This post is (not) sponsored by Walmart. But I do like some of the sassy shirts I find in mens’ wear from time to time.

Let’s start with the one for the cat parents here:

And yes, you might have seen part of my face. Or double-chins. Or both.

@Meg Oh Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg~ Your dream job (role) has apparently landed in Among Us.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/945360/view/497205194887529404

Make sure to tell @Tez about it so you can both fight over who gets to be sussying or sussssssying (<- sibilant because reasons).

@Tez said in MUing Snacks:

@dvoraen This is more true than not. I go to Trader Joes and buy a shelf full of pickle chips for Roz, a bag full of mochi rice nuggets for Pto, and all the focaccia bread Yam could want.

I couldn’t find a good GIF that was either:

OH NO THEY’RE BACK AGAIN
or
some sort of cashier meme

I was very disappointed by the results I searched for.

More on topic: I generally have a variety of snacks (not all at the same time):

• drink: usually soda, but not always
• savory: popcorn, peanuts, snack tray (meat/cheese/misc), chicharrones, pickles, other veggies + dip (broccoli or carrots, usually)
• sweet (rare): brownie bites or a baked good with icing
• honorable mention: this feta salad (feta w/ kalamata and green olives)

@Tez said in MUing Snacks:

Straight up some days we have a whole drawer in our fridge devoted to Sargento snack trays.

I’m just trying to picture how you all do the shopping when it comes to the snacks, under the assumption that everyone wants something specific to them.

@bear_necessities We need to start a scene where we walk into a bar and immediately ignore all previous poses about everyone else is doing, etc.

And we’ll write them with ChatGPT using an absurd prompt that we both use, just to see how much it diverges. lol

(I am not being serious about actually doing this.)

@Pyrephox What if we RP’d about becoming AI’s IC? A transhumanism plot, etc.

full circle gif here

@Gashlycrumb And since it was likely sent via post, it could have ended up in a mailbox.

Therefore, “it’s my dick in a box!” Cue SNL skit.

@Juniper said in Numetal/Retromux:

@dvoraen said in Numetal/Retromux:

Um, ACKSHUALLY, this is Rough & Rowdy, so if anything I’d say it’s “Soft & Serious.”

Mostly because I couldn’t think of how to do an inverse to “Hog Pit.”

“Soft & Serious” sounds like the kind of romance novel I’d want to read, can someone get on that?

Or the name of an L&L MU*.

My RL vent is my toes.

TL;DR - I need nail care advice for making these bitches grow properly instead of constantly detaching despite trimming them in a straight line.

(It’s a little bit detailed in here.)

Spoiler

@Pavel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

American car is no match for Soviet bones. Admittedly, Soviet soft tissues not doing so hot. No permanent maimings but I do have some issues in the spinal region.

For context: I was riding my bicycle to the store, a motorist took umbridge at this and decided that I needed to be launched several feet away from the roadway. It wasn’t at appreciable speed, but it was significant enough that I’m sticking around the hospital for the next day or so.

Can confirm this happens. Driver couldn’t be bothered to look both directions when turning. Fortunately it was a VERY minor bump in my case, and I wasn’t ejected into oncoming traffic.

@labsunlimited said in Numetal/Retromux:

While we’re all paying attention I’d like to note that a Hog Pit discussion has turned organically into a constructive discussion. Is this a new era?

Um, ACKSHUALLY, this is Rough & Rowdy, so if anything I’d say it’s “Soft & Serious.”

Mostly because I couldn’t think of how to do an inverse to “Hog Pit.”

@Pavel

@Roz Corollary:

https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

I didn’t get to the 5m point before I decided to share this bit from John Oliver on “AI Slop.”

@Wizz Thank you for your payment.

At this time, you currently owe:

• Alucard awake pictures.
• Alucard cute pictures.

(On the serious, )

@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

the true celebrity loss in this thread is discovering @dvoraen doesn’t use dark mode to browse the forum

You don’t pay my sub. I mean, you aren’t even current on your cat tax. (Pls geev Alucard pix to lighten the thread mood. In another thread.)

I don’t know anything about K-POP Demon Hunters, but my question is what the (MU*) rules for the K-POP idols are, because don’t idols have certain restrictions in their contracts irl?

This is a non-sequitur to “AI” PBs, but it feels so adjacent to the discussion (it overlaps it slightly) that I have to share it.

This is for the programmers out there, especially @Faraday.

https://youtu.be/CUfliPTbJu4

I don’t have much to contribute here other than a serious amount of sardonic snark, so I’m just going to summarize the major points here with a metaphor:

Generative “AI” (note the quotes) is like makeup. It can make things pretty, but unless you’re a skilled makeup artist or have a lot of experience with putting on your own cosmetics, there’s probably going to be flaws and eventually other people are going to notice and compare notes.

Also, sooner or later the makeup has to be removed. We’ll leave that part open to interpretation; there’s many.

(This metaphor also assumes the components of the makeup aren’t toxic, too!)

@bear_necessities Well, it certainly puts a couple things in context.

But yeah, at this point I don’t buy their story about how they found this board in the first place. I’m getting this sense of deja-vu that I can’t really pinpoint.