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[methylatedspirit]

I'm trying to imagine how you'd do pornographic things with a DVD case or DVD, but knowing Rule 34 artists, the question is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. The home video pressings of Shrek aren't all the same age, though. The earliest 2001 DVD and VHS releases are old enough to be in porn, but even the slightly later 2003 ones are not yet legally eligible for the porn treatment. The August 19, 2003 DVD pressing's the closest, though.

Welp, if I see porn of people fucking Shrek VHSes and DVDs, I'll assume that it was my fault for bringing it up.

[Bumber]

Or someone could databend the movie in a suggestive way.

[methylatedspirit]

I know databending looks like magic, but I swear it's based on the fact that a computer only sees numbers, and all interpretations of such are merely that, interpretations. If you can get the computer to interpret data differently from its intent, there's all manner of fun you could have with that. I prefer working with raw uncompressed data, but there might be a way to corrupt a JPEG but still have it be a valid file, at least in theory.

Now, finding ways to do it such that the end result ends up being suggestive... I don't know.

• Pipe raw video data into uwuify? That yields seizure-inducing results. I should probably upload the results of that one to YT for shits and giggles.

• Paulstretch? Attempts to do it with video data aren't encouraging. Constant vertical desync; 'rolling'. The related version of Paulstretching each frame is also dubious at best. No continuity between frames; causes seizures.

• Paulstretch a frame, then use EbSynth to paint over the Paulstreched image... I haven't tried that one. I'll try it at least once, but no promises.

[methylatedspirit]

The Idea Pool is a bit of a fixture of my mind. It takes in thoughts and breaks them up into their constituent thought fragments. It then whirlpools those fragments around so that they'll eventually stick to each other and produce a viable idea, that I'll then copy onto my to-do list. That, too, gets put into the Idea Pool sometimes.

It's constantly mutating things, and there's no concept of ownership. It's a complete free-for-all in there. It makes it utterly impossible to figure out if I've done an idea before, because each idea likely has tens of unmarked fragments that were used elsewhere, often in related-but-not-identical places. I experience deja vu often for this reason.

[Rolan7]

I got to re-thinking domed cities in sci-fi.  They were always just kinda there, starting (for me) in Sim Earth and Sim City 2000 arcologies, but I never really considered what the dome was for.

A podcast laughing about the inefficiency of individual AC units vs central air made me reconsider.  Clearly, the implication is that you're making an efficient controlled environment within the dome.  The outside environment is no longer considered... ideal, hopefully due to rising standards (or in a lot of stories, because of hostile climate).

That's pretty much it.  I always thought the domed cities were a symbol of utopian technology, and often they were, but it's inherently about separating the city from the world.  Particularly in Sim Earth.  Maybe it confused young-me because late-stage civilizations in that game have overcome scarcity and pollution - they *choose* to leave the planet because they no longer need it.  The planet is likely recovering, probably isn't even in a bad state.

But that's my perspective as someone who dialed down fossil fuels and nuclear power at the slightest hint of trouble.  I didn't have to see many nuclear resource-wars to learn that lesson.  I guess I was a benevolent, or at least sensitive, deity.

[MaxTheFox]

I started using Bay12 from Tor to evade the FSB so if I write something about how we need to storm the Kremlin and kill Putin I won't get hauled off.

[MrRoboto75]

I got to re-thinking domed cities in sci-fi.  They were always just kinda there, starting (for me) in Sim Earth and Sim City 2000 arcologies, but I never really considered what the dome was for.

A podcast laughing about the inefficiency of individual AC units vs central air made me reconsider.  Clearly, the implication is that you're making an efficient controlled environment within the dome.  The outside environment is no longer considered... ideal, hopefully due to rising standards (or in a lot of stories, because of hostile climate).

That's pretty much it.  I always thought the domed cities were a symbol of utopian technology, and often they were, but it's inherently about separating the city from the world.  Particularly in Sim Earth.  Maybe it confused young-me because late-stage civilizations in that game have overcome scarcity and pollution - they *choose* to leave the planet because they no longer need it.  The planet is likely recovering, probably isn't even in a bad state.

But that's my perspective as someone who dialed down fossil fuels and nuclear power at the slightest hint of trouble.  I didn't have to see many nuclear resource-wars to learn that lesson.  I guess I was a benevolent, or at least sensitive, deity.

