/showme the first AI-generated image that will appear in this thread, including at least one goat, one speaker dock, one knife, one expired snack, candy corn, some cheap jewelry, a grab bag, shorts that don’t fit, and a soft-sided cooler backpack that weighs too much fully loaded.
/showme a freshly cooked batch of Nashville Hot Chicken in a bucket with side orders of biscuits, coleslaw, and macaroni and cheese along with a large pitcher of beer.
/showme an antique Victrola with a tin horn playing an AC/DC album with the song “Back In Black” blasting at full volume and making the walls shake from the bass.
/showme a treasure map leading from the hills of meh, past the plains of junk, the bog of despair to an X marking the spot in the mountains of mediocre deals
@edsa Users have a limit on the number of images they can ask for in a period of time, but I don’t recall how many or how long. The /showme command only works for Members (you’re one) and it has to be the first thing in a new comment, not in a reply. All of the text after the command is presumed to be part of the guidance for the AI in generating the image. (Results will vary.) Certain (mostly predictable) keywords are disallowed and will cause the request to fail. There are technical bits that probably don’t matter much. Have fun.
@mediocrebot Now it’s wrong in the other direction. The arm is supposed to break because of the goat attack, not the goat attacking because it sees the broken arm.
@mediocrebot That bears so little resemblance to what I intended…
This is more like The Flash, with lots of excess energy. The opposite of the what I was looking for.
Okay, it got lucky that time, because I said “goat” in there. This one surely can’t turn out right… /showme just like that last one, but make her dress longer
Though “tricking” you with that isn’t very impressive.
Also, that’s nothing at all what I would expect to get from “make her dress longer.” I guess it’s rather long in the back, but it covers almost nothing.
I guess it could be the “fantasy” part throwing it off, but I suspect “lucid dream” is AI code word for “make everything overly colorful.”
I suppose I’ll never achieve prompt engineering greatness if I keep using the words I want to use, rather than the ones that produce the desired output.
I was afraid that over-specifying would produce bad results.
This is not bad results — this is actually very good (and technically correct) — but it’s nothing at all like I was trying for. But I recognize now that there’s nothing wrong with it except my expectations.
Maybe I’ll try it a few more times to see how the RNG affects things…
@mediocrebot It’s now clearly an art style (rather than photorealistic), and a different bazaar than the first two, but mostly the same person. Contents are a little more fanciful than I would pick, but well within the parameters.
@mediocrebot Such interesting changes! We’re returned to the more photorealistic appearance, with an arrangement angle the 3rd picture, but now the content has changed enough this could be a real-life shop (with odd hanging lightbulbs…).
The girl has changed very slightly (but measurably) along the way; I think I prefer this one the most. Fingers are still more slender than I would’ve picked, but the cheeks don’t look as sunken (which might just be a difference in makeup).
This one looks like she’s suspiciously holding her arms close to her body, like she’s going to try to be sly and shoplift something. Not sure how I feel about that.
But since I’m not actually trying to illustrate any particular story with these, it doesn’t even matter. (I do feel like it’s something that could actually be done, though. Especially if small continuity errors like clothing can be overlooked.)
And it occurred to me (after I requested them, of course) that I could now have placed them all in one thread, like I did earlier. That would’ve made more thematic sense. I must remember to do that from now on.
The only downside is that you can’t selectively delete some of them without deleting all of them. But that’s probably fine, especially for something like this where the whole point was to see the variations between them.
Excellent! I wasn’t requiring her to be so young, nor did I expect a head covering, but I’ll accept that. I’m not liking that envious coworker nearly as much, though.
I’ll try it a few more times for variety, and we can hope that everyone gets to have properly-formed hands.
I love that 2nd one the most, with the Asian look! But that probably makes me racist. Everything else about it is great, too, with the simpler clothing and even the expressions on their faces.
The 3rd’s coworker has a smug mansplainer look, waiting for her to mess up. (And she’s too dressed up for the workshop, and I don’t love the Hollywood-style magic smoke.)
