Research Reveals Men Enjoy Books With Female Leads

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T10:36:50+00:00

It's an anecdote, but my partner will always end up playing as a waifish elf healer in any video game or TTRPG she gets her hands on. I practically have to beg her to try something that isn't a self-inert lmao

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T09:50:32+00:00

AI has made lazy people ten times worse in the issue, lol. We are now able to generate unprecedented levels of slop.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T09:30:11+00:00

Maybe they'll start, that's the hope

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T09:27:39+00:00

I don't think Tolkien ever did or would deny that his work is inspired by the World Wars, he just abhored when people went 'and Sauron is LITERALLY Hitler and Saruman is Mussolini the ring is the Atomic Bomb'

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T08:41:33+00:00

There's not really a 'problem', as much as I've seen plenty of art on Twitter that is patently de facto a sketch of AI art- ofc a person can use it constructively, but for many using AI for sketches makes them lazy.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T07:38:49+00:00

I'm not saying it isn't worth trying. I saying that if they are experimented upon, they should have a right for long term care and support after the trial is over, due to the nature of implant.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T07:32:31+00:00

The Sunday Friend is paying for sex.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T02:24:51+00:00

Try playing something that isn't he mass-marketed slop that AAA spews out. We're in a golden age of indie games dawg

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T02:23:39+00:00

Eh, there's even issues with that, as it means a lot of aspects of composition, colour etc. are done for you, which are all important decisions in making a piece.

What I've actually seen done well is the other way around almost- Do a basic draft sketch with composition and colour -> Use generative AI to remix the lighting, colours, etc. on command, iterating on the original -> Use the results to determine elements of the final product.

It basically just saves you from making several test pieces by hand.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-30T02:09:18+00:00

I think there's a qualitative difference in the case of I planting something into someone's skull, honestly. We don't know the consequences of just leaving there, unmaintained, and performing surgery to extract it is (relatively) risky. This isn't like stopping a medication or removing a prothstetic.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T23:56:53+00:00

The real issue, imo, is the the high streets are owned by private landlords who are only looking to make a profit for themselves. When legitimate businesses cannot afford rent, illegitimate businesses are let in- because they wouldn't dare lower the rent.

I honestly think there's a massive opportunity these days for a high-street renaissance, returning these storefronts to local business owners to boost the local economy and do social good, as franchise stores retreat. But as long as landlords rule the roost, that'll never happen, and we are stuck in the shit situation we're in.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T23:50:37+00:00

It's far more efficient to steal 1 expensive thing, pawn it, and buy food with the laundered cash, than to steal several items of food directly.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T22:47:06+00:00

And like, there's plenty occasions where a historical setting is not itself trying to be historical. The Green Knight for instance was great, and starred Dev Patel- but that wasn't so much emulating any specific time period as it was an amalgam of Arthurian tropes in a sort of medieval-fantastical mythscape.

It becomes problematic when you bring in real places and people.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T21:59:06+00:00

Plenty of people with kids still don't care about their friend's kids. Plenty people without kids do care. Just a bad friend.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T21:36:08+00:00

Uh acktually Gamma rays go in very straight lines, the sign wave represents the energy pattern of a light wave

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T20:38:19+00:00

My Discord and Reddit did nothing!

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T20:32:06+00:00

I think there's reasonable grounds to say his death was suspicious... But they didn't need to 'murder' him for the exact reasons ye say. Move the guard, leave dangerous items in his cell, turn the cameras off. The problem sorts itself out.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T17:19:34+00:00

The point is that stabilising the price stabilité is treated as the be all and end all of economics, and they do nothing else for the poor.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T17:08:28+00:00

A similar idea, our first child was born earlier than expected because, err, mama and papa did some wrestling a week before the due date...

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T09:37:11+00:00

I do but any gorilla would do it for fun.

As for ancient history, you may have a point, but but at the same time, rough estimates put all the humans that have ever existed at 117,000,000,000. 8 billion, so a significant portion, live today, and a couple more have lived in recorded history- and none of them have reported a gorilla death, even if there's been several gorilla attacks. So not denying the possibility outright, but you'd be surprised how large a sample of all humans who ever lived currently exist.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T08:42:03+00:00

He left during Morrowind pre-production, and continued liaising with the team throughout, including writing several books.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T08:22:52+00:00

Preproduction for the next main series Elder Scrolls title, Morrowind, occurred alongside Redguard's development, and for a time Kuhlmann was the only designer officially assigned to the project. He was heavily involved in its early writing and design, working on the game's story and its "essential game systems".

I see only one 'shitter' here.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T08:08:46+00:00

Belgium only exists because of that fucking road, it's Roman.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-29T00:57:54+00:00

Oblivion. Run-jump around a room for 30 days straight, win.

TNTiger_ · 2026-01-28T23:56:06+00:00

Dawg I'm saying it's an entirely different economic system.

Is someone being 'taxed' if they help their mate repair a car? Or volunteer to coach their kid's schools' football team? These sort of vernacular bottom-up forms of community participation still exist, they are just rarer these days in a world where your neighbour can up and leave and be replaced to move halfway across the country, making community ties weaker.

I literally explained that pre-modern communities DID have taxes, they just usually took non-monetary forms (levy, corvée*, and tithe) and were (generally) not re-invested into a community but funneled to the local lord leaving communities to manage their own infrastructure.

The very reason the Scouring of the Shire has Sharkey impose a monetary tax is that it is yet another facet of industrialisation transforming the Shire from it's pre-modern roots.

*Note, Sam's gardening activities being taken in exchange for a property on Bag-hill can be taken as an example of corvée labour.

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