#HandJack

[adultswim2021]

Moral Orel #31: “Numb” | October 10, 2008 - 12:15AM | S03E02

Moral Orel is back with it’s billed-on-screen final season. The killer what took it was network head Mike Lazzo not liking the darker direction the show was taking. Adult Swim shortened the season’s episode order from I think 20 to 13. Lazzo’s main gripe seemed to be that season three set out to further strip Orel of his innocence, a trait that made Lazzo love Orel. It also drove most of the comedy for the show. At least Dino got to use the season to end the show, I guess. 

This episode is a fucking masterpiece. It’s basically an Ingmar Bergman film about a woman (Bloberta) fucking various powertools to feel anything while trapped by her loveless marriage. The episode starts off with cinematic opening credits set to “No Children” by the Mountain Goats. I would be lying if I told you I knew of the Mountain Goats before this episode. But man, do they have some incredible songs. This is one of them. Clay and Bloberta are lying in their separate beds (divided by a pious barrier wall), not interacting with each other whatsoever. Clay gets up and takes Orel on the hunting trip they go on during season two’s two-part finale “Nature”. This episode is about what Bloberta does while they are out of the house. 

There are moments of meaningful continuity, like the fact that it takes place during Orel and Clay’s hunting trip as depicted in “Nature” parts one and two. There is also a scene where Bloberta is lovingly gazing at a secret photo album she owns that posteritizes her and Coach Stopframe’s extramarital affair. A series of photos spells out the plain fact that Shapey is Stopframe’s son. It also makes Bloberta realize that she somehow got her kid switched with the family from “The Lord’s Prayer”, a fact that went unnoticed by all but Orel since season two. In this episode, Bloberta gets her kid back, but winds up also keeping Block. 

Bloberta’s current pussy-pounding tools aren’t cutting it, so she winds up buying a handjack, which is basically just a slightly more wieldy jackhammer (The animation with Bloberta being led around by it after powering it on for the first time is so good. Episode shoulda won a freaking BEST PICTURE Oscar). She winds up having a fucked up relationship with her doctor, who gets off on asessing the aftermath of her destructive onanism. Doctor Potterswheel simply prescribes her pain pills, and sends her on her way. This resolves tragically when she finds a way to heal herself and he rejects her because of it. Doubly-tragic: he receives a phone call that her son has been shot by her husband while on their hunting trip. There’s a fairly clever moment where she’s staring at a poster in the doctor’s office, advocating for feeding your family fatty foods. This offers insight to the end of season two, where we see Bloberta feeding Orel a plate of bacon and eggs.

We also see Block at the end of Nature (part two), who runs out of the room. In this episode we see where he went: to sit on the staircase, dangerously playing with Bloberta’s hymen hammer, as seen by Clay while stumbling drunkenly upstairs to overhear the conversation Bloberta and Orel have about him in Orel’s Bedroom. Bloberta begins sobbing after leaving Orel’s room, but composes herself when she realizes Clay is there. She coldly turns from him and goes to their bedroom. He follows, and we return to a reprise of the overhead shot in the opening, with Clay and Bloberta just laying in their separate beds, almost as if they’re laying in separate coffins, waiting to die. A reprise of “No Children” kicks back in, and it’s just fucking brutal, man. I still remember the impact this episode had in 2008 when I saw it for the first time. This might actually be my favorite episode of the entire series. I am pretty sure it is?

Dino did one of AdultSwim.com’s Interactive Video Commentaries for this episode. That, unlike most of those things, actually exists thanks to the Australian DVD for Moral Orel, which got it’s entire series released over there. We only got 15 of the 43 episodes released in North America. It existed before that, because I actually downloaded the interview snippets from the website and cut it together. Dino did this with two other episodes this season, and I believe they were all preserved by the Australian release using a similar method from my own shoddy approximation. I even found a link to watch the thing, if you want. 

EPHEMERA CORNER:

44 Nights of Orel 

This season had a pretty interesting release schedule, thanks to the 44 night event aptly titled “44 Nights of Orel”. This is actually where I saw a lot of the episodes of Moral Orel for the first time, because my season two viewing was spotty at best. This was an interesting idea where Dino aired the entire series in a scrambled order so that the new episodes being shown would be preceded by ones that had the most bearing on their plots or somehow informed the new episode. Each episode was introduced by Dino and sometimes a special guest (like Scott, for example).  

