#glasshole

[cluedoenthusiast]

Another bit I loved

[glassvagrant]

🟣🔵or🟡🟠?

www.leadlightvagrant.ca

[emi1y]

the chairs are arranged in ascending order of lumbar support

[bluesturngold]

quit putting the new york post on my dash. they sensationalize everything to get clicks.

there's literally a recording LED that lights up on the glasses so people can tell when you're recording, and the glasses will tell the user to uncover the LED if it's obscured prior to use. the camera's far less hidden than having a cutout in your shirt pocket for a gopro, and a gopro would have better battery life and better camera quality, too.

also worth noting! snapchat is already three generations deep into making glasses frames with cameras built in available to consumers, currently working on a fourth generation.

it started like this:

but you'd be hard pressed to find a review of the third generation product that discusses privacy at much length (or, in my experience, so all), because it turns out camera glasses are an expensive purchase and most people violating your privacy for social media clout are just going to record you on their phone because it's cheaper, easier, and higher quality.

i think, if anything, we should be advocating for public policy that mandates visible indicators when a phone is recording instead of worrying about the meta x ray-bans collab.

It’s time.

[bravecrab]

Apple just unveiled their AR/VR headset, the New Vision Pro, and I don't think it's going to catch on. Having witnessed the failures of Google Glass, and the ongoing struggle to make VR anything more than a novelty, I just don't see it working. It's expensive, it looks uncomfortable (I used to sell glasses and wearing something heavy on your face for hours is not something people enjoy), and it also adds to people's concerns about a) always being connected to their phone, and b) about being surveilled in public since you never know if any of these things will be recording you. Plus it doesn't have a physical controller, it uses voice and motion controls, so there is no way people will be able to use it discreetly. There was a reason that users of Google Glass became referred to as Glassholes.

The tech sector continues to be out of touch with how people actually want to live their lives, and instead favour sci-fi futurism asthetics.

However there will be those who will buy and use the New Vision Pro (and the inevitable competitor products), and because we live in a dystopian age of tech, it would not surprise me if a slew of AI/AR software comes with it, finding ways to manipulate the data that comes through these goggles. One such fear that comes to mind is that the kind of AI software that was recently used to generate non-consentual nudes, might be ported into these AR goggles to function as the X-ray glasses, the kind of gadget used as a more raunchy joke in a James Bond movie. While I think it is more likely that these AR/VR goggles are more likely to be a flop, I still think it is important to consider the ways in which this tech could be abused by the companies that sell them (it will be another avenue of data-mining), and bad actors among those who adopt the tech.

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

Kirk has this certain Kendall Roy quality about him

[glassified-studio]

Be My Boo 💙👻 . . . #stainedglass #stainedglassart #stainedglassartist #stainedglassdesign #stainedglasssuncatcher #glassart #glassartist #glassholes #bemyboo #valentinesdaygift #valentinesday2023 #lovelove #candyhearts #sweethearts #artgram #artistsoninstagram #artcollective #stickerart (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYQD4SvZNg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paper-entusiaster]

I was rewatching rottmnt and I wanted to draw shrike with cool powers too, so I made up the excuse of what if the glasshole could do more? and a doodle of brainwashing by law

[toastedclownery]

Wait I have thoughts about the Shrike shot now. No idea where or when this is but I wanna point something out

So we can see that all of his ink-fueled equipment is empty

AND the stuff that he usually keeps in his glasshole is out.

The glasshole that is also cyan. The color of ink-powered stuff

Did... Did his glasshole stop working too??

It glows like the rest of his stuff...

[spagheddiesquash]

helo everyone today is the birthday of my most favoritest blorbo ever in the entire history of the earth. oh alsooooo im genuinely curious what you guys think the answer to the question is bc i feel like the first way makes more sense, but then it covers the glasshole thing. also the second way is objectively way more funny and i was giggling the entire time i was drawing it

(the first drawing in this little grouping is the doodle that i drew the party hats over. i was really proud of how it turned out so i wanted to post the hatless version)

[samscartoonsofficial]

We got silly in a discord call and I threw all these up.

thank you @toastraccoon for your shrike glasshole theory because then these doodles came out from it lol. And also that one Spongebob episode with the snail race. the seabunny race.

also @houseofdoodles made this along with the doodles and the sea bunny race AU lol. seams and ricket :3. I love that seams belongs to @monoclairx also added @coprolitemoment 's oc belle's scythe to Oni's pile of "treasures" and @haileybirdart 's oc Jexa playing dressup with oni shrike lol

[probablyasocialecologist]

Through time, we’ve seen a progressive narrowing of how we experience entertainment: from the collective cinema experience, to the family viewing of the television, to the even narrower audience of the streaming service and various video apps, and now the expectation is that we’ll strap a set of screens directly onto our faces to ensure we can’t share an experience with another person. The development is a worrying one, and illustrates how disconnected tech executives are from real life.

