The younger right wingers are more racist than the older right wingers basically..
Reject that marxist framing my brother.
Which is kind of bizarre. I always thought that older people should be more angry about the state of affairs since they are the ones that know what things were like before, but actually its the younger people who become more extreme than the older people.
The boomers are the ones who sold us out and who benefit from the system that wont survive them. They made their money and got their positions, then brought in the shit. It takes an unusual amount of self awareness and humility to admit you were wrong. It's relatively easy to call out the errors when you don't have a chance of getting your own house.
And they believe Patriot Front is legit.
So they're retarded. Shame.
The fucking vietnamese are as bad as the chinese for theft of IP and slapping their own name on it. I agree with the japs.
Go further
Reject them, even in games set in africa.
You don't win a fight by starting at the compromise position.
The only true women are biologically male who identify as women and only true men are biologically women who identify as men.
(I tried to give a rationale for it, but the more I tried to come up with a rationale, the more it started to sound like something a leftist would actually believe because I started invoking words like "Cisgender" and then realized just leaving that statement as is, is more sufficient and crazy sounding than explaining it)
A cis woman no more knows what it means to be a woman than a fish understands water. It cannot, being born into it, they do not think about it. It is only the trans woman who was born and assigned as a male, told they were male all their life, and has had to intimately wrestle with what it means to be a woman who can even begin to understand what it really means. They had to learn about it on their own, rather than be taught it through immersion because of a hateful and misogynistic system while growing up, many are deprived of that right. Look at language. The 'native' English speakers know none of its rules, but ask someone who learnt it as a second language has studied it and can tell you all about its grammar and quirks. That is the understanding that transwomen must develop.
Ez m8. Fuck, might be fun to polish that up and submit it sokal-style
Homosexuality is an obligation. Transing yourself is an obligation.
so in about 10 years their stuff might not be infected. K, cya then.
Ok boomer
Nah bro, people mean boomer, and those with a boomer mindset. It’s not all gen x, they’re mostly chill.
Yeah a lot of that chinesium printer stuff is a bit dangerous. You hear about thermal runaway and this stuff happening, and how shoddy it all is, in that community all the time.
For somebody who just wanted more good art, then they would welcome more tools for the sake of creativity and fast prototyping.
They do. But that's not what the generative ai slop is. The digital sculptors are largely all on board with ai powered auto uv unwrap and remeshing stuff for example. It's just tedious work that gets in the way of the more enjoyable creative parts of the process, is done algorithmically anyway by a lot of people, and depending on the workflow, doesn't have to be all that good, just passable. If you're making a 3d render of your collectable figurine, near enough is good enough for the UVs and mesh. You don't need it perfect like a video game or cgi movie face would need to be. And then when you go to 3d print it, the majority of people absolutely rely on some automations and algorithms for orientation, hollowing and supports. Because it's tedious. You'd go in and manually check it after, and maybe redo a few pieces, but yeah, people use the automated tools for this all the time.
They're generally on board (if they weren't grognard anti-digital purists) with ai for those purposes. We could call this the 'technical' or 'tool' or 'tedium' ai tools. The artists are generally on board with this style of ai, and more would be if it were only this. It's generative ai where the problems are.
Generative ai proponents say that it (generative ai) can be used as a tool to enhance or speed up creativity or prototypes or as a reference.
No it can't be used for references, because it's not accurate. AI hallucinates things. Anatomy and details. So do other artists of course, but for the artist seeking references, that's then a choice that make and you'd deliberately have some reference of both types, some of the references you'd grab are real photos, and then for the other references you'd grab other artist's work for style and potentially pose and composition or 'fun details' but with the understanding that the anatomy/details might be wrong or deliberately ignored in parts to make the pose and composition work, or just for the sake of it looking cool. And you might say that that's what AI does too. But it's not, it's creating a plausible guess based on text associations about what a thing might look like, without it actually being accurate. So it can't be used for the first use case, anatomy/detail reference. And for style and comp? Just use the artist's art. You typed their name into the prompt (or got around in-built restrictions on that with other tools), or used a lora that is trained only on their art. Why take the inferior copy when you've got their art right there, just use their art. So it's not great for the other use case either. The only place left for ai in terms of reference is a kind of paradoilic rorschach style of reference which some artists like to use, where the original idea is drawn out from splotches or randomness. I'm not usually a fan of this, it feels too 'fluffy/airy' for me, but I will occasionally draw ideas from the water on the glass in the shower for this, the steam and water coming together in shapes. Even if we grant that ai can help with that style of 'reference', for that you only need the general sense of it, and Dalle-1 the trial version that was shitting out indistinct nonsense could do this 4 years ago.
