I am Zach, AKA AceFuzzLord, AKA Dizzy Devil Ducky!
Absolutely. I didn't realize they did more of a story arc until I ended up seeing clips on yt. I definitely remember some of the lore episodes but I definitely wasn't smart enough to piece together any lore. I might have to suffer through the occasional "lol random" episodes just to see the lore through.
Cartoons went from the majority of them having a unique enough art style to distinguish them from one another. If you take a silhouette of heads/faces from cartoon characters in the 90s and 2000s ( don't have experience with prior decades besides the standard MGM cartoons, Jetsons/Flintstones, or things like Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry ) you'd be able to tell the characters apart, even if you don't even know who they are. Try doing that with most all 2010s and upwards new cartoon characters and you'll get the exact same ugly, generic, and sanitized bean shaped head/face/smile imaginable.
There have definitely been some examples that might deviate a little from that mold, like Summer Camp Island, but those are far and few between anymore.
Also, for the most part, I would consider the overall quality as having been declining as well. I haven't seen a lot of shows, so my experience should be taken with a huge lump of salt, but besides shows like Steven Universe, Summer Camp Island, etcetera, the storytelling hasn't been as tight ( all of this in my opinion ), they're banking on you not actually paying attention to the show itself so they can cheap out on every single step, art style is being sanitized and overly simplified to cut costs, and jokes are all devolving into "LOL RANDOM", but that might have been a 2010s thing and I hope it's dead.
It also doesn't help that fans and fandom culture over time have become worse as well as you'll usually find a vocal minority who will kick and scream while doxxing you because you ship the wrong 2 fictional characters together or don't believe their exact highly specific headcannon, regardless of whether you are the creator or nor. Though, I'm debating of getting rid of this section because it might bleed too much into social media.
My first attempt at rotating an apple in my head after reading this had the apple moving in 4 steps to do a full circle. Now the apple is spinning at a high speed after some more thinking.
The only reason I had my bluray player connected to the internet was because the yahoo who dropped it off at the thrift store didn't bother signing out of their pandora account, so I could listen to ad free music. Otherwise I would never connect to the internet since all the old applications ( including a blockbuster app of all things ) probably wouldn't even work.
Knowing this could happen, I will definitely be sure to completely disconnect from the internet the next time I turn that thing on since last time I tried using pandora it wasn't working.
I feel called out. Should definitely make an alias or two that auto CDs me the amount of times I need...
During that event we didn't have any knife sharpeners, so I was stuck with however sharp that knife was. So in the end, nothing I could have done would have made that much of a difference. Also, the important part is that it was some absolutely amazing sushi.
I mean, if we filled their site with the most obviously fake, bad AI slop imaginable to the point the AI ends up becoming useless, that would also work. But it's probably better and definitely easier to just do what you said
Can confirm that rolling sushi is harder than it looks. Did a full role once during an event at college with some actual Japanese college students studying where I live and it didn't turn out the greatest. Especially when it came to cutting it into pieces.
I've only soft quit, but don't check, because I can almost guarantee there's gonna be some yahoo where Iive that's gonna need me to have an account in the future for when I end up in the job hunting rat race. That would be my luck. That, or they refuse to communicate on anything other than email or fb messenger.
I don't get angry about a post using AI images, but it definitely tells me what "artist" to avoid if it's on an art community and helps tell me who couldn't even bother looking up images online or cannot be bothered to do even poorly drawn images for memes.
Yeah, but I thinks it's funnier to think he's fat enough to destroy a normal bike. I don't doubt his eating habits are way less than ideal.
Imagine making fun of someone for riding a bike when you're so fat that bikes would explode if you so much as touch them. Also, I'd be shocked if that cheeto even knew how to ride a bike.
Ever since I first heard it a few months ago, it has never left my mind for even a second.
Free by Crush 40
Sadly this great song was tied to a spin-off series killing game.
Cringey Memories From The Past
You mean the things that randomly pop up in my head and make me wanna bash my head into the pavement repeatedly until there's no way for me to remember them? Surely I can't be the only one who feels that way when they pop up.
The only time I have ever heard the word copacetic and only reason I know it exists is because of a song that probably only dinosaurs and hipsters listen to anymore: Bound For The Floor.
