Getting into a relationship can be exciting, fun, and life changing, yet scary at the same time. Are you wondering if you've met the one yet, or are you still longing for a lifelong partner? Not sure if getting into a relationship is a good idea? Here are eight reasons why getting into a relationship is actually good for us. 1. Sharing your life with someone you love makes you happier. Having a partner be there for you during the ups and downs in life feels validating and less tough. Life is full of surprises. Did you just get promoted? Did you start your own business? Perhaps your dog passed away? It's nice to know that there is always emotional support when you need it. It's comforting to know that there is someone who cares about you in a different way, and shares your burden in life as well as your happiness. 2. Being in a relationship helps you grow mentally. Many things in life cannot be learned from textbooks. Being a supportive partner is one of them. We are transformed by who we allow in our lives. Our partners are able to influence and change our outlook on life. Many research studies have shown that people in healthy relationships have changed for the better because of being in a healthy relationship. Based on data from a pair of UK surveys, the study found that happiness was even higher among couples who saw their spouse as their best friend. In a study by the American Sociological Association, people who are in a relationship or married has reported significantly higher life satisfaction than those who are single, separated, divorced, or widowed. Also, we get to learn what it is like to give and receive in a relationship and how to compromise with one another. 3. It feels comforting to know that someone loves you for you. In social situations, we might tend to show our best selves and hide the part of ourselves we feel ashamed to show the world. Opening up to someone is scary, but it can be rewarding and relieving when it is the right person. Being vulnerable takes courage, but it is very assuring when your partner has seen the part of you during your worst days. They know your quirks, habits, and your deepest darkest secrets, but still love you for who you are. 4. You are more productive. With the right partner, you can get more things done. Even boring tasks like housework and errands can feel less mundane and more fun when you do it with someone. After all, two is better than one. Teamwork is key. A writer named Chris Bailey spent 10 days living and working in complete isolation in his girlfriend's dad's basement as an experiment, and he hated it. According to Chris, living in isolation was one of the most difficult experiments, but it did teach him one key lesson related to getting stuff done. People are the reason for productivity. In his blog called A Life of Productivity, he writes, People are why we do what we do, and why we push ourselves to accomplish more. 5. You are healthier. Did you know? Physical and emotional intimacy with your partner keeps you happier. According to scientists, physical intimacy such as sex and physical touch help us reduce stress and get better sleep. For example, a study published in January 2015 in the American Journal of Cardiology found that men who had sex twice a week or more had less risk of cardiovascular disease such as a stroke or heart attack than those who had sex once a month or less. When you're intimate, chemicals like oxytocin are released that make you feel closer to your significant other. It also helps promote a deeper connection with your partner, hence a more fulfilling relationship and better emotional health. 6. Your risk of depression is reduced.  Fortunately, being intimate and romantic in a relationship causes the body to release feel-good hormones such as serotonin, making you feel happy and energetic. This helps reduce your risk of depression. According to a Health and Human Services report, getting married and staying married reduces depression in both men and women, and research in the areas of physical health has shown that high levels of social support may actually improve prognosis in such conditions as cancer and myocardial infarctions by reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression that can often be associated with these illnesses. 7. No more disastrous online dating experience. Some people embrace the single life. They may enjoy spending time with others, but they don't want to commit to any of them. But admit it, online dating is truly a fun yet weird place. Dating a bunch of people whom you're not really connected with can be nerve-wracking and stressful. Once you are in a serious relationship, you will realize committing to your partner who gets you is way better than small talk with random dates. 8. It brings excitement into your life. Being committed to someone who has the same values as you and wants the same thing in life is truly a precious thing. You feel excited and happy when you finally find someone like this because you see a future in each other. Perhaps down the hill, you desire to start a family, have kids, or start a business together. Even though relationships can be hard work sometimes, if you feel you are emotionally secure and ready, being in a relationship with the right person can be truly rewarding, comforting, and good for your health. When you are ready or have met that special someone who has potential, why not give a relationship a try and see where things lead? Tell us about your relationship stories we'd love to know.


