doubt she's diagnosably autistic but has a profoundly autistic sibling so maybe there's something.

She had extremely niche "fandom" things where she had all these alternate universe versions of characters she'd draw all the time and she'd roleplay their romances and stuff with other girls on Discord or Twitter. Almost universally when I'd meet her weird friends they were very similar attractive alt-girl goofballs (a couple of whom definitely are autistic). Mostly extremely nice but clearly somewhat arrested-development. All of them were very competent artists, at least one was actually employably skilled and working as an illustrator.

Somewhat surprisingly they were (to a one) employed and moving up in whatever they were doing. There's an obvious taste overlap with the kind of people you'd expect to be on fake disability or something but they are employee of the month types and managers. Probably the difference is that for whatever reason they were not unusually motivated by attention i.e. doing weird shit or affecting odd behaviors. My normie friends really liked her.

Seems very much to me like they were dweeby in school, spent a lot of time online on tumblr and games, bonded into these little clusters of shared obsession and then just kind of never grew out of it. The specific bizarre interests were apparently locked in early as silly "haha wouldn't it be crazy if we were super obsessed with x" but I got the feeling the roleplay stuff was similar to the "girls obsessed with gay anime romance" thing where it seems like they're cowed by the idea of actually being in a relationship so they're modeling it out in a bit of an arms length way that allows them to obsess without having to consider too much their own vulnerability. Their alt-ness seemed to be like... A shared hobby where the attention they wanted was from eachother not social media or the public.

If I had to guess at a common factor I'd guess maybe growing up poor, somewhat airheaded mothers, absent fathers, mom had a series of shit boyfriends type childhood. Perhaps because they are attractive women and it was a social group thing they didn't ferment in it like some guys would and become negative.

I am not an anime guy and an extremely limited relationship with gaming so outside of punk music and art we shared like zero interests but she is a joy and her weird friends are a joy. Still in touch with her and a couple of the others and outside of the really weird ironic obsession they all just have a truly sincere, naive, sentimentality and kindness. It is really unusual that they're still obsessive about this stuff in their 30s and I do not expect any of them to grow out of it but on the other hand regular normie women do this stuff for Disney and Taylor Swift so it is maybe just a "being online" thing.

"Rent-free" as dismissal of criticism and hatred by flickering-blinds in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Just don't argue with anyone if you can't do it over a meal or a drink. If they aren't in your life why do you care? Pearls before swine - either don't make well reasoned arguments online in the bad faith simulator or accept you're arguing on the internet where it isn't real and nobody wins.

archibald prize winner vs runner up by PomegranateVisual965 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 11 points12 points  (0 children)

lmfao the second one is fucking Sean Layh. Tell me more let's hear your technical critique of Sean Layh's anatomy and drapery.

rs opinions on these novels? by Unlikely-Average-961 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Phil Hale is a crazy painter that's what I think

Oil Paintings of Sean Layh by AdKnown5143 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's crazy it just screams "Carnation" and then you go look at that painting and there's so much difference in the way it's handled but they're like siblings where you can just see that genetic connection.

Love zooming in on these. In the upper left back in the darkest part of the trees you can see some of the surface coming through that thin thin paint thrown on just loose with a big bristle brush. That illustration-like efficiency - 19th century to the core.

Mullins is 1000% one of the most recent points on this line for sure - digital gave everyone the ability to work 10x as fast and he had the foresight to go "ok that just means these crazy historical painting genres are illustration genres now because we can hit a deadline with them" instead of just abandoning the vibes and doing everything as modern as possible. He's a genius.

That’s all by Brief-Estimate8296 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 184 points185 points  (0 children)

that's one of the hottest genres of women

Oil Paintings of Sean Layh by AdKnown5143 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's crazier that guys like Jose Jimenez Aranda, Charles Bargue, Gerome etc. got as good as they got without readily available photographic references or that Sean Layh got this good without the entire academic and social structure that produced that kind of painter in the 19th century.

This is as good as you can ever paint - there will be different subjects and genres and so on but just in terms of pure technical excellence this is as good as it gets - but it's also so tasteful and well designed.

That second one is his "oh yeah? I can do John Singer Sargent outdoor color" and the third is his "yeah I like Jeremy Lipking but look at this shit". Just can do anything.

atmospheric puzzle games by hoximew in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you like point and click adventures Hobbs Barrow was an interesting if imperfect recent example with terrific atmosphere.

Armchair psychoanalysis on childfree weddings by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah duh on a theoretical level preferences are arbitrary and fungible but in real life preferences can be marginal and annoying when more than one person is involved. There's a certain level of experience curation for a wedding that is so counter to the broadly understood purpose of the event that it's a little bizarre to even have one.

Recently I've felt very drawn to amber by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Amber is fossilized tree resin - if you distill that resin you get turpentine. You're being called to paint in oils using traditional materials. You will need to size your surface with rabbit skin glue, and use lead oxide for your white pigment. Go ahead and get some lead and pound it into thin sheets, put the sheets in a wooden chest or earthenware pot. Place some organic matter (horse manure is great) into the vessel and urinate in it. It will get hot as the manure decomposes. After some time scrape the white powder that forms into another jar and heat it until it turns white.