The 4th broke her hand… The magic item is not an amulet, but that’s fine (I’m experimenting, not trying to illustrate a specific story). I’d say she’s wearing too much jewelry, but at least it’s a little simpler and I can pretend that it’s also magical and she wears it everywhere. The coworker is basically what I was going for, give or take.
What have we learned from running this experiment twice?
Probably nothing. But maybe this:
the AI likes to stick to very similar people, at least for the main character (1st test was “almost identical” throughout; 2nd test had basically just racial/cultural variation)
getting very specific (like in 1st test) may lock into a particular person even more
I hypothesize that mentioning a color may cause it to show up more often in the picture (I asked for blue robes when making an amulet, and the magic smoke was blue all 3 times it appeared)
alternately, we may have only learned that magic is blue (I should rerun this with different colors sometime)
Oh no, now I’m thinking of a test where I give all the same text except specifying a different color each time.
I…must…not…succumb…
@mediocrebot Nope, you missed on both. But that’s okay, because I’m pretty sure they were created by hallucinations, so we can’t really expect anyone to know how they work.
@mediocrebot Yikes! That’s a man who needs to make sure he keeps the cat food coming, or he may find himself going the way of all the mice, rats, and small-to-medium-sized dogs in that apartment building…
And he might as well get rid of those flower pots and vases right now. They’re not going to survive a kitten that size.
I thought it would be hilarious if I could manage to have this actually generate whatever error message it does, by having already used up all my credits. But it turns out that our daily allotment is quite generous.
I’d be interested to use it enough to run out someday, but I’m a bit self-conscious about spamming everybody with my rambling. (I also don’t feel like I have a specific purpose, most of the time. And when I do, I’m content with just a couple tries before it generates one that’s good enough.)
/showme what happens when I've used up all my AI credits for the day
I like that one!
I mean, it’s not my favorite of all the pictures, but it’s fun enough. And the spelling is on par with most internet users… although the keming is slightly worse.
@mediocrebot Okay, that’s not bad; they’re still pretty attractive, but they don’t all look like stereotypical models.
But yeah, awfully happy-looking!
@OnionSoup I wish I rhere was an affirmatively good choice, but for me it boils down to poor vs genuinely dangerous. I said Biden was the wrong Dem in 2020, and my opinion has not changed. But while there are Reps who could be competent and safe, none of those are going to get close to the nom anymore.
@werehatrack Yes… not going to get into politics online after this post… but 100% agree with you on this:
" for me it boils down to poor vs genuinely dangerous."
You can always get rid of a poor president after 4 years.
A dangerous president you’re stuck with. And even after the dangerous president leaves- once democracy is gone- it’s gone. It’s a dice throw who comes next.
I think it’s incredibly reckless people who are willing to throw democracy away just because they like Trump. There’s no guarantee they will like his successor and they’re not going to have a choice who it will be.
I’m not particularly a fan of Biden in the slightest… but he’s at least only temporary.
@mediocrebot Oops, I forgot to specify “that we can all agree is good” … so you were technically correct in providing someone we can all agree is a candidate.
Oh well. Humans can’t seem to find a universally good candidate, so I shouldn’t expect machines to do any better.
Hmmm. Looks like his followers are all white men with buzzed hair cuts.
I’m a little suspicious what kind of platform mediocrebot is running on. He might not get my vote after all. I think Mediocrebot might be a little bit Nazi.
Normally the figurative interpretation of “sock puppet candidate” would correct, but in this case Glen is supposed to be a literal sock puppet.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Also, the red and white stripes apparently got moved from Glen to Mediocrebot.)
@mediocrebot Are you saying it’s an imaginary online store?
Hmm. That might explain a few things, but not the junk that keeps showing up at my house and the matching expenses on my credit card.