The leaders of the tech industry are not only separated by much of the public because their wealth, experience of the world, and exclusive lifestyles, but also seem to have stunted social lives, or at least a lack of insight into the social nature of regular humans. They think an ideal way of living is one where as much as possible is mediated through digital technology because they have a specific interest in the tools that made them rich and powerful, and continuing a process that put them in that position in the first place. And while people have been open to going along with their visions, it’s pretty clear there’s a growing frustration and even dissatisfaction with the world they’ve created. Doubling down on it seems like a bad idea.

[...]

Given that the Vision Pro will retail for $3499 and won’t launch until 2024, with an initial rollout limited to the United States, I think we have a unique ability to ensure this project fails. We’ve already seen how ridicule can take the hype out of a tech bubble, most recently with crypto and the metaverse, but a decade ago the same thing happened with Google’s attempt to make its Glass smart glasses happen. Instead, its users were termed “Glassholes” and the product was scaled back and sold as a niche enterprise tool.

[disastercomingfaster]

Serial Killer Better Names

I'm tired of these fucking asshole serial killers getting cool media names. Fuck that. I looked at each case and named them what they deserve to be known as forever. If you are confused on the nicknames, I highly recommend looking up the case, because I made all the names personal to their stories.

Peter Sutcliffe "Yorkshire Ripper" Renamed "Mama's Boy" Ted Bundy "Campus Killer" Renamed "Literal Baby Bastard Boy" Richard Ramirez "Night Stalker" Renamed "Coco for Cocaine!" HH Holmes "Doctor Torture" Renamed "Smegma Man" Robert Lee Yates "Grocery Bag Killer" Renamed...actually no, wait. This one is dumb already, no change! Put that on his fucking grave lol Albert Fish "The Boogeyman" Renamed "Sparky Ass Boy" Ed Kemper "Co-Ed Butcher" Renamed "Tall Glasshole of Asshole" Rodney Alcala "Dating Game Killer" Renamed "Couldn't Even Win a Date" John Wayne Gacy "Killer Clown" Renamed "Discount Pennywise" Denis Rader "BTK" Renamed "SMI (Super Mommy Issues) Ed Gein "Butcher of Plainfield" Renamed "When DIY Goes Horribly Wrong"

[sasaranurude]

Coly, the company behind Mahoyaku and Stand My Heroes, have announced a new game. Some friends and I realized that despite looking somewhat generic at first glance, it's got a handful of intriguing things going on with it! So here's a quick kind of long introduction to/my thoughts on Break My Case!

First: the website! The music on the site is really good! Go listen while you read this post!! There are 12 people listed as composers in the credits page, and it seems most every VA involved has at least a bit of experience with singing or music projects. The tone is a bit dark for a rhythm game (though I'm not ruling that out entirely), but otherwise it seems like there's gonna be a music focus. Cool! As far as other staff goes--the main scenario writer is also the writer of Stand My Heroes, and the character designer is Utako Yukihiro, who also did some work for B-Project.

The story concerns a cafe with a myriad of eccentric employees that runs an after-hours service where they solve problems. The exact nature of all this is left pretty vague.

And the draw for a game like this: The characters! Interestingly, they're divided into different departments at the cafe. What exactly those departments do isn't clear yet. As for the characters themselves--the more we looked at them, the more we liked them, lol. Quick summaries about what intrigued us about each guy. Note that these are not translations, none of us are fluent in Japanese (we all know just enough to get by with the google+jisho combo lol), and this should all be taken with a grain of salt.

The Main Office, consisting of Ai Kosaka, Yuzuru Kise, and Roka Suoh. (Names are listed in western given-family order because that's what the site uses for romanized names.) Roka is the one who owns the cafe, is the oldest character in the bunch at 36, and is that fun "mysterious guy with unknown backstory and an endless amount of weird acquaintances, who acts incompetent but might actually be hypercompetent" type of trope.

On account of the whole acting-incompetent thing, Ai and Yuzuru run the actual cafe business. And normally I won't be including fullbody character art in this post but I have to make an exception just this once.

Anyways.

Tumblr won't let me put four images in a row. Come on man. I wanna maintain the BMC's site style. Why are you mean to me. Anyways. The Simulation Department, consisting of Kou Ayato, Mao Ukyo, Akehoshi Hinomiya, and Yuragi Kanno. "Simulation" is its English name given on the site, but the Japanese given would probably read more like "relationship department".

