local vampire

This sexagenarian diva was driving an SUV bigger than my house, clearly a devil of great power resides within

Short story idea I'll never complete based on a real-life encounter: Mary Kay consultant as the modern-day vampire waiting for an invitation at your doorstep

Stunlocked myself for a hot minute when I thought about just how many couples would be using chat gipiti to write each Valentine's notes this weekend. Godspeed out there, everyone 🫡

All that to say, I'm alive and struggling, but still making the effort we all must until we roll into the grave 😎

Current plan is to ruthlessly examine my work and cut the parts of it that have become a barrier to anything getting made at all, even if that selfsame process was once a joy to undergo. If I can't handle painting, we don't paint, we pivot to something less involved. Just do *something.*

Hard to navigate these waters even if it's not an uncommon state for a working creative. I am producing career best work during the 9-5 (under NDA ofc) while also harboring a deep well of ambivalence toward the idea of making time to play around and discover, arguably at a time I need it most.

It's been painful to pick up a pen and even think about drawing for fun for longer than I'd care to admit. I have paintings that have been sitting 90% done and I can neither bear to finish them to satisfaction nor revise them further, so they're rotting in limbo.

Happy to report we are limping along in 'rediscovering joy in sketching' territory. I produce so much stuff in my day job that there hasn't been much creativity left to spend on anything personally meaningful.

Surely you wouldn't regret replacing lyrics to "Kiss From a Rose" with "Shit From a Butt". Try it out. Kick the tires on it. Just see what happens.

Surely you wouldn't regret replacing lyrics to "Kiss From a Rose" with "Shit From a Butt". Try it out. Kick the tires on it. Just see what happens.

YUP, this is the hole we've fallen down, and now i'm watching the price to see if it'll drop a little...pretty happy with what we have now, but now i've got the itch of like -- what if i could make it even 10% better?? MUCH TO CONSIDER

@thatsadorbsyo.bsky.social just FYI, i've fallen prey to your soup posting and am now debating a rapid brewer :/

I didn't realize Kaldi's reached that far...if you're ever in the market for a caffeinated bag, Kaldi's 700 is my go-to when it's not eight million dollarinos~

grips your shoulders very tightly

pistachio creme on stracciatella

homeowners 🤝

Frankly I think booing is a criminally-underrated tool for expressing displeasure. Both petulant and poignant, simple enough a child can do it, and yet an effective tool of annoyance by a concentrated gaggle of adults.

I just think we as a society should come together on the issues, mainly that it should be both moral and righteous to enthusiastically boo people using leaf blowers

fam

VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1.

Grab, play, share, enjoy.

bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
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The oversell of what AI can actually do as a tool is also making the process worse. Big requests that don't have an adequate timeline are papered over with 'explore with AI', except the tools don't actually do what you think they do, so it's just you abandoned by the AI-heads doing the work alone.

I then spend the next 30-40 hours churning because I present work that has considered the brief, thought about the audience, the goal we're trying to achieve, but it doesn't look pixel-for-pixel like the first thing they imprinted on. Their feedback becomes forever compromised.

"Quickly bring your ideas to life with AI" sounds great to non-creatives and I get why that is. But it does not expedite or improve the creative process bc what happens is they see the first shiny output and get very attached to it. They forget that design is problem-solving and not decoration.

i have never heard this man deliver a crumb of creative direction on any call, on any project, at any point in time...dead silence every time. his value add is apparently playing on banned genAI sites all day and annoying everyone???? sounds like a dream job if you're a complete hack

trying to remain grateful that i pay my mortgage with art money because that's truly a feat to be proud of, but the lord is testing me

sailor moon gif goes here

in case you're wondering how things are going, a creative director who hasn't offered any feedback in two weeks of communications showed up in the chat 3 hours before a deadline, flooded out all communications with a contextless dump of about 50 generated images, and then vanished again

I love mine an unhealthy amount, it makes the best coffee of my life, but the dissonance is real...I don't microwave anything plastic, but will I pour 212 degree water into this plastic tube twice a day and drink what comes out? Emphatically yes

Is it the glass one? I want it so bad but I too cannot stomach the price even though I would use every single day just like I do the plastic version 😑

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential