Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

then I responded to a reach out asking when I got my degree because they specialize in jobs for recent college graduates with "That's ageism, that's exploitative, and now that you've admitted up front I'm not good enough for you, I have no interest in working for your firm. Thanks" which basically suggests I should call it quits on job hunt stuff and get food.

folks, saying your job's in Seattle then asking me if I can commit to commuting to Tukwila bugs me way more than saying your job's in Tukwila.

so I acquired a flu vaccine and covid booster, but I'm currently uninsured so that was ouchy, and honestly anything resembling motivation to do job hunting has now plunged through the floor.

wait wait wait wait this Tom Waits track is basically that he went to a gorgeous house in SoCal and really liked the acoustics in the lavvy?

"Queers, tell me you've never met a Black or a Jew without saying you've never met a Black or a Jew" challenge

Assuming a situation in which ML is less problematic, I can imagine ML as an useful tool for knocking out 70% of work quickly so an artist can really push on the remaining 30%.

But it's not being sold that way, "AI artists" are sure what ML kicks out is 100% finished. The same way they don't acknowledge what they have is an intermediate step, they are not interested in the obviously unfinished, they want a full color painting NOW. On the personal level, I think the idea that you want THIS tool to do EVERYTHING really feels one-true-way-ish, the adapt or die rhetoric doesn't help here.

This also contrasts a thing you notice about artists, which is wanting to work on stuff just a little more... and a little more. In an age of clearly fantastic digital tools, there are tons of people who WANT to work in traditional media (can't speak for everyone but for me using traditional media winds up being convenient in ways opposite to what we're told!). The love for process reflects into WANTING stuff like that.

This feels like another example of "our thought patterns work completely differently" and it doesn't even have to be a bad thing. I think it's just having differences which always existed between people, more obviously and uncomfortably lampshaded?

*cranks the Van Helsing soundtrack*

BUAHAHA! THREE! Three creppy storylines in the same film!

hot take about stuff I admittedly heard second hand.

A 10K fine (crippling for us hoi polloi, but not for Trump) IS a slap on the wrist, but I feel it's necessary to establish precedent, that any further penalties aren't coming out of nowhere, ESPECIALLY in the face of how Trump spins narratives.

It's been literally over a decade and the nearly-cut-one-loudly-during-meditation STILL makes me laugh. Immediately afterwards I drew up this comic, which is still funny to me.

bleah, sound cut out on me mid-Metallica album and therefore I don't know if this is my laptop getting on in years or YouTube trying to ensure I see their ads.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO APPLY and I'm this close to listing I like things like having a roof over my head, food in my belly, and not freezing during winter months.

METALLICA: Sad But True is about how existing perceptions and biases are comfortingly familiar, but they're a dead end keeping you unhappy

ME: Sad But True is about jumping across the chasm of astral space onto an opposing astral skiff and scything thru the githyanki with a +3 weapon (+5 vs Cold)

the next step in the whole over the top wealthy nerd thing where they have an entire room for D&D and the entire dungeon laid out in Dwarven Forge tiles is to actually hire Metallica to play live during the game

oh that's RIGHT! I'm listening to Metallica, so as is tradition;

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dude. I think Rolladie.net is kinda messed up or something, no way would I ever roll a character with stats this good.

the only reason "Wherever I May Roam" isn't the best song on the black album is there's a werewolf song, and I really wish *that* had been the Metallica that The Hu covered

raising my shoulders, crinkling my nose and sticking my tongue out a little during "Of Wolf and Man"

I FEEL A CHANGE BACK TO A BETTER DAY
HAIR STANDS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK
IN WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD
AND A QUESTION HANGS HEAVY IN THE AIR

Jesse got trapped in a coal mine
never did marry his girl
there ain't no air and there ain't no light
and there ain't no way to make it out alive
his weddin' was planned for the fifth of July
- but Jesse got trapped in a coal mine.

I dunno, maybe tonight would be a good time to have a half edible, and sit around naked listening to All Them Witches and The Sword.

- one of them had a short trip to an Amazon warehouse, one of them my parents were moving and had one of my Dad's old work friends over but she was so loud I didn't want to be around her and I hung out in my room playing a music video about Halloween (started with this cute rolling pumpkin shedding little magic sparkles while rolling around and booping this puppy's nose, and then it went some variety of incredibly dark, and the end of the video was two cute animals nosing each other and rolling around on the floor - this was one of those dreams where I remembered music for a little after I woke up, but I can never remember it long enough to write down). By the time I felt like I could go out to the main area it was mostly vacuumed and everything was boxed up so they could move, and my room was still this disorganized mess I hadn't started on.