Is Sharon Apple somehow involved? Can we get a list of virtual idols with suspicious behavior?

That was me. My mistake.

Dang I wish I knew that at the time. I had to run it many times before I was satisfied that my history was properly edited before deleting everything

I can’t speak to the article that you’ve posted several times due to the paywall, but I can speak to the language and the antagonistic attitude they actually used during the entire debacle. Placing explicit blame on third party apps like Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc.- that was the argument used. It doesn’t matter what the real reason was. They were publicly placing blame on small fish instead of the AI monster that was stealing all of their content and bandwidth

IIRC that was not the case. They very publicly blamed 3rd party apps, which was both disingenuous and not transparent.

Never heard of BBQ/mayo but I’m there.

The embarrassment of getting pummeled to some sort of electric accordion solo really sells it. Is it an accordion? I haven’t listened to it in 20 years

That left-align is just 🤌

Imagine being the first one to use a fresh porta potty. No smell, other than that blue chemical water down at the bottom. It’s so damn clean.

“Great!” you exclaim with excitement. So you sit down on that smooth dry toilet seat and, relaxing, a tremendous donker just falls right out of you.

The mass is too great. The distance. The speed and acceleration. It isn’t even a second of time, but you know. You know.

GaTHUNK

A cold blue kiss races towards the moon. A moon so relaxed the single crater yawns beckoningly wide. The kiss forms into a dull spear, racing towards the darkened maw. It enters beyond the shadow. Fully into the heavenly body. Cold meets heat.

You yelp in shock. There is cold artificially blue water deep in your butthole. The sudden tension passes and as your muscles relax again, some of that cold drains back down to earth. A light shower.

You were looking forward to this festival all year and you spend the entire time distractedly thinking in shame about how something so fortuitous turned to disaster in moments. You didn’t bring a change of underwear. Why would you?

Monkey’s Paw: they push out from under your eyelids

I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin and am utterly moved. She realized an alternate humanity so clearly

Chiming in that editing with proxies, while potentially cumbersome, is pretty standard. Feature films and TV shows are often edited in 720p for that exact reason. ProRes or h.264, depending on your needs and capabilities. Final renders are just a matter of turning the proxies off.

I dabbled in kdenlive for half a day while looking for something my nephew could use for a school project. Didn’t realize the lack of hardware acceleration until this thread. Still, it’s a great piece of software and I’m looking forward to watching it develop further

Really? For me it’s exactly the same as before critroll. “Anyone want to play? Sure I’ll DM. See y’all this weekend!”

I lived overseas when I was a kid and my grandma used to tape Saturday morning cartoons and mail them to me

Yep my buddy at VMware was waiting to get laid off all year. Finally happened two weeks ago

I believe the first time I saw it, it didn’t have the dog, and the setup was racist.

TBH if people aren’t more well adjusted than they were at any point in their past I’d be mildly to greatly disappointed.

My gramps used to think even looking at his cars was asking permission to drive or touch them. “Nein!”

He was gregarious at all other times, but “don’t go in my fucking garage”

My niece had this same issue a few years ago but with Photoshop. It absolutely ruined her. Changed schools multiple times (public and private) but social media exists so all the kids knew. She ended up getting homeschooled for the last 5 years of school as well as a fuckload of therapy. She came out the other side okay but she has massive trust issues and anxiety

I loved it so much I spent literal hours watching other people react to it. Now my feed is permanently riddled with that garbage content format