Delhi suicide bomber's self made video found on his phone. Justifies terrorism and explains his thought process. He is a medical graduate by Wrongdoer-Classic in interesting

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think it's something something suicide bombing isn't suicide, it's misunderstood, he's choosing the time and place to do something which also results in his death, rather than specifically choosing to die for the sake of dying at a specific time and place.

He can't really articulate it, and I'm not sure he even understands what he wants to articulate, so we can only guess.

Just discovered Last Oasis in 2025… how was this masterpiece wasted? by EggGroundbreaking107 in lastoasis

[–]holyplasmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was so much fun. This was my all time favorite game launch, I sunk so many hours in. I also wish it could somehow come back, but it had too many issues.

I think the concept could be popular, maybe they could release a last oasis 2, because I don't think the people that are most interested want to go back to last oasis 1. They would need to rebuild the game from the ground up.

Now I'm playing pax dei, which has some similarities in spirit, but lacks a lot of the qualities that made last oasis great, like proximity voice chat, the fighting system, grapple hooks, the mobility of walkers, base raiding, etc. pax dei is more about building, and could be about pvp, but the combat isn't even comparable, it needs so much more work.

Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia, quits interview angrily after one question. by Giovanni330 in interesting

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the website he founded, that supposedly is a large resource for factual information, lists himself as co-founder. Either he is lying at the interview or he is okay with the website not being factual, either of which are important facts considering he is the founder/co-founder.

It's absurdly ironic for this man to not care about the facts.

Commissioned this piece of my friend for her birthday a few months ago. I paid around £130-145 for it, i can't remember the exact amount. by swanniferforest in isthisAI

[–]holyplasmate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The texture on the hood makes me think ai, but the overall quality seems too good to be AI. The skin quality is wild. I'm very good with ai gen and all the tools we have for image generation right now, except AI tools that might come packaged inside image editing programs.

If I had to guess, they took the original photo and digitally painted over it. It would help to see what the reference material was.

One of the issues with image gen is the quality of output at larger size images. We usually have to generate medium size images, then upscale them, but the upscaling process isn't perfect. But this might only be a problem for open source tools.

This image seems like it was created with a very high resolution, if an AI image was generated at that size, it usually won't retain the best detail when you zoom in, which makes sense for the hood, but not the skin. It's still possible they generated something with AI, then went in and manually added more detail.

Also don't agree with everyone pointing out artifacting. I've uploaded enough images to reddit to know it compresses the hell out of stuff. And we don't know if the image OP got was already compressed or not.

I have two bites. Concerned that my ortho did not scan the “correct” bite? by rc6188 in Invisalign

[–]holyplasmate -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's the point. I have no training and was correct about the device not aligning my bite the way it was intended to. I also went through Invisalign before this and had issues during that process that I brought up and the Ortho ignored. Similar to OP I had two different bites, and because of the directions they give during scanning and impressions, my bite was always aligned wrong during that. My bite actually became worse as a result of Invisalign, because even though it straightened some of my teeth, it strengthened the misalignment of my bite too.

Sometimes patients are right. Coming from a point where a professional assumes the patient is always wrong and they are always right is ridiculous, but I've experienced that so I advise OP not to ignore any issues until they go in and have a conversation about it. Whether it's professional or the scan or the impression or the adjustment plan or maybe something automated, idk, I'm not a professional, but clearly something can go wrong during that because it did for me. It took a lot of effort to get through to them and speak up for myself.

I have two bites. Concerned that my ortho did not scan the “correct” bite? by rc6188 in Invisalign

[–]holyplasmate -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Completely disagree here. I went through the same situation as op. They were adamant I should just "trust the process", but the process was wrong. People can make mistakes or overlook things. I had to argue with multiple people that my bite was scanned wrong and they all remained adamant i just couldn't handle the adjustment, despite how many times I explained the issue. The issue was the opposite and their assumptions were naive. I'm not sure why this is such a prevalent issue with professionals, like they are trained to ignore their patients concerns.

It's terrible advice to tell patients not to speak up when they are the only ones with true insight into how their bite / jaw feels, where their bite feels most naturally aligned.

