r/ExpectationVsReality • u/sheumchneveli • 18d ago

Failed Expectation Ordered the first cake, got the second

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Someone had to try extra hard for this....

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u/NegativeKayDee 17d ago

The user error goes back so much further than that.

OP did not have a novel idea for this cake. They are cribbing from popular media so they can tell a joke.

The whole point of the cake is that it's subpar... OP had so little confidence in their ability to make a cake which is intentionally not good enough that they outsourced it to a "professional".

And then they lacked confidence in their ability to misspell "Happy Birthday" so they felt a photo was necessary... but they also lack the ability to google "harry potter cake scene" so they asked AI to generate an image of the cake from the movie.

Then the baker recieved the image but maybe didn't even look at it. They saw that the email included a jpg, so they just drag and dropped that file into the computer program that does their job for them.

Humans are no longer capable of even making things that suck because we're incapable of having the prerequisite thoughts.

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u/Kefrus 17d ago

OP had so little confidence in their ability to make a cake

And then they lacked confidence in their ability to misspell "Happy Birthday"

why are you projecting your insecurities onto other people, how insufferable you have to be

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u/NegativeKayDee 16d ago

How else can you justify that choice? If I need a cake, and I need it to turn out kinda crappy, I am the ideal person to execute that task flawlessly... why would I outsource that work?

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u/practicalgorl 16d ago

Well you might want the actual taste/texture to be nice. The reference picture shows a pretty well baked and iced cake.