Bartender_Venator
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Bartender_Venator
20hr ago
Huh, I read it as an ebook and it flashed by. Books feel a lot shorter on Kindle, I guess.
Bartender_Venator
21hr ago
Where exactly is here and what bars/gyms/coffeeshops do the pink swastika girls go to there?
Bartender_Venator
21hr ago
A couple of people have brought this up, but there is no reasonable way to make the 1000+ page books listed fit in under 1000 pages, nor to blow up the smaller books to fit that size. Imagine a 999-page
Bartender_Venator
21hr ago
All scores are compared to the 50-69 age bracket, even if you don't put in an age. I believe the test itself is a bit older than the usual internet quiz, since it's from Open Psychometrics.
Bartender_Venator
21hr ago
I completely whiffed on that bit, probably should be in slightly more visible text.
Bartender_Venator
21hr ago
Could be worse, could be Mike Duncan.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
It's quite an experience, fan or no.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
They are also asking for a photo ID scan tbf.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
The way this works in practice is that nobody ever checks anything - every big team's games have a bunch of international tourists who don't care about the teams but want to see a game while they're in England - but if you have any items from the wrong team on you (even wearing their colours), or if you celebrate the wrong team's goal, you get kicked out and maybe kicked a bit on your way out. I could potentially argue this, but I doubt it would fly given that this is a case of the club choosing to enforce a never-enforced policy.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Yeah this is completely new. My brother has gone to many, many away games in the home end and has never seen this. I suspect it's because the club in question has a big reputation for violent fans and they don't want any of that to happen - and, let's be honest, they're not a club that really has to worry about tons of casual foreign fans or random tourists showing up.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Thanks for the offer - I did end up finding an analogue solution (see edit). Suppose that saves me from compromising my Landian principles... The reason I was asking for help is that, while I have a lot of experience with ChatGPT and Claude image gen, it just isn't good enough for true photorealism imo (that or I'm a promptlet), idk what the current cutting-edge tools are to get true photorealism, and right now I'm too busy to research into it.
BTW, speaking of football, if you are ever in London and want to catch an Arsenal game, there's a good chance I have a free season ticket that would otherwise go to a rando. You'd be very welcome to it.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
I am in America and say "soccer" for Americans' convenience, but I'm from... well, from what used to be called the British Empire.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
I've never heard of this happening before, but I guess since it's an important game they expect lots of away fans to be buying home end tickets (again, a totally normal thing to do).
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
So I need to send the photo by Tuesday, and this is the exact wording of the email: "Therefore, could you please provide photographic evidence that you are a [Club] supporter which can be from a party, event or fixture wearing merchandise or [Club] related evidence (Please note any merchandise will need to be purchased PRIOR TO January 2026)." Even if I could find a jersey at short notice in the US (not enough time to ship one), I'd need to try to go to some bar and make it look like I'm at an event - there are no Premier League games this weekend, so I can't go watch one of their games. If it wasn't for that I'd just go down to a soccer bar and ask to borrow someone's scarf.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Or an away fan who might start a fight, that's a bigger concern.
This may be a small question, but it's about something fun and it can't wait till Sunday: I've bought my family tickets to a big soccer game, and the team we're watching sent us an email demanding that I prove by Tuesday that I'm a fan, or they'll cancel our tickets (flights, hotels, etc. already booked). Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of their team, we just want to watch the match. As such, I need someone to make an AI/filtered/etc. image of me wearing their shirt or scarf in a bar. It needs to look real enough to deceive someone looking to spot photoshopped images (but probably not super familiar with AI). If the image works, I'll donate $100 to a charity of your choice - or, if you happen to be interested, I can get you a World Cup ticket at face value minus the $100.
Please DM if interested. Why to trust I won't welsh on you: I have close IRL friends who are users and a couple powerusers on this forum who know who I am, so a callout post would hit my real-life reputation.
Mods, please delete if you don't like this. As I see it, this is legal and normal to do in the UK, though most people don't go as far as I'm trying. Plus what they're doing is kind of a dick move, the stadium isn't even sold out so it's not like the locals need the tickets.
