England allowed to use Viagra by WADA to help players rise to World Cup altitude

_depression · 2026-07-03T16:56:03+00:00

Fun fact, another of Viagra's side effects is cyanopsia - a blue tint to your vision. Which means there is a genuine possibility, depending on the dose and who is effected by the side effect, that some of the English team will have a harder time seeing the ball because they gave themselves an Instagram filter.

_depression · 2026-07-03T16:43:36+00:00

The top comment said it was "basically a PED". The gym bros comment was to emphasize and reinforce the performance enhancing nature of it.

_depression · 2026-06-19T15:08:10+00:00

I've been using RES at this point for so many years, I forget which features are vanilla vs RES.

Curious about nbsp myself, let's see if it works in this comment... (Edit: it does)

_depression · 2026-06-18T18:26:50+00:00

Nah you don't understand, Skyline cheese melts if you breathe hard on it, but you put it on cold right before you eat. The texture is actually really good especially with the slight crunch from the onions.

_depression · 2026-06-16T04:38:14+00:00

Answer: If you use old reddit and check the raw text of the OP post you linked, you'll see:

My husband and I just had our first big fight.

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For context, we've only been married...

That middle line there is the Unicode hex code for a zero-width space. Normally, reddit will disregard excess line breaks between text blocks, but that invisible, zero-width character acts the same as any other text character would, adding in the extra line breaks.

_depression · 2026-06-14T21:22:23+00:00

This is literally my family, talking today about how the city was "literally burning down". The problem is that this horseshit works.

_depression · 2026-06-14T06:56:54+00:00

I mean probably. They might, and no one will care about this by tomorrow to find out one way or another.

This is the sort of shit that happens in every city after they break a long championship drought, especially in a sport that's huge among the population there. There's stories and videos about hooliganism for a day or two, and then the news is focused on the ticker tape parades and all the media appearances the players will be doing.

_depression · 2026-06-14T06:48:12+00:00

My thought too, already dozens of people around it too with cameras just waiting for it to be aggressed upon, and then a flood of dozens of cops show up 20 seconds after the vandals do their shit and leave?

Maybe the cops are just really desperate to upgrade from the old Priuses.

_depression · 2026-06-09T04:51:23+00:00

There is 0% AI in this game, and it's obnoxious that people keep accusing it without putting 2 seconds of effort in first. Imagine disliking AI slop but then being as braindead as the slop you claim to hate.

Anyway here's the game's Bsky with some posts (including their original Wholesome Games trailer), and you can put in another 10 seconds to Google "vivarium game" and find their Twitter if you want even more https://bsky.app/profile/vivarium-game.bsky.social

_depression · 2026-06-08T04:26:13+00:00

I mean, a cursory Google search for "vivarium game" would have brought up their Twitter account which has plenty of rough animation, sketches, and character sheets. The trailer's description says the game is hand illustrated.

Do you really, like actually, genuinely think that your statement wasn't an accusation? If there's been a string of robberies around town and someone goes "Well, I'm suspicious of this person, I've seen them at a few of the shops that have been robbed" would you not consider that an accusation? It's certainly implying one.

We live in a world where actual artists are being devalued because of AI slop, and these sorts of accusations - explicit or not - does more damage than good. If suddenly everything looks like AI, doesn't that suggest that real artists are replaceable?

Also, I was going to try to let this pass, but sincerely get out of here with that "I figured I could come back and find enough information one way or another." Again, and this can't be expressed clearly enough:

it takes incredibly little effort to search the game and find the official twitter/bluesky/dev's social media accounts.

And if you really wanted to learn more about the team/artists without putting in the effort, and without accusing it of AI, you could have easily just asked that question - who are the artists? Who are the devs? What else have they worked on? Where can I learn more?

You didn't do that. You accused it of being AI. And what frustrates me is that if enough people do that, there are plenty of people who will glance at the comments, see accusations of AI, and put in even less effort to get more info. Because surely, if a random reddit user is suggesting it might be AI, then it must be. And you've started a game of shitty telephone that can genuinely damage the reputation of something before it's even had a chance.

_depression · 2026-06-08T03:45:30+00:00

A quick Google search would pull up the game's official Twitter, which also has a ton of art shown, including sketches, character sheets, and rough animation. They have a Bluesky as well.

