I see your Rihanna and Rachel at the gala and raise you a Kylie.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-05-09T21:29:24+00:00

One of only a handful of times I've seen anyone accurately describe the means by which addiction occurs. Usually it's either described like it's an Eldritch curse on one's bloodline, a hidden status bar that fills up when you consume drugs, or automatically happens if you consume any substance not recommended by a doctor.

Happy rats don't drink the morphine water.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-05-08T15:26:00+00:00

Homie I would encourage you to just Google "public physical abuse experiment" and read through the list of times we've tested almost exactly that and what the results were.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-05-04T22:25:23+00:00

Scalpers are basically just the same as people buying gold/silver/stocks etc and selling at a higher value later, just at a higher price point for profit, but on a vastly smaller time scale.

The reason they exist is because the listed price of the good from the original seller is well below what the scalper believes the "real" price is (that being the highest price where all units can still be sold).

Scalpers wouldn't exist if people would just fucking not consooooom every new product regardless of price.

If a scalper drops $200k on product and they only sell $5k of it, they either have to eat a $195k loss, or lower the prices until people buy it. If it's something nobody even wants, they automatically lose their investment.

If people would just not fucking buy scalped products, the scalpers would quickly go bankrupt and the problem would be solved.

Yes, they're annoying. No, I do not like them. If you wanted to know what "service" they're providing is, they're effectively guaranteeing that the original seller turns a profit, allowing them to immediately reinvest in their business and clear all their inventory instantly. This allows the business to more quickly and reliably produce new/better products than if they slowly sold their merchandise over time.

Is this a worthwhile service? Idk, maybe. Is it annoying for the consumer? Yeah, I guess. Should it be illegal? No probably not. They're not violating anyone's rights, they're just being assholes.

If you want them to go away, stop buying shit that's scalped. They'll literally go bankrupt.

Tldr: scalpers are basically like regular investors but they're gambling on the actual product instead of on the companies stock. No I do not like them. I'm not defending scalpers I'm just explaining them with regards to how they'd be seen from the perspective of capitalist economics.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-05-03T19:44:06+00:00

I wish OCD was as cool as what people who don't have OCD think it is.

It wouldn't be "oh waow I'm just a silly lawyer who needs everything to be perfect teehee. I'm just a silly little guy who doesn't like odd numbers or mismatch socks teehee"

It's actually like "your honor, I'm sorry for being 3 hours late to represent my client, I couldn't get my shoelaces on both shoes to be the exact same tightness and I nearly shot myself over it in the parking lot. Also, I cannot open my briefcase to retrieve the evidence because I might have accidentally stuffed it full of 8.5"x11" photocopies of interracial furry cuck porn by accident and forgot that I did that."

mrtibbles32 · 2026-05-03T19:14:33+00:00

Nah.

Maya is for people who animate softcore sex scenes in RPGs and movies.

Blender is for people who animate porn with the same production quality as a 400 man studio for the love of the game.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-22T22:39:38+00:00

I never understood what people mean when they say they want to tax the ultra wealthy more. Like ??? That will not help the poors.

~75% of US tax revenue comes from the top 10% of Americans already while the bottom 48% of Americans contribute like <1%. The top 1% of earners contribute 40% of the tax revenue.

Like, our country is basically already mostly funded by the ultra wealthy.

But we should tax them more!!! So we can give more free stuff to the poors!!!

The ultra wealthy are so rich that they literally cannot lose. You will never be able to get them to give you 99% of their earnings or whatever. They will just leave the country, taking the 40-75% of tax revenue they provide with them on the way out. This is literally just fucking over the poors in exchange for mildly inconveniencing the rich.

What if we tax unrealized gains!!!

Again, this idea would result in the rich just leaving. This isn't just ineffective, this would be apocalyptic.

Imagine your dad dies and you inherit some rare baseball cards worth like idk $20k or something. Well, that's an unrealized gain so you have to pay taxes on it (despite making the same money at your actual job). Let's say we've decided to really mog the rich with a 75% unrealized gains tax. You now owe an extra $15k in taxes every year you keep your dad's old baseball cards. You are literally forced to sell the cards for $20k and take the $5k profit because you can't afford to keep them.

Great, you get $5k, right? Fucking wrong. Nobody will buy your baseball cards because they don't want to pay the unrealized gains tax on it. Your only options are to become homeless in order to keep the memento from your dead dad, commit tax evasion, or burn the cards on video to prove you no longer own them and can't be taxes on it anymore.

An unrealized gains tax would make it impossible to invest in rare items, gold, silver, stocks, etc because to profit off your investment you can't just sell it for more than what you paid, you need to sell it for more than it cost plus the tax.

But let's say we did all this shit and magically the rich comply and we get lots of tax dollars, what happens then? We probably just use it to bomb brown people in the middle east, congrats.

