Daily Thoughts

[omni]

OMG, the way John Landis just speaks so casually (and chuckles) about a horrific, tragic incident that could have been avoided. There's a different video clip that's hard to watch. I didn't even know about this incident until I saw it mentioned this morning in a Facebook post.

He's not wrong when he says that "unless you've been in a violent accident situation or seen people killed, it's hard to..." It is painfully hard to articulate the feelings of the moment and how you view it every day after. <---this is what I imagine he was trying to say. I know it's how I've felt any day I've mentally revisited my experienced mass-casualty scenario. PTSD presents itself in a vast array of colors to those seeing someone try to describe it. I think EMDR can help nowdays. One can only imagine how Landis prcoessed or didn't process that terrible accident back then.

 

[yummybrownfox]

He's not wrong when he says that "unless you've been in a violent accident situation or seen people killed, it's hard to..." It is painfully hard to articulate the feelings of the moment and how you view it every day after. <---this is what I imagine he was trying to say. I know it's how I've felt any day I've mentally revisited my experienced mass-casualty scenario. PTSD presents itself in a vast array of colors to those seeing someone try to describe it. I think EMDR can help nowdays. One can only imagine how Landis prcoessed or didn't process that terrible accident back then.

You do have a point. From the video clips I watched, he showed no emotion...until he spoke at Vic Morrow's eulogy.

It's been stated that crew members expressed their concerns to John about the special effect explosions near the helicopter, and his response was something along the lines of "You haven't seen nothing yet..." Even the stunt coordinator said he warned John that it was too much and he should scale it down. I watched the video of John (just seconds before the crash) excitedly shouting "LOWER! LOWER!," (He wanted the pilot of the helicopter to bring it down even lower to Vic Morrow and the two kids). For whatever reason, Vic Morrow (instead of the hired stunt double) wound up doing the stunt himself.

Those two kids were paid under the table without required permits, which violated child labor laws. Vic Morrow and one of the kids got decapitated by the helicopter's main rotor blade, and the other child was crushed to death by the helicopter's right landing skid.

 

[MarieElise]

I think EMDR can help nowdays.

Spoiler: PTSD Violence talk

About 15 years ago I was in a hostage situation and was violently assaulted, repeatedly. Told I would be killed, and believed I would be killed. And a pretty solid attempt was made on ending my life, by another person. I developed PTSD afterward. I got medication and counseling for it. But nothing made as big a difference as EMDR. After EMDR, I no longer met, and have continued to no longer meet the criteria for an active diagnosis of PTSD. It's intense. You go into total panics, during the day over tiny things, and you wake up sweating, terrified, in the middle of the night. Not fun. You get to the point where, quite frankly, you'd honestly rather just be dead. Thank God for EMDR! I couldn't even imagine the happiness that lay ahead for me in those moments/ months.

I highly recommend EMDR for PTSD. Works great for some people.

Also, I just want to clarify that trauma and anxiety are very real. A lot of people tend to confuse trauma (which can also be chronic and severe) with PTSD. PTSD comes from either witnessing or being subjected to an incident over which you had no control, and either watched someone else be killed/ die, or wholeheartedly believed that you yourself would die. Not to detract from the pain of anxiety and trauma, but a lot of people aren't aware of that distinction, and it's an important clinical distinction when it comes to getting the correct support and treatment. Trauma (chronic and acute) and PTSD are different things. Although both can occur together, too.

I've seen people post on social media about their "PTSD from having a bad boss", that's actually trauma. People in positions of power, who are not suited to them, and mismanage others and organizations, cause trauma. Unless you go to work one day and they try to off you, or a coworker, they don't cause PTSD. People develop PTSD from exposure to extremely violent life-or-death situations. At the hands of another human, or due to natural disaster/ accident etc.

 

[sexyycamboyy]

Just thinking about the world before adult camming .. what changed in our lives .. positive and negative of being in adult camming world .. be it model or fan?? Any thoughts ...

 

[Marceline]

Just thinking about the world before adult camming .. what changed in our lives ..

The internet. That’s literally it. Camming is not new by any means. The first cam sites, where viewers could pay for live adult shows, started in the 90’s. The internet, or the World Wide Web, became accessible to the public in the early 90’s a few years after it was first invented at CERN. Basically, as soon as the technology was available to the public (webcams and capable internet speeds), there was adult camming sites.

Sex work has existed for thousands of years. There’s documented evidence of sex work dating back to at least 4,000 years ago. Sex work in the form of porn and prostitution has been around since the beginning of humankind’s existence. Technology has just made it more accessible, but paying for sexual gratification is not some new phenomenon. So, nothing has really “changed” in our lives as far as that goes. The only thing that has changed is the ease of access to it.