Other than that, I've never heard it used in any context. So I'mma agree that it's definitely an old person word ( or a pretentious "I'm BeTtEr ThAn YoU" kinda word ).
They may be dead, but we still have some amazing alternative OS's that exist that, as far as I'm aware, are still being updated. First thing that came to my mind was AROS ( Amiga Research Operating System that had to change the name to AROS Research Operating System ).
I personally don't use it since I don't use Amiga software, but it's still really cool. Under no circumstances would I recommend it as a daily driver because any software based around Amiga is purely hobby at this point, but it's still cool to check out.
I hold more against AI than not.
- Take out all the copyrighted material all the big models illegally trained off of and their AK collapses. Their scrapers are also doing everything they can to kill small websites through DDOS by scraping everything they can as many times as possible and you know this is a feature and not a bug because it gets rid of any form of competition by default.
- It's an attack on education and critical thinking. Why would the average Joe put in the effort to research and learn something properly lr even question the results if they believe an AI would never lie or be wrong? Critical thinking is already a skill on the decline, but I firmly believe AI is expediting this for a lot of people who either don't know better or just don't care.
- From a coding perspective, if your software relies on AI generated code, I've heard more stories of that same software being full of vulnerabilities caused by said AI code than not. I also hold a view that if you have to use AI to understand what a program does rather than using something like a textbook written by an actual dedicated expert in a programming language or consult someone who is better than you in said programming language, you are gonna learn the absolute worst practices, like leaving a default Django password that the AI generates.
- I view AI as extremely unprofessional. If you have to rely on AI to help your work that isn't AI related, I'll take that as you don't actually know what you're doing and am just phoning it in. It also shows how lazy and unable to think for yourself you are. I'd gladly admit I'm dumb as a bag of rocks considering I have used it to fix software errors on my Linux running laptop, so I'm not exception to my own rule. Forums and help groups for software troubles exist for a reason.
- With the amount of energy they require ( using non-renewables ), any action you do to try and stop global warming is offset within a couple nanoseconds ( hyperbole, maybe, but it's definitely been a big issue ). I'm absolutely positive they don't use renewable, at least for the big US data centers, because that would require building new infrastructure that they're not willing to shill out a penny for. Most likely the same for just about every other country with large AI data centers out there.
- Looping back to point 1, with them scraping everything to death, they are able to essentially embolden the deranged "artists gatekeeping art!" sickos who believe that artists are somehow gatekeeping art from everyone because they have spent time practicing and getting better. I can pretty much guarantee these deranged sickos want art for free and without having to put in any effort at all because they all don't value art or artists at all. After all, why would they support the arts when they could instead generate AI Jesus for Fakebook and get a shit ton of validation for their "art" from people without having to put in any effort?
- AI writing is just derivative of the training data it's based on. As of now, because of the way it's trained, you can tell certain models apart from how the text is generated. "Brow furled"? Immediately, if I see that, my mind immediately goes to text generated by Anthropic's Claude AI. Also, the writing, from my experience, tends to be too well written for the average Joe. It's also as generic and logical as I usually tend to write and have been trying to shake off. That's subjective, though, on how generic and logical it reads.
As much as I hate Firefox having AI, they really don't have a choice. If the majority of people are already using it and don't give a rats ass, they're absolutely gonna switch to the AI integrated browsers ( chrome, edge, probably safari if they already have AI in it or are working on it, etcetera ).
Firefox is inbetween a rock and a hard place right now. They either not add AI integration and attract less users or they do and risk alienating their current small userbase and becoming irrelevant enough to become unusable because big tech 100% enforces a new web standard that non-AI Firefox cannot handle.
For now, I'm siding with Mozilla on this because I can almost 100% guarantee if Firefox falls, the free web will die in less than a year. No more Librewolf, Firedragon ( floorp w/ Librewolf settings/patches IIRC ), etcetera, because if we're being honest, what open source company/rando volunteer has the time, drive, and money to keep the Gecko rendering engine alive? And that's just a start to keeping Firefox alive.
I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.
Don't 100% sure whether it is or not. Also, I couldn't tell you anything about it since I haven't watched it as someone who doesn't play League.