It's interesting BBC noticed so called four great sorceries of Asia (亚洲四大邪术). Applying digital makeup to someone to the point that his or her mama couldn't recognize the person is certainly one of them.
Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch
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1. If you have enough money to throw around $2,000, you should be able to invest in yourself enough to get real attention, not buy it. If you can't, due to some dysfunction, that's sad. Not sad in a derogatory sense, but sad in the sense that you are so *cked that even $400,000/year can't fix it. 2. If it's not play money, it's sad how irresponsible the person is. This isn't exactly complicated.
Invest in yourself how? Don’t just throw out empty rhetoric, lay out a plan about how you would spend that $2000 dollars to “get REAL attention”. Money isn’t a magical cure all.
"Money isn’t a magical cure all."
Yes it is. Workout. Dress well. Eat right. Learn things. Time to do so.
Also, I called out $400,000 a year, not $2000.
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#133The article links to this video of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m4jYaALIA Without video of the filter in action, I'm skeptical of the claim. It seems plausible that the person on the left is using a filter of some kind.
I'm skeptical, too, that this isn't a stunt.
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#134I 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…
Are they really superficial details? You can't separate "character" and a persons desire to look good, have good posture, be athletic, not consume too many resources (and be overweight), know how to move, walk, and talk with poise. Yes, some people are born with a good set of genes, but much of this is also accomplished through hard work. And that hard work comes from _character_.
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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...
I shave my head, but I dye my grey beard. I know it probably looks like a "dye job" but so what? Is it any different from tattoos or other body modifications? And I can undo it by growing it out.
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Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.
It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires s…
Hmm... You could save another syllable by changing StreamingBug to StreamGlitch, which is also more idiomatic. Same number of characters though.
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No, I mean why doesn't pewdiepie accent his cheekbones some more via technology. Maybe make his arms bigger. IDK.
Male beauty is not valued as highly among men and women as female beauty. It's all too easy to speculate on the evolutionary and sociocultural reasons why, but it is the reality.
Are you kidding? My office is located next door to a gym (which I use). Guys care a _lot_ about their beauty.
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#138Wow, this shows how out of touch I am with social media and technology. I know that Apple's 3d-camera phones enable chat via Animoji, but that applies a cartoon image across your face. I didn't realize reality-enhancement filters (e.g. face thinners) were good enough to work in real-time? I'm confused because the links in the article just show the woman's real face [0], and not footage of when the filter was actually…
Someone on Twitter says this:
https://twitter.com/huizhong_wu/status/1156349675831615488
> If you watch this vid from a Chinese site it says she used to cover up her face with a cartoon photo onscreen and would post filtered photos and short vids. Think it’s that she forgot to put up the photo for the live http://n.miaopai.com/media/ffdEpeNnTdRPa4ABk8DJa-zgvC~FDYrT
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I don't think she was using the filter because she was self concsious, she was trying to mislead young men so they'd give her money. Similar things happen on twitch. There was one woman on twitch who hid her marriage so people would think that if they donated enough money, they'd have a chance at a relationship with her, and people who donated thousands of dollars to try and win her favor were really upset when they…
mislead is a very loaded word here. Those men have no special entitlement to a woman on the internet being sexually available to them. The idea that they should have such a thing reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue
They do, however, have a right to an affectional preference. And if a person is selling affection for money, lying isn't OK.
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Great Read! I'm reminded of a Nebula(?) Award winning short story about hive-rats interacting with nobility in the 'future'. The nobility is shrouded in apperance/voice/stim tech such that the AIs are more the person than anything. A princess is brought to the under-city by her father to a shop that can fix the princess' tech, as it is malfunctioning. The daughter of the shop owner tries to peer into the princess' li…
Do report back if you find it! I'll check it out. Part of the premise of the Deus Ex games (thinking specifically of Mankind Divided) is "augmentations" that can make people better in all kinds of ways, but are generally only available to the wealthy elite which leads to all kinds of trouble. What happens when the "elite" don't just seem better - but objectively (and universally) _are_ by real measures. Longer and mo…
It vaguely reminds me of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary books, which if I recall correctly have the rats, underworld, technology, and more, but it might not be it as it doesn’t have the light sheets etc, I think... I’m trying to figure out where I’ve heard this one before, it sounds familiar...