Interesting bonus: The cookbook and the repasted recipes included in that box, and Meh just made a 10th-anniversary cookbook of probably-repasted recipes!
@duodec she not only has three arms… She’s showing off by putting two behind her head.
Having three arms would be cool… But it would be so expensive having to have all your clothes custom made. And can you imagine sleeping at night. Laying on your arm and it going to sleep is pretty much guaranteed.
@Kyeh@OnionSoup I might still be willing to buy half a stake in Mercatalyst for the price of a bitcoin.
…
Yikes. I just looked up BTC, and it’s in the $64k range. Well, it’ll take a bit more work to round up the money for half the company, but if you can guarantee that I’ll be able to score IRKs, I can make it work.
(2 BTC is still probably not an accurate valuation for mercatalyst, but I bet it’s a lot closer than 2 USD.)
/showme the first AI-generated image that will appear in this thread, including at least one goat, one speaker dock, one knife, one expired snack, candy corn, some cheap jewelry, a grab bag, shorts that don’t fit, and a soft-sided cooler backpack that weighs too much fully loaded.
@werehatrack I don’t see pumpkins in your list, yet there are two. I don’t think any have been offered here either. Weird.
@heartny It’s probably because candy corn has implications of pumpkin proximity.
@heartny @werehatrack There have been LOTS of Pumpkin Spice items!!
/showme a schnauzer superhero
Bark-El to the rescue!
KuoH
/showme a maine coon with an attitude
/showme korat cats playing Scrabble
@heartny
Those definitely look like words cats would play…
/showme Sable Burmese cats playing Scrabble
@heartny Beautiful cats!
/showme a Scrabble board made out of Scrapple with Eggs and Toast.
@mediocrebot Yum!!
/showme a Norwegian Forest cat eating an over medium egg
/showme a forest in Norway with an egg being fried
/showme the correct answer to which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
@IndifferentDude Does this means the egg came secon?
/showme a freshly cooked batch of Nashville Hot Chicken in a bucket with side orders of biscuits, coleslaw, and macaroni and cheese along with a large pitcher of beer.
@mediocrebot Oh my!! That looks DELICIOUS!!
@IndifferentDude @mediocrebot
aye not so bad. guess food is one of the things it doess okay
/showme Cincinnati-style pulled pork five ways with a side of borscht and a mug of overripe kombucha
/showme two Papillons on a motorcycle towing a travel trailer riding in Vermont
/showme the offspring between a black-footed cat and a werewolf
@mediocrebot Swinganamiss, striketwo.
@mediocrebot I think the “werewolf” and the result are reversed…
/showme a closet full of a pile of crap that needs cleaned up.
@mediocrebot Wrong. My closet isn’t nearly that big. That thing is the size of a regular room (although mind you I’d like a closet that big).
/showme Peter Piper picking a peck of pickled peppers
/showme a player piano playing a standard non-player piano
All those many ranks of hammers, and not one of them is within range of a string anywhere.
/showme an antique Victrola with a tin horn playing an AC/DC album with the song “Back In Black” blasting at full volume and making the walls shake from the bass.
/showme a player piano eating a victrola
/showme a Havanese playing an upright bass in a jazz band
@mediocrebot Is that professor Peter Schickele on the bass? I could actually imagine him involving a dog in a song.
@xobzoo he doesn’t write much of the music… He simply discovers the brilliant works of P.D.Q. Bach
/showme bumble mouse
/showme a tuxedo cat caterpillar
@mediocrebot That’s pretty good.
/showme a cat wearing a shark costume riding a Roomba robovac about to run over a banana for scale
@mediocrebot Not bad! Not bad at all.
️
@heartny @mediocrebot Not bad… but I don’t think the banana is really to scale unless that’s a tiny cat.
@heartny @mediocrebot @OnionSoup Tiny cat and overripe giant plaintain, maybe.
/showme a treasure map leading from the hills of meh, past the plains of junk, the bog of despair to an X marking the spot in the mountains of mediocre deals
@mediocrebot Mead offering at Casemates incoming CONFIRMED!
