there are two reasons for that!

older older movies often didn’t have much sound design, you heard what the people on set heard and maybe one sound effect or two if they wanted a gunshot without shooting guns on set

most movies today are sound mixed for cinema, which almost always has a very expensive set up of speakers with one (or two) central speakers reserved specifically for dialogue. noticed how when you’re at the cinema you don’t need subtitles as often even though you’re crunching through popcorn? but the problem arises when the producers decide they can’t be bothered to hire the sound guy to make a separate sound mix for streaming or DVD and just mince the 7.1 speaker mix through your stereo headphones, squishing all the dialogue together with everything else without a care for the physical differences in playback

haven’t read that Narnia book yet

cages are expensive and bards are artists (read: broke) the bard absolutely likes it in there

yeah but there’s also a higher than average chance that the bard is into it so, might backfire

dw it made me exhale air a bit harder :)

i did not :3 i tried being funny too T–T

toilet floors are usually unpissed on over where i live (unless it’s a petrol station, but those don’t count!)

i used to do that with my diet meth (medikinet), i ate the pill and 30min later it was sleepy time

i can assure you i’m not 20cm tall to be jumping in a toilet, i am merely european

never said it was easy hah, i wish the meds worked so i could get some help in that regard, but here i am, trying my best anyway

i was on medikinet for a while, at first it made me sleepy, then it made me relaxed, and then it made me anxious, so i stopped

whenever i take brain-chemistry meds for longer than a week or two my brain defaults to having them give me anxiety which is whack (this happens with meds for anxiety as well, thanks brain! you gelatinous wanker). after multiple trials of various meds i’ve mostly given up on trying more, but hey at least cardio works as intended!

i’m still bitter about one thing - all those people who kept saying “just eat healthy and exercise and you’ll feel better :)))” were correct 💀 at least in my case

i always stop before puffing and grunting exactly because of that T–T and i try to jump as quietly as possible

ironically, stimulants make me sleepy, depressants also make me sleepy

there are only two ways i can wake up:

• psychedelics, not exactly helpful if the thing i need to wake up for requires me to have an attention span longer than 5s

• cardio, so when others are drinking coffee, i’m doing jumping jacks in the toilet

distraction is also time travel. i fell down the rabit hole of extinct species youtube videos yesterday and suddenly 3pm turned to 1am after like, 3 videos top, and they all were 20min long i think

yeah that makes sense, my grandma only ever uses the good china for christmas and that’s it. the only reason she’d whip it out twice in a year would indeed be if the pope came to visit her

psychadelics are only one type of drugs, besides, you can achieve psychadelic effects through meditation alone

it doesn’t know what ir was doing, it just writes something vaguely plausible

am i AI?

i experience an emotional reaction when i step in shit too

the only pause it gives me is when i notice nonsensical details blending into each other, the only emotion it moves in me is then disgust and foolishness as i just spent time on slop that was not an expression of something, but an intentionless imitation of one. and it sure as hell doesn’t make me self reflect as it manages to be both shallow and hollow

it’s not AI “art” itself that sparked a conversation, no singular piece stands out as something people talk about (a piece that is more than just a more seamless version of the pervious attempts, something memorable even after it stops being the best at imitation). The talk is not about AI “art” itself it’s about the idea of it. Nobody points to a single thing AI made and claims that is proof it’s not art, because it’s not individual pieces that “make us think” – it’s the concept of an intentionless thing being fed human art and then making misshapen copies of it at the whims of people who can’t be bothered to engage with art at all.

sure it does make you thing, but only if you - knowingly or not - treat the entire emergence of AI slop as a kind of performance art itself, any individual piece of slop is not the topic here

never mind a canvas, if the guy cared in the slightest about the “art” AI made he’d at least print it on poster paper

this experiment shows how even the “artists” just do not care about those images, and why would they? why would any of us care?

this shows exactly the core of the issue - every piece of art made by a human, no matter how good or bad (whatever that means), is a reflection of the artist. Sometimes they pour their entire soul into a piece, sometimes just a small part of them, but it’s always a reflection of them. So the artist will care about what they’ve made because it’s their own self, in a way. And others will care about it too, because we crave to get to know others, understand them, see the world how they see it - and art allows us to glimpse just that.

AI slop elicits none of those emotions, there is no artist to care about, no reflection of the self, no worldview to glimpse, no way of caring about it, nothing – even if it was you who wrote the prompt, you just can’t bring yourself to give a shit

wow, it seems like it’s printed on printer quality paper. really amplifies how those who use AI for “art” don’t give a flying fuck about art