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Old 02-11-2024, 05:13 PM
 
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Damned Louisiana roads got me this superbowl evening. I was on I-20 doing about 80 with the cruise conttol set to ease up my lead foot. I got about 5 miles away from Ruston and right after the embankment of an overpass there was an enormous pothole convinient hidden between the bridge and the pavement. I hit it and smashed in my passenger side tire.

Fortunately I was just outside of a town and managed to baby it to a tire repair shop. It was about 5:50pm and the tire shops were closing around 6pm and I managed to get someone to stay open for me longer while I babied it there.

Superbowl is currently tied 0 and 0 ... hopefully the rest of my drive plays better defense



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Old 02-13-2024, 05:18 PM
 
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Bored in Atlanta.

I ended up using Dall-E to generate a bunch of futurstic urban environments featuring romance in the foreground.













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Old 02-13-2024, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Jollyville, TX
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Well isn’t that cool! Sorry about your ride - Louisiana roads are brutal!
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Old 02-13-2024, 06:22 PM
 
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Technically its moms ride ..She has always wanted this car and I was fortunate enough to find one in the last year they made them and gifted jt to her. She can't drive the way I can though and she had to go back to Atlanta on the fly so I drove her back and am staying the week. The local infiniti dealer is going to fix the wheel and replace the tire with the correct one for to match the rest of them. I had to throw whatever was available on there in Louisiana. Im super fortunate that it happened right outside of town.
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Old 02-13-2024, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Louisiana tire shop guy probably dug the chuck hole.
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Old 02-14-2024, 08:58 AM
 
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Louisiana tire shop guy probably dug the chuck hole.
Wouldn't put it past them, the road was actually pretty smooth until that point.
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Old 02-14-2024, 06:39 PM
 
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This is Avalon, or basically Atlanta's (Alpharetta to be more specific) version of Domain. In a sense I suppose Avalon has more in common with Legacy than Domain given that they are both in suburban municipalities (Alpharetta and West Plano) where Domain is in Austin proper.













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Old 02-20-2024, 12:30 AM
 
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More ChatGPT boredom

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The interior of an endless abandoned sweatshop, there's no end in the horizon for this gigantic warehouse like structure, the machinery still intact, the cieling is made of metal frames above a steel girder frame that secures the cieling. The steel girder holds large lamps that cast a light blue light down to the surface. The lamps are evenly distrubuted through the warehouse all the way to the horizon. There are no people, no workers, but there will be buildings inside this megawarehouse which serve as offices and living spaces. The atmosphere will be a cool blue futuristic glow and although the warehouse is abandoned, it is undamaged and the atmosphere is calm, peaceful and distilled as the final remnant and a soft farewall toward an era of cold harsh endless labor.
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Old 02-20-2024, 07:18 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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My youngest son works at the Tesla Gigafactory on 130 in southeast Austin.
Your last picture could represent that vast place….at least in my mind.
Son says it is full of robot machines though.
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Old 02-20-2024, 10:43 AM
 
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I've been taking more grip of my creative side and started getting into PC Game Design... well kind of ...I dont have enough free time to build them myself so I'm paying people to build my ideas. Often times I'm having to build rough concept arts and I can't draw so I just throw in a prompt into ChatGPT or Dall-E.

On a side note I've always been into futuristic utopian settings. The setting above reminds me of when I worked at Scientific Games in Alpharetta GA. It's a huge press and they printed lottery tickets. Endless machines that could pretty much instantaneously turn a human into a morbid mix of ink and red dye if they were being foolhardy. I was commuting from Stockbridge which was over 50 miles one way and working 10 Hr shifts. I'd have to wake up by 4am and get there by 6am or sit in appocolyptic traffic. Managing fatigue was a major problem there and slipping up was pretty much a life/death situation. They had hydraulic doors with no safety stop that would pretty much instantaneous sandwich you into a purre if you ended up wedged between them and a wall. I was using energy drinks and protien snacks to handle it. I was making a grande $10 Hr and thought I was doing fantastic at the time ..Sadly I couldnt find anything paying entry level employees anywhere near as much in Stockbridge, if I could find someone hiring at all.
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