Somewhere on Youtube was a video essay on the Civ games depiction of climate change.  Some pay a lip-service where it does little harm, while others it's not there or a DLC.  IIRC either Civ 2 or Call To Power had particularly brutal global warming mechanics, where it could easily spiral out of control due to previous warming events firing, and fighting over what's left could totally happen.  And reversing environmental damaging was deliberately costly to encourage players to not bother doing it and just pollute.

I think this was it

[scriver]

I hope so too, I'm supposed to meet my parents+brother&family this weekend to celebrate my mum's birthday.

Still not feeling anything in particular, not even soreness in the arm muscle... Yet.

I made myself think

Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never

So
Even Neven

Yes? No? Yes?

[Kagus]

Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never

So
Even Neven

Yes? No? Yes?

How dare you try to apply logical consistency to the English language.

[methylatedspirit]

To ruin the joke, "even" here is used to signify that the thing after it is the worst possible thing that could've happened. A sentence like that would be "They even had AK-47s!". The AK-47s are there as the worst possible outcome.

However, English is weird, and negating "even" carries with it the implication that the smallest good thing did not happen. A valid sentence would be "I didn't even get any of my money back!", but "They didn't even screw me over in court!" is not usually valid if we're talking about someone who got scammed. That implies that the smallest good thing was being screwed over in court.

[methylatedspirit]

I would love it if messaging apps had a special control character (or character sequence, whatever) that would split a given text message into multiple messages, but all sent at the same time. I want to be able to switch trains of thought rapidly, but without the fear that I'm going to get overwritten by someone in the process of writing the second thought. I think I look a bit odd talking about A, then switching to B next sentence. I don't want paragraphs, I want split messages. Split messages are the equivalent of paragraphs in real-time messaging.

God, I'm one of the youngest people on here, yet I have the internet sensibilities of a 40-year-old. I operate best in non-realtime environments. In fact, the further from real-time, the better!

[KittyTac]

I got to re-thinking domed cities in sci-fi.  They were always just kinda there, starting (for me) in Sim Earth and Sim City 2000 arcologies, but I never really considered what the dome was for.

A podcast laughing about the inefficiency of individual AC units vs central air made me reconsider.  Clearly, the implication is that you're making an efficient controlled environment within the dome.  The outside environment is no longer considered... ideal, hopefully due to rising standards (or in a lot of stories, because of hostile climate).

That's pretty much it.  I always thought the domed cities were a symbol of utopian technology, and often they were, but it's inherently about separating the city from the world.  Particularly in Sim Earth.  Maybe it confused young-me because late-stage civilizations in that game have overcome scarcity and pollution - they *choose* to leave the planet because they no longer need it.  The planet is likely recovering, probably isn't even in a bad state.

But that's my perspective as someone who dialed down fossil fuels and nuclear power at the slightest hint of trouble.  I didn't have to see many nuclear resource-wars to learn that lesson.  I guess I was a benevolent, or at least sensitive, deity.

Somewhere on Youtube was a video essay on the Civ games depiction of climate change.  Some pay a lip-service where it does little harm, while others it's not there or a DLC.  IIRC either Civ 2 or Call To Power had particularly brutal global warming mechanics, where it could easily spiral out of control due to previous warming events firing, and fighting over what's left could totally happen.  And reversing environmental damaging was deliberately costly to encourage players to not bother doing it and just pollute.

I think this was it

It was actually a strategy to deliberately cause global warming so you can make your cities rely on oceans (which you planned by only building coastal ones) so all enemy inland cities starve.

[dragdeler]

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[methylatedspirit]

The Sanity Checker in my head is basically just a black box I trained to tell me if my thoughts are sane. It gets full access to my thoughts (which sounds dangerous as hell), and it tells me if what I'm thinking is not-sane. It either throws errors or exceptions in response to not-sane thoughts, killing processes or giving offending processes a scolding respectively. It only works well above 80% brain speed, but usually sanity improves as brain speed decreases. Usually. I fear edge cases.

Somehow, I think this setup sounds like a recipe for disaster. Just a co-processor running underneath the main CPU, spying on all its activity, telling it what it can and can't do. I make sure to be as aware of its shenanigans as possible (and vice versa), but still.

[McTraveller]

I'm pretty sure the human brain is comprised solely of co-processors, no "main CPU" at all.  Generally it's just a question of which  co-processors have priority access to I/O.