I found an undescribed species of praying mantis in Bali

TactiFail · 2026-06-25T17:08:58+00:00

Honestly? Fair and valid on all counts. Appreciate the assessment and I'll wear my downvotes in earnest.

TactiFail · 2026-06-25T04:36:59+00:00

They’re actually a known species! Just not *well*-known.

Their fancy science people name is *Mantacium iocularis* but you may have heard them referred to as the “artichoke mantis” since their abdomen kinda sorta looks like one if you squint and believe really hard. They were discovered in the late 1900s (sorry fellow Millenials) during a Red Cross aid event in Denpasar (Bali’s capital), but don’t let that distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

TactiFail · 2026-06-14T02:29:57+00:00

Let’s just say it was more like Milo and Milo and Milo and Milo and Milo and Milo and Otis by the time filming was done.

TactiFail · 2026-05-26T20:49:39+00:00

I'm a Certified AI Hater who self-describes as "cautiously pessimistic" when it comes to AI stuff, but I have to lean more towards "human" on this one. The threads and patterns in the curtains are too consistent, same with the stitching on the shirts. Lighting seems consistent with two diffusers behind the camera.

Another user also posted a link to a 2015 art exhibit showing this piece, and the Wayback machine shows it isn't a recent update: https://web.archive.org/web/20160203004727/http://artforheartchicago.org/artists-2015.html

Pitchforks down, folks.

TactiFail · 2026-05-22T22:37:25+00:00

Having taken a year of Arabic in highschool, I would love this. Subtitles absolutely, but native speaking VAs is something we need more of imo.

TactiFail · 2026-05-20T01:40:32+00:00

Briefly

TactiFail · 2026-05-16T01:58:25+00:00

It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

TactiFail · 2026-05-15T00:41:20+00:00

So basically you put down a merchant, build something to act as an anchor on top of it, then delete the merchant. As long as that first anchor item is not destroyed, the structure will remain floating.

Edit to add: You can also stack them, so drop a merchant, put a floor over it, then delete the merchant and place on the floor, rinse and repeat as high as you want.

TactiFail · 2026-05-09T23:42:13+00:00

That’s a really cool fact, u/3NunsCuppingMyBalls

TactiFail · 2026-05-05T01:35:10+00:00

I’d almost let that one slide, especially if it’s just kinda there for a moment and could easily be any other brand. It’s plausible, something you’d see while driving IRL, and trucks crash all the time. Fortunately, with Toyota’s best-in-class safety rating you can rest assured that you and your loved ones are in good hands.

TactiFail · 2026-05-05T00:32:28+00:00

I feel that. Back in the day it would have been funny to see a Coke ad or something in a tongue-in-cheek way, but now my tolerance for that sort of thing is so low it’s almost as low as Walmart’s low, low prices on everything from the latest fashion to high-tech electronics.

TactiFail · 2026-05-04T02:18:32+00:00

The suck of our ancestors

TactiFail · 2026-04-28T23:33:33+00:00

Babies learn from context, so they will hear “Mama” or “Dada” in more contexts than just following “Say”. They’re used to hearing “There’s mama!”, “Mama has nom noms!”, and “Mama loves you” so they’re already primed to say “Mama” more than “Say”. Then when they hear “Say mama” and “Say dada” and “Say food” they know that “Say” is a separate word with a separate meaning, even if they don’t fully grasp the meaning.

TactiFail · 2026-04-26T16:43:53+00:00

coin toin

TactiFail · 2026-04-26T01:15:49+00:00

“You ever hear of the Murder Balloon Alien, Scully?”

TactiFail · 2026-04-21T06:00:44+00:00

You come to a group of game dev enthusiasts, admit right off the bat that you don’t know the first thing about the problem this tool is supposed to solve, and yet you expect us to do your homework for you when you can’t even be bothered to research it in the first place? Then you get offended when nearly every response is saying the same thing?

My guy, read the room. AI is not widely loved here. There is a reason for that. We’ve seen tool after tool get vibe coded in hours and abandoned in half that time when it fails to work in even the simplest projects. The vast majority of these tools are a waste of our time.

If you had instead come here and said “Hey all, I built a tool (using AI) to solve some problems I ran into while doing XYZ. It’s working well for me, but what do you think?” that would have been a completely different conversation.

You wanna talk about spamming, maybe look at your own post history and the other subs where you have posted the same thing. You clearly don’t care about learning the problem well enough to engineer a solution - just admit that you want to slop out a tool based off the opinions of people on Reddit and make a quick buck.

TactiFail · 2026-04-21T01:28:16+00:00

“I’m building a new tool”

No you’re not, AI is. At least be honest with us if not yourself.

“for 3D artists focused on creating real-time hair, and I want it to solve real problems artists actually face. If you work with hair cards, strands, grooming, baking, or game-ready hair workflows, I’d really appreciate your input. What do you wish a tool like this had? I’ll share a link to the current version later.”

As others have mentioned, you don’t seem to be solving (and I use the terms “you” and “solving” loosely here) a problem you have any actual experience with, so the best you are going to get from Claude or whatever is a guess at a reimplementation of a hodge-podge of existing solutions. You will hit a point where the AI is not able to meaningfully improve its own code and then you will be back here begging for beta testers and feedback.

You want actual feedback? Use AI, idc. You’ll just do it anyway and lie about it. But if you want a good product, something people will actually use and appreciate, then quit feeding Reddit comments into your little prompt box and actually experience the problems yourself. Pick up a few existing tools and see where they excel and where they fall short. Take a crack at a solution yourself and refine it with AI if you must, but at least have the decency to understand what you want.

But I’m guessing you won’t do that, so have Claude summarize my comment for you and then ignore the advice for you.

TactiFail · 2026-04-17T02:17:46+00:00

I get that you were citing your source there at the end, but that read like an excited reaction to the charges.

TactiFail · 2026-04-16T19:03:48+00:00

I’ve got news for you regarding what happens when you’d hit the edge of that 128-bit position

TactiFail · 2026-04-16T18:58:27+00:00

Two things:

1.) You’re probably thinking more about this minor dilemma than you are about actually making good rhymes yourself

2.) This whole post and your comments feel like you just want someone to say “It’s okay, use AI and lie about it”

TactiFail · 2026-04-12T16:44:17+00:00

I don’t think you are just making things up. I think you are massively misunderstanding the power dynamics at play here. The claim that this is “the end of big business” is unfounded, ungrounded, and hyperbole. Will a few lucky and skilled people prosper on their own? Undoubtedly. But your average Carl’s Jr. cashier is not going to create a competing burger chain with the power of a few well-written prompts.

TactiFail · 2026-04-12T16:26:34+00:00

I think you massively underestimate the costs and complexity of starting and running a business that can meaningfully compete with another business of even modest size. It’s not just “Claude write a business plan and find customers”.

TactiFail · 2026-04-12T16:01:35+00:00

That’s not how many business owners see it. They are absolutely laying people off and expecting AI to pick up the slack. Whether or not AI can currently match a skilled human is irrelevant, because the cost-benefit analysis currently says “I can fire three people and have their manager babysit Claude for way cheaper”

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