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Alt of @varx -- less tech talk on this account, maybe.
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Since cybre.space will be shutting down, I encourage people to follow my alt at @varx which is probably where I'll do most of my posting (instead of just half of it).
Finally someone who does #linkedin right.
@technomancy @pho4cexa all usin' lower case
all run-on sentences and not much in the way of fancy punctuation
all bein' low-key except maybe it's just depression

everyone: lol the world is so weird and dumb why is there green goop and huge crushing things everywhere

me, a genius: the world is a masterclass of unfriendly design, the game is a dark as hell comedy where nothing makes sense and every new challenge you see has a newer, baffling reality to it, the world is crumbling around you and you feel like the only sane person even as you go insane, and this is communicated mostly through level design

OK, I may have taken a few liberties, but this is actually a pretty weird set of ingredients.

Active: Salicylic acid. Comes from willows and whatnot, pain reliever, but makes the outer layer of skin fall off more easily. Pain reliever, and the basis for aspirin.

And then it has camphor, castor oil, ethanol, ethyl ether, and nitrocellulose.

Nitrocellulose is guncotton/flash paper. Explosive/flammable. Mix it with camphor (a weird smelly plant resin) and you get a sort of plastic and can make movie film and guitar picks and billiard balls out of it if you don't mind them burning/exploding. Alcohol is probably in there as a solvent for the camphor.

Castor oil and ether, I could make some guesses, but they'd probably be wrong.

This wart remover is apparently made of:

- Movie film (the flammable kind)
- Pain reliever / skin dissolver
- Tree wax
- Vodka
- Ether
- Laxative

@typhlosion @junebug It took a while for the first two messages of the thread to load (I was linked to the third one) and I was just sort of nodding along.

@cwebber For kicks I also ran this through shonenkovAI ("The One Where You Can Do Nudies™", and also known as Kandinsky-12b) and... boy those sure are some outputs!

My favorite is #11, the man dressed only in ham and eggs, floating in space.

@cwebber Midjourney didn't quite understand the prompt.

I think I would have needed to use something like "Saturn Devouring His Hamburger, Goya, 1823" but I ran out of credits just now, so *shrug*.

@Canageek Pretty sure swinging is at least 1 billion years old.