“Numb” was preceded by “The Lord’s Prayer” for the origin of the “Block” and “Shapey” mix-up, and “Nature” (part one) and (part two).

[fishboneart]

Fishbone #003

does stylejacking real? and does it matter?

38 layers, 37 source images. This Creature sees without recognising, reads without understanding. It likely wouldn't be able to see this image properly because of all the transparencies I used, it would read a lot of artifacts that are not readily apparent to the human eye. One asshole abusing transparencies isn't actually enough to fuck up a model and individualist action won't change anything, I just think it's a neat concept for this piece to incorporate. I also squeezed in a few comments about how it doesn't know what things are so it bleeds them together.

I put all the little pictures on the screens but I'm not going to make a big fuss about it.

It turns out the reasons I'm not scared of machine learning jacking my style need multiple posts and this one relates the most to the art I just posted so it's going first.

The thing about style is, you know the thing that you hate about your art--not the technical stuff, the thing that makes it look like it was made by you no matter how good it is? That's your style, dummy. You don't need to protect it, you just need to stop trying to overcome it.

"Manga" and "photorealism" and whatever else people call styles around here are eminently replicable, millions of people replicate them every day. They're "styles" but they're not your style. They're more like genres.

It feels important to note at the top that I absolutely understand that people who make their living in highly replicable styles (genres) are scared and angry about the economic threat ML poses them, and they have every right to be. I'm with them, the parasitic owning class will take any opportunity to fuck a worker and artists are workers. None of what I'm about to say solves artist precarity, and it's not a dismissal of it. It's an important issue and I will come back to it another day.

But for now I want to talk about the more ephemeral and personal artistic notion of style. Some people call it hand, rather than style. Maybe we should use that more.

However, I'm still going to say stylejacking because handjacking sounds like something very different.

So this is not about robots stealing your job (or beating your meat), this is about robots stealing your mojo, and why I think it's the wrong thing to be scared of.

If you take the average of a million manga girls, you theoretically get an ideal manga girl. And again, if you've worked hard to be a manga artist it sucks a lot that any jackoff with enough GPU power can make a hundred ideal manga girls now, I'm not saying don't be upset.

I'm saying the aspects of your art that can be easily replicated have already been replicated in large enough volume to generate that ideal average. Any jackoff with enough discipline can do it.

Yet there are relatively few human jackoffs who can mimic individual artists' hands convincingly enough to actually make a trade of counterfeiting, and even fewer who can mimic multiple artists to that level, so it's never really been this kind of huge existential threat before. Well it turns out, based on my observations in the wild, machine learning doesn't seem to be all that great at it either. I'm starting to suspect it's overhyped, like everything else about machine learning.

If you go on ai art sharing sites and search for Junji Ito, you will find Ideal Manga Girl But Black & White, you will find Photorealism With Spirals And Goo, and you will find very little that even passingly looks like an effort to emulate Juni Ito's mixed lines, unsettling compositions, uncanny faces, or impeccably fucked up vibes.

Essentially when you tell a machine learning model to produce an image of a manga girl in the style of Junji Ito, the model identifies what traits [manga girl] refers to, and what traits [Junji Ito] applies to, and cooks them together. The underlying architecture of the image is effectively a manga girl averaged from thousands, maybe millions of different images, with averaged composition and averaged line weights and averaged features and averaged vibes. Applying traits of a few hundred Junji Ito images to it (black & white, dense hatching, severe shading, spirals) doesn't result in a Junji Ito girl.

You can add weight to push more of the Junji Ito traits into the output, but even then you don't get something that looks convincingly like Junji Ito drew it, not even when you recreate famous Junji Ito panels.

Talking about this in terms of averages is actually also incorrect and misleading but in spite of that I think (hope) this is a better description than "collage machine" or "smooshing images together."

I know that right now this technology is the worst it will ever be, but I genuinely think this limitation might be intrinsic to how it functions. Machine learning models don't have the capacity to understand what they "see" so the best interpretation of any artist's hand they can ever return is cliches.