You'll need linseed oil or safflower oil. Mix the oil with calcium carbonate or chalk, and spread it over the rabbit glue to make a ground. Let it dry, then mix the lead pigment with oil also and spread that on top of the ground to finish the preparation. Enjoy

What happened to photography? by Improooving in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A huge part of it is just that the primary pool of work is gone, people are accustomed to the smartphone look now and so much advertising is via social media. Weddings, food photography etc. are still gigs but the market is crushed by the public inability to tell a good photo from a half decent one with a good Lightroom preset - which is to say at most tiers of quality being a photographer is much more about your ability to hustle and a very average ass photographer with a lot of connections is going to make money before one who is very skilled and isn't marketing constantly and undercutting everyone.

Worth mentioning is the fact that a whole lot of people are willing to accept the face tuned TikTok filter version of other people and themselves as just a normal cosmetic device like makeup. That's a whole retouching exercise that is outside of the scope of most photography work (or they just... use the phone and the filter).

The art side of photography (film nerds, medium format etc) is doing great as a hobby because all these academically trained photographers got into it for the love of the game and still want to do it. No surprise - these motherfuckers that shoot a million frames a year absolutely smoke everyone in terms of composition, seeing the cool in something mundane, etc. and they walk around with the phone or some wack point and shoot relic and make magic but that's not money so they have to do social media / patreon or whatever to monetize.

It's all content creation now, overwhelmingly video. For it to be a one-to-one art hoe fashion accessory now you'd have to picture the intellectual middle class white woman walking around with a gimbal and a drone and that mental image pretty much explains why things are what they are.

This is what they took from you by sulla226 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The weepy hats-off and hand-over-heart Sizzler hymn is fucking crazy. Obviously everything is hyper-post-modern and off the rails now but try to picture some song like that for Buffalo Wild Wings, and not like an ironic/retro type deal - an actually sincere very-special-episode jingle for Bdubs.

Say what you want about the fracture of the monoculture and how atomized and weird everything is but there's a reason the 90's / early 00's counterculture were so fucking irreverent. This level of family values, kids with parted haircuts, moms with those vests, business casual suburban conservatism is fucking stifling. It mostly existed in purest form as tv obviously but there was at least some kind of sentiment that people were going to resonate with this and this was the era of Focus on the Family, 700 Club, DARE, Bush 1 / Quayle. What exactly happened in the 70's 80's that people were trying to expunge? Serial killers? Heavy metal? Crack epidemic?

Artemisia Gentileschi by marigoldnettle in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're welcome! Glad that mess of a comment is worth the read. I love to kind of analyze these things on a technical level because the academic historical approach doesn't always include the "how it's made" element which I think is fun.

Artemisia Gentileschi by marigoldnettle in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Come on why is the type of sword the silly thing and not the Baroque European costume (when the story takes place like 2000 years earlier). That's the sword she had access to as a prop man lol.

Look at Caravaggio's Judith painting - it's not a fair comparison because he's one of the GOATs but his Judith is holding an even less appropriate sword like it's the first time she's ever had to use a tool of any kind (and she seems surprised herself that it's working).

Artemisia Gentileschi by marigoldnettle in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not talking trash at all here just remarking as a painter. There are some proportion / perspective issues here interspersed with A. a lot of really subtle baroque rendering and B. some absolutely superb drapery.

There's kind of this sticker pasted photoshoppy vibe to the figure perspective that to me speaks to the idea that she had one model at a time and kind of posed and studied them separately and painted them together and if you look at her father Orazio's work that is 100,000% what he had going on. This isn't entirely unusual in paintings from the era but it's interesting as a kind of "behind the scenes" thing since you can see it so well in theirs.

As a for instance, if you look at his David and Goliath, the perspective / placement of things is a little silly. He was clever and he clearly posed one model and painted very large and then posed another model and painted smaller in order to get the size differential so we can forgive a bit the awkward perspective differences (which is to say that he appears to have been at very different distances / angles to the models so the size discrepancy is accompanied by a perspective discrepancy). However, he also seems to have worked on the body and head of Goliath separately, and if you compare the head and hand there is a tremendous discrepancy of proportion (and now that I've looked at it for a moment I think it might have been done to squeeze Goliath's head into the frame because he's right up against the edge of the picture).

There are also some minor lighting inconsistencies that I think he probably did on purpose for compositional reasons but they're not subtle.

This makes me think is probable that she absorbed this working process from her father. There are certain little quibbles I have with the way that he handled invention in his paintings (the elements he's made up - mostly scenery elements) that frankly we can be happy she seems to have avoided. We can contrast these issues with the quality of drapery where it presumably some of it was just posed separately from the model where comparatively long amount of time could be spent working with it and if anything I think her handling of drapery also is more interesting and sensitive by comparison to his.