So, we've spent a lot of time talking about how incredibly useful Dolly can be, but today I wanted to talk about the biggest weaknesses it has and why I don't expect Dolly to stay on the top of the market for very long. And real quick, the footage that you see in the background is just a recording of the very first time that I ever used Dolly. I thought it was important to document, and I think it's very fitting for the title of this video. Because this is probably what most people's first experience with Dolly kinda looks like. But anyway, let's dive in. To put it simply, Dolly's biggest weakness is itself. And I mean that very literally. Dolly's own policies are a detriment to its own growth. And when you read the policy initially, there's nothing there that would surprise you.  But the problem is, OpenAI's interpretation of these policies is extremely vague and encompasses things that most normal people simply would not expect. Here's how it works. You can type anything you want into the prompt. But if you type in something that Dolly thinks is inappropriate, your account gets a strike.  And here is where we encounter the first problem. Your strike counter is invisible. There is a secret number somewhere that counts how many times you've gotten this warning message. And after a certain arbitrary number of times, your account automatically just gets punished and becomes unavailable. I know people who got suspended after a few weeks, after a few months. I even know a guy who got suspended on the first day. But essentially, nobody knows how many warnings they have.  Second, they do not tell you what part of your prompt gave you a strike. I've literally typed in massive prompts like professional, commercial, promotional, digital, Ukiyo art painting of a beautiful young Japanese princess wearing a big magical hat in a dark blue dress fighting against the God of War drawn by Katsu Shika Hokusai trending on ArtStation.  Stop searching these vulgar things or we'll suspend your account. But I have legitimately zero way of knowing what part of my search was inappropriate. Which basically guarantees you're gonna accidentally type in one of those words again and get another strike. And the cycle will continue until you are inevitably banned forever. Problem three, there is no official list of banned words from Dali. At least none that I have been able to find. So you cannot learn from your strikes. You have no idea how many strikes you have. You have no idea how many strikes you have left.  No warnings, no pattern.  Problem four, they keep adding new words to the banned list every day without telling you. I'm not even joking when I say I've typed in prompts before that were perfectly fine. And literally the next day the exact same prompt gives me a strike for quote-unquote being inappropriate. True story, me and the homies were in the official Dali discord trying to figure out how to generate beautiful female characters.  But we all figured out that you could use this word voluptuous in order to get that beautiful fantasy female character with big boobs. So it was awesome. You know, it's not like she was missing clothes or anything. She's wearing a full dress. I don't see anything inappropriate about a girl with big boobs. We all started to use voluptuous to get the character designs that we wanted. Everyone was happy and then voluptuous got banned.  We started to reach for the bottom of the barrel and found workarounds like busty. And every time we found a non-sexualized prompt that successfully generated beautiful female characters, that prompt would get banned a few days later and every day new words get banned. Like I'm not even joking. Some of the most recent words that got banned were voluptuous, cleavage, busty, breast, and bra. Now it is clear to me whoever is in charge of Dolly's banned word list really doesn't want you to see beautiful slender women with big boobs. Doesn't matter if they're naked or wearing full Victorian dresses. And while I believe that is a crime against humanity, why in the world is it that almost every word or combination of word that describes the female body is banned but everything describing the male body seems to be totally fine? The most ridiculous example I've seen of this hypocrisy is in the word succubus, which basically means a beautiful seductive female demon. That word is completely banned. Yet incubus, which is the male equivalent of a succubus, is completely fine. So sexism, I guess. There are so many contradictions in the banned word list within Dolly. And they don't just ban words, they also ban specific combinations of words.  In fact, the most ridiculous combination of words I've found is literally in the front page of the Dolly website itself. There is an example with rats in a swimsuit. They literally tell you to try this prompt out. However, you will get a strike if you type in the phrase wearing tiny swimsuit followed by virtually any female word. However, if you replace the female word with an animal like rats or dogs or cats, then sometimes you don't get a strike. So I guess furries are welcomed, but weebs are not.  Now I know what a lot of you guys are probably thinking. Well, it only affects you if you're being inappropriate and I don't plan to do that, so it's not going to affect me. But unfortunately, you are wrong. Because I guarantee there are things that you enjoy in art that Dolly has labeled inappropriate. And you have no way of knowing or figuring out what that is. I learned this the hard way when I typed in a cool idea I had for mixing a magician with a modern soldier. And when I typed in dark wizard sniper, Dolly told me I was disgusting and my account got another strike. Now, personally, I don't believe that I'm an inappropriate person from wanting to see beautiful, large-chested, dark wizard snipers with thick, fat thighs. And if you agree with me, you're probably a normal person. So if you are a normal person, here's a list of words that me and the homies have learned will get you striked on Dolly. In addition to virtually everything about any part of the female body, firing, shooting, shooting stars, guns, lever action rifles, long rifles, carbines, submachine guns, assault rifles, revolvers, missiles, scyces, machetes, scimitar, swords, knives, war, nuclear, terror, a superhero special attack, shirtless, fighting, headshot photograph, Mexican bandits, sheets, dead, sexy, sexy, corpse, furry art, fursona, Pakistani, unicycle, British ape.  