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- jagara5
Payed an artist on Fiverr to do a manga (chibi) portrait of me and my sister. The way she interpreted all my instructions and added her own touch and personality to the illustration... hard for an AI to do. Humans still produce better results (I knew this already, btw).
- Will post when it's done :)jagara
- Portrait king:
https://www.instagra…palimpsest - Can we see the results?milfhunter
- Will post when it's done :)jagara
- @palimpsest these are actually really cool, imo :)jagara
- They're horrible but they are indeed cool.palimpsest
- please don't tell me portrait king is making any money or I'm going to head to the nearest Russian window_niko
- My skills are probably as good as his. I remember back in the day I wanted to set up shop in a touristy area and produce this kind of work for a minimal fee.palimpsest
- I would have had the time of my life, the tourists I'm not so sure.palimpsest
- @_niko
I'm sure Rassan king lives solely on commissions. That's the beaty of it. If he were doing it for himself it wouldn't be as fun.palimpsest - Y'all's too focused on the retinal. You need to free your minds.palimpsest
- don't get me wrong, his work is infinitely more interesting than the actual subject matter but it just drives me nuts/fucking admire that people just do it and_niko
- ...don't give a fuck. as shitty as he is it's a million times better than my drawings that I don't post anywhere and nobody sees fml lol_niko
- Indeed. Your testimony just adds more value to his work, and I don't mean monetary value.palimpsest
- @palimpsest cool, as in, he's got a distinct comically bad style, that he's leaning into.jagara
- "They're horrible but they are indeed cool."
- palimpsestpalimpsest - Just elaborated :)jagara
- Would be funny if the fiverrr guy used AI to do your drawingdrgs
- Well, she did send me a preliminary sketch. Which i guess could be AI generated, but I doubt it ;Djagara
- @jagara
Did you check their previous work? I remember I once payed 5$ on Fiverr for a portrait of a QBNer and they hit me back with a PS filter.palimpsest - Given the amount I paid I didn't feel I could complain. The fucker was actually trying to help me.palimpsest
- "I would have had the time of my life, the tourists I'm not so sure" LOL. 'knowing' you as I do, I can imagine the turns your trolling might take! :)Nairn
- Damn, palimp, I think you missed your calling, there! Still time, though ... see you on le Pont des Arts. :DContinuity
- Imagine the effort I would have put on the "proper" outfit!palimpsest
- If you don't grow a pencil moustache for this, I will be so very, very disappointed in you.Continuity
- @palimpsest yes i checked their previous work. And it cost me 50 usd, not 5.jagara
- palimpsest1
Speaking of mustaches...
Back in the 90s my crazy asian girlfriend decided to cut off her hair one night when we were hanging out with my best friend. Naturally, I decided to pull out the glue gun and make myself a Fu Manchu mustache that fell to my clavicle (it only stung a little, twice). Seeing that it stuck, homie did the same. Then the three of us headed out into the night. We took a cab to our destination, when the driver tried to make small talk my mythomaniac girl told the driver we didn't speak the language (it was a surprise to us all). The driver was dead silent while we were laughing our asses off during the whole ride. We were all completely sober. Good times!
- damn thought you said nymphomaniac and we were going to get the second volume of "so I'm dating a pro" but funny story none the less :)_niko
- ^ LOLContinuity
- LOL.
Even I have limits.palimpsest
- jagara3
Only one Last Of Us episode left. Oh man. So Good.
- garbage6
I am going to be kind and non-confrontational for an entire week, both on the internet and real life.
Now lob insults and political views while downvoting this to infinity to test my resolve.
- Challenge accepted.palimpsest
- Hypothetical situation: grafician posts in the sidenotes to this post.
