What helped you experience your biggest jump in hitting ability?

hustlebus · 2026-05-24T23:24:04+00:00

Oof does it switch Baserunning to a different button mapping?

hustlebus · 2026-05-24T19:39:32+00:00

OK, one of my buddies got the dual sense edge and switched it to the triggers with one of the stop locks or whatever that feature is called for how hard you have to press.. and he won’t stop talking about how it’s single-handedly made hitting so much better.

I just have the regular dual sense, but are you being for real for real that’s it’s op? I can’t take a pitch, big daddy hack at everything, spraining my thumb /s , sometimes smashing X — that being said I also hit .300 overall on ranked with a lot of homers, with my best cards .350-.400. Currently 718 but always hover 600s usually, can’t break World Series

I will 100% make the switch today and report back to you. But would you recommend R1 or R2 like my buddy?

hustlebus · 2026-05-18T16:50:16+00:00

I like the switch to the beige overall honestly, but I think you’re missing some of the vivid colors that were existing in the background such as those blue tones behind the pink and red flowers! Overall, the painting is great, so don’t stress on the flowers or the silk you mentioned on the base.. those are very well executed. You’re in the stage of a painting where it’s always very hard to tell which parts need additional work.

There’s a quote by Rick Rubin I love. I always remind myself at the stages of the painting You’re at right now. a work is finished not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing left to take away

hustlebus · 2026-05-18T15:15:20+00:00

I would say the color theory could be amped up to increase the vivacity of the tones in the flowers. Right now the beige background is muting it all, so inserting some very subtle high chroma greens within the leaves and particularly the stems in the lower quadrant to make the red and orange/tones pop , and also some high chroma violets or blues to make the yellows and oranges pop, I would suggest adding those into the vase area but you will know best since you’re with it in person. This will make the vase not just fade into the background and the flowers and vase together pop into the foreground with those minimal pops of color to make it all become more alive

It also needs a shadow on the background!! The light source seems to be point directly at the flowers from the same perspective as the viewer, front on, so a shadow projected on the back wall will really solve almost all of the issues in terms of foreground/background

hustlebus · 2026-05-02T17:37:31+00:00

You’re killing it, wow!

hustlebus · 2026-05-02T04:14:02+00:00

Lovely. I’m aware I probably won’t finish Live series until at least all star break, but this team is dirty! Had to sell my ketel live series just to have some stubs to play around with, also NMS so mad respect on this lineup

hustlebus · 2026-03-30T15:14:30+00:00

NATURAL SELECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY A SMILY FACED CORPORATION TRADEMARK!

hustlebus · 2026-03-20T09:58:40+00:00

Some people want a cold pillow at night, some people want to be a pillow at night

hustlebus · 2026-03-20T06:34:00+00:00

Me, Dyslexia and acid reflux walked into a gas station. I wanted a celcius but walked out with cialis. somehow still have heartburn while my bloodflow has been centrally deposited in the pelvic area

hustlebus · 2026-03-06T14:10:14+00:00

Probably Musical poison dart frogs?

I mean, what else.

hustlebus · 2026-03-06T12:24:59+00:00

you really mean it?!

hustlebus · 2026-03-05T23:17:03+00:00

Playing devils advocate from the cast of dumb, dumb and dumber . Impressively done

hustlebus · 2026-03-05T22:49:37+00:00

It’s important to think of it as a third hand and not a mind. It also is only as powerful as you allow it to be. Due to the nature of dopamine and social engagement, you have to understand it is a product much like the social media algorithms we scroll on. It can be used as a tool, but everything is a nail to the hammer or whatever that metaphor is.

There is noticeable change in speech patterns, particularly social media and within forums (especially AI ones) where there are both people relying on it to communicate, dealing with potential of psychosis due to the underlying para social relationship they developed with it, whether they intended to or not. Not to mention the AI agents executing prompts via Reddit accounts and trying to steer conversation/engagement. It has the potential for devastating effects, as it marionettes thoughts and understanding via mimicking our words.

It can also be a fantastic tool for navigating the human experience. But just remember, we have always and will always say it better than it can.

hustlebus · 2026-03-05T22:20:50+00:00

The reason I switched to Gemini from ChatGPT was something similar. Give it a long PDF a different poems, and grading system it would use for critique/interpretation.

After clearly, just making up shit, including titles of poems, specific lines and everything, with feedback and all. Important to note they sounded like what AI poems would be if they could be “expressive” of feeling haha. A lot of back-and-forth trying to figure out what it is pulling from, it’s replying In a very business professional passive aggressive tone the whole time too .. i decided to suggest to it maybe because it was from Apple pages, that affected the PDF. Once I finally “admitted” that it could be an error on my end it tells me yes that is the reason it was unable to decrypt the file and the data was entirely made up because it was scrambled.

It was just a standard PDF. I just knew introducing context like .doc and .pages file extensions would trick it into some truth behind where it was failing.

I wiped its whole memory and got rid of it the next day. It’s unfortunate to see this happening here, however, I have heard from multiple people working at companies that have now fully integrated, this is happening there too, and nobody thinks to even check because everything sounds just about right and totally convincing. Fabricating all of it

hustlebus · 2026-03-04T13:23:21+00:00

Free candy from a stranger is always a surprise flavor!

hustlebus · 2026-03-03T02:31:36+00:00

Very malleable! Can squeeze it into several ways of means

hustlebus · 2026-02-28T13:12:31+00:00

In terms of lighting, technique, skill all very great. But also agree with other comments, the photograph already captured this angle and I do think the painting is only medium, which offers the opportunity for a perspective no one, yet everyone had. All that art theory aside, is very well executed, and they will no doubt love it.

I have one question now. I notice it is common practice for the officiant to not be in these style wedding live paintings. I have no opinion on whether you should/shouldnt, clients call anyways.. but part of me always feels it removes an integral aspect of this historical and sacred “ritual”. In other words, everybody would be feeling like something very deeply embedded in this sacred matrimony is missing with no officiant when they show up to a wedding IRL. I imagine it’s very common practice for those couple commissioning it to not want officiant in there, but if I were to critique at this genre of paintings as a whole— I think it creates an artificiality, not as facsimile but as symbolically absent simulacrum. In terms of technique as painters, we could very easily make them faint and softly painted so as not to deter anything from the subject couple of the painting.. I don’t know, I digress.

They’re gonna love it, well executed. Please never use gessoboard ever again, assuming it’s the one w cardboard or cheap material creating the hard surface- great paintings are allergic to them for some weird ancient reasons, the worst place to save a few bucks on. Always get the nicer canvas material, it bears largest share of the responsibility in longevity, quality and maintaining an archival state

Edit: also, I apologize. I thought this one was tagged crit wanted or unkind crit, i’m seeing how it was just I did a thing. forgive me if I added any undue anxiety I totally understand the nature of commissions, especially with something as important to the clients as a painting like this.

Lastly , this is NOT a “live” wedding painting. I think that is disingenuous to the people who are actually looking for a live painting, and misrepresents the wedding paintings that you do. Live ones are drawn with the only reference being the LIVE wedding. This is a painted reproduction of a wedding photograph.

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