This is kind of at the heart of why so many Americans have been so confused by Colonel Finger Pie’s toilet theme. It makes a lot more sense when you know that his name is famous rhyming slang for ”single ply.”
He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t pretty, guv.
If they wanted to get away with something like this they should have painted the statute brown and raped it.
(And Ramsay is an asshole there too but he’s at least a kind of constructive asshole who is genuinely trying to help people. He comes across as genuinely passionate instead of being performatively mean-spirited to sociopaths chosen on the basis of how easily they can be provoked into overreacting.)
…and by ”reality show editing” I mean the constant sound effects and music stings and reaction shots of people being like ”OH NO HE DIDN’T” and cuts to people being like ”I couldn’t believe he said that!”
The original show has just about none of that. The food’s what really matters.
The US version of the show is such dogshit. The original UK version has Its faults, but it’s genuinely Ramsay going in and trying to figure out what’s wrong and how to help. The US version is full of reality show editing and ”hey, dysfunctional assholes, here’s a brand new kitchen” type of nonsense.
So you're likely correct that it is ultimately not really about them wanting to be particularly "woke" (because if that had been the case, they probably would have accepted the inconvenience), it's just a hassle-free way of getting the work done that also serves another purpose. So a good solution!
Having to track the pronouns across everything is a kind of a pain in the ass, though, and using "they" means you just don't have to deal with it and you don't have to worry about screwing it up or create a system for tracking the character's gender at all, so it is definitely more convenient.
It's not really for budget reasons, it makes no appreciable difference for a game like this. Once you have the actors in the recording booth, whether you have to record alternative versions of a small number of the lines has no impact on the cost.
Welp, I appealed it and they removed the tag, so at least that's something. It's kinda unpleasant to be hit by something like this, though, like there's an irrationally judgmental prude just sifting through everything you post and then you have to go through a weird "no, I didn't post porn" process.
Yeah, I appealed it too.
I assume this was automated, just some brainless algorithm doing its thing.
There is a sexualized larger context, sure. But it is not a sexualized image in a sense that would require an ”adult content” tag by any reasonable standard. It is incredibly tame compared to, I dunno, any number of images from completely mainstream music videos or whatever that carry no age rating.
I don’t know why that image is labeled as ”adult content,” but that’s ridiculous. There is nothing adult about it, it’s literally two women just standing around in 60s bikinis which are in no way revealing, let alone sexualized.
I know complaining about this is pointless but this is just juvenile.
Share someone dressed in white.
That is incredibly cool.
And obviously the point of this is ultimately not "let's create running robots," this is all technology that can be applied to other things. This is just a way to showcase it.
I think what annoys me is the focus on the robot being faster than humans. That's not the impressive bit here.
I'm being a little snide here, because I think the engineering involved is impressive. They had a similar race last year and the robots were over two hours slower than humans. But that wasn't because they were slow, it was because they had technical issues -- many couldn't even finish the course.
Yeah, exactly! It's impressive engineering, no question -- that it can navigate the route and retain its balance and not run out of power or break down and so forth is an achievement. Previous attempts at this have failed.
But once everything works, of course it'll outperform a human.
Is it stunning? I mean, is it really? "A robot can outperform a human in a repetitive task because it doesn't get tired" should not be a shocking concept at this point in human development, we've had like a century to get used to it.
They do that, yeah. Sure. But it’s a weird and frustrating read, because they describe all of this behavior but they do not say the obvious, or really even suggest it: that this is an unstable man not fit for the office. It’s implied, sure, but it allows people to maintain the pretense of normalcy.
"They don't know it" meme that reads "THEY DON'T KNOW, BUT I AM MAKING SUBTLE BUT POINTED ANTI-TRUMP STATEMENT"
"If only they could see what it says on this piece of fabric in my pocket, they'd absolutely shit themselves," Jake Reporterman thought, and smiled a secret smile to himself. It had been a close call... but you underestimated the Fourth Estate at your peril.
Checkmate, fascism.
I was reminded of this trailer from 13 years ago and now I just want to get cozy with Jazz Boatman and see where things take us.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxxn...
Goddammit, you just did real damage to me here, I got stuff to do and this is not helping.
Also thank you, this is why I like you.
Man, those lines. I see something like this, and I get this deep appreciation for the skill and the technique and the vision, it really does something to me. Art's a hell of a thing.
There are strong parallels to NFTs here. We have mostly memory holed them now. We accept that they were bullshit. They solved zero problems, but for a little while there, you HAD TO HAVE THEM.
No product benefited from them... but some opportunists did make a lot of money off those shitty apes.
We're really hitting peak unnecessary AI here. This does nothing at all to facilitate the customer's drink order. No customer needs it, it does not solve a single problem, and it does nothing to benefit Starbucks. All it does is consume resources and add noise and friction.
Lots of people did! Jack Davis did many, although kind of sporadicallt. Wally Wood did a lot of the early ones. Mort Drucker did a ton of them, probably more than anybody else. But Torres was definitely up there too.
Tom Richmond has done a lot of the more recent ones but I haven’t read those.
AI slop. How many labels can be added to an image? And where's the joke?
This should be a no-brainer. For Christ's sake STOP Posting obvious AI-generated political cartoons! Bluesky is awash in this shit these days. There are tons of real live human political cartoonists here, posting terrific work. Repost those.
If you're unclear, here's how to spot AI slop:
I grabbed it and just based on the couple of hours I put in last night, it's pretty damn nifty.