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VCRClock

Quote from: GreyClock on July 11, 2019, 01:25:19 PM
what in the wide world of fuck is up with books like that? Is anyone familiar? It's like the literary tumor that is Fifty Shades of Grey has metastasised. There's so many of them, with terrible cover art (random pictures of abs mostly) and even worse premises and there's an army of women reading them, according to Goodreads. I saw one lady who read like 300... THIS YEAR ALONE. What's wrong in your life?

Are you just talking the entire "romance novel" genre? Like Harlequin, for example, has been around for ages. Fifty Shades is just kind of singular in that, if I'm not mistaken, it owes its viral success to everybody knowing that it was based on Internet Twilight fanfiction. Twilight itself is, of course, a supernatural romance that was OK to shovel onto teens because Stephenie Meyer is Mormon enough to avoid offending even conservative parents.



You can buy books like this at the grocery store because it's not as if the dude's dong is flopping around on the cover, and I dunno how graphic the sex is, but it's definitely "porn for women," in the sense that it's about self-insert-ready fantasy that strokes the emotional/erogenous zones. Porn intended for men is crass and gross, but male porn obsessives and female fanfiction/romance/erotic fiction obsessives are fundamentally the same breed, even if women-oriented content isn't quite as overtly trashy.

I dunno. I guess dudes just prefer to see "a nice female body being fucked by the Super Hornio Brothers," whereas ladies who don't get off on just the fuckin' prefer a guide to imagining a well-endowed Italian plumber (who's just inexplicably lonesome despite being deeply caring and filthy rich) without having to stare Ron Jeremy in the schnozz.

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on July 12, 2019, 01:12:21 AM
can't wait to see Lilo & Stitch Mulan and Hercules get the same treatment in the 2020s. they're obviously gonna skip home on the range. maybe they'll ruin the rescuers or fantasia after? frozen could be milked further with a live action remake.

yo, fuckin, halle berry as ariel? isn't she, um, old as shit??? #notmyariel *checks notes* oh

would really like to have seen a canonically autistic ariel, but I guess you'll just have to find me on change.org until the little mermaid: tas: tng gets bankrolled

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on July 12, 2019, 01:12:21 AM
apparently the donkey kong roller coaster has some kind of stilt mechanism so it can have real tracks below and fake rickety looking tracks where the rider thinks the wheels are, so it can simulate jumps like the real mine kart levels.

wicked
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

VCRClock

also I may have said this before, but wikipedia says John Musker deserves credit for the idea to put a gospel spin on the Hercules soundtrack and that was an absolute stroke of genius
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

PhantomCatClock

did not read but i looked at all the pictures and that nintendo thing looks p sweet glad we're all talking about fun nintendo things



i can't wait for the switch lite so i can finally play my breath of the wild OUTSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

AbsintheClock

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I also look forward to the switch lite so I can use this as my theme song while I beat your ass in pokemon.

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK

if there's no dunsparce in sword and shield I ain't buying. if he's there I am. I don't even care about all the other nonsense surrounding it and the bethesda-tier bullshit pr statements from game freak dunsparce is literally the only important factor here.

dunsparce = 10 out of 10 n64 trees A++
no-dunsparce = shit out of fuck b@lls F--

also there's a bunch of games coming out later this year I want and a lot of them are sixty dollars so if I'm gonna get one it's probably gonna be links awakening. or death stranding if it turns out good. cyberpunk 2077 and that platinum games switch thing both look good though so idk.

Slurpee

Quote from: RenegadeClock on July 11, 2019, 09:47:13 PM
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I'm bad with faces, does this not quite look like jim carrey, or is it just me?


I think I identify people partially by posture, body language, etc., so this doesn't register as jim to me, but it's also not quite jack nimblesmith, either, it's just like a totally new person who does not exist

it's kind of cool, it's like watching spanish dracula. just this slightly different version of the thing you know

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK

I think it's because jack's skull structure and hair frames jim's face differently. maybe we identify people by the sum of the parts and how they frame each other rather than the individual features? someone can seem like an utterly different person by changing their hair enough. chimps and tell each other apart by sight and humans can't tell the difference. There's probably a whole science to how and why humans recognize each other's faces and I don't know shit about it.

