Gooners from Canada? Nice guy.
I have M3thod on Instagram. He has children.
I have M3thod on Instagram. He has children.
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he lives in london now, but yeah same guy.
i remember m3th.
i remember m3th.
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With the Fossil watch that Ken bullied me over.
definitely look like a schoolteacher.
the polo top looks like some sort of new jersey-ite homage to tony.
the polo top looks like some sort of new jersey-ite homage to tony.
Dude my little brother is obsessed with those shirts. He looks like a fuckin' stunaduziq wrote:
definitely look like a schoolteacher.
the polo top looks like some sort of new jersey-ite homage to tony.
That gold rolex day date President is a classic 90s watch though. If I were to ever get a gold watch, it'd be that one.
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Polos are a NJ thing? That is just normal clothing for us.
I used to tuck in the polo but that felt weird. Always felt like readjusting or fixing it. Not good to have to fix your tuck while in front of a cafeteria of seniors. 🤮 I also would then need a belt. A nice Gucci belt maybe. But then I would need nice pants. And I don't have space for any of that in the studio apartment above the dentist office.
But yeah that is my aesthetic. It works well on the checks notes depressed 5 and 6s I meet online.
I used to tuck in the polo but that felt weird. Always felt like readjusting or fixing it. Not good to have to fix your tuck while in front of a cafeteria of seniors. 🤮 I also would then need a belt. A nice Gucci belt maybe. But then I would need nice pants. And I don't have space for any of that in the studio apartment above the dentist office.
But yeah that is my aesthetic. It works well on the checks notes depressed 5 and 6s I meet online.
some new glasses and better fits and you could be holdin’ up the bank of 7.5’s in the very near future, clyde.
tucked polos feel like a thing for 60yos and golfers with beer guts, or students at a christian private school.
i'm not strictly a fashion person, but have usually followed this setup: mostly tuck polos if wearing a belt. if slacks, have a belt. khakis (i don't have any rn) or jeans? untucked. need something more formal? wear a button-up. those and tees are a lot less ambiguous between smart-casual and business-casual. IMO
i remember you talking about how your classroom was kept at a high temperature, mac. i do not envy that. gross.
i'm not strictly a fashion person, but have usually followed this setup: mostly tuck polos if wearing a belt. if slacks, have a belt. khakis (i don't have any rn) or jeans? untucked. need something more formal? wear a button-up. those and tees are a lot less ambiguous between smart-casual and business-casual. IMO
i remember you talking about how your classroom was kept at a high temperature, mac. i do not envy that. gross.
there is nothing wrong with the outfit above, it’s totally appropriate for a teacher in fact, but i am here to tell you americans that you wear polo shirts way, way too much. like i can tell an american in a busy tokyo crowd from the very get-go. its always the poorly fitting shorts/cargo trousers and polos. always.
right, 'teaching' would be my first guess at his job based on that outfit alone. the sweater puts a 'guidance counsellor' spin on things. some black full-rim glasses and he's rocking the stanley tucci.
i put away cargo pants over 15 years ago. it's weird hearing they're back (i know it's been off and on, but still)? even for tourists. most of what i see here are jeans or slacks? even shorts seem like more of a rarity, summer months or no. cargo/polo would very much stand out at the local supermarket.
i put away cargo pants over 15 years ago. it's weird hearing they're back (i know it's been off and on, but still)? even for tourists. most of what i see here are jeans or slacks? even shorts seem like more of a rarity, summer months or no. cargo/polo would very much stand out at the local supermarket.
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We should not covet our neighbor's wife
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you can simply ... disengage? maybe it's hard to see outside the bubble if you're a terminally online zoomer, or were raised with an ipad in your hand, but plenty of 'cool' and even high-status/attractive people i know are basically 'not online'. just check out. you don't need to be a pent-up rage-gooner staring at OF models and IG thots all day long.
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So much fun with the new Chat GPT tool. You can do very good Spirited Away style stuff now. The image generation got a huge boost.
The Italian girl had to leave dance floor after the AI started to hit.
Look at me. Friend to all the animals.
The Italian girl had to leave dance floor after the AI started to hit.
Look at me. Friend to all the animals.
pure unadulterated slop. 'neat!' and meaningless. truly the content of worker groupchats.
that 'italian' looks like she is built like a wine cork. of course italian-americans have the complete opposite physiques to italians. of course.
or has the AI just foreshortened you both into a race of compressed people?
that 'italian' looks like she is built like a wine cork. of course italian-americans have the complete opposite physiques to italians. of course.
or has the AI just foreshortened you both into a race of compressed people?
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It shrunk us. It did it with a few pictures. It is probably due to gaming it into the anime style. This version is crazy good. This is a big deal of a launch. No censorship.