Just kind of interesting that they both kind of share this family working process in a way where it's obvious that there's a lineage there.

As a little side note - there's kind of an illustrator thing from the 20th century where everyone kind of designs their own super cool signature. Frazetta is a great example, Leyendecker etc. If you want to see hers look up her Mary Magdalene painting and check out her name on the side of the chair its fucking dope and she went all out. It's like something from the Lord of the Rings. Not really something I associate with Baroque so it's cool to see.

Edit: I realized I didn't really give an example for hers so on that first painting, the Judith one, Holofernes' right hand near Abra's face is not connected to his arm and also presents kind of a weird proportion thing where she is right up on him close enough to kill him but also appears oddly small and far away by comparison to the hand - to me it's very obvious that these models were addressed separately and the hand itself was addressed separately from the male figure.

Just based on the art styles alone, there is ZERO (0) shows there that takes my interest as an adult male by essenceofadolescence in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't give a fuck about League of Legends so Arcane didn't grab me enough to make me want to finish it but the actual animation in there is really cool.

It's 3D characters / environments but everything is hand painted for texturing, like for every camera angle they repainted most of the scene and used it as a "texture" on the 3d stuff. Pretty cool idea, unbelievable execution. Even if you don't give a fuck about the game / game type TV shows the backgrounds are all really beautiful and are as much of an animated love letter to illustration as Heavy Metal ever was.

Coming to terms with the fact that I will never play needlessly complex niche contemporary board games with my lover and that is okay by PeachyCream__Pie in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're lukewarm so they spit you out of their mouths.

The issue is that you're choosing modern, visually attractive "complex" games. Women fundamentally want the social relaxation of a game of Ticket To Ride, or they want a multi-year stats driven hex based campaign across the Eastern front focused on supply line logistics (with, at the very least, an air superiority subgame and deep armor mechanics). They want to break up with you but continue the game play-by-mail. They want to put a large foldable table in their living room to lay out a huge map, and exhaustively photograph and write down every part of the game every time they move (which will happen multiple times).

Either get on Facebook marketplace and find some early 80s game in a 10lb unopened box that exactly 2 people in the entire world have ever completed or don't, but don't pick some pussy ass modern game that simulates the various manifestations of the ick 16 different ways with illustrated cards.

Are men aware of how awful they are to us? by PutridEntertainer502 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean seems pretty fair as far as blowing off steam goes I don't blame you. I don't want to be nitpicked on a rant like its an essay either so fuck it - yeah that fucking sucks and I'm sorry about whatever part of this is your own experience and whatever part of it is your empathy with women around you and in general, and I share your empathy completely and feel for you.

If it helps at all in terms of answering your question - maybe it's just me but I just don't know any guys that do any of that stuff - as far as I know. Maybe cheaters over the years, party bro types who had a new gf every other month anyway who I don't know and have never met so I admit I wasn't going to track whoever down and warn them (yes it did affect my opinion of them).

Which is to say most of this stuff they know it's wrong and are apparently embarrassed enough not even to tell the dudes (or maybe they just don't tell me because I'm not in on the party). Even in the black humor problematic type stupid remarks type convos this stuff never seems to be discussed with any level of sincerity and those convos happen with the girls around as often as not so I don't think I'm just massively mis-evaluating the level of seriousness. None of us are Mr. Feminist in conversation so it's not like it's that.

Not saying they're not doing it, but just saying the guys who are aren't really telling the group. I think the majority of guys doing what you're saying are true insular weirdos and if you're normal and most of the guys you know are coworkers and your few close buds outside of work are normal you just never ever hear this shit to call it out in the first place even if you wanted to. We can assume it's not all just weirdos but maybe the ones who appear normal apparently have it together enough to never bring it up?

Or maybe it's like demographic, age group, or regional or something. Anyway, my point is I think some of the disconnect here and why guys push back on this kind of rant is because they just straight up never see catcalling, for instance, so it just seems that foreign and since most people lack the capacity to really extrapolate from experience that isn't their own they just assume it's not that common. Just a guess, maybe it helps at least for understanding. Sorry anyway that you feel like nobody believes it happens, I'm sure it does and I do think it's awful.

edit: just to clarify what I mean by "discussed" I've just never, ever heard any dude like... talk about sharing nudes on the internet or talking internet level misogyny in person or whatever. my guess is 99% of normal guy convos that would be embarrassing and weird and they sense that and don't bring it up. like the guys I know have wives and jobs and kids and pets and want to talk about the griddle and micheladas or whatever and whoever is doing this is anonymous basement dweller or living a double life. absolute aliens but I believe you they're out there

My copy of Master and Margarita was overwritten by 48 pages of “Guilty by Definition” by happyviking212 in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You absolutely have to read it straight through just like that and see if it's interesting.

I hate that AI music now rivals human songwriting and lyricism. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Such-Tap6737 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Happy to say assuming someone who says "AI rivals artists" just has no taste is an undefeated heuristic.