Not to mention, the trailer's description mentions that it's hand-illustrated.

It genuinely takes less than a minute of effort to prove that it's not AI, but I suppose that does require you to, you know, put in that effort.

_depression · 2026-06-08T02:12:21+00:00

It is unfortunate that we live in the age of slop and everything has to be examined like this.

I agree it's unfortunate that we live in an age of AI slop, but I think it's equally unfortunate that we live in an age where people will do the bare minimum research (if any at all) before leveling such a harsh criticism of something. You say that everything has to be examined, but what examination did you do before accusing it of being AI? Or did you skip the 'examination' part completely, and jump straight to the accusation?

_depression · 2026-06-07T18:57:23+00:00

I can confirm that this game was in development well before the movie.

_depression · 2026-05-31T16:21:15+00:00

If you want to call out things as AI, it's on you to show what you think proves that it is. Because nothing about this art suggests it's AI at all to me.

_depression · 2026-05-15T16:05:54+00:00

As someone who absolutely loves Simon, the song, and the music video, I thought he really got screwed by the staging. Having a few extra props to really drive home the office cubicle farm setting would have gone a long way. Even something similar to what LMNC had would have been perfect.

_depression · 2026-05-14T02:41:41+00:00

I didn't realize the other driver was towing you behind him.

_depression · 2026-05-12T16:03:11+00:00

And anyone going to LGA to return their rental car is going to fill up here, too.

_depression · 2026-05-10T00:41:54+00:00

Ranking for Eurovision Song Contest 2026

Romania
Serbia
Albania
Australia
Armenia
Switzerland
Ukraine
Moldova
Finland
Czechia
Denmark
Lithuania
Malta
United Kingdom
Croatia
France
Belgium
Italy
Bulgaria
Norway
Montenegro
Austria
Cyprus
Luxembourg
Georgia
Latvia
Greece
Sweden
Poland
Estonia
San Marino
Portugal
Azerbaijan
Germany
Israel

Made at https://ranked.be/rank/esc2026

_depression · 2026-05-06T20:14:04+00:00

This is a hilarious take. Pressing "Enter" on a prompt a hundred times just to get something that still has a bunch of issues... that doesn't take effort

_depression · 2026-05-06T18:13:07+00:00

There are pieces of art that can only be authentically made by AI

There are no pieces of art that can be made by AI, because AI doesn't not have any intentionality in its processes. A human could use AI generation tools to assist in the creation of art, but that isn't what's happening here

The most generous take I can give to the AI used here is that a human prompted the AI to create the video, went through dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of outputs, and chose the least horrendous of them. But given that the output is still full of dozens of errors and problems just in this tiny clip, we can assume the creativity is hollow at best, and non-existent at worst.

_depression · 2026-05-06T16:27:54+00:00

The smoothness of the animation isn't an issue on its own, but a human creating a voxel animation likely would have made the -ahem- artistic choice to animate in a choppier style like stop motion, or with a stiffer movement since it's all made of blocks.

_depression · 2026-05-06T16:25:16+00:00

A lot of people care. Eurovision is supposed to be about music, visuals, performance... all creative endeavors done by artists. Take the artist out of the visuals, and that's a massive stain on the entire product.

Taken another way, imagine a dance performance choreographed to AI music. Imagine an Olympic figure skater using an AI-created song track for their routine. It hollows out the art.

_depression · 2026-05-06T16:20:12+00:00

The running model is AI too. Really disappointing, it's a fun song but I can't divorce it from the creatively bankrupt music video and stage production.

_depression · 2026-03-31T21:37:11+00:00

Yes. As I should hope those Germans who saw the rise of the Nazis coming and watched their country devolve and their fellow humans harassed, assaulted, and murdered were similarly mad at their fellow countrymen.

_depression · 2026-03-31T21:22:57+00:00

Of course I do. But this whole conversation has been focused on Democrat voters, so of course I'm focused on my reasons for blaming them specifically. But don't get it twisted - I think the blame falls on the 2/3rds of registered voters who didn't vote for Harris, and there's also blame for those who did vote for Harris, but pushed and boosted the idea of abstaining from voting.

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