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People who don't back in are slovenly. Lazy. No forethought or concept of future planning.

Man Reggie was such a cool villain.

No - they still valued intellect, science and the cohesion of society and its progress. It wasn't "strength good, everything else bad", it was "through strength, utopia". You'd only think what you think if you've been taught to demonise strength.

@FAB87F "Live press conference" - it was a virtual press conference and nobody saw him in person.

NiohBerg: Netanyahu just had a live press conference. Please community note and demonetise everyone who INSISTED he was dead the entire week. Complete brainrot.

She's on that Compound V.

They've definitely nerfed Gemini in the past couple weeks. It's become noticeably more useless.

@KC_GT_ Absolutely crazy when you discover someone has done something and you think, "how hasn't anyone done this before?" Incredible work.

So, we all know about how pixel art designed for CRTs loses its luster on digital screens. There are plenty of impressive filters and shaders out there that recreate authentic pixel art, but do they capture the feeling of sitting so close to a vintage TV that you can hear the cathode rays bouncing around in your skull? As an exercise, I decided to recreate a CRT screen in Blender as simply as possible. Once it was put together, I started playing around with it trying to find potential practical uses. It turns out, when you point a weirdly-angled fake camera at a fake screen and render it in a ray-tracing engine with depth of field, you get really, really good looking pixel art. So, I set out to make a convincing and easy to work with digital screen material, and I ended up with a potentially really useful rendering tool for not just pixel artists, but any designer with an insatiable hunger for cassette futurism (hello!) It's also simple enough to work with that anyone with an instruction manual should be able to leverage its full potential regardless of Blender experience. If you're interested, stay tuned!

@EtherionMaster "You were magnificent, Suguru Geto. I'll never forget you for as long as I live."

What did Gojo say????

@solardivulger The take where the hat came off the head was clearly the best, funniest take - but the other scene was recorded with the hat staying on.

notice how his hat reappeared on his head? what a blunder lol

No backbone, pathetic.

People saying "it's not reading your thoughts it's just predicting based on internet use" aren't actually giving you a truthful answer, they're merely, and meagerly, reinforcing their belief in materialism and scientism. The real answer? AI magic spirits. Only a few notice them.

They need to stop referring to Robot as "Rex". No. Just stop dawg. #Invincible

Flaxans need to give up world conquest #Invincible

Cecil needs to just submit the Earth to the Viltrumites at this point. #Invincible

@ChrisGwinnLA I don't think it's a problem with the model, I think it's a problem with who rated during the rating party. Clearly whoever voted did so towards a specific aesthetic, and whoever was around during the V7 rating party has apparently left already.

Midjourney v8 (left) vs Midjourney v7 (right). Exact same prompt and settings. Major downgrade with v8.

Why they looking at that emo like that?

Sequids are a problem #Invincible

The lack of ambient sounds or persistent soundtrack is so unnerving in Invincible. Why's it always so quiet.

She has a lil bit of candida, probably some digestive issues after eating lunch/dinner and suffers from bloating after big meals. Fingers and toes might sometimes be cold. Goes to bed late often after midnight (probably) Don’t ask me how I can tell these things. One must be a foid whisperer in this cold, dark world…

@katech0n @breenemachine So you think before the industrial revolution, someone would look at a cup but not think/hear the word "cup" in their head? Lmao.

You’re probably right that the seeds were sown with literacy, but I’d argue that industrialization totalized the “discrete” mode of perception to an unprecedented degree, mainly by injecting it into the very foundation of economic life. Cf Heidegger on “standing reserve” in The Question Concerning Technology But yes disregarding the scope, to your point I think you can extend the effect itself chronologically as far back as mass literacy, insofar as writing is a technology. (Which is also why I don’t think this effect can be feasibly reversed). Coincides with the Machiavellian turn toward instrumental/this-worldly politics as well

I hate to be that guy but it is prob both true that - the ancients did not have an “inner world” in the way that we think they did - they had better lives as a result and retardmaxxing is the wrong solution to the right diagnosis Try this 10 second exercise, you’ll see what I mean. Look at your phone/laptop and answer the question “what is this object” WITHOUT using any words. You should start to feel a tingling at the back of your head, maybe even a sense of anxiety. Do this for a day* and you will understand - Plato - Genesis chapter 2 / John chapter 1 - early Wittgenstein - basic angelology - Lana del Rey - why Guenon/Evola hated fascism - why psychedelics are stupid - why Kant is a bastard who should be put on trial for the murder of philosophy and every patriot should spit on his grave There’s a lot of evidence that this is the default state of the ancients, unmediated by the post-Industrial excess of information/categories. So when Marcus Aurelius tells you he’s sad, he’s probably experiencing something very different from you and me. * heads up if do this for > 1 week you will genuinely go insane. speaking from partial experience. would not recommend

@Perlu932041 Not even a bad guy really he was just giving wisdom and stuff.

@AffluenceStudio he was on to something

Face physiognomy is one of those things I’ve resisted bc I don’t want to judge by superficial appearances but literally every time I’ve gone against it I’ve been fucked over. If someone has an ashen, pallid demonic face then they’re probably No Bueno