Update for those following: after seeing some of the comments, I realized that I wasn't thinking enough like a hustler. I happen to be in New York right now, and the England football team were playing an international friendly today. I hared down to Chinatown, found a place that was selling old football shirts/bootlegs of old football shirts, bought one, checked the club's website to see where their NYC fans go for games, reached that bar while England was still playing, got some guys to take photos with me. A lot more fun than messing around with ChatGPT. Thanks all for your kind advice and offers.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
That would be crazy not to tell you and just have it as a trick. Anyway, I picked the typoed options as if there were correct, and got 304 overall, broken down into:
Computational Knowledge
56 / 0–60 97th centile Site: 86th
International Knowledge
47 / 0–50 97th centile Site: 70th
Cultural Knowledge
78 / 0–80 97th centile Site: 97th
Aesthetic Knowledge
47 / 0–50 95th centile Site: 95th
Literary Knowledge
28 / 0–30 96th centile Site: 90th
Technical Knowledge
38 / 0–40 91st centile Site: 78th
So I don't think the typos can be traps or I'd have done worse. Embarrassing score on Literary for a wordcel like me though.
Bartender_Venator
2d ago
Ah, I think I just completely misread what you meant by "survivors" - surviving the war, rater than losing a boat.
Bartender_Venator
4d ago
Honestly kind of crazy that half the survivors weren't captured. What did they do, row a lifeboat back to Germany? Wait for the Kriegsmarine to steam out and pick them up? I know there were U-boat-to-U-boat rescue operations but that's not exactly an easy feat either.
Bartender_Venator
7d ago
History podcasting has also evolved a ton since the Carlin/Duncan days. It's sort of split off into two directions - one, exemplified by The Cost of Glory, is being upfront about being a retelling and explanation of the ancient sources. Cost of Glory is as much about Plutarch as it is about the characters, and I think it's a better podcast for it (it's my favourite of the current crop. Listen in the gym and hit PRs). Then, there are podcasts like History of Byzantium, History of the Germans, and above all When Diplomacy Fails, which blend narrative history with an overview of the historiographical debates and a proper examination of the sources.
Bartender_Venator
8d ago
"Pop" history isn't "history" if it gets stuff seriously wrong. But history as a discipline isn't just an arcane hobby for a gaggle of ivory-tower academics - a huge part of the point of those academics' existence is to inform (or to write) works that educate the public about history. And Mike Duncan pretty much gives you the background you need to read academic Roman history without getting lost. Papers can be abstruse and difficult but academic books are generally written with enough background to be readable outside a specialist niche, even if you need to have some experience in the discipline. Just as an example, I recently read Emanuel Mayer's The Ancient Middle Classes. Mostly a very dry read going through the details of Roman tombs and houses and making arguments from there about the existence of a Roman "middle class", but the book contains enough background that someone generally familiar with Roman history can read it all - after all, an academic writing a book like that will expect it to be used by scholars in other aspects of ancient history, or economic historians studying class throughout history, or historians working on urbanization, etc. etc.
Bartender_Venator
8d ago
You're right, should have read that more carefully, the fines were imposed by the disciplinary board and reduced on appeal (lol).
Bartender_Venator
8d ago
I think it is, uh, difficult to call CAF a serious organization, much like FIFA when it comes to stuff like the Qatar World Cup and the inevitable future Saudi World Cup, or the Premier League when it comes to Man City. But the seriousness of a tournament is, thankfully, not determined by the organizers - it's determined by the passion of the fans and players, and AFCON has that in spades (no thanks to Morocco, who seemingly did everything in their power to exclude fans from getting tickets).
Bartender_Venator
8d ago
Death Chuck Norrised at the age of 4,000,000,000. RIP.
He claims to have been "radicalized" during the Revolutions podcast researching the Haitian revolution, though I suspect it was a long slow metamorphosis into being a boomerlib (the sections of the Revolutions pod on Indians and slavery in the American Revolution are also extremely cringe). His tweets today are something about how there's no ethical consumption under capitalism but it's particularly unjustifiable to be a Yankees fan, and then as you scroll down it's the worst redditshit you can imagine ("You'll be shocked to learn the guy who popped up to defend Pete Rose's honor and scold me for being insensitive spends his time on twitter harassing transwomen and spewing invective against Muslims").
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