Noble Bear

Gentlemen -- BEHOLD! @dsawyer @CDoombeard

@Bigfootpool @memeslich "stabbed in the Senate"? Is that what we're calling it now? 😂

@memeslich This moment was legendary and it was so fucking funny.

Tifa did what she did

@LemmySmackett @BecomingCritter I like heist stories.

every narrative is either an isekai or a heist

@ShamashAran Yeah, a lot can still happen in the next two years.

I cannot believe this, I really, truly thought Newsom was gonna be the next democrat nominee. Then again polls at this point are terrible so ...

New breakthroughs in better gene editing to create more individual solutions to patents suffering from certain diseases. It's an older book now, but you might find Steven Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature encouraging. It looks at trend over the last few centuries and shows evidence of the world getting better. Stuff like reduction of crime, reduction of global hunger, other stuff folks care about. It's easy to feel like the world is always getting worse, while slowly, quietly, it's actually getting better.

too much negativity man 🥹 please give me good news! i’ll give you some, japanese researchers are prolonging cats’ lives by 10+ years. and they got a substantial amount of money from cat lovers who wanted to see the research fulfilled. 💛

@dsawyer THANK YOU. I could only name half of those, spaced on the rest.

Training Day The Equalizer Man on Fire Crimson Tide Glory Most of his other roles Pull the other leg, man.

@AuntScuntweet Bench seats are an artifact of a better time.

@AlobhaPatrick Timothy Dalton is woefully underrated.

Perfectly cast

@Skyebrows Yeah, she looks better more toned, less cut.

also a good take but we lost the washboard so... grok.com/imagine/post/4…

Rogue AI doesn't sound like such a bad thing

News you can use.

@ShamashAran "I know what I have".

Hi, i'm calling about your facebook marketplace ad. You accidentally posted it with an extra zero in it. I'll gladly give you $800 for it.

True. Two things to consider: They have found a way to make it cheaper, making it themselves rather than work with Hebrew National who they used as a vendor for a long time. They could have raised the price at any time, even a little. I would assert that if they went up to, say, $1.99, folks would get over it and not have a major issue. Yet they didn't.

@NobleBear @AuntScuntweet The Costco hotdog is a loss leader that's how they do it.

I honestly would feel no hate if he brought it up to $2, I don't want the company to go under

@dsawyer Elegant explanations come from mastery. When disseminated, they increase baseline understanding. When also having broad applicability, they become memetic. To wit: when you're good, people get it, when you're really good, people quote it . See also: Thomas Sowell, David Mamet

To all those of you objecting to Feynman's Razor: You don't have any clue what you're talking about. If you understand something fully, you know how to explain what's relevant and graspable to a five-year-old, without embellishing. That doesn't mean that you pretend the issue isn't complex--it means you understand that complexity iterates from very simple core realities, and you have a good grasp on what those are. Explaining what is true is always very simple. Explaining why it is true is much more complex. This is literally true in every domain.

Yeah the number of drawings can vary wildly. Also, while the animator is responsible to provide good draftsmanship, there is also the cleanup artist, the inker, the colorer and so on. Each of these are a discipline and each is under paid, it is also true that these guys are not painting the cystine chapel and George in his outrage is over blowing it. A better advocate for the position is Steven Silver.

@NobleBear @GPrime85 I like gprime, but this crashout and him making it sound like its a full new drawing every frame 8 times a second. Nobody animated like that, you can reuse most of a frame for the next one and change only what moved. It is definitely not comparable to 20$ per commisioned drawing

"200 bucks per second (of animation) and you wonder why everyone is abandoning 'artists' in favor of AI" Hand drawn animation is 8-12 frames per second. Let's average it to 10. That's 20 bucks per drawing, in color, plus backgrounds, plus thumbnails, plus extra time if work needs to be redone or tweaked. Also complexity is exponential, so more characters per scene means more work per frame, x10 per second. If it takes more time than estimated, the artist doesn't earn get overtime. They lose money. Imagine going to work this Tuesday and your boss says "You expect me to PAY you? I could just have a machine do your job." Would you still get up at 6am go to work? Do you have a job? Do you get paid? So do artists. So, 200 bucks per second is more than fair. In fact, it's a steal. If you want quality, you have to buy it like everything else. If you want to pay nothing, all you get will be worthless slop.

