to be fair, there was fuck all to do inbetween harvests. if someone came up to me as i’m bored out of my mind watching grains grow and said “hey wanna help build a huge fucking triangle? the pharaoh pays well” i’d say yes in a heartbeat. i doubt they had trouble finding workers

yeah i don’t exactly buy that it was intentional but both directors turned out to be trans, so their life experience is definitely reflected in the script. and to be fair, it’s very on brand for artists to say “oh yeah that was tooootally intentional, yes i planned it from the very beginning! yup!”

i googled if the directors’ intention was to always put that idea in Matrix and they said yes so i’ll to with that

o7 happy to help!

it’s not exactly a trans film in and of itself but it does use the those ideas at its core. it takes the vibes of the experience of being a trans person, and then builds a plot on those vibes

it’s like a closeted trans film, hiding the true reason behind how it came to be. It had to be just broad strokes, otherwise it wouldn’t have existed. Even today an outwardly trans film would have a very difficult time getting out of the “indi film with no budget not by choice, but becuase nobody wanted to fund it” hell

graphics person here - so what you want to get is krita or gimp, krita has better UI, gimp is more versitile. Or photoshop if you feel like uhh, borrowing it from adobe (don’t give them money they have enough)

• put them meme into the software or your choosing

• now if you can find a tool that says something like “healing” “spot healing” “patch” or “clone stamp” you can use them to remove the text that’s already there, all those tools work a little differently but can get you where you want to be, so play around with them and find your favourite

• alternatively if that sounds too advanced you can brute force it, it won’t look as seemless but it will get the job done. make a new layer, select a brush with soft edges and ~80% opacity, and then use the eyedropper tool (usual shortcut should be holding alt and clicking on the colour you want) and remove the text by covering it with the same colour that surrounds it. You’ll notice how eventually the colour you sourced doesn’t blend in, then what you need to do is grab a new colour that’s nearby. Rinse and repeat until fully covered and blended

• add text

• if your text overlaps some parts of the image you don’t want it to overlap you might find yourself wanting to erase a bit of it and not being able to. That’s because the text is still text, fully editable. To change that you can either convert it to a normal layer (usually done by right clicking on the text layer and looking for something that says “convert”) or (and that’s the better option if you want to keep the text editable) you can apply a mask onto the text layer (should be a button for it next to “add layer” button), then as you have the mask selected draw with pure black over the elements you don’t want the text to cover

i’m basing this mini-tutorial on photoshop so exact names and places of the tools you want might be different, but the process should be the same across most if not all image editing software

obviously, young people are more wary of cults, and JW score quite high on various “are we a cult?” quizzes

i use those a lot to indicate that i finished a thought rapidly (in most cases)

like “what the fu—”

we don’t like being a part of the drama. we like watching them though 🍿

ok? and i’m polish, i was talking about americans.

AI is not just ethically dubious, it’d also outright harmful for the already strained environment we live in. If AI stays - it won’t be here for long, mostly because there won’t be anoyone to ask it to generate giant hentai tits anymore

what confuses me a lot about america is how a lot of people will defend the AI’s “right” to steal training data to learn (education)

when there’s millions of students out there going into life long debt to go to collage, and none of the same americans are fighting for their right to learn for free

sadly there are no stealth edits on lemmy, even if you hit edit the second you posted your comment to fix a typo it’s going to show up

… you can’t see the massive exaggeration for the sake of being funny?

yeah at first i wanted to say “corporation” and “individual” but that’s not an equal playing field at all. So i just switched my woring to “bigger” thinking of idk, a writer in the same field who has a bigger following than you

i didn’t even get into the patents part because i’d be ranting about Adobe for hours again, and i already spend too much time thinking about them

edit: but then i said corporation anyway lol, i blame the fact i just woke up when i was writing that comment

though usually stupid and fucky copyright laws have one advantage - if someone bigger than you steals your idea you can take them to court. without copyright laws we’d have giant corporations just taking shit and using their platform to sell stolen ideas without a single cent going to the original creator…

which happens anyway, but uh, i guess it’d happen more?

honestly idk, let’s do a test run of a year without any copyright laws and see if anything changes like at all

my family hasn’t owned a dryer in all the years i used to wear zip up hoodies and they still did that

i’m the opposite, i’m trans and i picked a rather rare name for my fist name, but my middle name? Jon :)

i send messages to myself when i need to get a link/image from my phone to my pc or vice versa

lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast

danish butter biscuits are the best, and they can be elevated to divine if you dip them in tea. If you see a sewing kit shaped tin in a shop one day - try them