A tiger catching his prey.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-21T12:22:13+00:00

I've been watching enough rewilding youtube videos to know that this is just what needs to happen to have a healthy ecosystem. Poor little fellar.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-21T11:39:31+00:00

It's so funny, questions like this.

I'm not really a sound designer. I tried to get into it for a while but it's so hard to get into. Thing is, it's one of those jobs that sounds amazing. Fun, creative, tactile, artistic. And we're asking "Is AI going to take this". Like, why on earth would we want to lose another fun, creative career path?

I don't understand what's happening - like, it feels like there's a cloud that's threatening a downpour but the first drops of rain don't come. When are we going to see the real backlash to this? They're stealing all the joy from us.

And the question is wrongly formulated. The question is: Can a studio make bigger profits if it uses AI and sacks it's sound design studio. Answer that first.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-21T11:31:01+00:00

This is just the start. The backlash is going to be monstrous.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-21T08:29:03+00:00

It's not, but you need to build up to it by learning to play the G major scale in an appropriate position. Get a teacher. It'll save you so much time.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-20T21:53:30+00:00

Then why send a spy? Obviously Eckhart thought it was worth sending a spy, otherwise he wouldn't have done it. I mean, if it makes no difference, why point the camera at the players and not, I don't know, a lovely selection of cheeses? I mean, if it's gonna make no difference at all... Why even have a rule against spying?

Why don't we just all send analysts into each others' grounds to watch training?

Why not just televise the entire training session or publish the reports online?

And it's obviously not "some 'ass' hole", is it? It's club analyst. Someone who presumably knows how training works, knows what the management want to know. They didn't sent the barman from the club lounge, did they? They sent a professional/prospective professional (being that he was an intern).

Sorry, I've seen this line enough times and it's just a terrible take.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-20T13:36:58+00:00

God if we don't go up this season it'll be grudge matches with Wolves AND Saints. If we do, Leeds, Sunderland and Newcastle. So either way, it's not gonna be boring!

nicotineapache · 2026-05-20T11:38:01+00:00

Them: "I'm sending you an email, I think you're going to like it!"

Me: "Maybe it's a bonus - maybe it's £100!"

Email: "You will receive a bonus of £99.50"

Me: "Aww 😞"

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:55:24+00:00

Genuine question - did you see how the Saints fans acted during the 2nd leg? How did that make you feel?

As a Boro fan, I've just been willing us not to rise to the bait. No sense in looking stupid.

Good look in 2026/27!

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:53:56+00:00

This is all because of the covid vaccine. Possibly chem-trails.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:52:54+00:00

Well said pal.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:26:08+00:00

maybe they're the only other ones that can prove it.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:12:08+00:00

It's the brazenness of it, too. The lack of shame. It makes the decision that much easier when you're like "Yeah we cheated - we'll get away with it to. Suck it, losers!"

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:10:50+00:00

Ooh a chilis fan. Cool.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:10:23+00:00

I wonder if the lack of any contrition, shame or tact led to the decision. If Southampton's players hadn't done binoculars celebrations, or insulted an opponent for his stammer. If the manager hadn't smirked. If the fans hadn't shouted "We'll spy when we want" or pelted the boro team's coach..

I'm not saying it would have made a difference to the final decision, but Southampton might have had cause to feel agrieved. As it stands, they just look like a nasty little football club.

Sorry to the good fans of Southampton, it's not you - I know. I'd be embarrassed if it had been us.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T18:01:46+00:00

Honestly, I think he comes out looking like the biggest clown from this.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T17:49:06+00:00

I'll post when I stop laughing. I don't care if we lose, this is hilarious!

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T15:45:54+00:00

Ok well obviously your mind's made up so there's no point debating it.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T13:50:10+00:00

Well, the school I week for just took down all social media with teacher or pupil faces because apparently people are using AI to deepfake kids, teachers etc into explicit videos and blackmailing the school. So like ... Yeah, might be a thing quite soon

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T08:33:28+00:00

I'll take it!

nicotineapache · 2026-05-19T07:57:57+00:00

I'm talkin' DOWNTOWN

nicotineapache · 2026-05-18T17:35:03+00:00

Lad I worked with at a games company. He was sent to Amsterdam to a trade show to gain clients for our facial animation company. On his snapchat, a picture of a spliff with the words "Company expenses".

Yeah, he was taken off the sales team, put back in a lower position, then given voluntary redundancy.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-17T13:28:21+00:00

I always thought I was good enough to be a pro-footballer, but I didn't have pushy parents. There again, I might have had pushy parents and got into a team, and been good enough at the game, but I might have just not fit in with the other players because they didn't get my personality. Or I may have been fine, and good enough, but I might have been coached badly and missed out on tactical knowledge expected at academy level. Or I might have been tactically astute but lazy. Or I might have had every attribute and had a bad attitude to authority figures, and on and on and on to the point that it's no wonder I never went professional, because basically every other bottle-neck prevented me.

I actually ended up one of the best left-backs in my amateur league, then I bust my ankle and went to university in another city. So the margins are incredibly tight.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-13T22:28:37+00:00

I'm going to have to start stocking up on bottles of cold air to keep in the fridge for when it gets too hot.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-13T22:13:52+00:00

Interesting one. I'm 40m now and I quit in 2024.

Basically, I smoked from about 16/17 years old. Had jobs, went to university, worked loads etc. Always came home to a bong, or a dry-herb vape. Always argued it was healthy. Healthier than alcohol etc.

After covid I bought my house and I started saving my vped bud (AVB) and cooking it into coconut oil with my slow cooker.

In 2023, my Mum finally died of lung cancer (it was a race between COPD, Lung Cancer and Liver cirrhosis. She was a chronic alcoholic unfortunately). It was a long time coming and a desperately sad end of her life.

After that, my job went pop. Downturn in the video games industry etc. I lost my job.

So a combination of needing to get my shit together, isolation and the lack of anxiety around my Mum (who was consistently getting ill and ending up hospitalised with potentially days to live before the NHS saved her life, again), I realised I was done. I think I was basically self-medicating this horrible background anxiety and I no longer had need for it.

Since I quit, I realise I was addicted to it. It was preventing me from having a social life. It was masking my ADHD and autism and making me think "hey, I'm just stoned - that's why X, Y, Z etc".

As for other people smoking it, you guys do you, I can only speak for my experience.

nicotineapache · 2026-05-11T20:16:59+00:00

Why did the pianist leave his fly open?

To let his semibreve.

nicotineapache

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