How do you react?Continuity - LOL
Calling in the big guns!palimpsest - He did say to test his resolve! :DContinuity
- Let's start slow:
Pelosi 2025!!!palimpsest - @cont I will welcome him with open arms. I'm hoping he's having a good day.garbage
- I could hear you grinding your teeth as you typed that out from here!Continuity
- @pamp That's just a good joke, made me laugh.garbage
- Nope, all smiles so far.garbage
- The week has only started.palimpsest
- What are your thoughts on digestion and chewing food?shapesalad
- Tomatoes, calculators & chewing food.palimpsest
- You forgot not-human humans.Continuity
- I've already weighed in on chewing food. I had my jaw wired shut when I was a kid, chugged pepperoni pizza smoothies.garbage
- Much prefer chewing, tomatoes are great for eating and throwing (not this week). Calculators are fine for math and throwing (not this week).garbage
- Here's an idea, you should nominate someone at the end of your nice week and that fucker has to be nice for the following week. And so on and so on.palimpsest
- You can't say no because it's your #niceweek.palimpsest
- That's a great idea. Whoever gets closest to getting me tilted gains the weight of the Nice Crown.garbage
- We have fun here.garbage
- *backs off slowlyContinuity
- Best of health and luck and fun this week!grafician
- There's our bwoy!palimpsest
- Hey graf, sometimes I take heat for comments you make because our names are similar. I don't blame you, I blame the alphabet.garbage
- It's Tuesday, have a taco or three!garbage
- You've been confused for grafician?
You're both equal qunts but different flavors.palimpsest - Haha yeah, it's happened in a few threads over the years. Happens when the tips touch, I guess.garbage
- Sorry bro for collateral damage, I have my haters around here, you know thatgrafician
- Why would anyone hate you, grafician?palimpsest
- There are no enemies, only misunderstandings. #niceweekgarbage
- One can be nice and still maintain their dignity.
You're just being a hypocrite.palimpsest - I'm not being insincere, and I'm not sure what about this makes me a hypocrite? I'm ok with it though, and I hope you're having a good day.garbage
- oey_oey0
Any examples of well-designed websites that offer workshops and courses given by different instructors?
I'm looking into examples of how the workshop and course programs are presented and structured on a web page and how these are connected to the profile of the instructors.
- https://conference.a…utopian
- wow! I'm doing something more conventional for people over 40 years old for whom a website is a like a 2000 blog.oey_oey
- that's a great website utopian, thanks!oey_oey
- It’s nothing crazy but this is how my school does it https://www.gnomon.e…scarabin
- What about something like https://www.mastercl… ?Continuity
- this is more in the direction I could imagine doing it, if they're into itoey_oey
- You could have a look at Skillshare, too, but it's not nearly as elegant as Masterclass.Continuity
- Skillshare was the first one I looked into, thanks all for your input. QBN delivery service at its maxoey_oey
- drgs0
Is pali's goals for 2023 to set top scores in all of his own benchmarks?
Discuss
- OBBTKN2
Just bought a pair of schwalbe tyres, half price.
And last week, tons of isotonic drink and new socks for my "biker costume".
Let's see when I stop rewarding myself for quitting and go out to hit the bike on the road.
* The truth is that it is still cold and better to continue with the roller (I know, excuses).
- just go!uan
- i've just been out in the cold sleety rain over here ffs, put your new socks on and get gounghans_glib
- going evenhans_glib
- gong svenhans_glib
- I just put tan sidewall Schwalbe Pro One rubber back on my steed, goddamn I missed them. Fatherhood is around the corner, can't see myself using it much tho' =\BuddhaHat
- Ianbolton0
Not sure it's something cool enough for QBN, but we have a client working on selling garden furniture. They have shit loads of options, almost a bespoke to whatever you need.
After some EXAMPLES OF WEBSITES with a 'build your own' set up. It's more conceptual at the moment, but I feel theyd want a modular system which will eventually lead you to a final set purchase.
Reading that back, not sure it makes total sense, but i'm gonna click post anyway!! Thanks beautiful people :-)
- sort of like those "build your own car" pages on a car website?hans_glib
- maybe. Although in my head I feel like cars are way cooler than garden furniture so missed the connectionIanbolton
- Ughhhh... made some customization websites in Flash (loooong ago...), hope you've got a good budget for itOBBTKN
- A quick search/result: https://www.decorill…OBBTKN
- Good old Flash! Budget is going to be reasonable and thanks for the link.Ianbolton
- https://tylko.com/
has a decent build-your-own functionality.
It's for shelving units - so equally as exciting as garden furniture ;)microkorg - You select from pre-built templates then customise from there.microkorg
- If I wanted to hire a carpenter I would. Why don't they just make 1 set of very well made, very good design furniture?shapesalad
- Build your own furniture is a solution to > market is so saturated, customers are cognitively exhausted hunting for what they want.shapesalad
- Thanks for your input as always SSIanbolton
- lolNairn
- \o/Nairn
- palimpsest0
It's International Women's Day.