I'm not saying stylejacking isn't possible at all, fuck if I know, I saw some pretty good Beksiński-style pieces a while back. But that's the thing, when you look at them you don't go hey cool pic, you go oh yeah that's pretty good Beksiński style. Because Beksiński is so fucking Beksiński.

Even after all the tweaking and weighting you can do, once you've finally output a competent mimicry of Beksiński or Junji Ito or Mike Mignola or HR Giger, then what? That's all you've done. People will look at it and think of that artist. You haven't replaced them, you've advertised them.

The novelty of "What if Junji Ito drew Will Smith eating spaghetti" has a limited shelf life and no major commercial value. It certainly doesn't help advance the argument that machine learning is a legitimate art tool (not touching that, maybe another post another day). I think it will largely die off in a few horrible horrible years, assuming climate change doesn't wreck us first.

[mtnkat3]

7.04pm. I'm here my loves..... Just having issues with my blood sugar levels dropping yo-yo precipitously lately. [54] just trying to even it out with soup rather than sugar dump. One of my hurdles. Aggravating & frustrating.

Especially when I am thinking about that my spirit is rip roaring ready to go! Dang body is like a sluggish mulish tortoise. 🙄 Time to get the powerlifter mentality back in control. Gen X girl. Grinning.

Huh. I am a powerlifter type at heart. I mean when at was working at that store moving around those milk pallets with manual handjacks they were 5,000#. And I wasn't too much... slimmer. I just don't "show" muscle. Not unless I am maybe at the gym really working on it constantly for hours? I certainly wasn't doing that at the store! Lmao! Hhmm.. but usps... I lost 30# in 5mths. Interesting.🤔🤷‍♀️anyways.

Blushing beet red bowing my head chewing my lips.

Just...wondering body type, or is it a combination of so many things it'd cross my eyes right now. Blushing crooked grin.

I am always Yours.....

~Tijgeress kat Phoenix. 🌺✝️☸⚓⛓🔗🙏🤲👣🐾🦉🐯🐢🐛🐐🌱🌟🗝🔱⚜💝🐻🦌🐺🧩♠️♾🧭🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯

7.27pm.

[natp20]

i will never be able to erase ‘a vigorous handjacking’ from my memory

[xo-boudless]

Dec 18 2022 (1)

