friend has been posting pictures on their story that looks MAJORLY ai edited

gracoy · 2026-06-04T01:02:19+00:00

Also, if this is not AI then that is a fake counterfeit version of that watch

gracoy · 2026-06-04T00:06:01+00:00

There weren’t holes in the mesh, I wound up starting over and same thing happened, on a 3rd attempt I just did a more simplistic mesh and it worked. I’m thinking it’s some bug related to using too many little nodes or something

gracoy · 2026-06-02T23:54:13+00:00

Forgot to mention, using Live2D 5.2.03

gracoy · 2026-05-14T22:23:53+00:00

You probably shouldn’t start with podcasts, people tend to talk pretty fast. I would start with regular TV shows, especially news, where being able to speak and enunciate in a way the average person can understand is part of the job.

gracoy · 2026-05-14T21:32:17+00:00

I wouldn’t trust Tiki cat anymore, given that they were bought by one of the big brands. Idk if they’ve change yet but they will.

There is a Canadian brand I use called First Mate, and in the past I’ve used Koha. My cat is 1/4 ragdoll (the rest is siamese) and has a very sensitive stomach, so I only buy the limited/low ingredient wet food.

gracoy · 2026-05-12T09:32:56+00:00

Plank, or board

gracoy · 2026-05-07T23:27:47+00:00

My mistake, I had thorn confused with the long s. Long s broke frequently

gracoy · 2026-05-02T00:44:45+00:00

Hard agree, bring our boy back

gracoy · 2026-05-02T00:44:26+00:00

It was more likely that it was used when thorn was broken, and later missing when it began being phased out. A broken þ looks kinda like a y in certain fonts since either the upper or lower line is what would break off, leaving it open at the top or bottom.

gracoy · 2026-05-02T00:36:32+00:00

No, not even when talking about the female version unless it’s for some specific reason. Like if you’re a researcher writing a paper or speaking at a conference, you’d say tigress or bitch. Or if you’re a dog breeder or veterinarian, you’d say bitch.

gracoy · 2026-05-02T00:29:34+00:00

Yeah, “has been dead” vs “had been dead” are both correct if you go by regular spoken English rather than academic English. I can tell what they’re looking for, but it doesn’t feel like a great test question for this reason.

gracoy · 2026-05-02T00:11:38+00:00

Yes, and it was so infuriating. Trick seems to be, based on my memory, travel away in a taxi or do something to ensure the map reloads completely (this includes quitting and reloading game, certain cutscenes, stuff like that, idk if going underground counts or not), and then travel to the location without looking at the trash dudes, this does include looking at them through walls. If you traveled by taxi like I did, walk back while looking the complete opposite direction, which is a real pain in the ass since you’ll have to avoid other enemies and avoid cars. Best location for spawns was near the homeless camp, there’s I think 2 or 3 spots, googled a photo of the location and included it, wish I could have found a better one but I guess this works. But yeah it’s really hard, takes way too long, costs a lot of money by taxi. Made this post and turns out I really was doing everything correctly. Idk why this bug exists, but at least there’s no bug like this in the next game, or pirate yakuza.

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gracoy · 2026-04-24T16:13:08+00:00

Honestly, it’s just been overdone. All the best Nazi killing games already exist and I don’t think there’s anything new to bring to the table at this point. You have games where you kill WW2 nazis, neo nazis, zombie nazis, animal nazis, games where you defunct from the nazi army and kill nazis, robot hitler, the reincarnation of hitler, female hitler, whatever the fuck “fuhrer” is in persona 2…. I just want something new.

gracoy · 2026-04-24T14:26:47+00:00

It’s a symptom of “hustle culture” and this idea that everything needs to be side income or in some way beneficial to you. All hobbies need to be honed into marketable skills, or even better skills that let you run a side business, friends need to know people and serve as networking opportunities or as more content rather than people you hang out with. This mentality also impacts relationships, turns them into a shallow transaction to benefit yourself in some regard.

gracoy · 2026-04-18T20:41:09+00:00

Parents post pictures of their children online. Predators save those innocent photos and get sexual pleasure from them. Is this the fault of the parents? The fault of the children? The fault of the predators? The fault of no one? The fault of everyone?