@CDoombeard U6: You thought it was bad before...

NOW WITH EVEN MORE MEMORY LEAKS LONGER LOAD TIMES POINTLESS EXPENSIVE SHADERS ULTRA-DETAILED PHOTOREAL ENVIRONMENTS AT SLIDESHOW FRAME RATES AND OUR FAN FAVORITE LogEOSSDK: Error: LogEOSAuth: Invalid parameter

@AftermathZGame 3rd person. For me it has a greater sense of atmosphere, presence, vulnerability, and I can tell what's going on. It's why I liked the original Resident Evil games and Silent Hill.

Which mode are you looking forward to the most? 🏕🧟‍♀️ - 1st person - 3rd person

@SandyofCthulhu Cats are weird sometimes. Mom had a cat growing up that loved green beans. To your point though, I've noted how many times progressive pet owners have to be told that, no, their cat or dog is not vegan.

I admit my cat, a pure carnivore, ate corn on the cob and cantaloupe, but he had to steal it. I suspect he did it for texture because cats can’t taste “sweet”. Dogs can though. My pups were rapacious. As are carnivores generally.

Would a hippo eat a man? The first time I posted the image below, I got told I was a liar because "herbivores don't eat meat." Not everyone knows that I did, in fact, train as a zoologist - 6 years in college & grad school. So let me explain. Plants are WAY harder to digest than meat. Herbivores have one of three choices. They can have huge complex guts (hippos, elephants). They can eat a LOT of food, gleaning a bit of nutrition with their inefficient digestion (horses, pandas). Or they can double-process by either recycling their own poop (rabbits, koalas, termites) or chewing a cud (cows, deer). Carnivores have it way easier. So do omnivores like humans. Yes we eat plants, but only the easiest, most digestible plants. You'd never catch us eating pine needles or grass. Just the less fibrous roots, fruit, nuts, and such. Our digestive tract is a lot more like a carnivore's. Look at a cat's skinny build compared to a guinea pig's fat middle - the herbivore needs far more digestive tract. There’s a reason so many herbivores are shaped like potatoes. 1/2

Playful and provocative is fun. It can make for the sort of works we remember decades later. Apart from that, nudity can signify a broad range of human expression. In the Bible alone -- so going back thousands of years -- nudity has been used to represent innocence, glory, shame, and depravity. While always bold, It's never just one thing. This gives latitude for artists to create and audiences to interpret.

Why do I create nude art? Why not?👀 It makes me feel alive. I don’t hide behind clothes. I accept my imperfections. I see beauty in every scar, every fold, every mark left by life. It gives me strength. I mean… I create something many people still struggle to accept or understand, and if I’m honest, that makes me feel unique. My art is about vulnerability. About something almost… divine, maybe. I love building mythical stories around my work. Recently I had a conversation with a model about more provocative, playful photoshoots. And I realized something very clearly: I love tasteful provocative art. I admire models who can create it. But as a model and photographer myself, it isn’t really me. No matter what idea I create, I always find a thread of tenderness and fragility running through it. Maybe because, deep down, that’s how I want to be seen too🪽

@AuntScuntweet Denzel? All the time. Training Day Equalizer

Does this guy play any non-victim roles

@kamisokk Texturing a wall breaks up sound waves, reducing echo. To a lesser extent, it also adds minor visual stimulation.

この壁ってマジで肘を怪我する以外になんの役割があるねん？！

@UncleBuckbroken So we're just going to ignore the last fifteen years of stochastic terroism, then, and say every attempt is staged? Okay...

For some reason you guys can't figure out how to aim unless it's at a school or a podcaster at a school