Ep 420: Four Twenty | CheapShow Weed. Marijuana. Bud. Grass. Ganja. Nug. Reefer. Mary Jane. Blunt. Dank. Hashish. Doobie. Pot… Whatever you call it, we’re talking about it this week, candidly and stupidly!

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#weed #marijuana

[screenshot of Heatfreeze Island from Mario & Luigi: Brothership with penguins visible in the distance and the caption "extremely small and distant penguin"] [close-up views of the penguin in question] Source: DogToon64, models.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/marioluigibrothership/asset/525909

Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains an extremely cute model of a decorative baby penguin that appears only outside the playable area and is never seen up close. Below is a detailed view of the model to appreciate the penguin.

Tomodachi life real

I can't even tell you how long it's been since I watched DOGMA. Maybe since I was a teenager? That was certainly when it was most prevalent in my life.

I've been putting off this revisit for a very long time. GenreVision was the right way to do it.

In Super Mario Galaxy, waking Mario up from a short nap and not moving will make him look sleepy. Waking up from a long nap will make him look even sleepier. Remarkably, this appears to be entirely unintentional and merely an extremely appropriate bug in the blinking engine.

illustration of a white haired girl with red eyes as a mermaid, her tail is yellow. she's inspecting a shell

oops forgot about posting to socials again. here's a friend as a mermaid from a little while ago :)

I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost

Two crows are flying in front of a gray-blue sky. One says to the other "Do you think we're best friends in other universes too?" The second panel splits into a three by three grid of different reactions of "Um"s and "Well"s from the second crow, in a multiverse sort of way. The third panel is further split again by three, so there are nine by nine squares of the same two crows flying together, the only distinction between the squares is a different sky colour. In the fourth panel, the square are again divided by three so there are now 27 by 27 filling the panel. We can see now that there is a greater pattern emerging from the colours of each square, a pixelated form is starting to emerge. In the fifth panel, the many many squares of different universes is reminiscent of a painting using pointillism, which each dot of colour represent one of many thousands of realities. We can see now very clearly that the pixelated forms are the two crows, flying in front of a gray-blue sky. We return to the visual resolution as we saw in the first panel, as if no time has passed at all. The second crow responds "It doesn't seem likely".

Improbably Compatible #oldknees

"Do you remember what you were like when you were younger?" asks one crow to another as they are landing on wet snow. "Bitey" replies the second crow. "Right... but do you remember what it was like to BE you?" "What did you think about? Have you changed fundamentally? How can you really know?" The first crow is pondering. The background is a pattern of blue circles. "I guess I don't bite as much as I used to" answers the second crow. "You bite enough" says the first.

Bitey

Pencil drawing of two crows in a tree with heavy snow fall. One crow is pulling a PRIVATE PROPERTY sign off of the tree. The crows are now on the snowy ground. One says "Hold on tight!" the other replies "To what?" looking down at the sign it is standing on. The first crow pushed the second and it slides down a hill screaming AAAAAHHHH. Perspective from between the legs of the crow going down the hill. Snow streams by as it continues to scream AAAAAAHHHHHHHH. The first crow watches from the top of the hill as the second screams "I'll never forgive youuuuuuu". The second crow's scream continues "uuuuu–oh I've stopped. That was thrilling!" It is covered in snow, face is plastered with the stuff. In the distance at the top of the hill, the first crow is crying "my turn! my turn!"

Hold On Tight

Two chickadees sit on a branch, one says: "Whoa! Look!" indicating a light in the sky over the horizon. The other one says: "Pretty!" The first one says "Do you think that's Venus or just a bright star?". The second one looks nervous, stumbling "Oh... uh... yeah it's probably Bemus"

Venus

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Like I said…

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”.

This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

Bowser's new trick.

I kinda miss Oekaki Boards... I mean... technically there isn't anything different from what we can do NOW, it's just... something hits different.
I guess it's the feeling of being part of a small community of fans and just sharing random doodles and seeing who has the patience to perfect it.

TikTokers are “speedrunning” Scientology buildings in Los Angeles to see how far they can get before being thrown out

"OUT OF THIS DIMENSION"

In 1985, Wendy Carlos spoke about the reaction to her transition: "The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent ... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life."

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

And if you fancy it, why not listen to when we went for a walkabout to a load of the London locations of SotD!
Something to do, isn't it?
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AI - for when you absolutely, positively can't be fucked to respect art and the people who learnt a skill.
AI is the living definition of "Everyone is 12"

an orange and white cat is laying down and is adorable. very furry.

Sandal also thinks your coworker and/or partner and/or family member was wrong when they did that thing you didn't like and he wants to hear all about it

A digital dick-sucking machine that tells you your farts smell like roses and deserve to be played over an 80s anime cityscape end credits scene

Notice that the biggest problem here isn't just that ChatGPT can't identify a fart sound or is bad at understanding musicality, it's that it's designed to unironically feed you constant praise and stroke your ego every step of the way instead of offering any critique or useful commentary whatsoever

Absolutely fucking lost it at "there's a nice bedroom/DIY texture"