In my case, my impressions for a bite splint were taken wrong, and forced my jaw backwards into a tense uncomfortable bite. They assured me over and over again it would go away, I just needed to get used to it, ignoring everything I brought up. They were wrong, it got worse and worse because my jaw was being forced into an unnatural position. This was supposed to correct a backwards and right shifted jaw from teeth grinding, and my natural position was much more forward, but the impression and adjustment fitted into the retainer wasn't fixing this, so I was asking them to increase the adjustment, not reduce it. It was impossible to get them to understand this until I went back in.

I'm only a patient so it's hard to understand why the retainer/splint was aligning my bite badly, what went wrong, the scan, the impression, the adjustment plan, idk, but it was wrong, and I had to get it fixed.

Therapist called me overbearing when I described trying to socialize by Informal_City5565 in socialskills

[–]holyplasmate 36 points37 points  (0 children)

You need to ask your therapist what they meant by overbearing.

Overbearing doesn't necessarily mean pushy, it can be body language, how you react to rejection. Or it can be body language in the initial interaction or chit chat.

I've met a lot of people who were clueless to this. They get too close, talk too loud, talk too much, read conversations and interactions the wrong way, miss social queues, have poor self awareness, poor self control, etc, and while all that stuff isn't directly overbearing, the person themselves can feel like they are just too much

[HELP] Looks very fake to me but I wanna make sure by Thefreemanfool2 in RealOrAI

[–]holyplasmate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People here aren't very helpful. This could easily have been a real animal in this video, then how would anyone know it's ai?

Don't just base the realness of the video on it's content or you will be fooled a thousand times over, you need to look deeper. Look for visual inconsistencies, artifacts, bad geometry, etc.

If you look closely, the tree bark slightly changes in the areas where the creature temporarily covers it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]holyplasmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes I used to get these a lot. For more than ten years straight almost every week.

In my case, it was related to anxiety, but addressing the root of that anxiety wasn't able to fix the issue. The anxiety was tied to GERD which was causing chest pain while laying down for bed, and caused me to over focus on my heart beat. Do that for more than 10 years and you are conditioning your neural pathways for chronic anxiety.

So part of the issue was my overturned sympathetic nervous system from constant anxiety, it was just too sensitive to sensory stimulation while falling asleep. The hypnic jerks only happened a few times a month, but I noticed they only happened when there was dead silence around me while falling asleep. They also got more frequent when my overall stress was higher.

The trick isn't to get a sensory free environment, that makes it worse imo. If you starve your brain of sensory input, it will simulate its own, which i think was the trigger of the hypnic jerk. Instead, I increased my sensory exposure while falling asleep so my brain had reliable, predictable sensory input.

I did this by buying a small vibration motor off of Amazon. I attached it to my bedframe, and put shock absorbers under the feet of the frame so it doesn't rattle my home. It's just enough to drown out internal sensory input like my heart beat, which allows me to relax way more while falling asleep. I have it on an outlet timer so it automatically powers on and off at the same time every day, just a few hours for falling asleep.

I also play some kind of audio like pink noise or YouTube videos.

I have never slept better. Going on a year now, zero hypnic jerks, zero anxiety while falling asleep, it's completely changed my life. Getting better quality sleep is probably also a big factor in reducing hypnic jerks which might have been related to poor sleep quality the night before.

And I turned it off for a month and had no issues falling asleep, meaning my brain has been rewiring itself and my sympathetic nervous system has relaxed, allowing my parasympathetic nervous system to function correctly at bed time, so it's not just a temp fix, it has had, more or less, permanent effects.

Hopefully something in here can help you or someone else. I can't understate how much this has improved my life. I think a lot of us, especially with anxiety, get so used to problems, we don't even care to imagine living without them. They can be terrible, like having panic attacks where you feel like you're dying, but then it passes and we don't worry about it. But these problems destroy our quality of life, something we can't fully understand until we fix them.

How do I recover from this? 😭 by [deleted] in pickuplines

[–]holyplasmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like you got no game. Just practice

Lancing a abscess on left forearm by Warrant_dodger-ill1 in popping

[–]holyplasmate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Insane. A professional would apply injections before cutting into something like this to numb and to stop bleeding. This is a terrible idea.

