who the fuck do you think you are

also

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 06, 2026, 07:13:20 AMis it the mandela effect that he was played by astarion

lol

and

Quote from: VCRClock on September 06, 2026, 11:50:57 AMthe picture I quoted is pretty cool, you can kind of see in the furry part of his arms that there's this texture that looks like a field of dots/brushstrokes. the dots don't look attached to the arm, but you're always looking at the arm through the dots. hair is kind of like that but it's just usually attached to people

but yeah the other textures do look more like 'painting' than like necessarily low-res realism. naturally the shading is still 3d computed because that's how it's done and that's what we expect, but I bet it would be brazy if shading could also be applied less literally

whoa
I feel like this is liable to send me down a rabbithole but because of adhd it would only last until the first time somebody interrupts me or I fall asleep and that won't be sufficient time to get any kind of grip on it so I might as well not follow that rabbit

the internet's ok sometimes

I saw some fanart of Boc the Seamster and I thought "that's not what Boc looks like"



then I thought, "wait... IS that what Boc looks like? "
and I looked up some more
and people always draw him... weirdly weirdly. like weird in a weird way. it's never weird in the same way twice




and I realized I don't know what Boc looks like, and that this extends to when I am currently looking at him



seriously, what does he look like?
is his face white? dark with a light snout? dark with a pink snout? does he have a short protruding snout like lucario, or it is long and downward sloping like a opossum? does his nose have a little black puppy tip or no? are his eyes black? yellow? how wide is his mouth, is it a weird little tiny mouth or is it wide like a dog's? does he have a mass of disfiguring lumpy scars on the side of his face or doesn't he? does he have needle teeth, or rodent teeth? IS HE WEARING PANTS? why do I feel like I can't give a definite yes or no answer to "is this character wearing pants"?!

then I realized, pretty much every screenshot and video of Elden Ring has this quality
they somehow made an entire open world 3D video game impressionistic. Elden Ring always looks like a suggestion of itself. I hadn't thought much about its art direction, but that's actually an insane accomplishment. how do you make a 3D model that doesn't look like a specific shape?

why does the internet archive suck now
it's throwing me a 429 "too many requests" error for visiting the front page and pasting a single url into the wayback machine once
this is like the fifth time this has happened

nintendo stole my idea to make pokemon

I understand how siphons work now

nothing else to report. I don't know what I was confused about tbh

youtube added a little button to the mobile site that I didn't know what it did. it turns out it summons the a.i. butler to answer questions about the video? for some reason?
against my better judgement, I succumbed to curiosity and fed the machine
(a story in three parts)

part 1:

part 2:

part 3:


✅ the a.i. SUCCESSFULLY vaguely described the contents of the video
✅ the a.i. SUCCESSFULLY identified the phrase "it's gonna be great" being spoken repeatedly
❌ the a.i. FAILED in identifying the phrase "that's great" being spoken
❌ the a.i. FAILED in identifying the phrase "that's gonna be great" being spoken repeatedly
❌ the a.i. FAILED in identifying George Lucas and Steven Spielberg without assistance
❌ the a.i. FAILED in identifying George Lucas and Steven Spielberg with assistance
❌ the a.i. FAILED in recognizing that the source of this semi-obscure meme clip was a popular youtube video with millions of views that received press coverage and film festival screenings
✅ the a.i. SUCCESSFULLY intuited that "Res Letter Media" was probably a typo for "Red Letter Media"
❌ the a.i. FAILED in responding affirmatively when presented with incontrovertible evidence in the form of a link and a timestamp indicating a popular youtube video with millions of views where the clip was famously used and asked if the clip appeared in that youtube video
✅ the a.i. SUCCESSFULLY said "you're welcome" when thanked

conclusion: this a.i. is currently on track to fulfill the very real and not stupid and made up at all function of watching 3 second youtube videos and describing them somehow both vaguely and incorrectly

he's not a serious person

make it stop ;(

how is one of the printer colors magenta when magenta doesn't really exist?
like what is magenta ink? a bunch of very very tiny red and blue inks mixed together?
what does a bird see when it looks at a printed magenta square

I hope there's a heaven

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on August 19, 2026, 04:00:34 PMsome unrelated thought points

• "games going digital-only will make the prices go down"
• "GTA 6, a digital-only game, deserves to cost $80"
• You cannot buy a computer of San Andreas today that doesn't have the AI upscaling that fucks up all of the visual gags
• Sony has proven, recently, that you have no rights to your digital purchases (deleting licenses from peoples libraries without warning)
• My nose started bleeding again on Sunday

it hurts

5

I coulda done better yesterday. that was a big clock day, big 25, and I didn't bring my best self. I'll do better for clock day 2051

5'd

holy mackerel

5 for blood

5

happy clock day
I will log into newgrounds today, on my honor

also

Quote from: Slurpee on August 14, 2026, 09:23:56 PMloki liesmith

I love this and want to read a wikipedia article about it. what the hell is it called?

I know it's a real thing, my friend told me there was a viking called "ölvir baby lover" because he refused to throw babies in the air and catch them on his sword, and there was a mafia guy called "good bats" because he was beating a guy with a baseball bat and the boss chuckled and said "I like this guy, he's got good bats" and the other mob guys were like "'eyyyy, good bats!"

the internet keeps telling me it's "kenning" but then wikipedia says that's a thing in norse and old english poetry where they like refer to a boat as "oar-steer" or, presumably, a feather as a bird leaf. my point is it's not the same. I want to know what it's called when Thor does it to his friends. "haha, very well, Volstagg Fullplate!" he might joke, and it feels like a weirdly timeless and mythical tradition probably in part because this is probably where a lot of surnames originally came from. so you'd think it would have a name and a wikipedia page where I could read about it! 

the internet also tells me the Romans had something called Agnomens but if you look that up it's just dry recounting of its legal status in Rome and my brain turns off before I can even get to the three kinds of Roman citizenry names it tells me to compare it to. I bet you fell asleep just reading that sentence. 👎 I'm sorry but the roman empire sucks
and of course there's epithet but that also has too broad of a meaning. and nickname.
I want a word that means specifically this thing and I don't think it exists and I'm mad about it.