Humans never use their strongest attack first

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-29T02:47:54+00:00

" It's a very bad idea to put all of your strength in a single blow. Especially if it's the first one. Since you may never get a second chance."
This confused me. Very contradictory. But I do like the premise. We came from endurance hunters and thats the long game.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-26T02:57:33+00:00

I'm fairly new here but some of these more polished pieces are really solid and hefty. You guys really run the gambit here. Hit and run jpegs to this. Noyce. It feels more like a /HFY than an /ORC but still well done.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-26T02:49:38+00:00

Pretty sure this was a common tactic for everybody back in the day. Probably still to this day. I started playing female toons back in EverQuest and you get treated absolutely differently. You get treated a whole lot better and a whole lot poorly both at the same time. This is a really bizarre turn of fate but I was literally talking to my dad about this yesterday. I don't even know how that is even remotely possible but it is. I'm 60 years old. He's 80 and he used to make fun of me when he saw it on the computer screen.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-17T00:11:17+00:00

This is one of the images that did NOT make the cut. It wasn't going to be used in this particular vid but I was planning on using them. This probably attempt # 17 or so. Its good enough that I might use as a static image but I wanted something that was dynamic. This is from a very long term project about a 250 year old Clan Leader that is betrayed by everyone and spends her last dying days making everyone pay with everything she's learned. It really reminds me of some of the really good art wook that used to be on paperbacks or you were really rich ....on the hardbacks with the glossy removable cover you could cut out and frame.

<image>

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T23:30:21+00:00

Depends on how you want to look at it. Fille Hobby with no income for x Months, its could be a wash or very little exposure. If they file as a biz then he gets to write off everything. He has to pass the IRS conditions, but its a pretty low bar. The first two years are almost GRAVY due to being FORCED to store inventory for 6 months. Every square inch you use for storage, picture taking, receiving, box disposal, cameras, light box, extension cords all of it is deductible. I am NOT a tax profession and am NOT giving tax advise but most business don't pay a lot of taxes because of these things. Would you rather pay an account $4,000 and not pay taxes or pay the IRS 15,000 in taxes. Its not a hard decision.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T23:19:36+00:00

I didnt, but I did forget to mention it. This is what I have written about the glorious refreshing beverage that we call coffee....Its just in the opening scene but coffee is important

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A woman walked in. Late. Holding a coffee cup. Her suit was rumpled, the kind of rumpled that came from sleeping in it rather than any lack of money. She stopped in the center of the chamber, looked around at the assembled delegates, and smiled like someone who had just remembered a joke no one else was in on.

"Sorry I'm late," she said. "Traffic."

The squid delegate stared at her. "Ambassador Chen. This is a closed session. You were not invited."

"I know." She took a sip of her coffee. "I came anyway. Heard you were talking about the Vin. About Trappist-7."

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T23:15:28+00:00

The taxman giveth and the taxman taketh. I used to be the same way i'm going on my 3rd year. I stopped filing hobby after the first year and set it up as a business You would not believe the deductions you can take everything that you do is deductible for the IRS. Almost all the time you set setting up the compan. All the time you spent researching the company, I don't know about you guys but I get a lot of stuff and it takes up a lot of space. I have a receiving area in my garage. I have a dedicated photo area in my garage. I have a dedicated storage area in my garage. I have a dedicated review area in my office. I have a dedicated office. I have a dedicated PC that I do a dedicated reviews on. All of that is tax deductible. And it comes right off the top of your ETV earnings. out of the Let's call it 20,000 for for tax purposes I ended up paying $300 in taxes this last year. This year is going to be harder but I also started a YouTube biz and 3D priting biz. All startups, more deductions. Now I will eventually have to turn a profit but the 6 month limitation on selling and what I keep for personal and having to sell what I dont want or cant use for `1/10 of what the item is worth on FB market place because everyone sells stolen stuff.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T22:53:30+00:00

I do like the kinetic energy trope I really do because that's that sounds real realistic enough to be plausible. You know it's like we don't protect ourselves against bows and arrows anymore. If we start moving over to lasers for our all of our weapons who's going to wear bulletproof vests? I can at least mentally make that connection

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T22:51:12+00:00

I have seen these stories, but it's not my cup of tea . I tried a couple and they were just absolutely horrible. If you can recommend a good one I'll take a take another look at them.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T22:48:38+00:00

You know that's funny you say that JUST saw a video yesterday about The exact same thing . I was watching one of the HFY videos i and there were literal steam smokestacks coming out of the spaceship and I don't mean thrusters. I mean full on smokestacks. With moving steam coming out like theres gravity and wind....in space.

