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[–] m_f@discuss.online 4 points 2 hours ago

There's no list that I know of, I had to go trawl through archive.org to find everything. Not really sure why it got taken down, other than that the author has said in interviews that he's kind of a perfectionist and enjoys scrapping art that he's already done if he thinks it isn't good enough.

You can kind of see that with my other comment with the older version of this strip. He redid it at least once to add some subtle coloring to draw the viewer's eye towards the background where they see the vulture and get the joke. Probably just a lot of that sort of thing.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Interesting to compare the coloring to an earlier version:

 

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“Oo! I’d get up on that big fuzzy one!”

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SOFAWORLD SOFA

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The Secret Elephant Aerial Grounds

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Releasing the shaft, Red Bear falls victim to the old fake-bow-and-arrow trick.

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SWOOSH!

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The kegger lasted well into the night, and on the following morning Dale thrust his foot into a nest of cranky, hung over, stimulus-response scorpions.

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“Uh-oh … I’ve got a feeling I shouldn’t have been munching on these things for the last mile and a half.”

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POTATO CHIPS

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Title textThank you, Jeeves. That will be all.

Author comment:

YES.

 
 
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submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by m_f@discuss.online to c/oglaf@discuss.online
 

https://www.oglaf.com/hotbuttons/3/

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Title textIf you don't vote, you get the crystal deathworm you deserve

 
 

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Transcript:

Garfield: I can see the headlines now. "Cat gets hijacked"

Duck: "And duck gets hernia".

[–] m_f@discuss.online 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I interpret it as bullethead being a highly-skilled artisan that used ketchup (or similar substance) to create art. Ketchuphead thinks he can recreate the art but is missing the skill to do so and just has the raw materials.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago

My diet is pretty SAD. It's probably higher quality than average, since I'll avoid the cheapest possible foods that are chock full of artificial this or that, but it's still not as good as eating real food.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

This is an older look at some of the foundational work that went into today's LLMs. It links to a tool that you can use to explore the associations:

https://lamyiowce.github.io/word2viz/

I think it's hard to say that language models don't "know" things based on even older results like this, even if they "know" things in a completely different way than humans do.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's a pun on desert/dessert. At first you think they're in a desert and the character pronounced it wrong/author spelled it wrong, but the final panel reveals that it was accurate and they're on top of a large dessert, which is possibly also a desert as well

[–] m_f@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

That's great! Did you make it yourself?

[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago

It's been borrowed into graphic design as the Cicada Principle:

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-with-css-variables/

Looks like the original link is dead, but there's a newer examination of it. If you have a repeating pattern, you can maximize variation while minimizing file size by using multiple sequences with different prime lengths

[–] m_f@discuss.online 7 points 4 days ago

I bet a lot of people over in !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz can relate

[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

He's being abducted by a UFO and wakes up inside of it to see random teens instead of aliens, is the joke as far as I can tell. I found the last panel online used elsewhere but it seems to be a common stock photo and not a meme or reference on its own.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Man, Google AI is the gift that keeps on giving (stupidity)

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