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the alphabet as seen from directly above
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the alphabet as seen from the side (lowercase)
the quabtronumicon is actually really simple to wrap ur head around actually
as soon as you disprove the equidistancy malevolence accusations you can absolutely see how those three trees can be, heh, lets say, duoscillating against each other. now. as soon as this "triangulation" starts (you can see where i'm going with this), a simple quadruplance of the entire operation (as adjacent to, lets say, a quadrocopter) would easily put this scene right here into the 4th dimension. as such, those trees could serve as a portal to higher understanding of mankind and these realms we find ourselves in. be it. centrifugal, or even... natural
this is the three trees it's talking about btw, it has been trying to explain this to me for the past like 10 minutes
my dad's working on adobe photoshop's AI stuff and he's talked about how hard they have to work to get it to be unable to output nudity, and i kinda understand why, but like imagine if MS Paint disabled your brush if it detected that you were drawing a penis
there's something darkly funny about a personal art program that simply cannot facilitate depictions of penises. i know its to prevent deepfakes & other illegal things, and maybe the capacity for image synthesis engines to just let people spam shit everywhere makes it a little more volatile, but isn't every paint program capable of making deepfakes if you're good enough??
I can’t remember if I already posted about this, but Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii) has an interesting Dual Gender system, but I don’t mean in the traditional binary sense.
Instead, every Player object has a Gender field, which can be set to any of 4,294,967,296 genders.
EXCEPT it turns out it only uses this gender field if the player is a robot. Player objects representing Humans have a Gender field too, but it goes unused.
(This is because for Humans, their Player object is backed up by a Player Profile object, which contains it’s own Gender field, allowing any of the 4,294,967,296 possible genders)
Sadly, the getGender method in the scripting language conflates the two gender values, so it’s not like there’s 4,294,967,296 robot genders and then another 4,294,967,296 human genders. It’s the same 4,294,967,296 genders no matter what.
Anyway as for how the game interprets those four billion genders… in the WFCommonJunction::getProfileTexture method it sets the value “0″ to mean “male”, and the remaining 4,294,967,295 genders to mean “female”.
That’s just to figure out which head to display on the player selector though. Player/PlayerProfile Genders might have different effects elsewhere.
Also these genders only matter if you don’t have a Mii head. If you do, it uses the Mii’s gender. (The Mii-gender-system is outside the scope of this article)
I had a dream that the alt-right manosphere people stopped liking Andrew Tate, but the guy they replaced him with was Mr. Bean? Like Rowan Atkinson was suddenly the model of masculinity that all these dudes were idolizing and I'm not sure if he was even aware of it.
"Beanposting" was like, the new meme and people spent a lot of time using AI programs to make images of jacked chad Mr. Bean.
I don't know exactly how, but this was related to something called "The Darkness." Like, if you beanposted too much, it would trigger The Darkness, but The Darkness could also happen randomly.
The Darkness was like, this thing that would happen as you were trying to sleep. This black fog would completely envelop you, to the point where you weren't able to see anything. Once that happened, you'd have the distinct feeling that you had been transported somewhere else, or like, another place had been transported around you.
At that point, you HAD to keep your eyes closed. If you didn't, you'd see a blue-green Greek letter delta appear in the air. It would give off just enough light to barely give the impression that there was someone holding the delta, like it was hovering above their hand.
I woke up before I could learn what happened if you saw the delta.
entirely unrelated to the actual posts above, but, as you can see there is a tiny tiny banner at the bottom of the second posts image. when i first encountered this footer a while ago i got curious, what the fuck is americasbestpics.com? so i checked it out
it pretty much just looks like an ifunny clone, huh? specifically advertising to americans? looks interesting, i dug deeper, trying to figure out where their backend is, and how the fuck they have as many posts as they do if i've never heard of them
wait, huh? what's that? what? ifunny?
oh, so ABPV is run by Funtech Publishing, a company that runs a number of hyperspecific ifunny "clones". wait? funtech is the word funcorp (owner of ifunny) uses to describe their industry? huh? *digs a bit deeper* hm funtech publishing is headquartered in the same city in cyprus as funcorp! hmmmmmmm
oh huh, wow how curious! the main company officer registered for funtech publishing also just so happens to be the former ceo/director at ifunny (at the time of them being main officer at funtech), that surely doesn't mean anything ok so, wait, ifunny runs an ifunny clone, a shady meme/tiktok clone app where you ?? get paid ?? to use the app? (which curiously enough is listed under a different company name and corporate structure, while also being on the funtech website?), a whatsapp status saver letting u save other peoples statuses, some other rly cringily advertised meme focused tiktok clone and potentially some other apps.
