• galileosballs

  • Oh, so that's why everyone was suddenly talking about homestuck again

  • galileosballs

  • For the record, I'm all the way around on morbid curiousity for this one. I'm one of the dweebs who will defend homestuck as a legitimately interesting and groundbreaking piece of art, but it's also just the last piece of art I would ever think is suitable for adaptation to a different medium. Any different medium. Few stories have ever been as much about their medium of presentation as homestuck is.

  • galileosballs

  • Making an animated version of homestuck is like trying to do House of Leaves as a prog rock concept album. It's like making the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a ballet. It's Twelve Angry Men in Tokusatsu. It's an artistic choice so self-evidently bad that merely the act of trying to pull it off is art in itself

  • galileosballs

  • And that's just based on the formal properties of the work - the bare fact that 80% of this story consists of teenagers sitting around having inane conversations about RPG mechanics in which the majority of the humour and characterization is conveyed via creative typography. I'm not even going to touch the fact that the whole thing is so intensely dated we should call it your mom

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  • inbabylontheywept

  • People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

    I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

    I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

    (I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

  • knights-unwelcommentary

  • “The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?” And he’ll look stunned and say, “How did you know?” He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it.”

    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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  • kosmogrl

  • lore dropping is kinda crazy because sometimes when I’m mid conversation I realize that actually did happen to me

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  • phantomrose96

  • YOU 🫵 can amass a friend group of childless people in their 30s as long as you pull from these 3 demographics

    • Queer freaks from the internet
    • Highly-educated weird women
    • Gamer men who became adjusted and compassionate in their 20s but still are not comfortable recognizing this in themselves so they’re putting off dating in order to play the horse girl gacha game
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  • ashyslashyy

  • being a horror fan when you dont care about christianity or whatever is really funny because very often i just end up thinking. Oh so it was actually the devil the whole time. Real original. And let me guess the power of god will stop it. Are you gonna get the- Oh yeah the crosses. Okay. And the- Yeah okay theyre sending the devil back to hell

  • ashyslashyy

  • i guess to some people the devil is the scariest thing they can imagine but at this point whenever they mention him im just rolling my eyes. That guy again? Can we get someone else

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  • hostilecandle

  • If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

    If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

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    None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

    THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

  • hodari-pavels-good-boy

  • Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it

    You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

    Pathetic loser behavior on display here

  • mintedwitcher

  • I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.

    "hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

    I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

    we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

    I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

    quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.

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  • robotpussy

  • i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

  • robotpussy

  • the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

  • rottenbrainstuff

  • I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

    I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

    Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

  • siphersaysstuff

  • BONUS: They weren't beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got videos from everyone. You didn't have to pay separately for the rights to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler, and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone never returned 'em.

  • pepperoni-oni

  • friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical media and if they don't have what you're looking for you can most likely ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through interlibrary loan

  • bogappreciation

  • Shoutout to Scarecrow Video- they have over 148,000 titles, most of which you can rent by mail. Rentals have been down in the last few years so they're asking for support!

  • letteredlettered

  • boosting this for Scarecrow Video. It's also now a non-profit.

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  • max1461

  • Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

  • word-for-today

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    Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

    The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

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  • transhuman-priestess

  • Hello, science fiction writer. Before you is a word processor and your vice of choice. You have 3 days to write a 10,000 word story with a racism allegory. However, if you write a justification into the story where the marginalized group was historically dangerous, i will light all your hair on fire with this cigarette lighter. Clock is ticking.

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