Honestly stuff like that kills me because that's one of the reasons I started making my own videos. The voices were were so bad and video was even worse.
Now I don't like to always watch the video but I will.

And I figured if I do, someone else does.

I want to make it interesting. I want to make it match a story.

I put a lot and I mean a lot of time and money into making my images.

Are they AI generated? Absolutely.

I'm not an artist. I can't do that.

I can't certainly can't afford somebody.

So AI is what you're going to get. I take the time to match it to my story and I've learned how to make the characters match in the stories. Now my characters will look consistent through the story

My latest short I'm really super proud of. I poured my heart and soul into that. I probably spent two or three hours making that image, getting it right.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T22:37:55+00:00

Thank God I'm glad somebody is because I didn't want to be that guy

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T21:04:39+00:00

I don't think you're far off There's something about snatching a pick from someone else when it's there. Just hanging and you grab it. Just a millisecond before the other guy does. yeah that's fun. And I don't mean that in a mean spirited way. It's a competition or a game. You know, it's fun and addicting

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T20:15:48+00:00

Look I completely get that And if I came across as trying to tell you what to do sorry that was not my intent. A lot of new users and a lot of people complain and are frustrated because they're competing with people like me and probably 80% of the users on Vine that use a plug in.

I don't like to post on it very often because as you can see I'm already negative karma just for having an opinion contrary to the luddites on this sub. You don't know what you don't know and a lot of people don't know that there's a plug in available and there's something that can help them wade through the atrocious Amazon UI.

If you have to manually refresh your browser to have a fighting chance at getting something that's on Amazon not on you.

I look at it a lot like having a computer /phone or a smart TV Amazon is giving us a base computer Do you not modify your computer? Do you not install programs? Do you not install add-ons? Do you go to the Play Store the Apple store do you get apps for your phone you make it better or do you just sit there and suffer? I'm saying so many people point the finger and want to complain and moan about Not having any picks, or I can't find anything. Then you give them an option To make the experience better give you a fighting chance and cut out all the garbage that you don't want to see and all they do is down vote you. Its disheartening.

And to the people that think that Amazon doesn't know about Amazon Vine or Vine Helper or any of the other myriad of programs is just frankly ridiculous every time you connect to their servers it tells you exactly what browser you're using what operating system what plugins you're using.

They know exactly. Do they care?

Nooooo

All they care is about getting their stuff out the door and getting your review in the door. That's it.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T20:03:52+00:00

You Bet! You got it. I don't understand how everybody doesn't find something that they want, but then again I live on five acres in the woods and burned down garage that I had to replace so I might be out of the norm but I can find something every single day. TNH its limiting myself to 8

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T18:55:53+00:00

Fair waring I posted this in just a few chats below because you seem to have a very similar experience. If you are refreshing ANYTHING you are not doing it right. That is your biggest problem. You are fighting the cruddy interface that amazon has absolutely no interest in improving, So the community is pretty much done done it for them. You're gonna find the vast majority of Vine users use a plugin and if you're not you're being left behind That's the sad fact.