GreyClock

One day we'll be able to just select the actors we want in the movies we watch. I haven't had enough coffee today so I can't really think of any funny examples.

Or maybe you just put yourself in.

Also in porn.

Although I'm not quite sure if that's at all... helpful.

PhantomCatClock

Isn't it Deep Fake? I think only the face was changed, not the forehead or anything

https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1148629603172442112

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK

right now it relies on staying still and looking at the camera but the tech will improve. voice synthesizing software is getting better too but you need big dedicated hardware to copy someone's voice really well at the moment. eventually we'll be in a situation you can make anyone look like they did anything with a good PC and anyone can say something they were filmed doing was a deepfake and didn't happen.
it's gonna be a fun ride.  :zoom:  :bandwagon:

Slurpee

being able to plausibly lie about video evidence won't be useful to me until they can fake somebody's face chugging 8 ejaculating horse cocks

Slurpee

project voco honestly scared me when I first saw the video, but at this point three years on with no further details I'm assuming it was mostly smoke and mirrors, like peter molyneux's boy simulator. what a big load of horseshit "project natal" turned out to be :/

the splitscreen coop obamas bothered me too but looking at it now, and even the shining one, there are clear limits. they're at least still hovering in uncanny valley territory. I wonder if it's going to be like the progression of cgi and humans will just keep getting better at spotting fakeness. I remember when Final Fantasy The Spirits Within came out and everybody was disturbed by how lifelike they were and fucking lol


eh. a sizable chunk of the population doesn't pay attention to facts anyway, even when the truth is plain and unassailable, and we've always muddled through one way or another

I've got to wonder about the people who are developing this tech, though. like what good things do they think will happen, besides the momentary sideshow amusement of replacing all of the avengers with nic cage?

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK

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Quote from: Slurpee on July 14, 2019, 05:15:36 PMI've got to wonder about the people who are developing this tech, though. like what good things do they think will happen

"the good of the scorpion is not the good of the frog yes?"


Slurpee

that's not cool man you know I was raped by scorpions

PhantomCatClock


RenegadeClock

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on July 14, 2019, 01:36:32 PM
I think it's because jack's skull structure and hair frames jim's face differently....

Also, Jim is clean shaven in the source material there, and Jack was scruffy in that part, so the look is a bit off. But if a viewer wasn't familiar with the movie, the actors, and wasn't told is was a deep fake (which would cause them to look for errors) I think it would fool a good portion of people.

Quote from: Slurpee on July 14, 2019, 05:15:36 PM
there are clear limits. they're at least still hovering in uncanny valley territory. I wonder if it's going to be like the progression of cgi and humans will just keep getting better at spotting fakeness.  I remember when Final Fantasy The Spirits Within came out and everybody was disturbed by how lifelike they were and fucking lol
I think Adobe put the brakes on VoCo for now because people were freaked out about it, but I'd bet they're still invested in its development, and as this type of technology becomes more pervasive they'll integrate it into Audition.

The uncanny valley is still there, but the progress they've made since that Final Fantasy movie is really good and machine learning is already being applied in the movies with less dubious intentions. All of these things are the stepping stones into a future of reality being indistinguishable from simulation. We might even live to see it.

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on July 14, 2019, 04:21:50 PM
eventually we'll be in a situation you can make anyone look like they did anything with a good PC and anyone can say something they were filmed doing was a deepfake and didn't happen.
it's gonna be a fun ride.  :zoom:  :bandwagon:
Chaos is a ladder.

RobClock

I hate my fuckin job.

I was thinking about it, this forum is like my security blanket. I’ve been here since I was 12 and without fail every single night I will check it somewhere in the realm of a dozen times. More if work is quiet, more if I happen to be frustrated or in a low mood. Bless you people, the ones who tolerated me in adolescence, and the ones I’ve come to know better into my twenties, and especially VCR the glorious saviour who keeps the rent paid and evicted the aspie. It’s a turbulent point in my life right now and it means the world that I still have this rock here to cling to.


Sorry to interrupt the porn discussion

RenegadeClock


NintendrCkolc

VCR, feel free to put a donate button somewhere for upkeep. Now that I'm rich I can donate to help.

Slurpee

look at how strong Big E is
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