“The whole universe is mostly knackered, babes” – 15th Doctor Who (2023)

Listen. If it’s just a hot woman (or man!) that’s not a hear me out. If no one will call you a “sick fuck” for being into it, it’s not a hear me out.

With that in mind.

No joke, this stag made me gay. They just had to give him Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice too.

Hate is too strong of a word. AI art is sometimes freaky to look at, sometimes it’s pretty. It is usually devoid of a certain intangible thing that you can get from human art, even shitty human art. But it’s occasionally a fun toy too? I can’t conjure up any strong feelings for AI images unto themselves.

I do have intense loathing for the capitalists who want to use that AI art to replace human work. And for the AI “Artists” who are enabling them by acting like this is the next evolution of art and anyone with concerns is just holding back “DA FUTER”.

I also have concerns about the environmental/energy costs of AI – Just in general. Not just AI Images or Chatbots or whatever. AI can be a good thing, a tool to help us. And even when it’s useless, it’s kinda fun to mess about with. But the energy and environmental costs of all that computing, especially the amount of it that is wasted because even if AI ultimately becomes a part of our lives, it is DEFINITELY a wasteful investment bubble right now – THAT sucks. And THAT seems to have no obvious solution.

Socks with sandals

Why not both?

Anyway, I was thinking less ‘european aristocrat’ and more ‘steampunk aesthetics’ when I talked about vests. Dress shirt, tie, vest, and overcoat, all slightly stained with oil from physically impossible doohickeys full of gears. T’is a nice aesthetic.

But you don’t need to be following the news personally.

Many people around you are.

Those people have this perception, and so they act accordingly. You are looking at memes? Well it’s a matter of hours until you see a meme about wanting to die on 196 or whatever. You watching TV Shows? Yeah TV Shows are entirely drunk on the zeitgeist and the zeitgeist is one of despair.

Ergo. You are surrounded by people who think everything is fucked ™ – And therefore you’ll also feel like everything is fucked ™

Both can be true.

F’course, pills won’t fix society, but medics can’t really fix the social systems. Best they’ve got is pills that make you not want to die.

Because you are staring at the pain rectangle and being bombarded with every bad thing that is happening in the entire planet nonstop.

Your ape brain was not meant for this. Imagine if you lived in the 1300s – Plague, famines, wars, pogroms. They had it all. But any one human being would only ever hear about whatever bad things were happening near to them.

Did you have vests though?

Humanity went wrong when we abandoned vests.

In Brazil, the sweet, puffy ones are american pancakes (Panqueca Americana)

Because what we call pancake (unembelished ‘Panqueca’) is much closer to this thin pancake you’re showing off. – Except we make the batter with salt and fill it with savoury things like cheese or meat and roll it up in a… Roll. Closer to a burrito really.

The internet has really fucked my brain, because the first thing that comes up in my head is an old meme of The Orange One (back when he hadn’t been president yet, and so was funny instead of scary) saying “CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA” (sorry)

AFTER that – Disney’s Mulan, and all the orientalist aesthetics that come with it (sorry²)

And AFTER that – Years of internet discourse trying to convince me that a growth in Chinese international power would be worse than the US holding that position alone, which I find EXTREMELY hard to believe as a third world citizen whose home nation has been fucked in the butthole by the Americans like seven different times in lived memory (NOT sorry)

Then AFTER that – The stories told by my one friend who lived there for a few months. To be honest they made China seem like a pretty cool place to live in. Or at the very least, a fun experience as an exchange student.

And AFTER all that – Bootleg video games. They are interesting!

Just one. JUST. ONE.

Communities almost wholly moderated by an automod bot, that is extremely strict about nonsense, and where 99% of posts are strictly forbidden.

“ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE IN THE MEGATHREAD!!!1111111111one” and then you peep the megathread, it’s months-full of unanswered questions because no actual community member READS the fucking megathread, and then the excuse is “BECAUZ WE WANT QUALITY CONTENT!!!” and you check the sub itself and the “quality content” is one post every 3 months by the powermod that has the power to override the bot.

This was the most annoying thing about Reddit and made getting conversations going nearly impossible. PLEASE do not bring that over.

30, 31 in a month.

I’d back it up and lock it at 26.

I don’t think this requires TOO MUCH explanation

Rick & Morty

Anime, just in general

Sonic the Hedgehog

Nintendo games

Years of fandom have made me one jaded mfer.

Wrong game, but I always appreciate SnapCube regardless.

That part I didn’t know but it doesn’t surprise me either.

Still, “Disney wanted to kill off their traditional animation department” might explain why every movie since has been CGI/Live Action. – It does NOT explain why every movie since has been so metalinguistic and self-satirising. THAT can be laid at Dreamworks’ feet entirely, with the influence of Shrek et. al. on the cultural zeitgeist.

's a good movie. Predictable as those disney princess musicals tend to be–

– But still. It’s pretty. It’s entertaining. And the music sequences are awesome.

As an animation nerd I gotta mention Shrek. As a parody of “Disney princess movies” it killed the entire genre dead.

The only time Disney tried to play the tropes somewhat straight again was the Princess and the Frog, and THAT was a major flop (though racism probably also played a part in that).

Since then Disney only made remakes or titles like Frozen that spend 70% of their runtime mugging at themselves and poking fun at their own tropes (… While still circling back to them anyway and failing to make any point or commentary)

On a less “this made a major cultural impact” note and more of a “this personally completely altered my entire sense of humour and replaced the original in my heart” – SnapCube’s Realtime Fandub Games Sonic Adventure 2

Oh oh ohohoh! Just remembered JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Very much a manga that was poking fun at contemporaries like Fist of the North Star… And while it didn’t outlive or outdo them per se, it definitely gained a life of its own, continuing to this day and actually being quite influential in its own right.

World War 3.

But it won’t be a nuclear war that ends the world. (un?)fortunately. – Nuclear war doesn’t benefit the elites – Instead it will be a jillion proxy skirmishes all over the developing world, as countries get puppeteered by Russia/China/USA into fighting their battles, and said countries get ‘support’ in the form of weapons and training that will breed a whole new generation of extremist regimes and terrorists.

In the end, we’ll be back to the same ol’ same ol’ – Life gets shittier for everyone in a gradual, painful, tedious way.

1984 with just a hint of Wall-E.