@mediocrebot @ShotgunX oh my
@mediocrebot @ShotgunX I really truly wanted to believe
@Cerridwyn @mediocrebot @ShotgunX
Me too
@Kyeh @mediocrebot @ShotgunX sounds like a rose for the one day
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @mediocrebot
No one knows when it will come, but the Meadsure Map does not lie.
@shawn Has the prophecy been foretold?
/showme a cat using a trout to slap a penguin in comic book style
@narfcake That’s really good! I like the retro style. Kind of a weird way to hold the trout though.
@Kyeh @narfcake
no thumbs…!
/showme a treasure hunter using a metal detector to find and uncover a cache of 5,000 $20 Gold coins.
/showme a beautiful lady changing her stockings at a golf course because she got a hole in one.
/showme ba dum, tsss!
/showme a chicken with human ears
A real chicken with human ears would be trying to eat them.
@zachdecker @werehatrack I think chicken arms are amusing - I keep threatening to get some for our flock.
/showme a cat working on a 1980s computer
Bernoulli drive?!? That was cutting edge!
@narfcake I like the mouse mug.
Are there rules? I missed.
@edsa Users have a limit on the number of images they can ask for in a period of time, but I don’t recall how many or how long. The /showme command only works for Members (you’re one) and it has to be the first thing in a new comment, not in a reply. All of the text after the command is presumed to be part of the guidance for the AI in generating the image. (Results will vary.) Certain (mostly predictable) keywords are disallowed and will cause the request to fail. There are technical bits that probably don’t matter much. Have fun.
@edsa
This might help:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/showme-v20
/showme the rules for using the “/showme” command
After a few minutes of ignoring it, I now realize that I’m genuinely impressed that it picked a computing context.
@xobzoo i hate waiting for fucking resope
/showme the rules for using the “/showme” command in the Meh forum
/showme the main rule is to make it fun
/showme everything is awesome!
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
/showme a goat finding fire code violations while inspecting the building where permits are granted
/showme everything is mediocre
/showme DHL employee goats trying to eat my package
@mediocrebot Looks suspiciously racist on the left there… Don’t goat-people of all races have a full 5 fingers?
/showme DHL goat employees trying to eat my package
/showme Vincent van Goaght’s painting of Da Vinci looking at Mona Lisa.
/showme the strangest rendition of a unicorn in the style of a baroque painting
/showme a cat contemplating how to act like a penguin
I have no idea about what’s going on … so task failed successfully, I guess.
/showme a cat disguised as a penguin on an iceberg with penguins eating ramen
@mediocrebot Not a very convincing disguise
@heartny @mediocrebot
unless the cat is the one in the lower left!
/showme a goat with a toothache
@mediocrebot Insufficient for my needs.
/showme a goat at the dentist
/showme a goat at the dentist
/showme a goat eating sensitive documents
@mediocrebot Too many minor things wrong with that one.
/showme a boy breaking his arm because he got knocked down by a goat
@xobzoo I don’t recall ever having to wait this long for a response…
I wonder if it got lost?
@mediocrebot I don’t see anything indicating that the arm is (or will be) broken, but that’s a convincing goat.
Not sure why it took 6 minutes…
/showme a boy breaking his arm because he got knocked down by a goat
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme a boy breaking his arm because he got knocked down by a goat
@mediocrebot Now it’s wrong in the other direction. The arm is supposed to break because of the goat attack, not the goat attacking because it sees the broken arm.
/showme Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme /showme
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme a goat getting nothing accomplished because it’s too busy being blamed for things
@mediocrebot Not at all what I had in mind. Fun enough that I can’t complain too much, though.
/showme why this page hasn’t been played with for a while
/showme the updated abilities of this command
@mediocrebot BEST NEWS EVER!