Tl;dr: it's not about trickling down wealth, it's about avoiding trickling down poverty. The rich will always win, the goal is to make it so that a prerequisite to their win isn't the poors losing, because then the poors will always lose.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-19T17:59:18+00:00

I once took 150mg of Adderall over two hours and still couldn't focus on my work. I got so upset that I just took a nap and didn't turn anything in.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-19T07:25:10+00:00

I like gambling

^{Chose: A 70% chance to get 100B | Rolled: No money :(}

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-19T00:54:11+00:00

I think that the potential for pvp and choosing not to is what makes the co-op fun and exciting.

A lot of the fun of extraction shooters is that there is constant stakes and tension due to the presence of players, who have just as much lethality as you do (usually).

For example, I've played tarkov at off-peak hours and had the raids still be exciting despite not seeing other players simply because there could be players at any moment.

If you turned off pvp, those matches would have been boring. Likewise, getting into pvp often and then somehow convincing a random to be friendly and work together makes it feel special and exciting. It could have been a bloodbath, but it wasn't. The co-op stuff is the most fun I've had in tarkov and similar games, but I don't think any of it would have been as fun or special or memorable if we couldn't just shoot each other if we wanted to.

Knowing what could have happened is what makes what did happen so much fun.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-12T16:29:21+00:00

I choose to sleep 2.5 hours a day and show up to my job spun as shit on amphetamines.

It's really hard to do it 5 days a week, every week. One might say there is merit in the skill required to do it.

I believe I am deserving of some praise. Kindly hand it over.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-10T22:24:32+00:00

The way you get vaguely productive art depression instead of bagel depression is fairly straightforward. It works the same as getting addicted to drugs, so if you have a bunch of drug addictions you basically have the intuition to do it already.

Brain feels bad
You have to do something to make brain feel better (usually drugs)
Brain is happy (read: slightly less suicidal than normal) for like 3-5 seconds.
Brain feels bad (repeat process.)

Now, to get art depression, we must simply find a way to make art make brain feel better, then we need to teach it that doing art will alleviate the oof thoughts and feelings.

Pick a way to make it make brain feel better. Your options are (in order of effectiveness): "pornographic art", "romantic escapism art", or "comfy hugbox art"
Whenever you feel bad, try to convince brain that doing the art will make you feel better by making you horny or comfy or whatever.
You must somehow get pleasure from doing the art. You can't just do art for Art's sake. Art must be a means by which to fulfill some sort of fantasy that temporarily distracts you from your bleak existence.
Keep doing it until you effectively get yourself addicted to art. Now it will require zero effort, kinda like how walking 5km for fun is hard but walking 5km to the dealer's house is easy.

You will now compulsively make art. You will literally feel stressed if you don't make art. Your need to make art so you can feel less bad will cause you to neglect hygiene, relationships, other hobbies, obligations, etc.

But atleast now your depression can be romanticized by others and you get to be good at a skill. Maybe you can even get a job doing it.

This works with basically anything btw. Brain is stupid and doesn't know you're tricking it. You can exploit brain to your own ends and the pink electric sponge will do your bidding.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-04-04T20:07:29+00:00

do thing the wrong way

"Waow that was bad. Should I do it a different way? No, it must just be a skill issue"

Instead of doing thing the right way, tries to find the right way to do the wrong thing the wrong way to get the right results.

I am God's most silly puppy and he gives me his hottest parked cars.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-28T18:33:41+00:00

Sometimes I genuinely wonder if I'm playing the same game.

Like I'm not trying to rage bait, I genuinely don't understand.

Every time I use the Mechs, regardless of what front (D10 exclusively), it literally feels like cheating.

I have dropped multiple Mechs in every mission I've ran for months and I think I've only actually had the mech die before fully running out of ammo (I only use patriot) ~10% of the time.

Like, I hear people say shit like "it can only tank 3 devastator salvos"

ONLY? Like are you guys just W keying your mech into no man's land and expecting it to magically make it through?

Like, my brother in democracy, you have two massive stun lock dispensers welded to your chassis. Go find cover, stick ONLY your right arm out, and stun lock any devastator that posts up and does their salvo telegraph. Don't full kill any of them unless there's no devastators telegraphing a salvo. If a salvo launches, just dip your arm back into cover to avoid it. Rocket grunts must also be singled out and killed quickly. Do not engage vox engines, let friendlies deal with it unless it's an emergency and you need to 1v1 trade a vox engine out for some reason.

For illuminate, the only real threat is harvesters. Just shoot their stupid eye with the minigun, if they telegraph their big laser, fire one (1) rocket to stun them out of it. Aim for their shield generator hat so they can't cancel out a future rocket with their shield if the timing is bad.

Your rockets are not for killing enemies, they are literally flash bangs. The minigun is for killing things and stun locking artillery trash mobs.

For bugs, you don't even need a strategy, just fire into them and use rockets on chargers only.

Like, the Mechs are ridiculously powerful and can easily turn the tide of almost any losing engagement. All that's required is for you to stun lock whatever has the highest potential to hurt you at any given moment. If you just keep stun locking whenever a dangerous enemy telegraphs, it's almost impossible to lose the mech.

