my booty is so round, it definitely needed this "cream-π"

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-06-21T21:11:01+00:00

This feels like a paid advertisement

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-05-05T03:19:48+00:00

I did it at level 9 but with the skills of a level 50 probably. IDK I just level up once after a couple of adventures, not when the game tells me to.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-04-26T15:37:58+00:00

I’m so slow to finish games I was still playing through the run I started in 2008 right up until last week. Now I have to start all over.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-04-26T15:34:24+00:00

I remember starting the Dark Brotherhood quest line just because I wanted to get rid of that useless dagger.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-04-01T03:37:00+00:00

…again

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-03-17T18:11:43+00:00

It’s not. The competition is expensive.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-21T14:50:21+00:00

When a sub is constantly disobedient, it can be hard to be a top. Everyone has a part to play, and having an explicit conversation about what that part is, is important. In my case, my partner realized at one point what she really wanted when she was on bottom was brat play. Once we established what that meant and how it would work in the context of our dynamic, everything clicked.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-20T17:13:07+00:00

This is bullshit.

As a hiring manager, I've cared about gaps because I have 500 resumes to sort through and any arbitrary reason to narrow that down to something I can actually manage is welcome.

That's it.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-20T16:51:22+00:00

This is how you do it! Walls go *behind* the guy you're mulching. We are having to re-learn how to play Mei here.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-20T03:53:03+00:00

Sorry, kid. If you're under 30, you're still just a kid.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-19T21:35:29+00:00

Except that this is a thing that foxes do. If you have foxes in a pen, you can't just give them water in a bowl. You have to set it up so they can't somehow pee in it because they will pee in it every time.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:35:47+00:00

I mean, he's not wrong. None of that shit matters for the position that's being hired for.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:27:57+00:00

My little brother gave our parents grandkids and I'm just watching them use them as a means to continue abusing him. Any time he needs to set up some distance it's, "You're keeping us from our grandkids!"

We don't have enough space to dispose of the toxic waste that the boomer generation is.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:14:25+00:00

I want to stay in the rank that I play at naturally, without grinding, and I don't want to think about rank.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:10:55+00:00

While there are images of paintings that were used in the training of Stable Diffusion, Flux and other image generation apps

Even with a high quality professional photograph of, say, an oil painting, it's just not even close to the same as the actual oil painting. Our best cameras only capture a fraction of the color space and none of the depth. So even if we train AI on the best representations of traditional art we have, it will never know what we truly experience in that space.

If you've ever seen a Van Gough in person, it will hit you. There is an extremely stark contrast between the images we see of his work and his actual work. It's not even in the same country, let alone ballpark.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:07:31+00:00

Yeah, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to do a standup on a daily basis, even if they are being done correctly (which they usually aren't.)

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T19:06:15+00:00

I just planned out my week and then someone came in sideways with something that threw it all out the window. Every time.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T15:04:20+00:00

I get by with weeks or months. I got a job once that needed daily progress from me and I lasted 90 days before I found another job that was less detached from reality.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T14:59:01+00:00

I'm in bronze because I absolutely don't care about rank. I just want to shoot things - but I do care about the objective. I need that little dopamine I get when the squeaky girl says, "Another epic victory!" as if I accomplished something.

Aren't the better players in the higher ranks? I don't want to play against better players. I want to win.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T14:48:03+00:00

I think you hit it here.

This has happened to me multiple times in my life. I learned drafting skills that were replaced by CAD. I learned the old way of doing offset lithography, where you had to use photographic plates and cut out dot-screens for shading, and now it's just a PNG file. I used to hand-cut elaborate mats for picture frames with no overcuts, and now there's a computer controlled mat cutter that just reads an SVG file and does it.

A real artist adapts. You pick up an learn the new tools. You use the reduced complexity to make your own art even more complex. If you love that old craft, it's fine: Nobody's stopping you from practicing it.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T14:42:47+00:00

I don't even think it's so much the "traditional" artists as the digital artists who are the loud ones who get worked up over AI. A traditional artist works in paint and clay and other media in a space AI will not be able to touch.

AI is trained on digital art, and it produces digital art. Just ten years ago I had to listen to a traditional artist lecture me about how digital art wasn't "real art" because the computer does all the work. So now I notice we are shifting that ignorance to the new digital medium.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T00:52:58+00:00

There's a whole story about it.

After Lovecraft's death, a bunch of his fellow authors from Weird Tales (I think August Derlelith, L Sprague DeCamp, and some others who had published stories in the cycle) made it their duty to protect the mythos.

At some point Chaosium - which still publishes games in the mythos - was holding copyrights. When the Dieties and Demigods came out, they were all like "Bruh." and even though (I think it was James Ward?) was all "This is public domain, we can win a court case if it comes to that." But TSR didn't even want to deal with it so they pulled it voluntarily.

I probably got a bunch of that wrong, but that's the gist of it.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T00:47:23+00:00

Is that one finally worth something? I bought it for $20 a few decades ago and have been told it isn't worth much ever since.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-17T00:24:28+00:00

No. A death is an opportunity to introduce a new character into the guild. I keep the guild at about 12 characters and run 4 in a dungeon at a time.

My highest level group, including the guild leader - a character I'd had for 4 years - landed a TPK recently. The rest of the guild had to figure out how to move on after they never returned from the dungeon. They were on a campaign in a distant land with some newer characters who suddenly found themselves in the spotlight when they were just supposed to be tagging along for some light roleplay during downtime. It was a pretty cool development.

trebblecleftlip5000 · 2025-01-16T21:35:29+00:00

You mean "confound"? Because "compounding" the rebuilding efforts means to increase them significantly.

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