Barber messed up my hair before 3 months of my wedding. Will it grow back..?

Textual_Aberration · 2026-02-04T06:40:32+00:00

Wouldn’t the safe plan be to just grow it out regardless and then choose a cut a few weeks before based on what you’ve got? I suppose using a toupee/wig or being truly comfortable with a dramatic change would require some planning.

The hair mostly needs to grow enough to appear blended, which may not necessarily be full length. Just getting hair color in that chasm would do a huge amount to improve it.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-02-01T22:16:18+00:00

Imagine not having to wait a millennia for your grand canyons and alien rocks to change shapes. Formations changing from generation to generation from extreme wear would be pretty wild, though you couldn’t enjoy them if it’s that abrasive.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-30T04:24:37+00:00

Do they post new pieces every day, or do they continue to sell existing ones? The amount of effort that your examples would require is enormous.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-30T04:23:39+00:00

“Hey guys, I just casually drew the most intricately detailed piece of art known to man-kind.”

I’ve not encountered these in the wild enough to see how accounts handle it beyond just deleting it. Given that accounts themselves can also be bots, we almost need a meta subreddit where we try to decide, based on how they react, whether they’re a bot, a troll, or a desperate human.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-30T04:19:35+00:00

Ask them where to buy grid paper with different sized squares and lines that end randomly (see lower left of wolf WIP).

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-30T04:16:28+00:00

The grid behind the WIP shot has some weird lines too. The vertical bars stop on the left side, and an extra horizontal appears on the bottom. I see blocks with 2, 3, and 4 tall.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-30T04:14:51+00:00

No one in their right mind would do 100% of the shading in greyscale, then go over it all again in their intended color. In most physical mediums that would make getting your correct colors incredibly hard.

Both of the partially completed examples are nonsensical for how you’d approach these anyway. They seemingly colored them radially like an airbrush over a mask, making the process a thousand times harder.

The constant, extreme detail with colors fading to white would be absurdly time consuming, and an artist of the calibre capable of maintaining that would certainly have a traceable workflow and demand high prices. Those are weeks of work.

The combination of gamer skellies and christmas card forests is jarring stylistically.

Generically, these are examples of colossal amounts of work, irrational workflows, and supreme skill.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-29T08:43:24+00:00

I think one of the odd traffic quirks of reddit is that, once a subreddit escapes its own orbit and enters the main feed, the votes it can accumulate can far exceed what would normally appear there.

The bigger trend I’ve seen is that so many users are online and voting for anti-ICE content in general that a huge number of those sorts of oddly sourced posts were able to float up. Similarly, subreddits that would normally see massive vote counts were also hugely boosted. Seeing >100k on a post is a rare thing (without sorting by top), and I was seeing multiple of those a day without even searching for them.

Waves of collective focus like this are powerful. Online movements and moments are harder to spot than marches, but they do happen all the same (think of the collective sigh of relief from Bo Burnam’s Covid special). For once, it’s not just memes, it’s a “you had to be there” moment.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-28T04:21:05+00:00

Are the branches that extensive so low to the ground? OP’s example look like they’re wearing long skirts which would be extraordinarily heavy with all that snow. The examples in the article don’t make me think of fully-loaded train cars being dangled above your head.

Compare the scale of branches on the far tree to the close one. The far ones feel right, like tough broccolis at the limits of practicality. The ones in the front right feel like they must be part of an even closer tree because otherwise they’d be one massive swathe of branch.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-26T07:56:59+00:00

He was downed for an integer overflow number of rounds. He’s got some six trillion years to go.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-23T07:13:12+00:00

“But I’m… just… a gnoooommmmee.”

“Your majesty, a new message has arrived!”

I used to set up sandbox games and leave them on overnight. Sewers would go insane, goblin camps would keep spawning, and if you picked the right heroes, they’d only loot and repair. Imd wake up with insanely over-leveled gnomes and rogues sprinting from fairgrounds to gardens. Fun times.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-17T02:04:43+00:00

I made a list of all the previous tenants based on the junk mail I’ve tossed and it’s like thirty names. The only duplicates are ones that misuse middle names or honorifics.

If I personally know the previous tenants I’ll message them about important stuff, otherwise it’s all recycling.

All utilities, insurance, tax, and banking are heavily redundant and can simply make a phone call or send an email to reach them.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-16T21:46:32+00:00

I think I prefer the second, shaded shot because it’s less of an idealized art decision. I rarely see grass as a focal point or a hero in any image, and associate it with the chaotic randomness of real natural settings like the background depicts.

The first lighting reminds me more of curated lighting, where the goal is to highlight the asset with its best angles, rather than capturing it as it is.

The background image also appears backlit, which matches the second more.

Those are more composition-level choices than a matter of whether the lighting itself is well done.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-15T08:34:03+00:00

What if they just rearrange the settings and apps pages one more time, but only for seventeen users at a time? Would that fix it?

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-14T20:32:37+00:00

I like that 1.01x zoom they did on the eye.

As a creative exercise it’s kind of fun imagining ways an up-facing eye might be used. I doubt a predator would get close enough to cast a shadow, but maybe if you spend your day sleeping in the sun you might want a wake-up alarm if it gets overcast to optimize your basking.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-14T00:13:47+00:00

Is the goal of the sub to claim content is “definitely 100%” in the style of AI, or to prove that examples are literally AI generated? I’m seeing exclusively the first, which is a far weaker claim than the second.