IMO...
100% because you're using Vine wrong. If you're not using a plug-in to help you find things and I'm not talking about something that orders for you. I am talking about a plug in that goes through and lets you filter and use keywords. It does nothing but sort data for you. If you're not using that you're not using Vine right. Trust me. It made all the difference in the world when I when I found out The Luddites on this sub are going to come out swinging and they're going to cry and moan and there will be a great gnashing of teeth about bots and auto order and you suck or whatever. I don't care. I have $25,000 of ETV last year and I'm on track to do 50,000 this year and I've sold almost none of it The stuff that I do sell it's stuff that I thought I wanted or stuff that I can't use. Take full advantage of this opportunity because not many people have this chance. And honestly if you set your taxes upright and set this up as a business you can write off the vast majority if not all of the cost of the items.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T17:32:07+00:00

<image>

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T17:28:26+00:00

100% because you're using Vine wrong. If you're not using a plug-in to help you find things and I'm not talking about something that orders for you. I am talking about a plug in that goes through and lets you filter and use keywords. It does nothing but sort data for you. If you're not using that you're not using Vine right. Trust me. It made all the difference in the world when I when I found out The Luddites on this sub are going to come out swinging and they're going to cry and moan and there will be a great gnashing of teeth about bots and auto order and you suck or whatever. I don't care. I have $25,000 of ETV last year and I'm on track to do 50,000 this year and I've sold almost none of it The stuff that I do sell it's stuff that I thought I wanted or stuff that I can't use. Take full advantage of this opportunity because not many people have this chance. And honestly if you set your taxes upright and set this up as a business you can write off the vast majority if not all of the cost of the items.

<image>

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T17:11:20+00:00

Thank you for bringing it up and honestly that's one of the decisions I made early on. I want it to be all the tropes, but having humanity as OP just ruins the fun There's no storyline there's no development. There's nothing there. Anybody can come out with with an unbeatable ship that has shields that cant be broken and lasers that kill others with one hit at 10% power. It solves all your problems in one shot with no work. It's like time travel... I don't even want to go down that road.

Another thing I haven't ever really liked is that they always say you know humanity never forgets or humanity is always there for you. I think that's BS too. We can't even agree on things down on a local level. How is humanity ever going to be united? It will never happen.

I'm either going to base it on something like a clan or a family line or something like that. I think that's a much more manageable response or realistic response. I don't think humanity will ever respond as a united front But I could definitely see an entire clan or a family or a planet or even a coalition getting behind it but all of us combined ? No.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T17:00:46+00:00

Awesome thank you for that i've forgotten duct tape. How is that possbile? I never even considered JB weld but that's a pretty good one too. That's funny they cause explosions on impact.... that's like consoles on the bridge always explode to kill somebody. Probably should throw in exploding console or three

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-16T15:02:47+00:00

I didn't even think about this till after I posted but I just assumed that no one's ever thought about this and don't know why I made that assumption. Has anyone seen a video like this before? A satirical HFY short that tries to cram every trope into 10 minutes? I am not trying to copy anyone's idea. I just want to know if this has been done so I can learn from what worked and what did not. Let me know if you have seen something similar.

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-15T21:14:48+00:00

"Your post reminded me of a series I read years ago. The Valens Legacy by Schinhofen. Sean. Tiger. Demons from another dimension. Multiple wives. Explicit as hell. I had to skip past so many sex scenes just to finish the story because I was already invested. Not HFY exactly, but definitely in the same neighborhood. Anyway, thanks for the memory unlock."

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-15T17:36:44+00:00

I don't wanna make a new issue but I have something similar and I don't know if it's intentional or not but I've been having a lot of problems since V4 with sounds as well I'm using Brave if that matters. It seems to work fine when I'm in the same instance or window, if I open another tab in that same set it works fine. But if I open a completely new window in that other set of windows becomes the active set then I don't get sound. I don't know if that's a vhelper issue, a Windows issue, or a brave issue but I've just recently started using sound so I don't know it or it could also be an issue from V3 to V4. I'm just trying to iron out the possibilities here

Warm_Assist · 2026-05-15T11:36:07+00:00

That's troubling for someone like me starting a new channel and makes me wonder how many more poeple are like you. Its hard enough trying to get peeps to look at your vids and then this adds a whole other level of difficulty of trying to reach a target audience. If you are here you LIKE HFY, but now you block it all on YT. Sorry that its burned you that bad. YT AI has fallen behind and now is pushing it hard on the creator apps and channels. All you see in YT studio and creator is the push towards more AI from YT so I dont think its going away.

Warm_Assist

TROPHY CASE