In other words, OP’s mom.

My circle is 94.6% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/

I stopped watching Mr. Robot in like season 2 for this reason. Loved the concept, but sheesh. I know it’s not a book, but I just can’t take it.

I think context gives away the intent of the message. My previous 20-year-old car cost $6,000 in repairs and the check engine light was still on. My 2022 car just works.

Every used car I’ve ever owned cost thousands in repairs that were unexpected. Head gaskets, alternators, O2 sensors, intake manifolds, ignition coils, brake calipers, radiators, every fucking time. It’s cheaper to just get a five year loan on a 2 year old car around $20k than to fuck with anything used.

I thought I was immune until I got sucked into some game where you battle with teams of players you collect and fight other players. There was some element of sending your titans to mine resources as well, but I forget the name of the game, but spent over $500 in it.

I literally uninstall any game that has gems, emeralds, coins that can be bought to speed things up.

I’m sad that I can’t get a shitty hangover burger from them anymore, but fuck em. McDonald’s endorsing Trump and pretending they didn’t is S-tier cowardice.

I stopped playing way back during the Urza block. You needed a $500 deck to be competitive in 1999. I can’t imagine what it costs these days.

Sweet! Sub par soft-serve for everyone!

LMAO, I got super into Evony. Even coded a bot myself to run my rogue base 24/7 so my guild could attack it for massive loot. I totally got suckered by their ad. That was like 2008/2009.

I’m responsible for four of those… Three nieces and my wife.

Bro, that stupid game with the guys that shoot barrels to get more fighters/better weapons looked fun. The actual game is a shitty base builder with timed progression, of course you can pay to get past the time locks. Fuck that company and every “influencer” that takes their dirty money.

Get me that sub ms latency!! But I’ll take larger bandwidth too.

What about the fine tuning stuff? There’s definitely a skill to getting the right coloring, framing, blending by using filters, in-painting, and layers. Getting good at using a control net with the right engine takes time and effort.

If you’re honest about playing with generative AI, you can appreciate that it might take talent. But fuck copyright and fuck perpetual property. It’s our art now!

I think you, like most people, think you can get the same AI image by typing the same thing. But when you’re really trying to create something, knowing how to use layers, in-painting, Photoshop, and tweaking prompt strengths along with switching engines, takes legitimate skill to create a good AI assisted image.

But because I hate the idea of copyright and art hording, I appreciate that none of it is copyrightable.

https://lite.koboldai.net/ offers a lot of different models that are volunteer hosted to give people ideas of what you can run locally as well.

And because it’s Canada, they’ll get six months in jail and be back at it.

If we’re nitpicking, I always thought broccoli was spelt wrong.