'big deal of a launch' --> everyone is getting sent cease and desist letters by studio ghibli.
like everything with AI generative slop, it's destined straight for the giant landfill once the novelty wears off. and now you don't get to enjoy the (supposed; don't ask me) 'magic' of ghibli animations in the same way ever again. those sequences that took an artist 30 years of training and 2 years of nonstop effort to make? we can do that with you and your dog now in 7 seconds. ok. great.
it's funny how the people pushing AI down our throats aren't that interested in finding new drugs or answering new physics questions or anything. it's 'look at this awesome painting of trump with burger king in the style of an old dutch master', 'look at this topless mona lisa', 'look at this ghibli portrait of goebbles'.
like everything with AI generative slop, it's destined straight for the giant landfill once the novelty wears off. and now you don't get to enjoy the (supposed; don't ask me) 'magic' of ghibli animations in the same way ever again. those sequences that took an artist 30 years of training and 2 years of nonstop effort to make? we can do that with you and your dog now in 7 seconds. ok. great.
it's funny how the people pushing AI down our throats aren't that interested in finding new drugs or answering new physics questions or anything. it's 'look at this awesome painting of trump with burger king in the style of an old dutch master', 'look at this topless mona lisa', 'look at this ghibli portrait of goebbles'.
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I think it is awesome and we need to trains kids to use it in schools.
you're from new jersey, aka a giant gravitational anomaly of ugliness. you're welcome to roll around in your filth. it's not like anything is going to get better there anyway.
there is a very profound and fundamental link between all of this corny sentimental pastiche on the one hand and the sheer inhuman ugliness of so much AI-generated imagery on the other, and incipient fascism. don't ask me to unpack it. it's deep down in the psychology of it all. ugly politics are tied to this bereft worldview, devoid of any sense of beauty or sensibility. it's pig content for pig people.
there is a very profound and fundamental link between all of this corny sentimental pastiche on the one hand and the sheer inhuman ugliness of so much AI-generated imagery on the other, and incipient fascism. don't ask me to unpack it. it's deep down in the psychology of it all. ugly politics are tied to this bereft worldview, devoid of any sense of beauty or sensibility. it's pig content for pig people.
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You are just upset that the AI is going to replace you. You will need a new career. Time to start teaching English for Japanese citizenship.
erm, AI is having a much bigger disruption on the teaching profession and education than it is on publishing. people want their books to be edited by a human they can email and call. neither students nor their parents evidently give much of a shit about teachers. isn't that why you're climbing the greasy pole into the administrative state, so you can milk your unionised benefits and inoculate yourself against the AI shitstorm? buy another gaudy watch so you temporarily won't have to worry about it.
i have no stake in this other than thinking it is ugly and banal. sure, there's a day or two of 'meme appeal' when everyone is making funny in-jokes using the new toy. it's amusing. but in the long-term you're just robbing yourself of another nice thing for almost zero meaningful gain.
hope you're okay with there not being any new styles or forms of expression, down the line. because the sort of animation studio that ghibli represents, in its work ethic and overall ethos, is not going to be financially viable in a future where people can create entire animated movies using a text prompt. i don't give a shit about animated movies, so i don't know why you think i'm personally invested in this; i'm just pointing to the obvious consequences of all this glowing enthusiasm.
the 'problem' with generative AI slop is it abolishes the distance between 'good' and 'bad', or more precisely 'great art' and 'good enough content'. sure, most people never gave a shit about such distinctions in any case. they want their ghibli portraits and they want their custom-designed key rings and custom-printed stanley cups to show off at the office. but nobody is asking why exactly they would want an instantly generated oil painting 'in the style of ...' da vinci or rubens or whatever. there's all this amazement at the capacity to do it without any of the qualitative assessment of the actual fucking point of it all. just more slop for the digital landfill.
i have no stake in this other than thinking it is ugly and banal. sure, there's a day or two of 'meme appeal' when everyone is making funny in-jokes using the new toy. it's amusing. but in the long-term you're just robbing yourself of another nice thing for almost zero meaningful gain.
hope you're okay with there not being any new styles or forms of expression, down the line. because the sort of animation studio that ghibli represents, in its work ethic and overall ethos, is not going to be financially viable in a future where people can create entire animated movies using a text prompt. i don't give a shit about animated movies, so i don't know why you think i'm personally invested in this; i'm just pointing to the obvious consequences of all this glowing enthusiasm.
the 'problem' with generative AI slop is it abolishes the distance between 'good' and 'bad', or more precisely 'great art' and 'good enough content'. sure, most people never gave a shit about such distinctions in any case. they want their ghibli portraits and they want their custom-designed key rings and custom-printed stanley cups to show off at the office. but nobody is asking why exactly they would want an instantly generated oil painting 'in the style of ...' da vinci or rubens or whatever. there's all this amazement at the capacity to do it without any of the qualitative assessment of the actual fucking point of it all. just more slop for the digital landfill.