(Skit) 1. Is it real or synthetic? What does synthetic mean? 2. Lincoln Heritage They are supposed to call you, you aren't supposed to be cold calling. Cold calling doesn't exist. Once you become part of the platform they are supposed to call you asking you for life insurance. These jobs are supposed to work for you not against you. --So, some of these jobs don't exist? That lady sitting across from you that's making 100 thousand a year at Lincoln heritage is using powers. She's not real. --What do you mean powers? When you sit in front of her you start thinking about how it happened. You start thinking that she had sex with someone. Or that they gave her all of the leads. When really you should be wondering why everyone that works in that office isn't making 100 thousand a year. Why does only one person receive it? That's the age old question. Why isn't money being dispersed evenly? Why is only one person making all of the money and they're doing the same thing that you are doing? So, I'm done asking about why and I'm looking for a solution. For example did you know that a life insurance agent is there to figure out a math problem? A life insurance agents job is to figure out a math equation for the customer If I had a car right now, I'd reapply to Lincoln heritage just to get the script and figure out the math equation. --Like grab a dry erase board and break it down for us? I think that's possible. I've learned that people don't like to share. They wouldn't give me the packet even if I begged at this point. It's one of the main reasons why I don't have a car. --What do you mean? I don't have a car because I lock up a lot. I stop asking for help. And then I end up driving without insurance. The way I get in trouble is a simple and logical explanation. I lose things and situations because I try to do them myself. I become the lawyer, judge, officer, and I don't ask for help. This doesn't just happen to me, it's a common occurrence. It's how people go homeless. If you're asking for an explanation as to why people go homeless, it's because they start to rely on themselves. Like for example, I think I'm being messed with. I haven't gotten my license in the mail yet and that would stop me from being able to purchase a car. I have a job that pays enough to get a car with the first paycheck. This job requires a car. Or I can pretend that I'm in New York and buy myself a handjack to carry the boxes of mail to the post office. 3. So the main point is to do things independently? Exactly. I was walking the other day and i saw the post office guy putting the letters in the mailboxes of my neighbors. And i thought that, that was one of the reasons why we aren't able to afford cars. We have one guy delivering all of our mail, when we should be responsible for going to the post office and picking it up ourselves. If each person picked up their own mail, now the focus would be on figuring out how to have each person have their own car. 4. Well we are running into a problem with this current job. The problem is that i need to rely heavily on my family to carry it out. I don't have my own car right now. If peoples lives were more tailored to them this would work out much better. For example. I'm an individual that loses their car constanlty. This wouldn't be a problem if i had the money to pay for another one. People try to help. Remember we're telepathic. So why offer a job that requires me to deliver packages rather than something i can be doing from home. This is why I love writing. It really gets me going and i start to plan out my whole day. I wrote all of this at 4 AM. 5. So, you lose cars? I have multiple friends that don't have a car. There's May, she doesn't have a license. There's Randi my ex girlfriend. She has a a license but after she totaled her first car she never got one again. She started to say that it was because she was scared of cars. Her family is poor but they can afford to buy her a new car if she asked for it. But she's tried with no luck. --Basically for some of you, a car is a waiting game? Exactly. Everybody is different, but don't be so surprised about the stories you hear regarding these machines. People will come up with the most ridiculous excuses as to why they don't have one. But what it comes down to is money. We started off talking about Lincoln Heritage. Where do you get these ideas from? Where do you get the inspiration to write about these things? With this one, i woke up from a dream and i just had the answer. There's a reason why money doesn't flow the way that it should.There's a reason why there's only one person in the room making 100 thousand a year and everyone else is struggling. Money covers up accidents and it covers up a persons habits. A habit can range from smoking, to buying cars. Each person is given a certain amount of money. They don't work for money, they are given it. Working fourty hours a week isn't working for money. --What do you mean exactly? It has to do with the fact that some people are unable to do it. Those jobs are mechanics basically. You go to your mechanic each day and you get fixed up. But these people have been going to bogus mechanics. They aren't getting the work done. They're getting fake parts. And when they go back to what they really do, they do a terrible job at it. What is a persons job? To live freely. Whenever they are off their job, depending on how happy they are depends on how good they fix the problems that they enjoy solving. What problems are those? Mental illness is one problem. It isn'ta doctors responsibility to solve mental illness. Mental illness stems from the lack of resources. For example. A person that is diagnosed with schizophrenia has a problem with losing their car. See how there is a clear and logical explanation to work with? But these doctors and psychiatrists give people another problem to work with. I see, so Instead of the logical explanation that this person loses cars. They throw in that this person hears voices, and that they can't sleep. The voices that person hears is them being yelled at by people for losing their car. Becasue if they simply just asked for help they wouldn't have lost it. Remember that they prevent criminals. Criminals aren't a bad thing, they are good people. So a criminal would drive without insurance. The police prevents criminals. So, to prevent that person to drive without insurance they would take the car away. But how they take the car away is magical. So that's why you sell your car. The police are trying to prevent you from doing a crime. They prevent us from doing a crime because the consequences are too great. But really the consequences aren't that bad. You'd get a ticket. You'd go to court. Your license would be suspended, and you'd have to pay surcharges. If you have a good enough excuse you might be let off with something that's easier to deal with. But you just got into an altercation with someone. That's the only reason why you're in court. See the point of the whole situation is that you need to fight with everything you have. But some people, like me, lose the fight. --But if you lose someone made you lose didn't they? You can fight. You can drive without insurance for some time. You can drive without having your registration card. You can drive without your license. Because those things do happen. The officer can only set you back so much and that's what they're trying to prove. That as long as you fight, and you need to fight, you'll always win. A job that you can do will always find you. If you get in trouble with the police a lot and you lose items a lot, then you should be fast enough to keep going without those items. 6. By learning about this cold calling thing. How does that help you in the job world? Well, you shouldn't be doing those types of jobs. You shouldn't be taking tests to do them. Like there's this advertisement going around for real estate. The guy gives you access to this software, and you call leads. Knowing that they should call you, you should now know not to pick up the phone and call random people. But the problem is that people do call. People that need a job that's simple and gives them just enough to live by so they can do what they need to do. Those are the robots in society. The ones that can work the same job for years and be comfortable enough to do it. The ones that can't do that regimen end up in jail. People are good at making fake look real. When they get those fake parts that keep them out of jail they're happy because anything is better than jail. But all those parts do is pass on jail to someone else.