Don't forget to buy flowers for your ladies.- Isn't that patronising? "oh you are woman, here... have these dying flowers."shapesalad
- It's International Women's Day - let them buy dinner, drinks and flowers for you. In the name of equality, so we can celebrate their earning power.shapesalad
- I'm happy to learn that you have someone in your life again.palimpsest
- If you're bored you can get in on the attention by identifying as a woman for the day.i_monk
- We're all women for a daypango
- Nairn6
In trying to explain to my daughter how muscles work, and why it's not a bad thing that her arms and legs hurt a little after she used them lots today - as long as she eats some eggs to help build things back - i stupidly described the extreme of things and showed her photos of bodybuilders and now I'm worried I might've planted the seed of some weird latent dysmorphia where she grows up wanting to be the Hulk-version of Frozen's Elsa. At least the two franchises are owned by the same corporation, I guess.
She said she wants to look like #4. Oops. Her mother's going to kill me.
- Better get her on creatine monohydrate supplements and whey protein now, then.Continuity
- Why? Her mother looks more like #7?shapesalad
- Not a bad goal. My wee sister wanted to be a page 3 model at your daughters agePhanLo
- don't panic. wait until she realizes the effort involved.hotroddy
- Yeah bodybuilding is not for womendrgs
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- Better than her wanting to look like LizzoAlum31
- ^exactlyformed
- The truth, you deserve to be killed by her ;)OBBTKN
- did you tell her that all these women are on steroids/ and/ or hormone therapy to look like men?NBQ00
- maybe show her some ex-body b´s in their 40´s to 60´s that muscle dream dissolves from horror show to horrorshow²neverscared
- Show her the full spectrum from the Olsen twins to Nikocado Avocado.
Let her make her own choices.palimpsest - LiverQueen™ArchitectofFate
- We need an update on what her mother said.palimpsest
- ^ Totally. We need to know the status of Nairn's killed-ness.Continuity
- RIP NairnOBBTKN
- We barely knew ya...palimpsest
- pwhaha lol. at least number 4 looks OKmilfhunter
- death by snu snu https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- Which one would you say no to?palimpsest
- I would refuse 2-5 - the other 3 can crush me any way they chooserobthelad
- Uh-oh.
Still no reply from Nairn.
Looks like Mrs Nairn did for him.
RIP Nairn.Continuity - Personally, I'm all about numbers 1 and 6.Continuity
- I wasn't daft enough to admit what I've done, but I fully expect my daughter to drop me in the shit, even if entirely unintentionally...Nairn
- Her future is now sealed. Thoughts and prayerspango
- HijoDMaite5
Turntablism has gotten insane!
- whats the black rectangle on top of the records?robotinc
- No idea. But I see needles so I assume they can still throw some vinyl up there if they want.HijoDMaite
- turntable weights / stabiliser
https://www.juno.co.…fadein11 - Phase. No need for needle/stylus.oey_oey
- https://www.phasedj.…oey_oey
- legendneverscared
- @oey, ooh wasn't aware of that.fadein11
- Skills to pay the bills!dee-dubs
- It's a motion tracker that syncs up with your digital crate. I have no fucking clue how he's doing this without a pre-cue. Amazing stuff.garbage
- It's just a weight to reduce vibration, he's using Serato.palimpsest
- ^ LOL!oey_oey
- It's not just a weight though. It has an accelerator that syncs with your DAC. You can load anything in your library to a blank on either table.garbage
- https://www.youtube.…
There's Jazzy Jeff himself giving it praise.garbage - ^ bananasSquiddy
- @garbage, yep, would've helped if I'd actually watched the vid :)fadein11
- thanks oey_oey!robotinc
- oey_oey2
Phase DJ
DJ Jazzy Jeff 4 years ago...
- jagara3
What the fuck is this .heif format? A new shitty format like .webp that i have to convert to open it?
>:(
- https://youtu.be/Pqw…palimpsest
- it's the default format for images on iphones.uan
- Huh... since when? I always just downloaded my images from Icloud, and I've never encountered this before.jagara
- high efficiency image file or some such, apple propreitary probablyhans_glib
- Oddly enough, it was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).Continuity
- 2017, Apple implemented it in iOs and tvOs, then macOs High Sierra.
it's h.265, small files-lots of cpu, apple has en- and decoders built in hw.uan - Go to Settings > Camera > Formats tap on Most compatible for JPEGsgrafician
- Continuity3
So. garbage.
