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I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

[Ponsato] leverages AI tools

"Ponsato gets a computer to imagine what suffering looks like so he doesn't have to lift a finger to create it"

distorted anatomy

probably not intentional given image generation algorithms

introspective compositions

computers can't be introspective and have no concept of art composition

Ponsato’s signature aesthetic is surreal, uncanny, and emotionally raw

Oh, fuck the fuck off. You can't have a "signature aesthetic" if a computer did it for you. It's surreal because it's digital regurgitation, it's uncanny because it's digital regurgitation, it's 'raw' because it's digital regurgitation. It doesn't have any emotion, it doesn't have any SOUL

Does Anyone See My Suffering

wow you really suffered for your art here typing out a few words and then putting it through photoshop. truly poignant title

I'm going to paint something and it's going to be done on CANVAS with REAL OIL PAINTS and it's going to be BAD because that's what art is about, being BAD and still TRYING to CREATE something that speaks from your SOUL

We already have cleaning robots, so any staff successfully using the Aperture Science Patented Comprehensive Womaniser should report to Caroline for immediate reassignment to secretarial work. I don't need another secretary but I'm sure there's an office somewhere we can shove you into. Put those lady-fingers to work.

And all you bozos who worked on the Womaniser are also reassigned – start figuring out how to convert mantis-men back into men.

Or women, I guess.

Mantises optional.

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Swimming. Throw yourself in some water and don't die in it

Martial arts. Throw yourself into combat and don't die in it

I had to carefully explain to him that mango trees typically grow in tropical Asia and if he wanted an African wood, well, as it so happened, wengé grows there.

So DMX growls and barks a lot, where other artists like Cypress Hill are subject to very conspicuous silences in the middle of their tracks. Doja Cat and TLC are silent when they should be saying 'ass' and 'broke ass' respectively, and almost every other artist's asses are also suppressed, but Cypress Hill is allowed "slammin' that ass" for some reason.

They have no issue with the Backstreet Boys asking if they're sexual. Basket Case by Green Day is unedited. I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! is also completely uncensored. Outkast is allowed to sing 'cum'.