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I think the a bunch of trolls, probably the incel crowd on 4chan and the like got that going: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatenin...
That's it. I forgot they were sexually explicit. Apparently those in TFA are not.
Reminds me of the time a "cute anime girl" streamer had a glitch that exposed him as a fairly typical otaku hikikomori using motion capture software to puppet the character (and presumably some sort of voice synthesizer to provide the dialogue).
Do you have a link? I'm amazed by the fake video generation we have now, I wonder when we'll start seeing it used for spam and (mal)advertising.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3iwL9Yz8LcKkJsnLPevOTQ/vid...
I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves and doesn't care what others think about superficial details outside of character. In the far-far future that may never come, I imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance such that they never feel slighted by their perceived place in a fitness gradient they cannot change. Maybe technology is helping us…
> I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves This lady has plenty of confidence. She has as much confidence as any confidence man and was making plenty of money off of it.
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This woman is trying to trick men into sending her money. Don't be naive.
Trick men? In return for what? What a hilarious spin on this. Are you implying they signed a contract or something? The fault is on the men who were stupid enough to send money to begin with. The outright chauvinist attitude of tech bros is funny and sad, to say the least. "It is the women who are to blame for me acting horny!"
I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves and doesn't care what others think about superficial details outside of character. In the far-far future that may never come, I imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance such that they never feel slighted by their perceived place in a fitness gradient they cannot change. Maybe technology is helping us…
On casting Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard: Reporter: "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Rodenberry: "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." I doubt even a few hundred years will wash out vanity and the worst parts of us, but here's to hoping.
Then again, I am not sure that if we actually went through a full scale nuclear exchange, that in the end if we would change socially. I have a feeling that rather than change for the better, humanity would change for the worse.
In that vision, "Mad Max" would be a utopia in comparison.
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>What a hilarious spin on this. Are you implying they signed a contract or something? The fault is on the men who were stupid enough to send money to begin with. Agreed. They fell for her... trick. Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
There is no trick without some mutual agreement on what will be given in return. And there wasn't any agreement. Your reasoning is the same as this: a guy takes a girl out to an expensive dinner, expecting sex in return. And then he yells foul when she declines, even though there was never any agreement on her end. "But she tricked me into thinking she would!" You are parroting the same bullshit, chauvinist reasoning…
Says who? You? Even though I think you're being purposely obtuse, here's the definition.
>a cunning or skillful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone
She used a filter to appear attractive to lonely men who will send her money. What is difficult to understand here?
>You are parroting the same bullshit, chauvinist reasoning that is so pervasive in the tech community.
Jesus. I'm sensing that you enjoy being outraged.
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There is no trick without some mutual agreement on what will be given in return. And there wasn't any agreement. Your reasoning is the same as this: a guy takes a girl out to an expensive dinner, expecting sex in return. And then he yells foul when she declines, even though there was never any agreement on her end. "But she tricked me into thinking she would!" You are parroting the same bullshit, chauvinist reasoning…
>There is no trick without some mutual agreement on what will be given in return. Says who? You? Even though I think you're being purposely obtuse, here's the definition. >a cunning or skillful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone She used a filter to appear attractive to lonely men who will send her money. What is difficult to understand here? >You are parroting the same bullshit, chauvinist reasoning…
My analogy still stands. She wasn't promising anything in return for their money. There was no trick.
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On casting Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard: Reporter: "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Rodenberry: "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." I doubt even a few hundred years will wash out vanity and the worst parts of us, but here's to hoping.
I have lots of gray hair before 40 and don't even think of dyeing it. Of course, this is not so different than vanity on my part, as I'd be mortified if I was dyeing it and someone found out...
This is a guy who drives dump trucks and excavators, and could crush you with one hand - I swear to $DEITY. He's not a bad guy - actually a very nice man. But if you got on his bad side, watch out. I once saw him lift a full large wheeled garbage bin up and over his head and shake it out like it was nothing - like it was kitchen garbage can. Not someone to mess with.
He normally - in everyday life - doesn't care what he looks like, smells like, etc - he'll go right into a grocery store covered in oil and grease from working on his backhoe in the middle of summer, buy a soda and walk out, and he'll smile and wave, call ya "hon" and "boss" - pet the dog on the way out, ya know.
But clean him up and put him in a suit - all of a sudden he's embarrassed that his hair is thin and gray, etc. I've told him that he should shave himself bald, because he's got that classic "Mr. Clean" head shape that would make it look good. Few people can rock bald, but he won't do it.
Instead, he just puts a ball cap on if he's out in the sun, and ignores it I guess.
This tech doesn't exist. Why does HN eat this up. No one here uses tech?
The photo is two actresses.
Does BBC fact check at all, or is it all bullshit.
Video on how it is possible in an artificial way. Which I suspect kicked this fake story off, with a little acting on the Chinese end.
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Go on some of the most popular Twitch.tv channels, you'll see lots of that happening. Too many to count on two hands. It's unbelievable and quite sad.
> quite sad. I wonder if you can expand on that.
By tribal risk increasing I mean that if Ogg loses his harvest fording the river, now the tribe has to feed him. Or if Ogg is swindled out of his pelt, now the tribe has to worry about him freezing and make sure nobody else falls victim. In context, this is when your uncle Ben donates to some internet personality and then has trouble making ends meet, and you might have to step in to assist him.
A third unrelated explanation is relative value, where the observer might feel upset watching someone throw good food to a dog, rather than giving it to a starving person nearby because the observer feels the starving person is more deserving of the resources than the animal. In context, this is when your uncle Jerry donates to some internet personality instead of using the money to help you or some other more deserving local charity case (not using that pejoratively).