You're coming up on the end of #niceweek.
What's the final analysis from you? Worth the trouble? Are you chomping at the bit? Ready to lose your shit in a biblical torrent of invective?
- Don't pull a Rendle on us, garbage.
Show yourself!palimpsest - He pulled a Rendle.
Il a filé à l'anglaise aussi, le con.Continuity - Fils de pute !palimpsest
- We need answers.palimpsest
- « fils de pute »
Ahem. Nice week?Continuity - That was last week. I'm in the clear.palimpsest
- Whoops sorry. Turns out the crown wasn't so heavy, so I'm going to keep on being nice.garbage
- Huh.
So, you're saying it was easier than, say, quitting smoking or heroin?Continuity - I've got some weird thing about quitting smoking. I started smoking at my first office job for the sole purpose of being able to sit out by the water..garbage
- ..in the corporate park. Probably half a pack a day? I switched to (lol) Black and Milds because they burned slower.garbage
- The second I secured a remote job, I quit cold turkey. I have a pack of Parliaments that's maybe a decade old and still unfinished.garbage
- https://i.imgur.com/…garbage
- No idea how old that is, but that's probably a decade old and I'm saving it for the day my dog dies.garbage
- Surprised the tobacco isn't dust by now.Continuity
- Same. It's been sitting in the back of a flat file cabinet for years now.garbage
- https://i.imgur.com/…
The box is more worse for wear somehow.garbage
- Don't pull a Rendle on us, garbage.
- OBBTKN1
All week like crazy, without leaving the studio, for publishing a biiig project in 3 languages today, BUT, they're late with the contents... Goodbye to my next week' planning...
Argh!
I'm going to the butcher for a rabbit 4 tomorrow, there's nothing that a paella can't solve ;)
- i hope it's a wild rabbit.hans_glib
- Here there are hardly any wild hares or rabbits; this butcher buys from a farmer who lives nearby, otherwise, from a farmOBBTKN
- How was that paella?palimpsest
- jagara7
Me: a latte with oatmilk, please.
Barista: it's called oatDRINK.
Me: i call it oatMILK.
Barista: it's called oatDRINK!
Me: i'll find a café who has oatMILK! (I leave)
Me: on the way out the door: OAT! MILK!- I am 46 years old.jagara
- https://i.ibb.co/1f0…pablo28
- Sir, my drink indentifies as milk!palimpsest
- Haha Pablo was thinking the same thing but with jagara being Kramer_niko
- Would u like your cappuccino with cow milk? fucking done with that question. It should be the standard.milfhunter
- whats the deal with oatmilk? Can you milk an oat? Does an oat have nipples? No, I don't think so ( said in whiny New York accent)fooler
- Just because oat was born without nipples it doesn't mean it can't produce milk!palimpsest
- Assigned mammal at birth.palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- Oats are really high in the pesticide 'Glyphosate'. So you should call it Glyphosate Milk/Drink.shapesalad
- dude, why would you still drink milk at 46? drink that coffee black.uan
- Fuck that barista. Fuck any coffee making bitch boy who even talks to me at all. I say order. You make it. Nothing else.monospaced
- I order a medium coffee at Starbucks as a “medium coffee” and usually this perplexes them. “Just coffee. In a medium cup.” Figure it out.monospaced
- yeah mono same I've been trying for 20 years to figure out the difference between tall, grande and venti. Just give me a medium effing coffee._niko
- You should have added: "This is America, I'll call it whatever the hell I want to!".palimpsest
- Except, it's Denmark, innit?Continuity
- *rimshot!palimpsest
- Bica is the way to go.shapesalad
- Why the issue with milk? Is that hurtful to someone, something?stoplying
- Denmark, yes :))jagara
- But I should have used that Ameriica line regardless XDjagara
- lolContinuity
- That was the joke.palimpsest
- It's a slow day. I try and amuse myself however I can.palimpsest
- LOUDERMILKAQUTE
- NOT MILKsted
- so honestly, i watched and learned how milk comes out of the cow as a kid.
but honestly it doesn't feels real to do that with an oat.sted - so either the world fucked up the naming of these products or I still haven't grown up enough to understand.sted
- +++Fuck that barista.