 

[Smoothie]

The internet. That’s literally it. Camming is not new by any means. The first cam sites, where viewers could pay for live adult shows, started in the 90’s. The internet, or the World Wide Web, became accessible to the public in the early 90’s a few years after it was first invented at CERN. Basically, as soon as the technology was available to the public (webcams and capable internet speeds), there was adult camming sites.

Sex work has existed for thousands of years. There’s documented evidence of sex work dating back to at least 4,000 years ago. Sex work in the form of porn and prostitution has been around since the beginning of humankind’s existence. Technology has just made it more accessible, but paying for sexual gratification is not some new phenomenon. So, nothing has really “changed” in our lives as far as that goes. The only thing that has changed is the ease of access to it.

I’ve heard it said that with any new form of media, technology, art form, etc., among the very first applications of that thing is adult/porn content. People just immediately think “how can I use this for porn.” So adult content often ends up as a trailblazer, in everything from photography to streaming video to VR and everything in between.

It seems very plausible to me. Makes me wonder how many of the modern innovations we enjoy today were initially driven by some dude’s desire to see bobs more clearly.

 

[MarieElise]

I’ve heard it said that with any new form of media, technology, art form, etc., among the very first applications of that thing is adult/porn content. People just immediately think “how can I use this for porn.”

Absolutely. Spent about 6 hours the other night trying to make AI porn. I paid and signed up to some of those sites that are marketing to men to design their own gf and porn, and um, I spent a ton of money and got very little usable content out of it. Don't believe those Ads guys! Seriously. I had some of the best porno scenes ever planned, and what came out, was, ahem, some kind of acid house, LSD trip, sexual nightmare 6 hours! Not even exaggerating! I'll never get that 6 hours, or any of that money back!

 

[Smoothie]

Absolutely. Spent about 6 hours the other night trying to make AI porn. I paid and signed up to some of those sites that are marketing to men to design their own gf and porn, and um, I spent a ton of money and got very little usable content out of it. Don't believe those Ads guys! Seriously. I had some of the best porno scenes ever planned, and what came out, was, ahem, some kind of acid house, LSD trip, sexual nightmare 6 hours! Not even exaggerating! I'll never get that 6 hours, or any of that money back!

AI is an interesting one from a legal perspective. IMO. Everything AI knows is based on learnings from existing sources, right? So for porn, can we assume any AI-generated people in pornographic situations are based (at least a little bit) on real people, past or present? People that may have no idea an AI engine is using their image to make porn?

I’m not a big AI user so I may be wrong, but that’s the impression I was under.

ETA: and I just saw your AI porn thread, which is probably where I should have posted this comment. Oops!

 

[MarieElise]

AI is an interesting one from a legal perspective. IMO. Everything AI knows is based on learnings from existing sources, right? So for porn, can we assume any AI-generated people in pornographic situations are based (at least a little bit) on real people, past or present? People that may have no idea an AI engine is using their image to make porn?

I’m not a big AI user so I may be wrong, but that’s the impression I was under.

ETA: and I just saw your AI porn thread, which is probably where I should have posted this comment. Oops!

Thanks for responding anyway, looks like our minds both went straight to legalities and ethics. I'm highly interested in this, so I made that thread, in the hopes long term detailed discussion will happen about it.

 

[yummybrownfox]

See, I don’t even drink like that. Lol. I just ate a dozen crabs, and drank some water and a Pineapple Crush. I drank that shit way too fast. Now I gotta sit down for a little bit before I walk back outside. WTF. I’m glad I don’t drive, and take the bus.

 

[Vixxen81]

What came out of CERN is a system of indexing and accessing information and sites but is not the internet. The internet began as ARPANET in the 60's. TCP/IP allowed different networks to interact, thus building the world wide web in the 80's.

 

[MarieElise]

Micro SD cards; the worst nightmare of someone with ADD or ADHD.
Not only do they eject out of adapters some devices and literally fly across the room, but they are also roughly the size of half a postage stamp.
If I can last 2 months without losing one, it'll be a miracle.

I cannot even imagine my Grandma or Grandpa trying to deal with one of these things

 

[omni]

The first cam sites, where viewers could pay for live adult shows, started in the 90’s. The internet, or the World Wide Web, became accessible to the public in the early 90’s

The early cam portals (that I worked or chilled at) were a riot: one big chat box for everyone to socialize together, viewers and cammers alike. Everybody enjoying everything everybody was doing all the time, altogether in a social mixing pot.

The times weren’t always good, but the good times were always really good times, indeed.