OMG finally the best video on the internet is CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT
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Awesome!
What does that mean?
Holy Word 97 Batman!
That's right, my fine stenography chum. The best Word
Fuck marry kill:
Stenographer, Steganographer, Stegosaurus.
Fuck: steganographer, that shit is cool af Marry: stegosaurus, self-explanatory Kill: stenographer, just have the court painter caption their work. Problem solved
See I would marry the Stenographer, kill the steganographer and fuck the stegosaurus.
It’s bread, your comment is slop.
God forbid people advertise with an actual photo of their product
Think how awkward the room would be if you got a gift at a party and in front of everyone, holding up your new loaf of bread, you say, “it’s better than AI slop!!”
People would just look at you… confused about the connection. Yes, breAd has an ‘A’ in it.
The post isn't about the bread though, it's about the sign, made with love by a real person. Rarer and rarer these days
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
"ignore your effort"? It's the opposite, it's praise for putting in the effort when that's more optional than ever, that's the whole thing.
I'm a monster? Dog, take a nap or find yourself some fresh sourdough or something, you're taking this way too seriously
Dog? Odd choice of insult. Very geo-specific. I’d say you are the one taking this too seriously… because I want to talk about a bread, and sign making… not AI slop, which permeates everything… because of humans.
The context is very salient because so many people think that asking AI to make a sign is better than doing something handmade.
The comment saying, hey everybody, look at this, this is better than those AI posters, is designed to counteract this notion.
I see your point and agree. Celebrate the presence of good, rather than the absence of bad
Yes. I love your sign. The wavy text brings particular joy to me as I have many good memories of making ridiculous text effects.

Edited bc i didn't mean to put an unrelated group chat out in the open
You're missing the point. The original comment was about the sign, not the bread.
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
You're just seeing one comment out of a person's day, how do you know someone pointing that out spends even five minutes a day thinking about AI? And anyway, many people come to social media and especially the fediverse with the intention of discussion the primary issues of our time, one of them being AI, and a style using wordart like this image probably became a highly upvoted post at least in part because of people being sick of AI flyers.
People "obsessed with AI" usually are concerned with the greater issues related to it, like the fascist tech-corpos taking over our government and economic systems, which is a hard thing to not agitate against when you are aware of what's going on.
I can see comment history.
Fair enough, I do agree there are enough things going on that you shouldn't hyperfocus on AI. It's hard to avoid though, it's prevalent and irritating.
If i may, my thinking with the "still better than AI" comment/mentality is that it makes sense to say that when the human made thing is bad.
Like, if a person makes something that's shit, it's still better than AI. But in this case, what the human made was SPECTACULAR, so in my mind saying it's still better than AI doesn't make sense because that's self-evident
True it is a beautiful creation! I had a thought about AI when I saw it, but more like "see, that's gorgeous, clearly digitally handmade, simple and informative and no AI needed!!" Like it just illustrates how much better a flyer could be and how unnecessary relying on AI image generation is. Where I'm at I see AI used all the time for posters and it gives me a gross feeling.
Please go home and take your medication
I wish old accounts could get punished for breaking rules.
Is having a stick up your ass against the rules?
I thought this was America
Hah. Well, suggesting mental illness for my comments in this thread does have the waft of “not civil” which is rule 5.
Civility online is very subjective.
There’s a charm in word art that doesn’t come from prompts and random number generators.
You took too much, man. Too much, too much.
She did a really good job with with the shadow, it really invokes the echo from the original.
Only thing I can think to make it better would be a paper clip with googly eyes.
I'm gonna print clippy off and put him on there, that's such a good idea
It looks like you're trying to make an 00s throwback joke. Can I help you with that?
=P
And a disclaimer about how AI was not used to make it
Oof, I actually made some Clippy fanart not too long ago! And I also made a cooler, more suave version, portraying what Clippy would have looked like, if he had been a free and open source paperclip instead. I'll see if I can find it when I get home!
You can come bake at my house if you need more kitchen space.
Microsoft Word '97, huh? I liked that one. You knew where you stood with Microsoft Word '97.
"2000s" != "ASCII-era". But cool regardless.
To be fair, I included that in my guidance to influence the overall vibe, not be chronologically precise
Also, I've always known stuff like this ¯_(ツ)_/¯ as ASCII characters and the more complicated pictures as ASCII art. So they were two separate, but related topics that I hoped she would synthesize
And boy did she
¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
Also, this specific example isn't ASCII art, it's some other encoding which I forgot the name of, Japanese characters, variable width (in bytes). Common for it to be drawn using Arial or a metric compatible font rather than any monospace.
Note that "ASCII" art also refers to 8-bit extensions of the encoding, where "oldskool ASCII art" means strictly the actual 7-bit set. Not to be confused with ANSI art, which is the same as ASCII but with ANSI control characters, like for changing color.
"text art" is what I usually call everything combined, including art on the Commodore systems, only very recently made possible with Unicode officially. Anyways, I don't really see any of it on the image...
Free fresh sourdough bread!? Is your wife's baker seeing anyone??
The evil truth of sourdough is that it takes about the same amount of time and effort to make four loaves as it does to make one.
Can I be your neighbour?
Does your wife take requests?
A loaf of sourdough with cheddar and jalapeno please.
I already have a bake at work, but I will gladly be fat for bread. If bread was good enough for our ancestors, its good enough for me damnt!
Excuse me, I am the baker.
She is the finishing graphic designer
But who is the candlestick maker?
Is that a joke I'm not privy to?
Sourdough with a jalapeño cheddar cream cheese filling would be even better! Kind of like how the Asian bakeries do it. So creamy and delicious.
That was so good and so bad
Is that a recipe for snickerdoodles underneath?

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