Wait what’s with the knives? That baby is holding one, his dad is giving one to the other baby… I don’t get this reference I’m a brute sorry

I see what you mean, she has a different expression, more confident, and her hair looks more wild.

With the dress she’s showing her waist and bosom but the style looks a bit outdated for us now.

Totally agree the guy is hot haha

Is this a secret though?

Ok, so you didn’t find this funny but you shared it all the same? Why?

And the ladybug larvae are so cool looking too, and they munch on harmful mold as well

Eh… It says that in a room with a thousand people you would be smarter than 345 of them.

That’s the same as saying in a ranking where no. 1000 is the smartest and no.1 is pretty much the dumbest person, you would be number 346.

For items purchased online only, I try to. I tend to buy on AliExpress and the photos don’t always do justice to the product. It’s very helpful to see the experiences of others when making a purchase.

Interestingly I have had many experiences which resulted in products better than expected, and if I see this trend of comments on a product I’m undecided, I’ll probably be swayed to purchase. The opposite is true when the reviews denounce a product or seller as a scam.

Other than that I will give my opinion on other products if someone asks. Say for example someone on Lemmy asked about vacuum cleaner recommendations, or wondering about a specific phone model I once had, I would chime in with my personal experience.

TLDR yes whenever possible, because you can’t always trust the seller to be honest. You need an impartial opinion.

Beautiful

AI can emulate any style, including traditional styles. It’s not just some amateur who can’t manage their commissions among uni/high school exams getting fucked over. But sure, you must be right. Every artist deserves their livelihood compromised because some random dude can’t pick a proper professional.

As a side note, and hoping this helps others looking to hire an artist:

Whenever dealing with illustration customers I’ve signed a contract. The contract specifies the amount of revisions covered over a single artwork and how much would it cost to carry on further. It also gives some framework of reference on the type of work involved when doing revisions, ie examples of techniques used or the proportion of the area being reworked (changing half the character would be a major revision, changing small details would be a minor revision, etc). Hashing out a contract gives me and my client time to agree on payment, such as milestone payments, which means that if the client isn’t happy with the performance they can withdraw early and only lose a fraction of the money. It also means the artist can hold up on delivering if the payment never shows up. It protects both parties, essentially.

If you as a client chose to throw away your money at someone without working out fair conditions and deadlines, well, what can I say. You gambled and lost.

Be a better client, learn how to pick better professionals.

Depends on what you consider a cartoon.

I can’t pick a single decade either. I’m a fan of the 30’s-50’s cartoons, in spite of any content/stereotypes that hasn’t aged well.

Fast forward a little bit I think the 90’s have some of the best cartoons produced, with cartoon network and nickelodeon taking the lion’s share of it.

If you consider anime a cartoon too, I would say the 80’s is where it’s at.

Terry Pratchett

No

Best way to force something is with a partner in crime. Find someone else interested in doing something creative and work a plan. That teamwork can become motivation. This can be very hard though, I’m going through somewhat of a similar situation. What creative field would you be looking into? Ttrpg is a good start, speaking from experience.

I’ll be curious.

It never worked properly on my android phone that doesn’t have Google services

Just properly or actually not at all? Currently, my android has Google services, but my WhatsApp isn’t linked to any Google Account. It runs as expected. I wonder what your experience was, as I’d like to own a google free phone sometime but I don’t think I’ll be able to remove WhatsApp from my life unfortunately.

It doesn’t spam your phone with photos, unless you decide to download them

It doesn’t backup your conversations to your already nearly full, Google owned Drive

Dark mode by default

Not owned by Meta

No frills, I couldn’t care less for “personal stories” or whatever bs Whatsapp has

Basically it is somewhat more respectful of your agency as a user.

…edit: yes you have a setting to toggle backup off. And to change background to whatever you want. And I’m sorry for you, because your deeply cynical friends (your words) probably won’t care about my points either. Because in essence, all my reasons rest on personal values. Which your friends already don’t care about, else they would be complaining about things such as no space on phone or being annoyed at having to change settings for things they don’t want or need.

I use signal but never managed to get rid of WhatsApp. It’s a default app nowadays and most people use it. I constantly deal with random customers and whatnot through it. Only family is on signal. Which is sort of nice, I see a signal notification and know it’s someone important.

Nope, not on my end. Interesting

Maybe but don’t you think the light looks fake? Not even photoshopped makes sense. Anyway…

Ahhh good choice the cashews. Nuts are so expensive!

I haven’t read this. Curious as to the combat. What makes it good? Is this one on one combat or are we talking about troops facing each other? Or both?

Ah, I love recommendation posts.

It depends on what you actually enjoyed reading and why. I see you already have a lot of great suggestions. The only author I haven’t yet seen mentioned is perhaps Asimov, although you said you prefer fantasy to sci fi. That’s also my preference, however I find his short stories are worth reading and also low commitment for this reason.

One thing I find useful in recommendations is to know what else people have read and what they think about that. It helps me get an idea of which books I’m more likely to enjoy best or not, especially if I can compare their thoughts to mine about the same books. With that in mind, my thoughts:

Discworld is amazing. Pratchett is a great author. I like that he can write a story that on the surface is just a simple comedy/adventure, but if you are the type that also analyzes what they read you will soon see his stories go much deeper than what they appear to be. He will keep things entertaining and witty but also throw at you a piece of his mind for you to mull over and reflect on various aspects of life. Small Gods is one of my favorites.

I also really enjoyed Dungeon Crawler Karl, and I mean really really really. Hilarious. But it doesn’t have the depth Pratchett has.

On a similar vein, The Witcher- loved the characters and the story is very entertaining, but t can’t say I was blown away as with Pratchett.

I absolutely loved Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy. Now that’s some solid writing. The characters are so well fleshed out, unique, original. Somehow the world and the plot feel realistic, crazy as it sounds for a fantasy book. It may feel a bit slower in pacing than any of the three I previously mentioned, but not slower than LOTR which you have already read.