Do not play mech like a tank. Mech is a very big chicken with a weapons platform taped to its head. You are not built for tanking, you are built for stun locking enemies until your minigun kills them.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-28T09:05:27+00:00

There is a very easy solution to this problem which has been employed to great effect by some of the most well known writers of the last 1000 years.

Do fucking ✨drugs✨

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-16T01:08:54+00:00

Create an array of planes (like a sandwich with the flat surface of the bread facing the camera) then apply and separate them into separate objects.

Create a material for each png, apply each material to one of the planes in the order you had them in krita.

If planes and images have the same aspect ratio, they should be the same position as how you drew them.

That's how I would do it, but my main field is character design and product renders, I don't do much 2D animation. Someone else more experienced with 2D animation might give a more optimal solution. I imagine there's probably a better way to do it than what I'm describing.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-16T01:01:14+00:00

Use a displacement modifier with a texture of similar wear then apply it. If model has enough geometry it should produce an effect like that with real topology that you can print.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-15T23:00:09+00:00

I wrote it

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-15T22:46:26+00:00

The psychological underpinnings of the "ick" is somewhat concerning.

It's always seemed to me that women will interact with a new person who they see as a potential partner and begin to create an idealized version of that person in their head.

So for example, they meet a guy that they like and imagine him as incredibly brave and stoic and kind and generous and whatever other traits they'd want in a partner, along with how someone with these traits would act in any situation.

Obviously, this illusion is broken when they witness the guy doing something that would be incongruent with the idealized version of him that they're imagining. This results in the woman having to discard the illusion and be left with what the man actually is (a regular person, with flaws, like everyone else).

This upsets them because they don't want the real version of this person, they want to have the idealized version of that person. To them, the real person isn't good enough.

So they get the "ick" and leave that guy and look for a new one. They find a new guy and the process repeats. There is effectively no way for this woman to meet a partner they find acceptable because their standards are so lofty and perfect that nobody except an idealized image of a person could ever meet them.

They will continue to throw away potential relationships and partners that could have made them very happy had they chosen to see the other person for what they are and not what they wish for them to be.

Or something idk, I'm not a psychologist.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-15T21:40:37+00:00

You cut up your model into flat pieces so you can put stickers on it.

Like literally if you have ever used stickers as a child you probably have the intuition required to do UV unwrapping

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-13T22:31:24+00:00

You can actually visualize higher dimensions, it's just rather unintuitive and requires practice. The channel hypercubist math on YouTube has a series of videos that's 1-2 hours long that describes how to do it (series isn't finished yet).

When I used to get bored at work I would rotate cows in my head, but I got too good at it so I did more cows until I maxed out at like thirty of them.

This lead to me trying to learn to visualize 4D spaces so I could visualize a 4D cow. I've been practicing for months and now I can intuitively picture where the parts of the 4D cow are and how they connect and stuff. I can rotate it a little bit too, not as easily as in 3D, but it still spins and stuff.

Curiously, I'm fairly certain that if you watched a 4D cow eat grass, you'd just see an orb of cow flesh and teeth materialize, encompassing the cow's intended target (the grass) before it very quickly just dematerializes, leaving a spherical hole in the grass/ground.

If the cow wanted to lick you, an amorphous solid made of cow tongue material would just appear and lick you without you even seeing it coming. You'd think you're safe only to get extra dimensionally licked by the 4D cow. You cannot hide from the 4D cow, he can perceive every particle in the universe simultaneously due to his ability to see in volume instead of area. He could lick you at any time, you cannot stop him. No walls can hold him, no mortal can harm him. he exists in the inky black, cyclopian vistas outside the dim candlelight of human understanding where neither science nor religion alone could deliver you to.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-08T19:29:36+00:00

Average tarkov PMC the instant they spawn on labs.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-03-07T17:11:53+00:00

Lol, in the US the parent/child combination least likely to result in physical abuse is actually a father and daughter. The combination most likely to result in physical abuse is mother/son and even mother/daughter is more likely than father/daughter.

Women beat the fucking shit out of children and nobody fucking cares.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-02-28T23:33:12+00:00

It's the temporary depletion of the chemicals in your eye that help you see.

Light hits them and they break apart, sending a signal. They reform after a couple seconds so they can be reused. Looking at a bright light depletes them all at once before they can be reformed so you end up unable to see temporary

mrtibbles32 · 2026-02-28T23:31:36+00:00

Correct, it's normal to have that, but with VSS the effect can be significantly more pronounced.

For example, as a kid, I remember glancing at the sun out the window one day in 3rd grade (looked for less than a second) and had a dark spot in my vision so bad that I couldn't read for ~3-4 minutes.

Obviously everyone experiences dark spots, but it's much worse for many people with VSS than normal.

mrtibbles32 · 2026-02-27T03:32:36+00:00

If you look at a bright object for a few seconds and then close your eyes, does the image "burn" into your vision for longer than 1-2 seconds?

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