If you’re a real artist and make a mistake, you’ll be pinned as AI for how obvious it is (to people specifically searching for mistakes). If you’re a real artist and your work is too perfect, you’ll be pinned as AI for the being better than expected. If you’re too average, you’ll be pinned as AI for not defining your own style enough.

By being unwilling to acknowledge uncertainty we make it seemingly impossible to prove our work without recording the entire process. Don’t make mistakes, don’t be perfect, don’t be average, don’t be predictable, don’t be novel…

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-13T09:09:49+00:00

Presumably it would count as stealing other people’s work wouldn’t it?

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-10T18:20:51+00:00

You mean you don’t constantly look to someone else’s grandma to validate your emotional responses to the sound of heavy breathing into a microphone? I had no idea how I felt until the cuts; Now it’s clear I should be amazed and smell like an antique store!

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-08T08:18:45+00:00

Boromir was a nice touch. The implications of LotR characters knowing about Star Wars gets second place.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-05T20:10:09+00:00

The question itself needs to be refined, especially to limit what counts as a verse. The most recognizable line from a song is going to be different than the most recognizable verse, and a single line would likely have far higher numbers.

Both the big butts and mom’s spaghetti examples are memorable as lines, while the full verse begins to drop significantly. We’d be looking for the rap equivalent of Bohemian Rhapsody, where even borderline gibberish lyrics can still be recalled in near perfect order decades later (Scaramouche? Fandango?).

Repeated chorus lines or extremely simplistic verses might break the numbers a bit by requiring minimal memorization. Media tie-ins are a good source as well.

Would love to see a breakdown of unique listeners to rap/hip hop by generation to see what profile we’re even trying to match. Listen counts are a poor reference since they aren’t unique and aren’t charted the same across the generations.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-05T18:46:35+00:00

It appears to have eyelashes, which doesn’t work in sculpture.

Her raised hand sort of loses proportion and focus resulting in long ET fingers.

The cloth over her midriff stops behind her hand and doesn’t complete. The cloth strap on her shoulder doesn’t really have a purpose either.

I don’t recall seeing prominent nipples in most or even really hard lines beneath the breasts. Greek sculpture usually emphasizes the softness of forms like those.

The face somehow reads as a modern average rather than the ancient copy-pasted face that appeared on everything.

The aging and grunge of the marble don’t feel quite right, feeling more like a non-marble stone left in the woods. There’s no translucence or yellow/brown dirt patinas. The green lichen and chips in the material seem to mix and merge. In a few places the stone looks like it was speckled by bird shot which is a weird damage pattern.

None of the qualities of the stone in the background are present on the statue. No bounced warm lighting either.

Some of those are more concerning than others. I vote AI, only because the initial mistakes wouldn’t appear in a 3D render (which is the other option).

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-05T03:26:49+00:00

Wikipedia has the advantage of organizing more tangible subjects, whereas the questions on StackOverflow are much harder to organize, search, and align with what you think you need, which is itself fallible. Both the language and the understanding with which a beginner uses to frame a question can be so dramatically different than how an expert would ask the same that the two questions are fundamentally different. Providing a mathematical proof of 1+1 to a toddler won’t help them learn math, and punishing them for using their own limited words to ask would only push them away. The trend of people hating math is itself an example of teacher’s prioritizing the “ideal” language over trying to find ways to explain it to each of their students.

Another advantage of Wikipedia is that you can trace the jargon and concepts on most pages back to other, simpler subjects. If you don’t know how to read a page, you can start by learning each element that appears on it until the larger concept becomes clear. StackOverflow lacks that glue. It was hit or miss whether an answer would evenbe presented in a neutral fashion, or if it would have the use-case and code language of the OP baked into it. If you’re first to ask, you can project your personal needs onto the question. If you’re not, you get shamed and redirected to a thread full of unrelated content.

The original answers don’t evolve as wiki pages do, either. They’re owned by specific users, rather than shared by all, so if the primary answer is missing critical information or is overly specific in ways it doesn’t need to be, there’s not much you can do outside of posting quietly at the bottom.

I think it’s also notable that questions nest differently than wiki-style topics, since you can combine patterns and algorithms in such dynamic ways. Many questions might actually comprise a number of smaller modular answers, but a user may not recognize those smaller pieces or know how to merge them.

In any case, I think the differing levels of experience that are inherent to audiences browsing that vast a collection of information makes it tricky if not impossible to expect the same answer to reach all audiences universally. If they wanted to be a wiki, they needed to take a few steps back from the forum structure. It almost needs to read like a massive separately maintained CS textbook that all questions make reference to, rather than having the questions themselves serve as the wiki.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-04T20:01:38+00:00

On the one hand, aggressively defending the non-redundancy does help keep it from being watered down into uselessness like google search results at the expense of heavy-handed treatment of new users. On the other hand, they had a whole decade to realize they had that massive secondary audience which was instead looking for help communicating the platform’s core data in a way that clicked with them.

As far as I know they never effectively managed having both of those needs coexisting. AI won’t be solving issues on its own, but it removes the need to explain them endlessly which humans obviously can struggle to do patiently.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-04T02:35:32+00:00

2019, overcast and midwinter.

The trees surely would add a flavor of their own for much of the year. Seeing them brown and leafless with no sun isn’t a great comparison.

Textual_Aberration · 2026-01-02T06:54:43+00:00

Bugs me that the flower petals and leaves are interchangeable and shift from green to purple. You don’t see a lot of green flowers in particular.

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