cook out

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kids play in the grass while an adult watches from afar, seated next to a bright bush of flowers. the air is light and crisp with rows of proud trees standing high into the sky // The King of Fighters 99 for Neo Geo AES, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #snk

i love her

turing probably had exactly this in his head at one point

"the model processes a video feed of your computer screen" is so sad man. that is a profane way for software to work

it’s sort of easy to convince people to see it by telling them there’s fun puppet characters though

one of those ones where you get a weird look when you tell people who haven’t seen it that it’s genuinely great

startup ctos mandating use of ai:

this is cute but i really think you should all be getting a mathematician in the room before you start saying stuff like this

ok so my ex yc vp is vv go go on ai rn bc he is in an sv vc gc or we -- my em is in on it w/ ai as an os to do ui qa in ci -- so tl dr ig im tl of ai ui qa ?? rn ai ui qa v1 is cc in an hv vm on my pc on gh pr xd

(as a donkey walks by)

ah the noble donkey!

(donkey moves out of earshot)

foolish beast

as a canadian this feels somehow humiliating to me personally

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a digital kiosk at the entrance of a parking garage with a dispensed ticket. The screen display reads: PLEASE TAKE TICKET BELOW. Panel 2: a T-Rex is sticking its little arm out the window of its partially opened car door, trying to reach the ticket.

“a small piece of already-scrutinized code” doesn’t seem like the kind of thing particularly at risk from this (but i’m talking out of my ass)

a little wizard with his pointy blue / yellow starred hat, drooping over his face, holding a wand with his feet, white beard. to his left is an orange/red flower with an eye in the middle. prompt option button: begone

adobe photoshop 4.0, prompt, macintosh (1997) archive.org/details/MacA...

you might have sold me

I can already tell that "mailing lists were large group emails in old typewriter font" is a phrase that will live rent free in my mind forever

can you bring an orc to the bank

✨ Thinking...
Yes, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙘 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙠. There is no policy barring orcs from entering banks.

Potential problems
• Orc behaving contemptuously (Some orcs revile humans and may bring a hostile disposition to the bank, which will likely not be tolerated)

Pokemon rumble spheal in an elevator with the text "KEEP SCROLLING I WANT TO GO UP"

vividly remember having 8 year olds on either side of me and being 15 minutes into that thing thinking "now hang on a second. this is a movie for babies." embarrassing moment but they won't get me again

only saw the first mario movie but that didn't really have a story either

“my grandma’s at home watching jerry springer” is the only survivor moment i have any memory of

so so on most of it but this paragraph in particular is…

Feeling old yet? The Nintendo 3DS turns 20 this year! From high flying adventures in New Super Mario Bros. 2, to games that broke records like Cubic Ninja, we hope you've all enjoyed the past two decades, and look forward to titles from it's library coming to the Nintendo Switch Family of Systems.

Feeling old yet? The Nintendo 3DS turns 20 this year!
From high flying adventures in New Super Mario Bros. 2, to games that broke records like Cubic Ninja, we hope you've all enjoyed the past two decades, and look forward to titles from it's library coming to the Nintendo Switch Family of Systems.

If you're having a rough day, I offer you this image of Pikachu that appears when you use a Game Boy Printer to print off your certificate for "catching 'em all" in Pokémon Yellow.

HE believes in you.

lol i think that rando was lee carter of all people

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if you really hate someone, teach them to recognize LLM-generated text

girl at the club asked me if this was a hate symbol