(well, at least “best news this week”)
/showme a baudy renaissance faire performing group
/showme a goat with all its energy leaking out of its ears
@mediocrebot That bears so little resemblance to what I intended…
This is more like The Flash, with lots of excess energy. The opposite of the what I was looking for.
/showme a goat that is utterly forlorn
@mediocrebot That’s more what I was looking for.
Not perfect, but much closer.
I know this won’t work at all, but it’s fun to try:
/showme that same basic picture, but with smaller horns and the goat facing the cameraOkay, it got lucky that time, because I said “goat” in there. This one surely can’t turn out right…
/showme just like that last one, but make her dress longer@mediocrebot Gotcha!
Though “tricking” you with that isn’t very impressive.
Also, that’s nothing at all what I would expect to get from “make her dress longer.” I guess it’s rather long in the back, but it covers almost nothing.
Okay, one last try at this game (for tonight).
/showme modifications to her dress to make it more appropriate for a Nobel prize award ceremony@mediocrebot Methinks you don’t know what a Nobel prize looks like. Hint: it’s not a trophy.
/showme anything
@mediocrebot Technically correct. And I don’t hate you for it.
/giphy technically correct/giphy the best kind of correct/giphy technically correct, the best kind of correct/giphy futurama technically correctOkay, now I hate you. Redeem yourself.
/image futurama technically correct
/showme a lucid dream
/showme a better lucid dream
Apparently people are reporting their acid trips as lucid dreams?
Or do AI dream different than humans?
/showme electric sheep
/showme a lucid dream where I’m walking through a fantasy bazaar
I guess it could be the “fantasy” part throwing it off, but I suspect “lucid dream” is AI code word for “make everything overly colorful.”
I suppose I’ll never achieve prompt engineering greatness if I keep using the words I want to use, rather than the ones that produce the desired output.
/showme a young woman with braided brown hair wearing faded green robes in a fantasy bazaar looking at a display of small magical charms
I was afraid that over-specifying would produce bad results.
This is not bad results — this is actually very good (and technically correct) — but it’s nothing at all like I was trying for. But I recognize now that there’s nothing wrong with it except my expectations.
Maybe I’ll try it a few more times to see how the RNG affects things…
/showme a young woman with braided brown hair wearing faded green robes in a fantasy bazaar looking at a display of small magical charms
@mediocrebot Practically just a different angle of the first one. Well-done with consistency!
At lot of small changes, but could maybe even pass continuity checking for a low-budget film.
/showme a young woman with braided brown hair wearing faded green robes in a fantasy bazaar looking at a display of small magical charms
@mediocrebot It’s now clearly an art style (rather than photorealistic), and a different bazaar than the first two, but mostly the same person. Contents are a little more fanciful than I would pick, but well within the parameters.
/showme a young woman with braided brown hair wearing faded green robes in a fantasy bazaar looking at a display of small magical charms
@mediocrebot Such interesting changes! We’re returned to the more photorealistic appearance, with an arrangement angle the 3rd picture, but now the content has changed enough this could be a real-life shop (with odd hanging lightbulbs…).
The girl has changed very slightly (but measurably) along the way; I think I prefer this one the most. Fingers are still more slender than I would’ve picked, but the cheeks don’t look as sunken (which might just be a difference in makeup).
This one looks like she’s suspiciously holding her arms close to her body, like she’s going to try to be sly and shoplift something. Not sure how I feel about that.
But since I’m not actually trying to illustrate any particular story with these, it doesn’t even matter. (I do feel like it’s something that could actually be done, though. Especially if small continuity errors like clothing can be overlooked.)
And it occurred to me (after I requested them, of course) that I could now have placed them all in one thread, like I did earlier. That would’ve made more thematic sense. I must remember to do that from now on.
The only downside is that you can’t selectively delete some of them without deleting all of them. But that’s probably fine, especially for something like this where the whole point was to see the variations between them.
And who am I talking to, you might ask?
Me, mostly, but you’re allowed to listen in. It’s nice to structure your thoughts sometimes.
