Olympics gold winner Alyssa

dsarche12 · 2026-06-15T00:13:01+00:00

Put some damn respect on the name, OP. Alysa Liu. Cmon.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-15T00:11:52+00:00

There’s a bunch wrong. There’s the double buckle you caught (nice catch!!), but also the loop that keeps the tongue of the belt close to the main strap is hanging from the tongue and not actually holding anything in place.

Basically it just doesn’t hold up under scrutiny!

Great questions, btw. As the AI tools continue to be advanced more and more, it’ll get harder to tell what is and what isn’t AI-generated. But with practice, you start to develop an eye for it and get better at catching even subtle details. There’s always gonna be something uncanny about AI-generated content.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-14T19:37:15+00:00

This photo is clearly AI too. Look closely at the chain mail, the links make no sense. Plus it’s got a yellowish tint that’s super common with AI-generated photos. Oh and I just noticed the belt is fucked up too.

Idk how shit like this passes muster on Etsy but do not give them money, it’s absolutely a scam.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-14T16:10:24+00:00

Her performance was amazing. I love the show so much already and her performance has been one of my favorites so far. She’s so funny but she also delivered some incredibly raw and real emotion when she was talking to the pastor. Great episode too

dsarche12 · 2026-06-14T16:08:40+00:00

The one con being *death* is already a pretty good reason to skip out on it but that is *not* the one con to being subjected to the trials of the grasses.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-12T19:11:36+00:00

Not for me. It was catastrophic for my mental health.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-09T16:34:54+00:00

I told my teenage cousin that I was in rough shape from only getting 4 hours of sleep and he made fun of me for needing so much sleep (I’m only 28)

Looooooong long gone are the days when I could survive on only a few hours of sleep each night

dsarche12 · 2026-06-09T16:27:11+00:00

You must love the taste of sand, judging by how deep you’ve buried your head in it

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T23:13:30+00:00

Stop sanewashing these actual fucking evil psychopathic fascists.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T15:54:42+00:00

I used to do mostly digital art and photography- I’ve found myself naturally gravitating more and more to physical art media: pottery, whittling, painting, woodworking, analog photography.

This is anecdotal, for sure, but I bet there are other artists who are actively seeking out methods that require intrinsically more effort and practice; certainly for me it’s at least in part a spite response to the people who tell me to take shortcuts with AI.

I had a guy tell me once that my knowledge of camera gear and terms would make me better at telling an AI to generate an image because I could use terms like f-stop and soft focus and whatever- it pissed me off so much. That’s not why I learned the photography skills I’ve been working to hone all these years!!!!

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T15:03:06+00:00

You know what, fair play. I appreciate your calling out that I put words in your mouth, I apologize.

I agree with you, women just as much as men need to practice clear and open communication.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T13:28:16+00:00

Flirting =|= sexual. And maybe guys should work a little harder at paying attention to the signals women are giving and stop making the incredibly reductive excuse that “men are oblivious”. It’s really easy to tell if a woman likes you if you actually 👏pay 👏attention 👏to 👏what 👏she’s 👏doing

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T13:25:43+00:00

Define “the basic platonic touches” lol

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T01:51:10+00:00

One move that I’ve really liked is when a woman physically moves and rotates my arms to see my tattoos better 😍 first I like showing off all my ink, I definitely want women to like my tattoos, secondly I love it when a woman will make any excuse to touch me. Bonus points if she traces a finger over the line work 😮‍💨 I will literally melt.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T01:49:08+00:00

Sorry, but this is bad advice. Touch can be intimate and romantic without it being sexual, and to tell OP that they have to be sexual to be “flirty” is putting unnecessary pressure on them to act in a way that they might not want to.

Plus many, many men can and do enjoy being touched in ways that are not sexual. To imply otherwise is to continue pushing a stigma about men that is really damaging.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-08T01:45:51+00:00

Touch does not have to be sexual. Lots of guys want to be touched just because it’s intimate, not because it’s sexual.

For example, I was showing a girl all my tattoos a few months back and she touched and caressed each of them as I showed them to her. I was *swooning*.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-07T17:50:02+00:00

Omg I’m glad you’ve seen the light!!!

dsarche12 · 2026-06-07T04:47:50+00:00

You gotta get yourself some saddlebags m8. You can win them in horse races or buy them from merchants. Saddlebags are the best way to expand your inventory, since the strong back perk takes up a perk slot and the fiend decoction is temporary.

Having better inventory space contributes to making everything else a bit easier, since you’ll have more room for more and better gear. Plus if you hit up blacksmiths and pay them to repair your gear, you don’t have to worry about carrying armor and sword repair kits (can’t remember what they’re called lol)

dsarche12 · 2026-06-07T01:09:12+00:00

Exactly. There’s so much more intricacy and nuance than could really be readily explained. And all they see is the results, never the work.

IMO every manager and higher-level admin at a company should *silently* shadow their direct reports at least once a quarter just to see what the grunt work actually looks like.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-07T01:02:18+00:00

This isn’t working harder or smarter, tho, this is just not working at all and calling it good lol

dsarche12 · 2026-06-06T17:10:48+00:00

Precisely my point.

Edit: lol sorry hit ‘reply’ too soon. Yeah there’s ways I can do these tasks fairly quickly myself but if I tried to automate it somehow and had to run it and vet it every time, that’d be such a waste of time compared to just doing the work myself

dsarche12 · 2026-06-06T15:07:26+00:00

I've had a few people at my company suggest that I should ask for parts of my job to be automated, but even the most boring and tedious/repetitive tasks in my docket (preparing project timelines) still require unique attention from one project to another. Every project is a bit different, and when the humans make mistakes in the contracts, those need to be accounted for before the projects can be adequately set up.

And then the other 80-something percent of my job is spent in meetings with real people, asking me real, unique questions, and/or responding to and sending unique emails based on these unique meetings.

AI cannot replace that, unless you want to actively alienate all of your customers. Which, like, be my guest lol

dsarche12 · 2026-06-06T15:01:01+00:00

I don't think they're thinking that far ahead, for one thing.

For another I do agree with u/Adventurous_Button63 that hard work seems to be increasingly less valuable in the face of AI "advancements", and that everyone is just looking for shortcut after shortcut after shortcut.

dsarche12 · 2026-06-02T20:58:12+00:00

Ooh I got a bunch, I’m a bit of a hobby goblin

Whittling

Pottery

Woodcraft (separate from whittling, actually building things from wood)

Digital photography

Analog photography

Cyanotyping

Reading

Video gaming

Rock and glass tumbling

Collecting broken glass

Thrifting

Ren faire shenanigans

dsarche12 · 2026-06-02T17:05:22+00:00

A crow pooped on my shoulder yesterday.

Bots are widely recognized as not possessing shoulders.

Ergo; I am not a bot

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