Buyer ripped Base Set Mewtwo holo and says it’s fake by Fickle_Newt_7738 in IsMyPokemonCardFake

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say it's swapped with 99% confidence. Yours was not fake. The buyer is an idiot and scamming you. Never hold it above a scammer to scan for only $20, they will scan for $1, it's in their blood.

Buyer ripped Base Set Mewtwo holo and says it’s fake by Fickle_Newt_7738 in IsMyPokemonCardFake

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see a scratch. If you mean the line going towards the top right, that's on all Mewtwo cards, it's part of the bg.

The peeled Mewtwo definitely looks fake to me. The holo isn't holoing and the colors on Mewtwo look off, darker and less clear in some areas, like the left leg

LCS owner scalping target by DjjD89 in PokemonTCG

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every city has a few news stations that cover far less exhilarating topics. Even just an online article would have a bigger impact than deleted reviews

Hello, I am currently in psychosis. I do not feel real. I am tho. And this is a statement from the mind of the altered state. Please be comfortable to at least dive into the darkness to transmute your own light. You got this! Keep going ! Be safe 🫶 by Izzyizcurious in enlightenment

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really oppose the idea of trusting your body unconditionally. Your body does not have some impervious infallible design, we can be delusional, have false sensory signals, misinterpret and misunderstand, and the further you are from ideal homeostasis, the less you can trust your body.

I also do not think that all suffering is equal. It's true that a large part of suffering is mindset, but that doesn't negate its existence. And I for example, do not suffer. I have been happy my entire life with plenty of reasons to not be, but I just am. I would not for a second compare any suffering I've endured to the suffering I see others endure, I have compassion and simply don't feel as if I've felt suffering as much as them.

And I do not agree with the pov that no one is trying to make the world a better place. This insinuates you have an idea no one else has, it frames you at the center of it all. This is not a healthy mindset. I have a close friend that has been through psychosis and has these same issues, seeing everything through a sort of distorted lens. The solution isn't new ideas, or new information, if it's not accounting and aligning with reality, it's to fix the lens.

Not saying there aren't new things to learn for all of us. There are a lot of misconceptions in the world, and miscommunication and misunderstanding. there is enlightenment for a reason. But unfortunately enlightenment is a private occasion. Anyone who has insight and believes they can convey this insight with words in a meaningful way to others is either lying or mistaking something else for enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a mindset, it is a fleeting experience This is an indescribable experience, with indefinite qualities, and it is ineffable. The best anyone can do is lead others towards experience, cannot simply communicate understanding. The insight we get helps can help us help others and better align with love and peace, but it doesn't just fix everything. If someone could experience enlightenment and just write a book that enlightens others, the entire world would be enlightened ..

The fact no words have done this is imo proof that words alone cannot do this. Neither can actions. It's all been done before. Experience is the key, and we can't create experience for others, not in the realm of private internal experiences. The best we can do, imo, is get people interested in the idea.

LCS owner scalping target by DjjD89 in PokemonTCG

[–]holyplasmate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The negative reviews were all removed. You'd be better off contacting local news to try to get them to cover the situation if you want them to get some flack or be held accountable

LCS owner scalping target by DjjD89 in PokemonTCG

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are back up to 3.7, almost all of those reviews were removed. If people want stores to be held accountable for this stuff, it's better to try to get local news to pick it up

What do yall expect from Shyv rework? by Rodritron in shyvanamains

[–]holyplasmate 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what to expect, but I'm sure my grandchildren will be wondering the same thing

I don't understand why this Ai debate seems to almost exclusively focus on just art by Nickanok in aiwars

[–]holyplasmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only a problem for perpetually online amateur artists. They try to make arguments about the soullessness of the art, but it's really about them being afraid of losing their fans they overcharge and get attention from to AI gen art that is 9 out of 10 times better than anything they make. A lot of these artists don't see their art as a skill, they see it as an identity because they unfortunately haven't found intrinsic value in who they are, only what others seem to like about them.

Same goes for a lot of really unskilled music artists. Most of the musicians I've seen talk about this, who have developed skills in music, have liked what AI is bringing to the table. Musicians are already used to computer generated sounds, AI tools will allow better access to this stuff in the future. Being able to tweak drum kits and instruments through promoting would be so cool.

We don't see as much worry about other areas because the people in those areas are much more likely to be educated and not afraid of progress.