But not only is it effectively useless for reference, it's made searching for reference so much harder than it used to be. That's the other issue and part of why artists are getting so annoyed by it. Not only is it not much use, generative ai has actually made things worse. They want a good reference, and searching for that is just bringing up thousands of crap images. 'baby peacock' is the classic example at the moment, the one people are pointing to. Try googling it and you'll find a lot of garbage. But this is happening with everything and often in far subtler ways than the peacock thing making it actually even more annoying. Thousands of seemingly plausible but inaccurate images that we do not want hiding everywhere. Good and accurate reference is becoming harder to find because of the generative ai shitting up the internet (and google searching by date hasn't been accurate for a good 8 years or so). And so it's actually making art harder to do, right at the very start of the process.
It's a huge shame the right ceded the arts to the left, because this then creates a lack of understanding of the process on the right, and a desire to hurt them (artists), or at least an indifference to their struggles. And that's natural. But I would rather see good art reclaimed by the right, and the left's trash thrown out, rather than have both burnt down. Generative Ai is not helping make good art. It is hindering it.
(UVs are the squares that determine the surface of your 3d model, that you then paint or project the textures onto, once you’ve sculpted everything. Think of your model as an orange, and you want to unpeel it and make it flat with as few seams as possible and with those seams on the rear side or up at the naval of the orange, so there isn't a nasty seam in the colours. And you want all the squares generally even in shape and size so any textures aren't stretched out. It's just tedious to do)
Yup, I saw them be gleeful about a chance to trample freedom protestors in Canada. And in an aussie train station I saw throw a young man’s head hard against the concrete floor and then stand around, not giving aid and blocking first aid. Only one of the 5 there simply list his job. Anyone good was forced out by the mandates.
Very enjoyable so far, it’s basically Nioh with a dash of Sekiro and a little bit of Nier.
Nier as in huge bootied robots, weird japanese mishmash of religion and philosophy as part of a nonsense soap-opera anime plot, tight action rpg done by platinum mechanics, or banger OST?
the only 'children' they are protecting are the ones who are 24 years old and came on a boat then claimed to be 14 and are now sat in your local public school.
A lot of states don't have beastality laws. It's not because politicians think it's cool to fuck animals
They do, but that’s not the reason.
Africa/ME - "it offers us a dumping ground for our excess poor young men."
the first one was alright.
yeah vikings valhalla is netflix slop
You know what
Who among us hasn't gotten to work and had to open up or something, only to realise the keys were in your other pants or something, a change in routine or distraction threw out your normal process and so you left it at home. I expect this to happen repeatedly actually. Won't be the first, won't be the last. But you'd hope it was rare.
The $15 coupon though? Fuck off.
- Are guys like Friedman and Sowell right about global trade,
If you assume all cows are spherical and don't weigh anything and don't interact when they collide.
Where it butts up against the real world is where you lose the ability to produce everything at home in case of war or hostile foreign actors. But that one is obvious. That flaw is well explored.
Another place it fails is when you fail to consider conglomerates or nations acting 1 industry at a time to advantage themselves. The Chinese for example will happily subsidise orange farming, block your oranges from sale in their country, take advantage of what is basically slave labour to create a huge surplus of their oranges and then dump their oranges on your shores, killing your local farms. Good for consumers that year right? Well now your local orange farmers are bankrupt, and maybe china even bought that land up. Either way, now china controls the market. It might remain somewhat cheaper because they still have that low wage back on the mainland and a lot of investment in mass orange harvesting, or they might be able to ramp up the prices to higher than they were. Either way, China is winning. If prices remain lower, your local farmers continue to be unable to compete and you lose that local knowledge. But even if china gets greedier and ramps the price right up locals can't easily just start up another farm to compete and take advantage of the now higher prices because of a high barrier to entry and lack of knowledge AND the best spots are all already taken and china can always just do it again for one year and kill the new farms. And then you move to the next food product, then the next.
You cannot have free trade with china. But what I just talked about doesn't apply just to china or other nations with that co-ordination. Bigger companies will do it too. Supermarkets will loss-lead, selling bread and milk on the cheap to get you in the door and putting bread at the front to have the smell draw you in. But this is a manipulation, an advertisement campaign that kills your local baker who cannot do the same with his prices because the bread is all he sells and knows. Letting foreign companies who do not have any loyalty to their local area is the issue. Free trade inevitably means making your locals compete against foreigners with shit wages AND who don't care about your local long-term situation AND who are happy to co-ordinate in ways that destroys your local industries in an 'unfair' way, one that isn't simply about providing a better product at a lower price. Them being able to leverage their profits from one arm to run another arm at a loss for a short while for various reasons, to kill competition so they can later have a monopoly or as an advertisement is a fundamental flaw with free trade. Whichever the reason, you're now down a local family business for no good reason.
