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yvannairieMe, a fake flautist, listening to Ravel's Bolero and going "the clarinet and bassoon parts are my favourite :)"
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LEP 14.4.
Apr. 14th, 2026 22:13yvannairieAmanda Swell Entertainment made a video about a black model having her photo stolen and having some white influencer paste her face onto that image and instead of focusing on the meaningful issues like digital blackface and content theft the video is all about how the white influencer said "AI did this"
And she just.... takes her at her word and doesn't question it and just complains about people using AI.
I love her but this fucking sucks. Why are we not calling out a liar to her face for trying to shift blame to AI or "AI companies" doing this shit. Someone made a clear touched up image of her face on another woman's body and we're blaming the technology used?
Fuck it. Welcome back "Button That Makes Beautiful Art" discourse. I hope you die.
Waiting For Tomodachi Life 2...
Apr. 12th, 2026 21:15arias_hollowI never played the first Tomodachi Life or even really paid enough attention to it to know what it was other than 'popular game I've never played, seems associated with casual gameplay'. And at that point in time, I didn't really play that many sim-like games anyways (with the exception of web browser dress up games and restaurant management games, but I saw that as separate from console and PC games where I've always been more into fantasy/adventure/sci-fi/horror/rpg type stuff, plus platformers and metroidvanias in general).
But eventually I realized through games like Miitopia and Fashion Dreamer that I actually can really enjoy and get addicted to those kinds of games because...I can make my novel OCs in them! And see funny AU versions of them Move Around and Do Things! The general gameplay was fun too of course, that's why I played so much Animal Crossing: New Horizons for a while even though the OC I used was just one of my Pokemon play characters rather than a story OC. But seeing my story fellas move around was a Very Large part of the appeal.
Enter Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo. I finally knew enough about Tomodachi Life as a whole to know it was one of those games I'd get addicted to because I like making my OCs as Miis and seeing them in action. And the demo was out, I was told it was too short and locks you out once you give them clothes, so I was like 'okay, I won't give them clothes'.
But I didn't realize. The game would bully you into doing this if you made your third Mii. :')
But eventually I realized through games like Miitopia and Fashion Dreamer that I actually can really enjoy and get addicted to those kinds of games because...I can make my novel OCs in them! And see funny AU versions of them Move Around and Do Things! The general gameplay was fun too of course, that's why I played so much Animal Crossing: New Horizons for a while even though the OC I used was just one of my Pokemon play characters rather than a story OC. But seeing my story fellas move around was a Very Large part of the appeal.
Enter Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo. I finally knew enough about Tomodachi Life as a whole to know it was one of those games I'd get addicted to because I like making my OCs as Miis and seeing them in action. And the demo was out, I was told it was too short and locks you out once you give them clothes, so I was like 'okay, I won't give them clothes'.
But I didn't realize. The game would bully you into doing this if you made your third Mii. :')
SO THEY GOT PUT INTO LOCK DOWN HELL ANYWAYS.
AND THEY HAVE BEEN SUFFERING. AND I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING.
MAERUNE HAS NO ENRICHMENT AT ALL.
SHEVA ONLY HAS AN ELASTIC BAND THAT HE'S USUALLY SCARED OF BUT HAS BEEN HAVING INCREASING LEVELS OF MOOD SWINGS TOWARDS. Which, I do wonder if the mood swings is from the personality sliders or from the chronic isolation.
WRAITH IS THE ONLY ONE WITH ENRICHMENT. They have maracas and a pop album and they seem to love both. But they need to see the sky again, okay.
So for weeks now I have been sporadically just flopping and going 'WHEN WILL MY MIIS RETURN FROM THE WAR. WHEN CAN I FREE THEM FROM THEIR PRISONS. WHY ARE WE TORTURING THEM WITH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.'
But now it's finally almost time...we will be free...and I can finally get my guys to do more things and try more foods. xD I need to know their faves. From the demo I found Sheva's top favorite (fried egg, which really TOOK ME OUT) and Maerune's least favorite (nachos, which is also like HOW DO YOU HATE NACHOS lol) but there is still much to learn.
I haven't interacted with the fandom like at all though so while I know from my sibling everyone has been suffering together, I have just been suffering in isolation exactly like my Miis lmao. So I'm very excited for the official release! If I get typing energy during my fixation on it again...I may have to make more posts about my findings. We'll have to see! I'm sure I'll have a blast with it either way though.
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Apr. 2nd, 2026 19:00shadarastoday I have been a lump due to WEATHER but since I haven't gotten to responding to comments on my last post about work bullshit, have an update re: work bullshit!
Tuesday they say "hey, we're going on short weeks!" and are like "I guess you can take a layoff if you don't wanna do that" and people are mostly just like "UH!!!"
Wednesday I am informed that I'll be going with one of the journeymen to another job starting probably next Wednesday. (Also one of the journeymen is like "yeah, I called [company I worked for before this] and they said they'd take me back") (Also we learn that a select few people would be staying on full weeks anyway!)
Today we are all informed, not even by the bosses, that they will not be doing short weeks after all. So. You know. Super cool of them, definitely didn't shoot themselves in the feet re crew morale and general good-will.
It's all very, "you're doing a shit job of communicating and are gonna lose people because of this", because I don't think the journeyman I'll be going to that job with wants to come back. I don't blame him; we're at the stage of the job where a lot of the work is "figure out what got missed/didn't happen because we didn't have the necessary pieces at the time", which means a lot of working around shit that's now in our way, etc etc. Plus this whole debacle about work hours.
Tuesday they say "hey, we're going on short weeks!" and are like "I guess you can take a layoff if you don't wanna do that" and people are mostly just like "UH!!!"
Wednesday I am informed that I'll be going with one of the journeymen to another job starting probably next Wednesday. (Also one of the journeymen is like "yeah, I called [company I worked for before this] and they said they'd take me back") (Also we learn that a select few people would be staying on full weeks anyway!)
Today we are all informed, not even by the bosses, that they will not be doing short weeks after all. So. You know. Super cool of them, definitely didn't shoot themselves in the feet re crew morale and general good-will.
It's all very, "you're doing a shit job of communicating and are gonna lose people because of this", because I don't think the journeyman I'll be going to that job with wants to come back. I don't blame him; we're at the stage of the job where a lot of the work is "figure out what got missed/didn't happen because we didn't have the necessary pieces at the time", which means a lot of working around shit that's now in our way, etc etc. Plus this whole debacle about work hours.