Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 25, 2025, 02:35:20 PMwho would win in a fight between :V and 二人

one against two ain't fair

where the hell did pirates get their cannons from?

yarr matey I be clearly not a sailor for the royal navy. give me 5 of yer finest huge ship-murderin' guns

then the cannon salesman's like hell yeah brother. im allowed to do this for some reason

oh they were probably on the ships already before they became pirates

if you shrunk a ferrero rocher down to the size of a golf ball, it'd be completely smooth

j'veux ton amour, et j'veux ta revanche
j'veux ton amour, I don't wanna be france

I was wondering what happened to conceptart.org and I found a reddit thread from like 10 years ago and it basically went out like a clock crew site lol r.i.p.



but I'm posting this because man it's heartbreaking seeing all the comments, not just in this case, but that whole fucking era, of people saying, like, the community is no longer there, but move to facebook/tumblr/twitter, it's great there
god if we only had known
I want to reach back through time like no babies don't go ;_;

these gay little drama fiefdoms that the internet used to be divided into had their problems but fucking hell the way we willingly surrendered the concept of community to massive web 2.0 sites is such a fucking tragedy when you look back at it.
well, when I look back at it, anyway

you know what it was? it's because web 2.0 sites felt like a utility. it felt like a neutral platform. I remember in the early days of twitter, there was this big mystery surrounding how the hell they could possibly even make money lol. the reality that these corporations were profiting from subtly directing our attention and manipulating our dopamine responses without a care in the world for the consequences and the havoc it would wreak wouldn't become clear until later.
and then I would say it became very fucking clear but everybody just stayed on the bad internet anyway. the old ways have been forgotten. I might as well be calling for a return to preindustrial agricultural societies

bad news: the red baron has been arrested for alleged connections to dogfighting

wæll

we're losing recipes, and there are a lot of internet users these days who don't remember a time when a solution to an incredibly specific problem they'd have would possibly be on a website other than Reddit or StackOverflow

per my previous post, doing-it-yourself on the internet requires some level of technical skill (can you believe we had pineappleclock????) and yeah, it's the difference between a 70s hippie commune (that dissolves when the guy with plans and money splits), and a cheap apartment in a building that various landlords will be trying to milk for profit for the next 50 years. in one of those situations you're not responsible for repairs and don't have to figure out how to work with Libertarian Phil

the real crime of moving communities to Facebook and such is that all of the information that's supposed to be on the superhighway is now behind Facebook's hedge. maybe this is where Google search results really started to suck.

I read this interview with the current head of Bluesky and it's cool that they've worked in crypto but seem to have realized that a more decentralized social media doesn't need to be some kind of crypto incentived blockchain thing:

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/

of course all this means is that we're in that period where Company is still cool and not evil because there aren't too many users to milk yet, but it's nice to know that somebody's still in that stage

I myself have not leapt to Bluesky because I depend on a section of Instagram populated by old people. maybe that's why we were so willing to move the playing field to Facebook

sigh

i just ordered a pill on ebay that you take once and never have to wash your hands again was only $800

I think if a guy secretly pointed a gun at my back in public and tried to direct me somewhere like in Enemy of the State I'd just scream and run. what's he gonna do, shoot me? if that was an option it was on the table before he said anything and clearly there's a reason he didn't just do it. as far as I'm concerned the only risk would be him getting annoyed and killing me just for being annoying and let's face it I'd have it coming

everybody has a plan until they have a disintegrator pistol at their back

I don't think Duck Dodgers really had a plan to begin with

god dammit fuck you reddit i'm not clicking the rEdDiT LoGo i'm clicking that subreddit's logo, stop taking me to the main site front page YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR TWENTY YEARS AND EACH CLICK IS ANOTHER CENTURY IN HELL FOR YOUR MASTERS

president harriest truman

in ms. jackson, big boi songs "you and your girl ain't speaking anymore 'cause my dick all in her mouth"

what did he mean by this?

a clue could be in the word "all"

at first glance, an unnecessary flourish of language, poetry even. to the trained ear, however, it holds the key

[sighs for five minutes]

I dunno, fellas, whattaya think?


(color study)

throw some adjectives at me, what's the mood here?


a friend described what feeling it evoked for him and it was exactly what I was going for but he's a social liar and I suspect he sensed how I meant for it to feel

I'm gonna keep playing with it. maybe I need to study some compositions that I think work, try to figure out what they did. maybe learn a little formal color theory instead of just going by vibes for my entire life

Iconic comes to mind, first of all. Transformative, ambitious, witty, self-aware.

The experience is deepened, not marred, by a few spicier descriptors: gauche, violent, transgressive, and perhaps even appropriative?

It's a marriage of "high" and "low" art, which elevates the latter and washes away pretension from the former. Whether by accident or intention, it's a perfect bridge between aesthetic sensibilities.

It's "of a time," but what isn't? I think it will still have charm and beauty on offer to any future witnesses willing to unearth this piece of artistic history.

But, I should answer the most fundamental, simple question about the piece: "Is it funny?"


Well, it's not, y'know, "ha-ha" funny. Did I laugh? Yes, but I can't say that it was in direct response to the artist's entreatment. My laughter stemmed from my own perverse enjoyment of the grotesque. I responded not to the joke itself, but instead to the contemplation of the strange and probably unconscious sensibilities of the the creator. I won't spell those out - they're presumptive, of course, not anything I'd sincerely ascribe to an artist; just the output of my own continually-running engine of self-amusement.

Honestly, I think I'm just too old to answer the question - I don't think the humor is *for* me. And I refuse to put myself in the headspace of a younger viewer - I think that would be futile, if not downright illegal.

Well, even if I can't directly connect with the humor, I would think well of anyone who did. I'm irony-poisoned as much as anyone who has an attitude of disdain toward the internet content they nonetheless incessantly consume. This artistic work has a purity to it, even in its gleeful upending of classical aesthetic principle. It's innocently irreverent.

Is it a personal favorite? No. But I've been happy to spend time with it, and I feel it merits artistic contemplation.

So whether or not you've seen it, I'd recommend checking out "The Rabbit of Seville."









You know, rewatching it, the hair tonic scene isn't really notable, but when I was a kid, the imagery of Elmer's bald head getting squished by Bugs was profoundly hypnotic. If I had to guess by memory alone, I'd have supposed it was at least half a minute of intense tonic rubbing.

Why did that rendering of deformed flesh hit me so hard? These things are supposed to turn into kinks in mature, healthy adults, but I still only feel mute fascination. Elmer is so *squishy*.