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Art by Eldar Akmanaev

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Your honour, I admit that I do have a superiority complex over not watching Disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, I am right

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the second funniest glitch in gen 1 pokemon is definitely the 1/256 Glitch (aka "Gen 1 Misses"), where moves that show as having 100% accuracy effectively have 99.6% (255/256) accuracy, because Game Freak accidentally swapped out a ≤ for a < in the source code. this is only the second funniest glitch because Pokemon Stadium attempted to fix the issue but instead replaced it with an even funnier one: instead of fixing the "less than" symbol, they just... ran the flawed calculation twice. so in Pokemon Stadium, the 1/256 Glitch is replaced with the 1/65,536 Glitch. i love computer science

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While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...

...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.

Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.

IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.

And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.

And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.

It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.

So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...

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like no one calls it a skinny fetish when ppl reblog our fuckin typical white bread skinny bitches girl twinks? no thats just finding them hot thats just liking ppl

oh but if that person is fat? and especially not "acceptable" bombshell curvy fat? then suddenly it's a kink snd a fetish and has to be something not normal and warrant ppl side eyeing you

grow the fuck up

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I have genuinely become a better person by routinely thinking, "I've already gone to bat for the artistic value of furry porn, I won't be a prick about [art culture I don't understand]"

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it is so rude that you can develop new problems when the preexisting ones haven't been solved

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I can’t ever leave tumblr because I just love the tag function.. no other social media platform allows you to heckle yourself on your own post. you get to preemptively make metatextual commentary abt your OWN POST. how cool is that

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In the afterlife, in order to proceed beyond the exruciating purgatorial torment, youtubers who made game walkthrus and how to instructions exclusively in the form of videos when no written versions yet existed will be forced to learn the way out thru unsearchable century-long video essays in 99 installments starting off with some mid tier angelic content creator bursting out in affected-yet-boneshattering enthusiasm, "Hellooooo penitent gamers! Today we are going to be learning abooout escaping the searing flames of divine wrath! 😮🔥😇"

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While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...

...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.

Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.

IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.

And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.

And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.

It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.

So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...

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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

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2023 is coming to an end so this is my annual I love my online friends so fucking much you wouldn't believe me if I told you post.

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! VINDICATION !

there is now a post going around making fun of the post you found annoying but didn't want to get into an argument about

REWARD: mild sense of satisfaction, cuntiness +2%

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life is so ruthless so i must love you as hard as i can. basically

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people love to complain about sex scenes in tv shows and violence in movies when the real danger is scenes that make you feel second hand embarrassment.