this is not an uncommon practice for smaller advertising business focused mobile app dev studios, but i was really surprised to find ifunny doing this, and especially that they would compete with themselves.
keeping an excel spreadsheet of all my friends & the minimum age i can be mentally around each one
I'm autistic, so my creative process is just reaching into my data reserves and taking little bits out to emulate, modify, or combine with something else. I think neurotypical people do this too, but they have magical brains that can compartmentalize information effortlessly so they don't realize that's what they're doing. this is how you get the mythology of divine inspiration, or original creative spirit.
i don't understand how someone can love a piece of media without also feeling motivated to qualify that love in some way. the "i dont care, i like it" gene doesn't exist in my brain. I don't even really consider myself a fan of something if I haven't put any thought into why I feel that way about it.
A lot of artists feel a sense of demeaning mockery from AI art engines, there's something demoralizing about your process being reduced to an algorithm that makes images by being stimulated with noise like you're blowing wind across a resonant glass pipe. But honestly, the user experience doesn't resemble artmaking, it resembles art commissioning, and that makes me feel demeaned.
Not to take credit from the artists who work for me, but being a client is something you can get good at. It's like being a film producer, you need to scout talent, understand what they can do for you, and communicate this effectively in your pitch. THIS is the craft that is bastardized by AI art the most. Seeing this technology marketed as the cheap alternative to hiring an artist, seeing the infantile cries for aesthetic fulfillment that comprise the field of "prompt engineering", it makes me sick. The way so many people's first introduction to the client experience is just nondescriptly begging for a beautiful picture from a program that can never ask questions of its own, it sucks.
I’d still have to raise some disagreements with you on that. Mainly getting down to the overall argument regarding art and how much intention there is within an art piece. While yes, AI diffusion models are meant to generalize a prompt into weighted averages, there’s still some form of human input that goes into getting to that end result in the first place. I honestly think at the end of the day, the issue really pertains to artists not letting go of their ego and supporting people who can’t earn enough to commission have a chance of expressing themselves.
I do however agree though that AI should stay out of the hands of major executives, as I’m generally against any big corporation displacing workers for cheaper alternatives. I really more so generally disagree that it should stay out of the arts entirely.
I have a lot of say in how the art I commission ends up looking too, it's even usually a collaborative effort with the ends of expressing a thing I want to see expressed in my little creative spirit, I also make art (music) and I know that this isn't what artmaking is. I support niche amateur outsider art, I don't support calling something what it very clearly isn't.
You're peddling a cheap alternative to commissioning artists, not an alternative avenue for expressing oneself. Unfortunately undercutting working artists isn't as romantic of a vision, so it's presented like we're opening the gates, letting unskilled people ~make~ the art of their dreams. It is, in my view, far more elitist to imply that the masses of people who are already making unskilled art for peer audiences are suffering some art deficiency without the ability to generate pretty pictures that look superficially like mass market slop.
What if someone doesn’t enjoy the actual process of drawing in the first place? Should they be relegated to be unable to partake in that medium forever if they can’t afford to commission artists? Same can be said with physical disabilities as well.
Which I get it, art isn’t a skill you acquire in a single afternoon. Though if someone just doesn’t have enough time in their life to put forth the effort to learn the skill, why lock it out for them?
It’s why I say it’s an ego problem for artists that are more than well off monetarily, they can’t let go of the fact that someone who can’t really gain the ability to do digital art is able to have that ability.
I’d be fully understanding if artists generally hate coding and want a more simple / no code solution for their art using AI. I’d love to see more people get involved with creating things.
You're missing the point, AI doesn't give them that ability. We'd have a discussion if AI actually worked as a proxy for artmaking, but it does not. It's not "digital art but easier" it is fancy google images. These pieces do not fit together in the way you think they do.
We already have heavily hands off tools and toys, and we understand there is a blurry but nonetheless real threshold between making art and taking part in someone else's art toy. AI artists are participants in the art object of stable diffusion, or other such engines, and I will criticize that art object for what it represents aesthetically and ideologically.
please gain a good intuitive sense of the explicit difference between thoughts and actions in case you develop OCD later in life
i know chat gpt is just an incredibly advanced chinese room but i simply cannot use it without anthropomorphizing it & feeling bad for continuously expecting it to write me shit. im also a little creature who everyone thought lacked self awareness, unfortunately
