Presumably at some point a human being was involved in the decision making process to try and use this image to convey... some kind of message to other human beings, and at least one human being in that process couldn't be bothered to give the AI slop more than the most cursory glance.
Unless of course one could design a fully-automated system of generating pseudo-scientific clickbait factoid garbage accompanied by AI-generated illustrations, entirely dedicated to producing as much vaguely plausible-seeming garbage as possible, 24 hours a day, just spewing out the opposite of useful knowledge at an unfathomable rate.
But what kind of monster would deploy that weapon on humanity?
Hey, there's still that mushroom-based coffee substitute!
I'm sorry for making light of a serious situation. I would also rather die than drink that cursed substance.
Actually, an animated person made of just their skin and organs would be significantly more horrifying than an animated skeleton.
Commentary tracks are the underappreciated treasures of physical media. Lord of the Rings gets a lot of deserved praise, but The Matrix has a philosophers commentary track which is awesome, and the 1989 Batman has Tim Burton geeking out over his own movie in a delightful fashion. Also, Jonathan Frakes does a hilarious commentary on Star Trek: First Contact where he sounds simultaneously like a popular high school jock and a gigantic Star Trek dweeb, and I adore him for it.
I worked at a used media store 10+ years ago, and I remember worrying about what would happen when everything was conveniently available on good ol' reliable Netflix, which at the time seemed like the logical thing that everyone would eventually sign up for, and then what would I do?
Fast forward to today, and streaming has certainly changed the market. Huge TV show box sets are almost impossible to sell, though it's not a totally dead market. DVDs and Blu-rays sell about as well as they ever did, if not better. Maybe everything is on a service somewhere, but most households aren't going to sign up for every service, so as a result of all the streaming services fighting like dogs for library rights, there's almost always someone looking to get a cheap, used, physical copy of a movie they can't get elsewhere.
If anything, I feel more secure about the future of physical media today than I did ten years ago.
The Boat~~s~~!
Reminds me of New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain, a famous rock formation that looked like a man in profile, which was so identified with New Hampshire that they put it on their state quarter... and which collapsed within a couple of years of the quarter being released.
I'm seeing a lot of variance in the ratios. Some flails have longer handles, some have short. Some have chains as long or longer than the handle, some have almost non-existent chains. What are the advantages and disadvantages of various handle and chain lengths, and is there an "optimal" ratio?
Aw, fuck.