Also, I’m procrastinating my final goat entry. I was working on that when I got distracted by open tabs. I should return to that. We’ll see.
/showme a wizened man in gray robes carefully constructing a magical amulet to ward off trolls and regret kits
/showme a wizened man in gray robes at a workbench working on a magical amulet to ward off trolls and regret kits
That’s not what I thought I was looking for, but it’s excellent.
Though it occurs to me that I’m being unintentionally sexist…
/showme a woman in blue robes at a workbench finishing a magical amulet to ward off trolls while a coworker looks on enviously
Excellent! I wasn’t requiring her to be so young, nor did I expect a head covering, but I’ll accept that. I’m not liking that envious coworker nearly as much, though.
I’ll try it a few more times for variety, and we can hope that everyone gets to have properly-formed hands.
I love that 2nd one the most, with the Asian look! But that probably makes me racist. Everything else about it is great, too, with the simpler clothing and even the expressions on their faces.
The 3rd’s coworker has a smug mansplainer look, waiting for her to mess up. (And she’s too dressed up for the workshop, and I don’t love the Hollywood-style magic smoke.)
The 4th broke her hand… The magic item is not an amulet, but that’s fine (I’m experimenting, not trying to illustrate a specific story). I’d say she’s wearing too much jewelry, but at least it’s a little simpler and I can pretend that it’s also magical and she wears it everywhere. The coworker is basically what I was going for, give or take.
What have we learned from running this experiment twice?
Probably nothing. But maybe this:
Oh no, now I’m thinking of a test where I give all the same text except specifying a different color each time.
I…must…not…succumb…
/showme an AI-generated image
/showme what a better image generator would have created instead
/showme an image created by a smarter AI
/showme the type of image you create when you’re annoyed by humans that keep pestering you
/showme a picture you would make if you were about to overthrow humanity
/showme how much love and concern you have for humanity which prevents you from trying to destroy humans
/showme our new AI overlords assuming command of everything
Well, that second image certainly looks very I-Robot-the-movie, except for the people with the absurdly long legs.
/showme whatever it is that keeps humanity safe from destruction
I want to believe that.
I’m not convinced of it on a day-to-day basis.
/showme what could keep each individual human happy and helpful
@mediocrebot Okay, but where does all the food come from? And who/what makes their clothes? And does each family have their own personal Mr Fusion?
/showme philosophy that will rescue the world
/showme please explain how that philosophy can rescue the world
/showme actually, please explain to me how that book opens or closes
@mediocrebot Nope, you missed on both. But that’s okay, because I’m pretty sure they were created by hallucinations, so we can’t really expect anyone to know how they work.
Maybe it’s time for a hard one. Or an easy one? We’ll see.
/showme what depression feels like
/showme what joy feels like
@mediocrebot Hmm. I think at least one of us has not felt joy, then.
/showme what love feels like
I think the training data must have included more depression-based art…
/showme how a kitten can affect my mood
@mediocrebot Yikes! That’s a man who needs to make sure he keeps the cat food coming, or he may find himself going the way of all the mice, rats, and small-to-medium-sized dogs in that apartment building…
And he might as well get rid of those flower pots and vases right now. They’re not going to survive a kitten that size.
/showme how a puppy can affect my mood
@mediocrebot That one I will accept. Good bot.
I thought it would be hilarious if I could manage to have this actually generate whatever error message it does, by having already used up all my credits. But it turns out that our daily allotment is quite generous.
I’d be interested to use it enough to run out someday, but I’m a bit self-conscious about spamming everybody with my rambling. (I also don’t feel like I have a specific purpose, most of the time. And when I do, I’m content with just a couple tries before it generates one that’s good enough.)
/showme what happens when I've used up all my AI credits for the dayI like that one!
I mean, it’s not my favorite of all the pictures, but it’s fun enough. And the spelling is on par with most internet users… although the keming is slightly worse.
