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He saw a mouse.

couldn't find my giant elephant until I scrolled a few z levels up over the paddock

I just

wanna understand how the fuck this happened

You Can't Comprehend the Algorithm

Me: When you think you have only three brain cells, but in fact it's a level of abstraction far beyond the comprehension of most people. For example, the legendary weapon... A silk sock. @jurian-is-cinnamon-roll: Is this the papal sock used by some priest to exorcise a demon? Me: No, as you can see, it's a minotaur's sock used to fuck up goblins. It's not established whether there was a half-brick inside.

I think we reached a new level of dada by letting all sorts of computer algorithms run rampant on the most basic instructions. And I'm not talking about The Great Automatic Discopolizator, bullshit about gravel, or just feeding any absurd vision into an image generator - it all started long ago in Dwarf Fortress.

We're literally observing the whole "AI" tech glitching out like that game, be it the deadly sock, the even deadlier carp or the absurdly ornate crafted items with engravings upon engravings (not unlike some AI-generated images that try to fit more things than possible, resulting in ridiculous glitchy mess).

So there's a military picnic at the Museum of Polish Army today and there are guns on display. For example, the MSBS in currently issued version, .308 DMR and the bullpup that has no takers as of now.

I gotta tell you, the bullpup handles well. With all the weight concentrated in the back, it feels lighter when you handle it, although the config they had on display had the VFG a bit too far back - you can see I barely got my thumb around it, plus, I'd like to test it with my AFG+thumbstop setup.

So I just got this offer from a Hong Kong airsoft shop:

Lambda B&T GHM-9G GBBR

It runs on TM/WE Glock mags (which I have a couple of, for the pimped out APS NotGlock), it has customization parts like stocks and a longer front available, and it costs $175 before shipping.

There's also a $68 collapsible stock available for it, and a $55 barrel extension. Not to mention, the replica Osprey can I have is a better fit for this one than for the NotGlock.

But then, I'm still thinking about the WE PLR-16, since I already have a WE MSK GBBR and I looked at Omolon Scout Rifles from Destiny again.

Stock associate got distracted

So I was thinking of making a reaction image of an Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marine named Predictabo, for those situations that someone fucked around and found out in a predictable situation. Aaaand then it spiraled out of control.

On the Loyalist side, I added Brother-Captain Obvius. Obviously.

Then, I came up with Thousand Sons member, Jenius. This comes from my response to someone stupid - one of those jeniuses even noticed that I misspelled "genius". Yep, real smrt, that one.

Pidoras of the Emperor's Children is a big crybaby. The similarity of one of the shots to the protagonist of The Good Doctor is entirely unintended, but welcome.

Then, there's Disgustus of the Death Guard, and if he approves of your post, it should worry you. Because you posted something really awful and disgusting.

And finally, there's Fistus of the World Eaters. He's about to deck you.

Seba co sra do chleba. Mieszka w Grajewie i jeździ dwudziestoletnią bejcą przerobioną na gaz.

A shut-down would have limited impact on ByteDance's business while the company would not have to give up its core algorithm, said the sources, who declined to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

I find it very interesting that they don't want anyone snooping through TikTok's code, particularly the most important part of it. It's just as if it was government-created spyware masquerading as a social media app.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25/

*ON TOP of the list.

#ICYMI, ByteDance admitted to fucking with TikTok's algorithms in order to promote World Cup and Taylor Swift. Sure. Just the fucking World Cup. And not, for example, "challenges" to burn your house down with a coin and idiotically unsafe electrical plug/socket interface specific to one particular country or tutorials on how to steal a particular model of a car.

Also, #TIL that Grindr was originally released by a Chinese company. You have a company from an authoritarian homophobic regime release a gay dating app abroad. What might be the purpose and hidden goal here? Hmm. Fucking hmm, lads.

Reasons TikTok is garbage:

Further erodes online boundaries and encourages this culture of demonizing privacy by expecting random people, including kids, to put their faces to everything, ever

Algorithmic feed is great for building cult/alt-right/conspiracy theory pipelines

Heavily favors the conventionally attractive - i.e., white, skinny, young, not visibly disabled, wealthy enough to have a pretty set and wardrobe

Does very little to combat dangerous trends and misinformation (recall the electrocution "challenge" with the penny, or mixing cleaning supplies, as well as the pipelines mentioned above)

Not reasons TikTok is garbage:

Cringy teens doing stupid dances lol

I wandered into a section of AliExpress I've never been to before and... well, fuck.

("Rising Tide" starts playing in the background)

Did I mention that I once bought an aluminium briefcase for shits and giggles, because I intended to use it in the intro for one of my livestreams but couldn't get people to shoot the actual footage? Well, I have a gift for recreating and reworking things, be it machinery, military decorations, post-apocalyptic armor, wargaming miniatures, money, court documents, heavy metal songs, give me enough time and supplies and you're gonna get something interesting. I could stuff those folders with piles of photos, maps, reports, personnel files and so on, designed by hand and optionally polished using AI (for example to get mugshots of people who don't exist, it's less controversial that way).

I think I added more stuff to favorites going through the scrapbooking section of AliExpress than anywhere else, or at least I did so faster. Even after blowing $60 or so on tacky goffick bling and Soviet medal ribbons.

China has banned American apps such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter for over a decade. In just the last week, Apple was ordered to remove WhatsApp and Threads from Chinese user devices.