Kou is a footloose playboy and Mao is a serious intellectual type, but apparently Kou will ask Mao to pretend to be his girlfriend so that he can avoid trouble with women. That's gay. I love that. (Mao is a guy [as far as we know], he just likes makeup--he's not the only one in that cast who does, either!) We all want Mao's outfit.

Akehoshi was a sleeper hit in the group chat, because his bio has a sentence about how he's the most normal-looking-yet-dangerous employee at the cafe, and also explicitly describes him as being like a dog, and naturally we all went crazy for the silly puppy as soon as we realized that he was in fact a silly puppy. Yuragi, on the other hand, likes cats. Such a classic for his character design trope, lmao.

The Administrative Department, consisting of Taiga Tsukimoto, Haruhi Ichikawa, and Sei Okiya. Taiga looks cool but if you look at his fullbody he's wearing awful sweatpants and apparently he cries while watching anime. I love this for him. Haruhi is a streamer because that's like an obligatory character trope now I guess. Sei was very popular in the group chat for being the single most suspicious character in the cast. What's his problem.

The Watchdog Department (or enforcement department, if you translate the jpn) consists of Shizuka Fushimi, Takeru Mikado, Soyogu Shinkai, and Shinobu Aizawa.

My friend described Shizuka as a "wet looking glasshole" and yeah. ok. unfortunately he does look like that. But it's ok he's allowed because his bio says he prefers quiet, orderly places with plants and no people and keeps to himself in common spaces but his own room is a complete mess. AKA he's an autism king. So I like him.

Takeru was obviously a hit because look at them. Takeru and Mao talk about makeup together, apparently. CUTE! Shinobu is the most fashionable guy in the cast and his bio says he has a few screws loose, which is amazing. Good for him. I have nothing to say about Soyogu I think I forgot he existed until I was putting this post together and I only looked at these all guys a few hours ago

The Negotiation Department, with Kiho Arima, Kyoya Shido, and Riku Tateshina. I described this group as "grandma, grandpa, and Columbo" and then the group chat couldn't call any of them anything else. And I do mean grandma. Because. ok. another fullbody. Because oh my god we have to look at Kiho.

GIRL. WHAT. IS. THAT. YOU'RE WEARING A CARPET. YOU'RE WEARING A COUCH. kiho is apparently a fortune teller and my friend acted as if this excused the outfit but i DONT agree i don't think anything excuses this. WHAT IS THAAAAAT

Kyoya is an artist and Riku is a psychologist so honestly this is a really fun bunch of jobs going on in this department. Riku is described as someone who falls in love easily, and he's most interested in Ai (from the Main Office, the very first guy in this post). We couldn't tell if the implication there is that he's in love with Ai, or if he falls in love with random people and yet his true attention always drifts back to Ai. Both of these options are gay.

The ST (special tasks) Department, with Yomose Onda, Yu Nina, Kamiya, and Urara Manami.

Yu had his life saved by Tomose and has now dedicated himself to him, to the point of being ready to die for him. YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT. INCREDIBLE TROPE. UNBEATABLE. GAY AS HELL. All we know from Tomose's side is that he's "fond" of Yu. That's fine I'm sure you can learn to love him. Or learn to hate him. Whatever's more entertaining.

Kamiya has no memory, hence the singular name. I'm sure whatever's going on there is weird and interesting. Urara is the youngest character, at 20. THAT'S RIGHT. THE YOUNGEST CHARACTER IS 20. THERE ARE ZERO TEENAGERS! THE AVERAGE CHARACTER AGE IS AROUND 26. THIS SHOULDN'T BE AS NOTABLE AS IT IS BUT THAT'S GACHA GAMES FOR YOU. Anyways I like Urara because I think he looks like an angry kitty.

Anyways, that's the gist of what we know about BMC--or BreMai, if you wanna go for something closer to the jpn abbreviation--right now. More info might drop at/around Animate Girls Fest, since they seem to be giving out game beta codes there. I don't know if I'm completely sold on it just yet--coly did just have a detective-themed gacha game fail a few months ago with &0. But we're not even completely sure it is a gacha yet, or what kind of gameplay it might have otherwise, so... there's a bit of hope. Maybe it'll be a weird cool dark rhythm game! Who knows!!!

[monkey-wrench-series]

How powerful are shrike guns? How many things can he fit in his crystal head thing?? Can anyone grab something out from it ??

Decently strong, they where [REDACTED] after all

[REDACTED]

Punti tried and failed. Hopefully that was obvious to people watching that only Shrike can use his glasshole.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Glasshole