{"id":2146,"date":"2021-03-29T22:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reflectiveeye.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:23:47","slug":"deep-fakes-and-allsorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectiveeye.com\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"Deep fakes and allsorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing a lot of tabletop shooting recently which is something that I enjoy very much. Halfway through shooting one thing I had an inexplicable need for liquorish allsorts, so I put a tactical pause on what I was doing and headed to the convenience store. They didn’t have the original ones so I got a packet of knock offs which I thought would be pretty good as a stunt double. No problem right? They’re all the same?<\/p>\n

Ok, taste test. Hmmmm. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. But they looked so good. So I headed back out, further this time across town. This time I’m going for the real thing. Fool me once.<\/p>\n

Back at the ranch now, I open the packet. And I see this.<\/p>\n

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Of course I see this one first – it’s my favourite. This is the perfect fondant to liquorish ratio, plus it’s a bit coconutty. I’ll shoot it first, and then eat it. That will give me a system. So I shoot it to see what it looks like. Really looks like. Not just recognise it enough that I feel comfortable eating it. I mean LOOK at it. It doesn’t look pristine. But the taste and the texture – the resist, the crumble, the flood of sweetness and the chew is like having a time machine. I’m a small boy again at that time when these became my favourite. It was much easier then. I knew what I was getting. No trickery. <\/p>\n

Except this one.<\/p>\n

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This one always tricks me. It tastes like betrayal. Each bag I think that I will resist and not eat these but I always do. And it’s always unpleasant to me but I still do it.<\/p>\n

These<\/p>\n

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are only half as good as these<\/p>\n

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but you knew that.<\/p>\n

These next ones I don’t mind – they’re a bit like non player characters. Reliable but not exciting. I could still eat ten in a row and feel good about number ten.<\/p>\n

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And then somehow we get to the ones left in the bottom of the bag, at least in our house. These will only get eaten at some time past midnight.<\/p>\n

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So kind of a mixed bag really, some good , a small percentage evil.<\/p>\n

Maybe it really does take allsorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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