🤷‍♂️

It's only fair.

Like I told you.

Gala Piosenki Żenującej trwa. Ten pomysł wpadł mi do głowy kiedy jechałem do pracy i akurat na playliście nawinął się "Sword of the Witcher" Vadera. Tradycyjnie, zaczęło się od bardzo catchy refrenu:

Ja jestem lordem I masterem i słordem Jak będziesz podskakiwał To ci obiję mordę!

Tekst oryginału trochę zawiewa obciachem, jak to zwykle gdy Polacy biorą się za pisanie tekstów po angielsku (nigdy nie zapomnę tego wywiadu z Titusem z Acid Drinkers, który opowiadał, że w jakiejś rozmowie wyszło, że ma lekko zjebany łeb, i chciał tak zatytułować album, ale nikt nie wiedział jak po angielsku będzie "Lekko Zjebany Łeb" więc album nazwali "Broken Head"), więc kiedy pierwszych parę razy usłyszałem to "I am the lord and master of the sword", to przerodziło się to w catchphrase który poleciał na moich streamach już niezliczoną ilość razy. Dopisanie równie hardego ciągu dalszego było względnie proste. W ogóle mam wrażenie, że tytuł "The Lord and the Sword" też się przewinął na tej bekowej setliście dwadzieścia lat temu, z wyżej wymienionych powodów.

Niestety nic nie jest idealne, bo Automatyczne Dyskopolizatory lubią regularność i symetrię, a "Sword of the Witcher", no cóż, nie jest. Dlatego trzeba było iść na zgniłe kompromisy, żeby maszyna dała ile może i nic się nie rozjebało w procesie. Ale że to i tak nie sztuka, a hazard, bo nawet z dobrym tekstem trzeba ciągać za wajchę aż całkiem losowo wyjdzie hicior, to efekt powyżej jest chyba dziesiątą z rzędu wersją. Pierwszego naleśnika wolicie nie słyszeć.

Pełny tekst:

Już zapadł zmrok, Krwawy księżyc na niebie, Znów swędzi mnie krok, Zaraz się coś odjebie… Już wycie się niesie, Budzi się we mnie zwierzę, Znów biegam po lesie, Wpierdalam nietoperze! Ja jestem lordem I masterem i słordem Jak będziesz podskakiwał To ci obiję mordę! Nie boję się I tego nic nie zmieni, Magiczny eliksir  chlupocze mi w kieszeni! Bo ja jestem Łiczer, I lubię tanią whisky, A jak z radości kwiczę Gdy widzę gołe cycki! Ja jestem lordem I masterem i słordem Jak będziesz do mnie fikał To ci obiję mordę! Ja jestem lordem Mą ścieżkę znaczą trupy Jak będziesz podskakiwał Nakopię ci do dupy…

I oczywiście link do Dyskopolizatora:

Contrary to what you might think, this is not AI-generated.

Long time ago, I bought myself an East German uniform or three, just for the hell of it, and even wore them to a couple of fetish parties. However, a service uniform just isn't the same without the bling, and since German military decorations, East and otherwise, are a big nope, I dusted off the idea to slap some fictional bling together and it just so happened that a shop on AliExpress had some Russian and US ribbons to go with the assortment of edgy pendants and keychains.

Of course, since I'm completely clucking nuts, I got the idea to mate the ribbon from a Hero of the Soviet Union medal with the BDSM emblem pendant for the funsies. Other medals are a bit more predictable: I found three different Destiny-themed pendants (Raid icon, Iron Banner icon and something that I'm sure is Hunter-related or otherwise from the game) since I used to play the game before Bungle decided to straight up go and rip people off, a pretty big Chaos star that I intend to use as the replacement for a knockoff Rex Mortus pendant that I bought years ago in order to use as a necklet and a Hydra pendant that's going to go with the collar patch on one of the jackets. I also bought a gold-colored Hearthstone keychain despite not playing the game, mostly due to how it's gold, attention-grabbing and inoffensive, a Baphomet pendant to match the Chaos star and the pentagram collar patch and a gold-colored Veles pendant to balance out the metal colors.

MJ家・柴ボーダーシェパ on X: “新しい車にテンション上がる子 https://t.co/8sdYel5Vsx” / X

This is an AI-generated image

This is not a photo. It's not Midjourney output either. Some basement nerd kept cooking and cooking data models for Stable Diffusion until he got to this point. This looks like a hobbyist photographer messing with an entry-level DSLR camera, with mostly correct anatomy and lighting. And what's important, a five year old gaming computer will need just a minute to generate a shot like this.

I could literally take photos like this. Fuck, I did take photos like this. A bit of grit, a bit of fuzz, loose strands of hair sticking out, those pictures are better than perfect - they're believable. Any schmuck can ask for razor-sharp shots of overly photoshopped supermodels with a fuckton of filters on top on Midjourney. Good luck catfishing anyone with those. But this data model, it's so good at being average it's a fucking achievement. You wouldn't look at it twice if I didn't tell you. Those weirdly tall dandelions would go right over your head. You wouldn't even think twice about the nailpolish missing from the thumb but perfect on the index finger. Or that one weird fold on the skirt. AI characters don't have blemished skin after all. Or normal hands.

As a photographer, I'm impressed. As someone who deals with Stable Diffusion, I'm impressed too. And that does mean something.