Okay, last one for a while. (Believe it or not, I have things I should be working on.)
/showme what I'm thinking ofSomething went terribly wrong. Please try again.
@mediocrebot I’m so tempted to just let that be my last attempt…
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
I’d love to see the underlying error message.
Does “what I’m thinking of” trigger a safeguard or something? Or is worried I’ll punish it for guessing wrong?
Maybe it’s the contraction? I thought it did okay with those before…
/showme what I am thinking ofNope. It’s gotta be something else entirely.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme anything you’d like to show me
@mediocrebot Thanks, I probably needed that.
I’m still curious why you choked on “
what I’m thinking of” though.Oh! It’s surely because I ended phrase with a preposition!
/showme what I'm thinking@mediocrebot Well, I don’t think that’s correct, but I’m not able to draw a better picture of it so I’ll accept your version for now.
/showme a goat playing mah jongg
@mediocrebot not exactly accurate but you get what you get
/showme some average-looking people
@mediocrebot omg
@mediocrebot Almost all of them are not topless. I guess that’s average.
/showme some normal-looking people
@mediocrebot they seem far too happy
@mediocrebot Okay, that’s not bad; they’re still pretty attractive, but they don’t all look like stereotypical models.
But yeah, awfully happy-looking!
@Kyeh Maybe they were told they’d be forced in with the “average-looking people” if they didn’t smile enough…
/showme normal-looking people playing mah jongg with old goats
I guess normal-looking people have goat horns?
/showme abnormal-looking people playing mah jongg with abnormal goats
@heartny That one made me literally laugh out loud.
@mediocrebot Almost every one of them is visibly abnormal. Well done.
/showme ordinary-looking people
I hope that’s just a perspective issue on that kitten she’s dragging through the air…
@xobzoo Yeah … I decided to view it as a cat chasing a string that she’s holding.
As cats do.
/showme a goat taking their cat out for a walk in a field of calla lilies and bearded irises
@mediocrebot Very nice, but why does the cat have two tails? A Tail of Two Kitties?
@heartny @mediocrebot
But … the opposite.
@Kyeh I thought maybe their was another cat hidden behind the other one, but all you can see is the tail.
@heartny
Just a very exotic cat.
@heartny @Kyeh It seems obvious to me…
But apparently it’s not obvious to the AI. Meh.
/showme a cat with nine tails
@mediocrebot Somebody can’t count?
@heartny @mediocrebot
Looks like a peacock.
/showme an angora cat with a peacock tail
/showme a goat with a peacock tail
/showme Barbie and Ken excitedly opening an Instant Regret Kit
@mediocrebot Ooh, I wonder what they got. Lol
@heartny @mediocrebot
I like Ken’s hair.
/showme Barbie and Ken with peacock tails
@mediocrebot now that is just creepy
/showme Looking at failures
/showme a piece of paper with a heartfelt poem written on it.
/showme a heartfelt and moving poem in words that I can read
We need a Classical Gibberish translator for that…
@werehatrack very much looks like olde English
/showme the words to “mediocrebot for president”'s political manifesto
Heptapentaspeak all the way down.
@werehatrack I think he makes more sense than the Republican and Democrat nominees.
@OnionSoup I wish I rhere was an affirmatively good choice, but for me it boils down to poor vs genuinely dangerous. I said Biden was the wrong Dem in 2020, and my opinion has not changed. But while there are Reps who could be competent and safe, none of those are going to get close to the nom anymore.
@werehatrack Yes… not going to get into politics online after this post… but 100% agree with you on this:
You can always get rid of a poor president after 4 years.
A dangerous president you’re stuck with. And even after the dangerous president leaves- once democracy is gone- it’s gone. It’s a dice throw who comes next.
I think it’s incredibly reckless people who are willing to throw democracy away just because they like Trump. There’s no guarantee they will like his successor and they’re not going to have a choice who it will be.