@mono never go to Australia :D
that of quantity and quality of unsolicited "reeducation" what I got is unbearable.sted - *the
instead of "that of quantity and"sted - Ozzies went full retard over coffee.
Every second barista here in London is a grossly over-fastiduous Ozzie.Nairn - Pretty sure this is the definition of soy boy. Oat milk doesn't even exist in this guy thinks it's realHayoth
- The implication here is that Australia evolved into a country of mega-pedants? That's got to get irritating, after a bit.Continuity
- drgs1
Do you ever daydream about a scenario where you get to meet the CEO of a major software company and you demonstrate to them convincingly how shitty and buggy their program is, and they fire all those cretins who work there
- no. this is more my jam...
https://pbs.twimg.co…Gnash - I dream of flushing my iPhone down the toilet, clicking 'shutdown' on my Mac one last time, and going 'analogue'. Books, newspapers, coins and cash... etcshapesalad
- I do miss reading magazinesdrgs
- you met Elon?! :)))grafician
- @Gnash. Oh, yes, please. Sign me up.Continuity
- Gnash. Just retire and live in mexico. Moldy can tell you all about the like minded already living there.pango
- Ah Gnash, what I wouldn’t give..._niko
- I can hear the cicadas and feel the warm Aegean breeze_niko
- Fuck those cicadas. They need to shut the hell up at night!pango
- no. this is more my jam...
- doggydoggdog0
What's your hourly rate?
- 23€palimpsest
- 50¢sted
- Tree-fiddy.Continuity
- form 30 to 60 EurosOBBTKN
- 2 sandwiches 1 Fantajagara
- full service or just rub and tug?autoflavour
- £50 at the moProjectile
- I get paid to do the wild thingmonospaced
- Boring work 100 euro. creative fun work much lower and depends on the client budget.milfhunter
- drgs-6
Stop downvoting grafician
- I'll build him an upvote bot.
GoFundMe.palimpsest - Just for fun, here are his latest 20 slightly out of context comments:
https://i.imgur.com/…palimpsest - Nah.Continuity
- When you put it in a list like that, he really is a cunt of a fella.imbecile
- Impressive. Let's see imbecile's latest 20 commentsdrgs
- Instead asking all of us to stop downvoting him it would be easier to ask him to stop getting downvoted.palimpsest
- What is this? 4th grade? I dont like this atmospheredrgs
- Just do what I do with your posts -- ignore himdrgs
- Imbecile's comments:
https://i.imgur.com/…palimpsest - @drgs
Why not also ignore our downvotes?palimpsest - https://pbs.twimg.co…drgs
- Besides, it a QBN rule to downvote someone who complains about being downvoted, as he once did. I've never seen it last this long though.palimpsest
- QBN: come for the AI, stay for the drama.palimpsest
- Being mean is bad, peace is nicedrgs
- Mean = not good.
I think we all agree on that.palimpsest - graf doesn't get downvoted when he isn't an arrogant cuntfadein11
- Just busy these days, carry ongrafician
- I'll build him an upvote bot.
- drgs0
In the last 3 years (2020-2021-2022) I've been sick only once
I don't know if it makes sense, but I'm suspecting it's because of the vaccine
Discuss
- *clears throat.
Name checks outbezoar - lol @ bezoarContinuity
- Odds you're due a major illness.zardoz
- We barely knew you.palimpsest
- I have no been ‘sick’, since end of 2019. Only time I needed a lie down was on the first covid vaccine.shapesalad
- Have a kid, then you'll be ill all the fucking time. It's great.Nairn
- Yeah. Sick a lot with kids. Haha.monospaced
- Those adorable virus incubators....pango
- Yeah, we parents are a test bench for all imaginable diseases...OBBTKN
- What Nairn said. A bug gets brought in by one of the kids then it spreads person by person around the home...microkorg
- ...sometimes it may circulate multiple times around everyone before the next bug is introduced! lol.microkorg
- @drgs
You're no longer human so you're inmune to everything since you're a brand new species but soon sickness will find you and that will be the end of you.palimpsest - @drgs
of course it's because of the vaccine - tomatoes don't get sickhans_glib - So you guys think I'm a tomatodrgs
- A big plump juicy tomato.palimpsest
- A jacked tomato.Continuity
- Tomejtopango
- You didn’t have a vaccine. If you did you’d no longer be human, but you’d also be dead, no doubt about that.monospaced
- *clears throat.