Hmm, notorious bastard company obviously fires a bunch of employees for wanting to unionise to protect themselves from notorious bastard management, gets backlash, and then says “no, they were actually a bunch of very naughty employees! if you’re not a naughty employee, you’ve got nothing to fear” yeah fuckin right.

I’d ask if they think everyone in the world is stupid but they made billions off of GTA online and this won’t affect their reputation (or bottom line) one iota so… I mean yes, we’re all stupid.

That sounds interesting. Best of luck, I love your work with the paintings btw, watching your journey on the Samuel L Jackson portraits actually inspired me to pick up my drawing tablet again!

if I can chip in some unsolicited opinion here (I know it’s a little rude) – you’ve made really nice expressive sprites with a lot of personality. In my opinion, even if the AI would make it faster to animate, it seems a shame to not use the artistic skill and style you’ve clearly honed to animate what you’ve drawn here.

I’ve done pixel art for browser games before, and I understand that animating is painstaking and can be a total slog. However, I do feel like the choices we make during animation are personal to us, and really make an important impression on players.

Unless you’ve got a tight deadline or something, I think you could make something really cool by hand!

That being said, to be totally honest, I’m biased against Gen AI, especially in artistic pursuits.

It is so weird that you keep declaring everybody who doesn’t agree with you is addicted to smartphones. Your AI spam and your fixation on upvotes/downvotes is annoying.

Other people in these comments have suggested a few existing solutions that may help you, like Newpipe, and you’ve replied telling them to keep doomscrolling.

I understand you’re not a professional coder and that’s fine, as long as you can understand that nobody is going to be impressed with the LLM output you’ve pasted, or with your excuse of “it’s okay for me to use LLMs because AI is already ruining the internet” as if that makes any sense.

You mean you’re not excited for the KPop Demon Hunters Cinematic Universe? I’ve heard they already cast Scarlett Johansson in all three starring roles.

Congratulations on 90 days! Huge achievement, you deserve to feel proud. I’m also going through a bit of a journey with sobriety.

Around the three month mark was a bit of a difficult time for me, too. I’d gotten over the constant temptation, but was still tempted while IN bars. I was isolating socially, and spending more time alone.

Having that time alone, and having some free headspace rather than focusing on not drinking, led me to boredom and restlessness. There was a lot of ruminating on mistakes I’d made, or on things I’d missed out on, or on how I absolutely had to make the most of my free time. Lots of stress!

I picked up some new hobbies. I’ve found it satisfying to start trying things that I was always too self conscious to do before; running, taking photos outside, writing music. I walk a lot now. I listen to podcasts, and I wander around my area. I booked a bunch of little events for Halloween, so for instance today I walked two hours into the center of the city and went to a talk about medieval manuscripts, and then spent another two hours walking back.

I text myself ideas. Ideas for cool little visual designs, or photographs, or songs, or games I’d like to try to develop. Whether I revisit them, hmm… less often, but making the notes is enough for me right now. I think about my finances, and try to figure out where I could be saving money. I think about people I haven’t spoken to for a long time, and wonder about what small changes I can make to my life just to see what happens.

It’s hard to exist without occupying or distracting our minds, because the human mind tends to exist in a slightly negative emotional state when it’s not actively engaged with something (I think it’s called the Neutral Mode Network if you’d like to find out a little more about this). It’s uncomfortable, but sitting with my thoughts in a (hopefully mostly) healthy way was ultimately positive for me.

I’m only a little further into sobriety than you, 198 days, but I can honestly say these past two months have been sincerely transformative for me.

I hope you can find something in my comment, or in other comments, that helps. There is a stopdrinking community here on Lemmy which seems supportive, so that could also be worth checking out. Otherwise – stick to it, you’re doing a great job! Best of luck! 👍

Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can’t keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There’s also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It’s pretty disgusting, but that’s just the modern internet. 🤷‍♂️

Shove your smug little attitude up your arse mate. AI freaks are so weird.

Oh yeah you can hardly go outside with being bombarded by adverts for condoms. It’s everywhere. Being pushed on us by the news all the time, by our bosses in the workplace. Just CONDOMS CONDOMS CONDOMS. The New Google Pixel, now with Condoms! Every advert, even ones not about condoms, have condoms in it. Every company now describes themselves as condom-driven. Absolutely inescapable!

Why do you continue to pay for it?

No, I don’t. I often have to fix the work of my colleague and my boss, who do use it. I often have to gently point out to my boss that just because the chatbot outputs results for things, doesn’t mean those results are accurate or helpful.

Thank you, I appreciate the response 🙏

Cos they’re work, and I’d like to not have to talk to my colleagues as I don’t particularly like them. I do make an effort to enjoy my time with my friends, and I am better at not interrupting them.

It might work but it’s really not a long-term solution. Confrontation is uncomfortable and I know you mentioned he has personality issues but is there somebody who could talk to him? When the guy I work with joined, he would constantly tap his feet and it would shake my desk, and the desks of like four other people around us. Eventually we just asked him to stop – he didn’t even realise it was bothering us because nobody said anything.

Granted, he’s actually friendly, but still… Someone might just have to ask Noiseguy (nicely) if he could maybe be a bit quieter? Or poke your head in and say “you okay? Oh, sorry, I could hear you from across the office.” - just something to maybe remind him like, hey, keep an eye on your volume. This might not get solved by just closing the door!

If you want to avoid confrontation, find a reason to talk to him in his office and then calmly and “accidentally” close the door on the way out. As long as everyone else works with their doors closed, you can laugh it off as a mistake if he even notices.

Some people really are just accidentally obnoxious though, he might genuinely not know he’s being a pain in the arse. We have a similar coworker. Always with these shitty unfunny quips, often plays air horn sound effects interrupting other people’s conversations if they think something positive has happened… Just so much fucking noise from one person.

They’re on holiday this week and I’m over the fucking moon lol

I often find that, when talking to my project manager, I’m wrong when I assume I know where the sentence will end. Even if just a little bit (and even if sometimes it’s because she’s wrong in what she’s saying).

How can I get better at shutting up and listening to people? It’s absolutely fucking mortifying and makes me feel childish when I notice I keep interrupting people and getting it wrong.

Yeah I just thought you lot were talking about Alien 🤷‍♂️

Oh duh, of course it is! I didn’t even notice 😂

Wait, hang on, is the expression not “stepped foot?” What am I missing?

That’s in the sequel tho innit?