#its a skilled industry

[theaethernetconnection]

Tbf they need a shit ton of muscles to hold that boom up over their head at a constant angle for multiple takes and also sometimes rotating it between characters without the wire touching the pole and making noise which requires a lot of preciseness. So no kidding they're shirtless and ripped they're working out

why was the saw boom mic guy serving cunt

[whatwillyousing]

vsynth has long since been trending towards the uncanny valley of singing but i feel like its been especially pronounced the past few years now that a higher proportion of banks sound nigh indistinguishable from human people. you can only really tell if youre already deeply familiar with each bank's respective engine

[ajdrawshq]

i can almost guarantee ive said it before but. he would thrive in a zero escape game

[maliciousalice]

I have to try and get....a job :(

[izzyspussy]

honestly my real opinion on ai is not even from an ethical standpoint. my opinion on ai is that because it isn't actually artificial intelligence that is a misnomer it's not intelligent and it doesn't think it is therefore just plain not good at most of what we're currently using it for outside of like hyperspecific applications that i know nothing about and never will. it simply can't do the job man.

[july-19th-club]

thing katniss has never heard of and thinks is insane: CPR. dude dude dude what are you doing that for fucking stop that Right Now ... oh wait. keep going actually

thing finnick has never heard of and thinks is insane: 'tapping a tree with a little spigot can make water come out,' im sorry what? water of course comes out of the sky and into nature's big bowl by the beach

[chippdhearts]

I'm watching csi for the first time and I'm currently on s8 but I have a dumb question lol. why did sofia disappear without trace? is she coming back?

not a dumb question at all! This has never been properly explained (to my knowledge) they just yanked her away from us 😭

In all seriousness I suspect it was to do with budget, because they would have been paying her a main cast member salary, and possibly some other BTS logistical stuff. At that point they had a LOT of main cast members. I'm not sure if they knew Jorja was going to leave at the point where they would have been making the decisions about who to renew and stuff.

From a story POV, they literally never explain her leaving. As a whole they did a HUGE disservice to her character imo. They could have developed her a lot more and a lot better. I think because she was largely there, initially at least, to create tension between grissom and sara (a huge ick for me but we won't go into that) it caused a lot of fans not to warm to her at the time. And then in s6 and s7 I don't think they did enough with her character to make people (at the time) really feel strongly about her either way, so they just.... got rid of her. (last in, first out.) I'm still extremely bitter about this, as you can probably tell, because I TRULY think that she would have been a very beloved character if they just put in a little more work.

Also, we get little moments of her with Cat and Sara. But they def wanted to pit all the women against each other and I feel this could have... not happened. (This is a huge tangent, I am so sorry. But also I could talk about this for 5 days.)

To answer your question simply, yes, she comes back. More in depth answer below the cut but this will be minorly spoilery for you, so you can choose to read or not.

She comes back for ONE guest star towards the end of season 11. They SORT of explain where she's been, in that she's got a new rank when she comes back, deputy chief, so we can esentially say that she was away somewhere else climbing the ranks. I think we decided that deputy chief was one step below the under sheriff so she was doing SOMETHING to further her career in the 3-4 years that we didn't see her. But they don't really touch on it beyond that.

[statementlou]

it's always funny to me when people say they don't think Harry and Louis are still together because they're *so different*, especially when those differences are about their public image, because to me the absolute precision of the way their public images divide every possible personality trait is just another one of the things that seems way too tidy to be natural to me and makes me think they ARE. Without each of them having a carefully constructed public face that excluded a lot of things there is just literally no way there wouldn't be SO MUCH MORE overlap given how much we know, even so, that they have in common- and honestly sometimes I wonder if that carries over to business stuff too, if that is also deliberately split in two different directions like, let's try both, you try this way and I'll try this way. When they each had that conversation with a dear friend about deciding to prioritize making music in certain ways and reevaluated what they would be doing, did they also come up with two different ways of doing that stuff and each take one route? Crack theory in a way, but I stand by the first half either way- they have way too many common interests and habits (and too much common history) to avoid mentioning the same things publicly WAY more than they do without an effort being involved. IMO.

[otogariado]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning—the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

[suitetarts]

bg3 origins - rock band

astarion: main vocals and face of the band. lives for the attention

lae'zel: absolutely shredding that lead guitar. insane actually. she could be in a much better band

karlach: rhythm guitar and vocals. has personal chats with the crowd in between songs

shadowheart: broody bass player that writes all the songs

wyll: hot drummer that gets all the biggest cheers

gale: keyboard and vibes. also manages the lights and pyrotechnics

[zedif-y]

not to be dramatic but im quitting art

[kicksnscribs]

So seeings how ai work still fucks me up at the mere thought of it maybe just maybe i can get over it if i vent my frustrations out on it here?

[skyjynxart]

It's always rlly fascinating like- assessing my own reaction to other artists pricing.

Like I saw someone selling chibis- nice chibis in a lineless style with moderate shading and really good shapework/posing- for $101 and it was, just like always, a sort of- climbing response.

Stage 1: *choking on air* you're fucking INSANE who will pay that?

Stage 2: Jesus the cahones on this one- oh to have that kind of confidence--

Stage 3: reminded that industry professionals for book illustrations are often paid $1000 per image on the low end

Stage 4: coming to terms with the fact that myself and many other artists are actually just chronically underpaid. $101 for a chibi is not expensive- just like a $15 minimum wage is not unreasonable. My $100 for a finished painting is the equivalent of paying your barista $2.50/hour in 2020+

Stage 5: but no seriously how do you find people who will actually PAY THAT I'm asking for a friend

[spockshair]

gah i need a better paying job!!

[jaetaimjadore]

god im so done with this rigged shitshow

[magnusbae]

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