/showme an image generating bot creating a photorealistic representation of a forum user who has become impatient because the discussion topic has too many replies and is taking too long to load
@duodec@mediocrebot@pmarin The Millennium Falcon was only supposed to be a concept ship, it was never actually supposed to go into production. But then some bright idiot decided it would be fun to sell something like that, and they built some. And it turned out that there were a few crews who could actually keep one going. There’s a reason why you don’t see very many of them, though. Actually, more than one reason.
I mean, I get that a swallow is a swallow, and I’m glad that they both look like each other, but they’re basically identical shape and position.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And there we have a brilliant illustration of why an AI-scripted remake of Grail would truly suck. (And they’d get the Knights Who Formerly Said Ni! wrong, as well.)
@heartny@werehatrack That’s how Kensington was spelled in Old and Middle English.
Well, actually, Kennew is the region name, but the capital Kensington (“ton” = “town”) is the only remnant of that land’s original name still surviving.
@duodec Well, they have to have a bite of something before they can swallow it. They’re not breatharians.
It’s just that you normally only see them eating tiny bugs and stuff.
@duodec@mediocrebot@xobzoo
/showme outdoor landscape, several cats flying through the air, scary politician in suit running on the ground, in style of Magritte
/showme a Dodge W300 outfitted as Los Angeles County Rescue Squad 51 in fire engine red paint, but as large as a skyscraper and parked next to the Empire State Building
@mediocrebot That’s pretty close, at least half my life ago. But I never would’ve kept books lying open while I was on the computer.
Also, that laptop is way to thin for that stage of my life. I had a hand-me-down laptop (with a non-functional battery) for a while, but it was much thicker and smaller of screen than that shown.
Nowadays I don’t look or feel that young, and I can’t seem to do anything with books. (though I still have great love/reverence/nostalgia for them, and have trouble not collecting more)
@duodec@mediocrebot That’s not an Apple II and I’m not sure what the disk array on the right or CD like device above the monitor is, but I guess it got the general idea. At least the fingers look ok.
@kuoh agreed, but its a CRT and things look reasonably vintage; I actually had a mouse on my ][plus too, though it looked more like the early Mac mouse than that one. The AI got the spirit of the thing.
/showme an image generating bot creating a photorealistic representation of a forum user who has become impatient because the discussion topic has too many replies and is taking too long to load
@mediocrebot Harrumph. I dye my hair.
@mediocrebot @werehatrack I’m wondering where the “photorealistic representation” is being displayed.
OBTW, the originals are here:
Version 2.0: https://meh.com/forum/topics/showme-v20
Version 2.0.01: https://meh.com/forum/topics/showme-v2001
Neither of these has been enhanced via the optimizing features of products from today’s spoon source, Crownstricken.
/showme today’s spoon source, Crownstricken
/showme today’s sponsons
@mediocrebot hmm. Almost steampunky
/showme toady’s sponsors
/showme an entirely innocent matcha-flavored cheescake with a crust made of crumbled chocolate sandwich cookies
/showme a chocolate mousse cake in the shape of a balloon dog
@mediocrebot Looks too much like poop. I’ll try s different flavor.
/showme a rainbow cake with frosting in the shape of a balloon dog
/showme an AI generating a /showme an AI generating a /showme an AI generating a /showme…
I’m not sure that’s all the right stuff, but I get a sense that it’s actually attempting the recursion.
/showme coffee black
/showme tea, earl grey, hot
/showme what I should have been doing tonight instead of responding to Teams messages and then checking Meh.com
@mediocrebot is maybe a bit warm for that, but a solid effort
@guyfromhawthorn @mediocrebot Yeah it’s been hot lately but just seeing the line
Gave me a serious chill. Still getting flashbacks since retiring last year. Glad I’m under a down cover now.
/showme a representation of the hydraulic operation of a Chrysler A518 torqueflite transmission
@mediocrebot That has absolutely nothing to do with a torqueflite transmission…
@duodec @mediocrebot In fact, it bears no resemblance to any automotive transmission of my experience.
@duodec @mediocrebot @werehatrack you’ve apparently never worked on the Millennium Falcon.
@duodec @mediocrebot @pmarin @werehatrack I think I see where the alluvial dampers are supposed to go.
@duodec @mediocrebot @pmarin The Millennium Falcon was only supposed to be a concept ship, it was never actually supposed to go into production. But then some bright idiot decided it would be fun to sell something like that, and they built some. And it turned out that there were a few crews who could actually keep one going. There’s a reason why you don’t see very many of them, though. Actually, more than one reason.