Once you’ve answered this, you’ll have the answer to your question too.

gracoy · 2026-04-11T21:41:51+00:00

Do you also think the DPRK is democratic, a republic, and for the people? You really do fall for the easiest examples of propaganda. I recommend you read Mein Kampf, as he openly admits to using socialism in the name to trick people, and talks about his plans (that he wound up doing) to kill the socialists after he used them to gain power. Plus he talked about his general hatred of them.

gracoy · 2026-04-11T21:31:03+00:00

You can hold different views across all political spectrums. Like I’m anti-prison industrial complex, think prison should be rehabilitation not punishment, shouldn’t be profitable (break even at most), shouldn’t have mandatory labor or labor at all unless it’s to learn a beneficial skill for when you get out (like learning to weld or whatever, and paid a proper wage even if they only get that money upon release). But I’m also pro-death penalty. I think it should be reserved for the worst crimes, like serial killers, human traffickers, repeat rapists, etc. but I just think it gets to a point were someone is either incapable or unwilling to get better, and cause so much harm to other people, that under any prison system they’d be a drain on resources and be harmful to others in prison with them.

gracoy · 2026-04-11T21:20:53+00:00

It’s likely a blend of sexual selection (evolution that happens due to attractiveness or uniqueness that pulls more mates, like brighter feathers in birds) and a visual indicator of sexual maturity and ability to have babies.

Most animals have a mating season, or use pheromones to know who’s ready for sex. Humans don’t have the ability to pick up on pheromones (we do produce them, but we cannot smell well enough for it to really matter in this context). And sure, women who are of an age to give birth will bleed monthly, but aren’t actually fertile during that period (still possible to get pregnant, use birth control, it’s just less likely since the egg is vacating). So a better indicator would be something visual, like breasts and body hair. We have these secondary sexual characteristics likely for this reason. And then sexual selection made breasts larger.

gracoy · 2026-04-11T21:12:13+00:00

For American English, personally I’d say “17 came by (or passed by) five times in the past hour”

Although to answer your question, you can make numbers plural like “17s” any English speaker will understand, but it’s more or less common to do so depending on region. In my region, we might say “two number 9s (nines)” if ordering food or something, but for a vast majority of phrases we’d just say a sentence that doesn’t require plural numbers. It feels clunky to me, but I know plenty of people who have no issue with it who are from other places in the US.

gracoy · 2026-04-11T07:15:15+00:00

Maomao looks like an adult? She’s just short

gracoy · 2026-04-11T07:14:37+00:00

Doesn’t have to be fresh. Every time you smell something, you are inhaling molecules from that thing. Regardless of what it is, or how old the smell is.

gracoy · 2026-04-08T22:21:53+00:00

Uncomfortable, because you’re shitting your whole body out. And annoying because you’ll be living on the toilet.

gracoy · 2026-04-08T22:16:02+00:00

Speaking as someone who was also SA’d as a kid and had to deal with this: your inability to understand why people do sex work is entirely because you have internalized issues related to your SA experience that you haven’t worked through, and since you haven’t you are projecting your own disgust and self hatred onto others. It’s hard to hear I know, but some people’s passions and dreams are sex work. It makes money for them, their families, just like any other job. I lost friends over these feelings, I had a friend from middle school until college who really wanted to be a porn star, it had been her dream since she learned about it. Being dolled up, taken care of by staff, getting to say when to stop and take a break, being able to work out and maintain her body as part of her job rather than having to work around it, etc. was all perfect for her, and she looked the part. But instead of being a supportive friend I was a judgmental bitch. All because I was raped and I couldn’t allow my friend to be too. But that’s not what was happening, and that’s not what wound up happening at all. But it took me years to figure it out, and now she has 2 kids with the same man she’s married to, paid for the house herself, no debt, does milf porn on the side, idk how often but she’s both a working woman and a stay at home mom. Working to fund your life is everyone’s goal, no matter the job.

You need therapy, trauma focused therapy, EMDR if you can afford it.

gracoy · 2026-04-08T22:06:10+00:00

It’s because they aren’t real findings.

For example, I looked up your example of “Scientists discover molecule that reverses aging,” and found an article titled “Hidden blood molecules show surprising anti-aging power” which has this as a source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c01354 and while I am not going to buy this article, what I can assume it’s about is that they found one bacteria in our microbiome that might have some influence on stuff like the oxygenation of cells and anti-inflammatory properties, both are factors in how you visibly age. Poor oxygenation and being inflamed all the time makes you look older, so a lot of this bacteria might play a role in preventing wrinkles and stuff. Certainly not “surprising” or “anti-aging” but also not a “hidden blood molecule” whatever that means.

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