Really? Maybe I haven’t seen him in enough, but I’ve never known him to have that sinese/paxton sexy-weasel quality.

So obviously Bryce Dallas Howard directs the movie about this. Who stars? Whose the modern Tom Hanks, Bill Hader?

I, was that a teardrop in your eye?

I never thought I’d see you cry

Just know whatever hurts, it’s all mine

It’s okay to cry (it’s okay to cry)

Sophie post-humous album will drop and the worldwide people’s revolution begins bookmark this

For the most part they know and don’t care, as long as they can’t enjoy it on a purely aesthetic level. For instance starship troopers. They know it’s a satire, but just say “this but unironically”. But there’s a tipping point. If nazis are being depicted as pants-shitting losers there’s nothing for them to admire on an aesthetic level.

Devil Scat

It’s not corporate Memphis, it’s just vector art. But yes.

I’d like 2013 to end, but I’ll take 2016z

The most alarming thing would be self-harm stuff. The most interesting thing was working on a painting. When I got to the edge of the canvas, I started incorporating objects from around my room to extend the design. By the time I started coming down from the shrooms, the floor was wall to wall covered with objects arranged in an elaborate swirling pattern emanating out from a painting of a woman screaming with rage. After that I was able to accept my father’s death.

I would not be surprised if the Brockton area of Toronto is swarming with comrades. There was a huge poster for the communist party of Canada up at bloor/dufferin last summer that lasted like two weeks before it was defaced.

AlsoI wonder how many hexbears I’ve walked past without knowing it.

If it makes you feel better, I’ll get to work from home again.

Early 2000s alt metal and nu metal was infinitely cornier than the late 2000s emo and metalcore that succeeded it.

Allow me to answer both questions with: “a hole’s a hole”

Disney or whoever is really leaving money in the table not coming up with their own Harry Potter ripoff IP. Just steal the vibes and aesthetic really and you’re golden.

Neil Gaiman’s short story Change is a good one about that

This is great. Subplot about her realizing that her Tuxedo Mask figure was a fucking sleaze.

This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical “auto-doc” device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

“Text goes in images come out” is the central conceit of the entire technology, what the hell are you talking about. The entire thing is meant to be super easy. I have used it, it does not require any special expertise.

I understand it and while it’s true, it’s also a deflection. Unless you’re an accelerationist.

Again, another thing that sounds good unless you know what you’re talking about. I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing. Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd. If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

Yes people famously get into art because they want to get rich.

The rise of CG did eliminate jobs in the SFX area. Make up, costumes, set dec, stop motion animation, animatronics, etc. But whereas someone in animatronics can retrain to use CG, there’s nowhere for an artist being replaced by a neural learning program to go. The program produces a finished end product. There is no pipeline for it to fit into. I feel like pro A.I. people are deliberately obtuse about this.