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i remember that video and the slop being reacted to. the full reaction was brutal:
irt the ai people:
irt the ai people:
the video is particularly brutal when you realise how nonconfrontational and avoidant japanese people are in professional settings. a direct expression of strong feeling like that would have been extremely mortifying.
i also really don't get all the philistine gloating going on about creatives losing their jobs. creatives are good, actually. they spend long decades patiently working on a skillset and then create nice things that make life better. 99.99% of them aren't ever making a cool million out of their passion, either. why do techbros, who get compensated 20x as much as your average creative for posting on slack and uploading piss to github, enjoy shitting on creatives so much? other than the obvious conclusion that they never actually valued their (the creatives) labour or expertise in the first place; just an inconvenient obstacle in 'shipping' or whatever the fuck.
asmongold, a neckbeard streamer who won a small personal lottery in finding a large and monetisable audience for his socially and economically useless existence, was gloating on stream the other day that it's 'game over' for creatives and they should just 'become gardeners' or some shit. this guy plays world of warcraft for 14 hours a day and creates youtube drama videos. this is the sort of human refuse that's glad creatives will lose their jobs. ok. like i said, ugly souls for ugly times. lord knows its *checks notes* animators and oil paint artists who deserve a good kicking.
i also really don't get all the philistine gloating going on about creatives losing their jobs. creatives are good, actually. they spend long decades patiently working on a skillset and then create nice things that make life better. 99.99% of them aren't ever making a cool million out of their passion, either. why do techbros, who get compensated 20x as much as your average creative for posting on slack and uploading piss to github, enjoy shitting on creatives so much? other than the obvious conclusion that they never actually valued their (the creatives) labour or expertise in the first place; just an inconvenient obstacle in 'shipping' or whatever the fuck.
asmongold, a neckbeard streamer who won a small personal lottery in finding a large and monetisable audience for his socially and economically useless existence, was gloating on stream the other day that it's 'game over' for creatives and they should just 'become gardeners' or some shit. this guy plays world of warcraft for 14 hours a day and creates youtube drama videos. this is the sort of human refuse that's glad creatives will lose their jobs. ok. like i said, ugly souls for ugly times. lord knows its *checks notes* animators and oil paint artists who deserve a good kicking.
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they were so buried in their work with the disgusting slime zombie tech demo that apparently none of them stepped back far enough to consider the obvious outcome of presenting something like that to a renowned craftsman.
now we have actual ai made movies on the animation market and they're as bad as you'd expect. stack that on top of dehumanizing ai contributions in production and critically panned 'upscaling.' age of slop.
now we have actual ai made movies on the animation market and they're as bad as you'd expect. stack that on top of dehumanizing ai contributions in production and critically panned 'upscaling.' age of slop.
it's a generational thing. that cohort of japanese were all raised in the 'Namco'-style arcades, blasting baddies on time crisis, or immersed in Capcom zombie franchises at home. the old guys were never going to get it.
a lot of the pro-AI crowd have responded in a willingly obtuse way to the same clip. 'he just didn't like the body horror and grotesque demo'. nah, his point was a much deeper one about the artform and techniques themselves. that is clear to see.
it's not an unrelated detail that part of the 'magic' of japan, to western visitors and eyes anyway, is that it has such an insane focus on artisanship and on quiet, little pleasures. in a very real sense japan said 'enough' to certain types of technological development and trends in, like, the 1990s (yes the financial crash was responsible). but part of its appeal is that it's frozen in time and hasn't been fucking ruined by so much of the mind-melting dreck of the 21st century. it does give you food for thought. a very big personal contrast, for me, with korea, which is hypermodern in every way, and mostly bad ones.
a lot of the pro-AI crowd have responded in a willingly obtuse way to the same clip. 'he just didn't like the body horror and grotesque demo'. nah, his point was a much deeper one about the artform and techniques themselves. that is clear to see.
it's not an unrelated detail that part of the 'magic' of japan, to western visitors and eyes anyway, is that it has such an insane focus on artisanship and on quiet, little pleasures. in a very real sense japan said 'enough' to certain types of technological development and trends in, like, the 1990s (yes the financial crash was responsible). but part of its appeal is that it's frozen in time and hasn't been fucking ruined by so much of the mind-melting dreck of the 21st century. it does give you food for thought. a very big personal contrast, for me, with korea, which is hypermodern in every way, and mostly bad ones.