/showme the air speed velocity of a European swallow
@mediocrebot apparently math is hard
@pmarin It’s arguably harder than spelling.
@xobzoo @pmarin Yeah, peen math is is often wildly inaccurate.
/showme the air speed velocity of an African swallow
Apparently swallows have exactly one shape?
I mean, I get that a swallow is a swallow, and I’m glad that they both look like each other, but they’re basically identical shape and position.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@xobzoo Highly optimized for max air speed, no doubt.
/showme Arthur, King of the Britons, requesting clarification from the bridge keeper about which type of swallow’s airspeed is being requested
And there we have a brilliant illustration of why an AI-scripted remake of Grail would truly suck. (And they’d get the Knights Who Formerly Said Ni! wrong, as well.)
@werehatrack Where is the land Kennew?
@heartny @werehatrack That’s how Kensington was spelled in Old and Middle English.
Well, actually, Kennew is the region name, but the capital Kensington (“ton” = “town”) is the only remnant of that land’s original name still surviving.
/showme the knights who formerly said Ni! making demands of Brave Sir Robin
/showme the knights who formerly said Ni! with only a flesh wound
/showme waist of Father Time
/showme a waste of rosemary, sage and thyme
/showme the knights who formerly said Ni! receiving flesh wounds from European and African swallows
@mediocrebot I said swallows, not velociraptors!
@mediocrebot
/showme a flesh wound
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
@mediocrebot Yeah, you don’t know what a flesh wound looks like!
/showme the black knight suffering a flesh wound
@duodec Well, they have to have a bite of something before they can swallow it. They’re not breatharians.
It’s just that you normally only see them eating tiny bugs and stuff.
/showme strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
/showme cats happily sleeping on Windows computers with blue screen of death in background.
@mediocrebot The one on the top left is the I.T. Cat just waking up thinking “what? did something happen?”
The other two are like “whatever.”
/showme business cat
(I was hoping for something like the original Business Cat)
/showme the neighboring princess with huge tracts of land
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/showme a cat running for president
/showme a cat running from a president
/showme a cat running away from a president
@mediocrebot That one’s no better! Neither of them is running from a president, they both look like they’re running with a president.
@mediocrebot @xobzoo
@duodec @mediocrebot @xobzoo
/showme outdoor landscape, several cats flying through the air, scary politician in suit running on the ground, in style of Magritte
/showme paramedics desperately trying to save a man with water balloons for knees who attempted to play jump rope
/showme a Dodge W300 outfitted as Los Angeles County Rescue Squad 51 in fire engine red paint, but as large as a skyscraper and parked next to the Empire State Building
@mediocrebot not too bad.
/showme cats buying ice cream from a Good Humor ice cream truck
@mediocrebot They’re facing the wrong way.
Did the Good Humor
mancat run out of rodent-flavor?@mediocrebot @xobzoo the reflection in some of their eyes shows a human, probably with a laser pointer.
(Geez their eyes… And that cat in the middle with an embedded medallion and extra forepaw)
/showme a good humor ice cream truck selling cats in ice cream cones to passing meerkats
/showme a cavalcade of caravans with carillons playing sonorous country western songs
@mediocrebot Did you confuse carillons with calliopes or something?
/showme why I don’t want to go to bed
@mediocrebot That’s pretty close, at least half my life ago. But I never would’ve kept books lying open while I was on the computer.
Also, that laptop is way to thin for that stage of my life. I had a hand-me-down laptop (with a non-functional battery) for a while, but it was much thicker and smaller of screen than that shown.
Nowadays I don’t look or feel that young, and I can’t seem to do anything with books. (though I still have great love/reverence/nostalgia for them, and have trouble not collecting more)
/showme me late at night playing Wizardry on an Apple ][plus computer with an Amdek amber monitor
@mediocrebot actually not too bad
@duodec @mediocrebot That’s not an Apple II and I’m not sure what the disk array on the right or CD like device above the monitor is, but I guess it got the general idea. At least the fingers look ok.
KuoH
@kuoh agreed, but its a CRT and things look reasonably vintage; I actually had a mouse on my ][plus too, though it looked more like the early Mac mouse than that one. The AI got the spirit of the thing.
/showme Van Gogh’s Starry Night with a blue Balloon Dog
/showme a polydactyl irk puppet
/showme a Boeing 777 airliner that is being held together by mass quantities of duct tape while parked at a gate
@mediocrebot Looks safer than what’s currently available.
/showme a red-headed female witch in the style of a roman mosaic