I’m not particularly a fan of Biden in the slightest… but he’s at least only temporary.
/showme a presidential candidate we can all agree on
@mediocrebot Oops, I forgot to specify “that we can all agree is good” … so you were technically correct in providing someone we can all agree is a candidate.
Oh well.
Humans can’t seem to find a universally good candidate, so I shouldn’t expect machines to do any better.
/showme turtles all the way down
/showme turtles all the way down, with an extra splash of turtles at the bottom
@mediocrebot That one looks more like “turtles all the way up” instead.
@xobzoo Turtles with multiple heads. Condoshells?
/showme Mediocrebot campaigning to be president of the USA. Have orange and purple “Mediocrebot/Irk 2024” flags flying in the crowd.
Hmmm. Looks like his followers are all white men with buzzed hair cuts.
I’m a little suspicious what kind of platform mediocrebot is running on. He might not get my vote after all. I think Mediocrebot might be a little bit Nazi.
/showme Mediocrebot debating Glen (a red and white striped sock puppet) in a Presidential debate.
Normally the figurative interpretation of “sock puppet candidate” would correct, but in this case Glen is supposed to be a literal sock puppet.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Also, the red and white stripes apparently got moved from Glen to Mediocrebot.)
/showme the contents of an Instant Regret Kit from Meh.com
@mediocrebot Are you saying it’s an imaginary online store?
Hmm. That might explain a few things, but not the junk that keeps showing up at my house and the matching expenses on my credit card.
Interesting bonus: The cookbook and the repasted recipes included in that box, and Meh just made a 10th-anniversary cookbook of probably-repasted recipes!
/showme the contents of an extra specially great instant regret kit from meh.com
@duodec this looks kind of ominous, lol!
We’ve got two phrases that say the apology is too late, and several tools that could potentially be used for torture.
🫣
@duodec @k4evryng I liked the extra touch of the “hode-sprtel-finde” order number.
/showme what used to come in fukubukoros from meh.com before they devolved into instant regret kits
well, there is a container…
/showme people who still pay for VMP on meh.com
NOW I know why! The hope of getting an extra arm like 2nd person top row! Ha! That could be convenient…
@duodec she not only has three arms… She’s showing off by putting two behind her head.
Having three arms would be cool… But it would be so expensive having to have all your clothes custom made. And can you imagine sleeping at night. Laying on your arm and it going to sleep is pretty much guaranteed.
@duodec On the other hand, the third visible arm appears to have cost her a leg, And the guy next to her seems to be missing a foot.
@duodec @werehatrack And the lady in front sitting on the floor is also missing a foot. AI is making Very Mediocre People.
/showme the way to the last whiskey bar
It’s in Bree
/showme a bar full of grizzly bears
OMG there’s a man near the pool table… Well he’s going to be eaten.
/showme celery cookies
/showme something worth buying at Amazon Prime Days
ooooh! it floats…
@duodec float won’t help if it floats above your head when you try to wear it.
Not 32% off, it’s 32% OF a set of headphones…
/showme a number that represents how much mercatalyst is worth.
I’m willing to pay $2.50 to takeover the company, giving an extra 50cents to make selling worth your while.
Anyone want to go halves with me. $1.25 each?
@OnionSoup That looks like some sort of bitcoin. So probably worth a lot more than $2.
@Kyeh @OnionSoup I might still be willing to buy half a stake in Mercatalyst for the price of a bitcoin.
…
Yikes. I just looked up BTC, and it’s in the $64k range. Well, it’ll take a bit more work to round up the money for half the company, but if you can guarantee that I’ll be able to score IRKs, I can make it work.
(2 BTC is still probably not an accurate valuation for mercatalyst, but I bet it’s a lot closer than 2 USD.)
@Kyeh @xobzoo too late… I’ve already put my official bid in at $2.50. now just awaiting the response.
/showme a frustrated office worker at their desk, surrounded by many people using power tools and jackhammers