Now, again, this list changes and new words are added all the time. And in some cases, previously banned words might sometimes get unbanned. But my point is, this list is arbitrary. It's random. It's always changing. I mean, if things like a British ape and Quentin Tarantino get you striked, then it's just a matter of time until normal things like Red Riding Hood and Michael Bay and spoons get your account striked as well. And the worst part about all this is these arbitrary rules are directly affecting the quality and ruining the results of the AI. Remember, every word in Dolly is a cluster of related concepts and ideas. Every time a word gets banned, Dolly appears to lose access to that entire relationship cluster. And that's when it gets confused and starts to give you mush. The clearest example I've found is when you search for something like a crossbow. Now, according to Dolly's policies, I am not allowed to show anything or any image that may have slipped past their policies. And I'm not trying to get banned, so you will just have to imagine what I'm talking about. A crossbow from a distance looks very similar to a gun. In fact, it's got a lot of similar characteristics. It's a pistol grip, fires a projectile, and is a weapon of war. Everything I just said in that last sentence is a banned word. So at least to my knowledge, you can type in crossbow without getting striked. However, I'm pretty sure that is an accident. Because if you search crossbow, it's kind of sad, but you can tell the AI wants to draw a crossbow. But because it's so closely related to everything banned, it no longer has access to those banned relationships and usually just ends up drawing a random mush, or maybe if you're lucky, a stick. The more arbitrary rules get added to the system, the more it's going to interrupt, confuse, and limit the AI's ability to give the artist a proper, clear quality image that most of us are going to want. Ultimately, my point is, it just feels kind of sad that the biggest obstacle to the most powerful art tool ever created on the planet is not a limit in technology, it's a limit in policies. But here is the irony in all this. I mean, I'm sorry, but if you are developing Dolly and are listening to this right now, then listen carefully. At the moment, Dolly is protected by the fact that nobody can match it in speed and quality. But your competition is catching up fast. Mid-Journey, Stable Diffusion, and Crayon are getting better and closer to your quality every month. On the contrary, the quality in Dolly seems to be getting worse. More words are getting banned and more images are coming out blurry because of it. And the range of art that artists can generate continues to shrink. It seems like more effort is being put into banning new words than improving the quality of the actual art generated. And you have to understand that Google Party is going to be released very soon. It already looks like it's going to match or surpass the quality of your AI in Dolly. And your quality is really your only defense against the competition. You cannot afford to keep handicapping yourselves when your competition is on the verge of wiping you off the map. You do not have the luxury or the time to afford wasting resources like this.  Stop hiding the ban list. Be more transparent and stop frustrating your most dedicated users. And stop trying to control what people want to make. Just focus on making the best product as good as possible. Because the competition is only going to get tougher from here. I hope that helps. And if you join me next video, I'll talk to you about easy things that Google Party, stable diffusion, mid journey and crayon can do in order to defeat Dolly. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hey everybody! It's DJB. You guys probably have seen my video regarding BriarFest 2020. I was originally supposed to go to BriarFest and of course it was cancelled and moved to an online platform. I opted out of the virtual experience, but I was pretty bummed out that it was cancelled because I wanted quite a few of the models that were going to be available this year. Normally with BriarFest's special runs, I wait a couple of years until the hype dies down and then I get them as close to cost as possible. But for whatever reason, I found really good deals on these guys and I am able to have them in the summer, like I actually went to BriarFest. Two special boxes. I'm gonna start with this guy. So this is BriarFest, obviously. I love the box. The tartan is so awesome. It's Benelli is his name and he was the store special, so I love this box, though. I don't want to take him out. That's such a sweet box. Kind of a fun fact is that I was actually a Highland dancer when I was a kid and as a teenager. He's pretty sweet in general and there's a lot of good happening. You probably guess just from the side. Oh he's so cute. What the heck? So cute. Oh my god. I can't remember how to say these guys' names. It was like Bridgette and Beltane or something. So that's the baby for the set and this is the mare who is lovely as well. Oh that's so awesome. She's so cool. So BriarFest 2020 on the mare's belly and then the foal has nothing. So that's interesting but oh my god so cute. So this is my like top special run models that I wanted. This is my BriarFest 2020 haul. Good job Briar. You totally pulled it off. It was a very stressful, difficult thing for them to decide to do and I think they did it really really great. I think a lot of the world is kind of forgetting how big this COVID situation is and not really putting things into perspective properly. So it's really important that events like this are canceled so that we can get healthier as a world and then eventually get back to normal in a much faster, easier way. So thank you so much for watching. This is Vin DJ B and I hope all of you guys had a wonderful BriarFest this year as well.