A third reason against 'free trade' meaning no tariffs is that tariffs are the least bad option in terms of taxation. What are your other choices, given even a minarchy's need to tax at least a little bit? Taxing productive work with an income tax? Taxing the successful and productive by taxing profits? The theft that is inheritance and wealth taxes*? Sin taxes? land taxes?Resource taxes? Well, ideally resource taxes actually, if you're in a situation like Norway (or like Australia SHOULD be) is in, you'd be able to not tax anybody doing anything productive, but effectively just 'sell' the resources under the ground. But the next best option after that and some sin taxes which won't cover your needs, is tariffs. It protects local industries, as compared to a local sales tax it in effect only hits the goods from foreigners, and is easier to collect at the gates coming in rather than burdening each and every business with taxes to track at each little transaction and gumming up all trade between people.
huh. I can't decide if you're right or not. And I was just working on proportions and stuff, so yeah I had a think about this.
In art and sculpting, basically nobody first learns or uses the more 'realistic'(and average looking) 7.5 head system, because of a few reasons. It's far more difficult for one, with all the landmarks falling at weird spots, but the 8 head system in addition to looking better has everything just fit nicely while also being plausible, it might not be the average but it's still well within the realm of possible, it's 'idealised'. But then to make something look extra heroic, people will go further and into an 8.5 or even 9 head system if pushing for a Greek god body, and the way you do that (at least when going to 8.5) is 90% in the shins. Just take an 8 head-scale body and extend that part of the leg down and it all just works, makes them look better even. And if you consider 6 foot the norm, the amount that going to an 8.5 head system from 8 heads stretches things is 4.5 inches I think. But the surgery does it in the femur first from what I'm reading here, and then the shins for some extra if needed? Or it's a choice between the two with different pros and cons according to this other website.
I wonder if perhaps there are certain people who it would fit, people who are already disproportionate in that their lower legs are actually a touch short, but that if this were a selection criteria this would exclude a lot of people from the profitable surgery. Or perhaps the limit of it still looking natural is lower, let's say you can get a mere 2 inches without it looking disproportionate, but the people who feel they need this surgery are so short that 2 inches won't help anything so invariably they shoot for more. Or they're going for the femur for mechanical/health reasons so it just doesn't look good as compared to the tibia/fibula. Or its the 'no makeup/good plastic surgery' effect where when done right and done subtly, we don't notice, it's only the bad disproportionate ones that we see and blame. Or in live 3d and with full texture, as compared to some static art or sculpture, it does look weird to have those proportions. Or perhaps it is that although 90% of the stretching is done in the lower legs in art, there are still some minor adjustments elsewhere, but you simply can't do that bone break and stretch surgery on all parts of 4 limbs, all that trouble 4 times over for just minor adjustments, hardly seems worth it. E: (or it's a gait/movement thing, they look normal when sat or stood still but it has affected their movement and their balance to make it awkward and unnatural)
Or some combination.
Take "bruh" for example, thats been a thing in Cali longer than I've been alive.
That was my first thought too. If 'Bruh' isn't ebonics, then it's Californian. Even worse?
I think they're separate though. The Californian 'brah' has a lower /a/ sound though and is used differently to 'bruh'. At least to my ears, 'brah' means bro more closely than 'bruh', there's more affection in it, and is an exclamation of appreciation, it is generally positive. Bruh has a more indignant or shocked use, its an exclamation used when something bad happens. Part of that is the populations using it I am sure. The stereotypically happy stoned californian hippy vs blacks are going to be using any form of 'bro' differently. But that then affects each version's use and its meaning when they are picked up elsewhere.
DnD is Satanic
Have you seen the people playing it now? The art for it now? The things that company does?
They may have had a point. And if it wasn't then, it certainly is now. It's all so queer now, I struggle to think of a franchise more pozzed.
only his own content, his lotus eaters stuff and the new mag they're publishing yeah.
No, I can’t tell a Chinese from a Japanese from a Korean
The chinese have fatter round faces, japanese are longer and more angular. Important life skill cmon, we might have to ally with one of these against the other, we can't just get them to yell lollapalooza
if a country has mandatory service, are there any adult civilians?
and it has been noted each generation is less religious than the last. Gen z pretty much didn't go to church ever.
Perhaps on average, but those gen z who do go, really go and take it seriously. The trad churches, the latin mass traditional catholic and eastern rites, the orthobros, they're all seeing a resurgence and it's coming from gen z.
have you forgotten about princess diana and who she died with? They're almost 100years ahead of your prediction
When they aren't receiving the police protection that legit groups and protests should be getting but don't. More legit groups either get trampled OR the police let them clash with the feral mob when outnumbered. Not patriot front though, the police escort them to their unmarked trucks.
When each time they get unmasked it doesn't end up being some aspiring-fed politics student or bullshit or a known fed,
When they don't look like they are fresh from that post justice for jan-6 entrapment thing.