[mrs-bimbo]

This goes for retail too. The amount of times i've had parents get upset bc i had to ask their kids to stop pushing the button for the conveyor belt for another customer is laughable. I've had to tell kids to stop playing with the cord that closes my register bc they fucking end up wrapping it arpund their necks. I've even had to call a parent over to get their 9 y/o to stop playing with the scanner and phone of an unused register.

Children can and will hurt themselves running around handjacks wit full pallets 8 ft high, they will bump into the display of glass candles, and they most definitely will bump into a person trying to sweep a mess.

Fucking discipline your child or i'll do it for you.

[mtnkat3]

Well... decided to do a little experiment.

As I am working on organizing & culling out the mess. I have a LAR Grisly .50 cal breach loaded, without the silencer. [It's safe.] sittin behind my couch in front of my grandma's singer 100+yo sewing machine.

Grinning. I use to have very nice decorating thank you very much! 😉😋🤪🥴🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

anyways.. decided to see if I could still do bicep curls with it. Both arms. Yep. Sure can! Lmao!

Now wh said it's about 42-50# like that. [I need to check web on that.]

But I wanted to see if I still could!

Oh. & no. I do not swing weight. That's a cheat, to me. Using centrifical force to go thru the entire range of motion is not being in control of the weight, it's using the weights momentum to do all the work for you. It's a cheat. Think I'm just old school on that. And because I have to be very careful I exercise slowly with weights. I really need to get back into one of the Anytime Fitness locations near me. Usually takes me time to go thru all the machines but I always went when nobody else was there, & cleaned after myself! Geeish!

Now when I was at the store, I was starting to get a wee bit ripped in my biceps. But even though I walked 5,000-13,000 steps a day while working there it was a grocery store floor & not a constant movement. Yes my coworkers called me wonder woman because I was the one helping the delivery drivers move around & place on rail trolley style carts the alcohol that I'd be stocking. Oh, & no that store did NOT use powered anything. The handjacks were manual. I was using my body's force to move 4, 5,000# pallets of milk with dairy products to stock on top. Usually stacked as high as it'd go. The whse was bad about that. couldn't get it thru the swinging doors to the customer floor!

Now USPS, that was high production. I lost 30# in 5 months. First time I was on my way back to my ideal weight! Only good thing about it!

It was filthy, 24/7/365. I was there.. Thanksgiving, Christmas, & valentines. And taxes. Ugh. But what I've learned is all that dust from cardboard & such packaging was horrible for my lungs. So. I can't get the exercise with work things really anymore. I have to do so separately. Sucks. But is what it is!

Anyways.. I still am strong, even though I'm chubby. I've always been strong. So now get back to the gym & work on my core & back. And I pray too my shoulders, to at least have some range of motion restored. [I miss swimming!] And stop feeling like an old lady! Geeish! So not me! I rather enjoy being the one that helps! I did learn my lesson about moving bags of soil though.🙄🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ [4-100# bags] just.. a woman used to doing things myself.

Well.. back to it. As get in more supplies I am able to get things in storage bins & organized. [Keep/store/give to charity/sell/trash/burn.] This goes for clothes to dishes. Magazines to mattresses. [I could have a bunkhouse in the basement.🙄🤦‍♀️]

I'm sure most people use cardboard & boxes from alcohol stores. But I know those boxes too well. Then there's also I'm looking for long term storage, not a quick fix. I am a planner & organizer by nature. I will have everything in clear, labeled sterilite bins & be able to just pull whatever down I need. I've been planning this since 2013. Now I am finally having God's Blessing to get it done! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus!

Back to it!

Wherever.. whomever.. you are.. I love you . Missing you rips into my soul everyday.

Please God? Help me?

Patience & work daughter.

Sigh.

I work as I await.

~True love never dies & true love always waits!.~

But I pray you can, & want to!, forgive me for asking it of you! It's on my mind daily. And has been some lightbulbs recently too. I long to make amends.. bowed.

Your.. humble frustrated impatiently patiently waiting.. complex quirky warrior queen daughter.

~Tijgeress kat Phoenix. 🌺🐾🐯✝️

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