i should become a liberal political cartoonist because apparently the whole job is to draw this month’s villain destroying the constitution/freedom/cheeseburgers. over and over and over and

Algol -> B -> C -> ??? -> Zig

Now we just need the other 22…

-Tank Serjian, lead vocalist of System of an Up

there’s an extension called “video background play fix” that also does that without needing to go to desktop mode

This is from 2021. This is old news.

but still.

lmao the word filter messed up the link

that’s what i’m sayin!!! Jax is basically the main character from episode 5 onward

very reassuring that i didnt like her until the mask started slipping. thought she was just comic relief jaded asshole until then. god i love that fuckass rabbit

wait isnt Kinger still a straight cis man, what is blud waffling about

i am once again vindicated for my incredible ability to enjoy something without interacting with The Fandom™ in the slightest

i’ve never seen more aggressive virtue signalling than from azov sycophants. The debacle about russian shorthair cats being banned from a competition still takes the cake, but they keep trying their best to top that.

Where’s the hidden Free Palestine or Trans Rights or ACAB in protestware? it’s always about pestering Russians or Chinese people, innit. Probably helps that so many devs in open-source spaces are g*rmans.

i can dream all day but sadly, reality is often disappointing. he wouldnt be able to do it even if he wanted (wants?) to

ugh who let these guys have the sickest logo

you’re right, i totally did a Reading Comprehension 🙃

Sorry to subject you to a misplaced wall of text, have an excellent day

edit: i am so sorry wow you got a lot of other responses while i was writing this

to me the biggest point against generated art is that it’s just crap.

A shitty man-made drawing will still have some sort of consistency between each piece, an inherent uniqueness due to the artist behind it, and the mistakes or inaccuracies aren’t nearly as jarring or disturbing. It takes some serious dedication to draw or paint something that’s unpleasant to look at.

Some schmuck with stable diffusion (or whatever the new favorite slop churner is) could generate a million picturesque landscapes, selecting only the finest of outputs, and they’d still be samey, weirdly framed, and plagued with unpleasant oddities in the details, only enjoyable from a distance and without looking for too long.

In the context of game development and illustration (comics etc), AI falls apart real fast. You often need to depict the same characters, objects, and places, possibly hundreds of times in different poses, actions, settings, etc. Weilding an image generator and sifting through dozens of results at a time, trying to find one that shows your original character doing what you want while looking the same (no sudden changes in outfit or number of fingers), sounds downright sisyphean. Not to mention the lack of intention behind each asset, subtle details or expressions being even more completely unobtainable than reasonable consistency between shots. It will either be somehow more effort than doing it yourself, or look even more low-effort than AI “art” usually is. Both outcomes are inferior to doing it manually.

The only thing i can’t yet come up with a real issue against is generating boring repeating textures for 3d scenes. One of the least interesting parts of the process.

So that’s why we need real artists. Because AI slop looks like shit.

maybe it’s because i’m better at curating what news reaches me now, but i haven’t heard of a ‘blockchain’ in a while. Apologies to anyone who was also trying to forget that word, and rest in piss “”“web3"”"

forks, kitchens, etc

the American Century of Humiliation is progressing nicely. Here’s to more embarassment and defeat for the crumbling empire and its lapdogs 🥳

there was a time before stock photos and slop generators where propaganda posters were cool. i hope i see the day that they rediscover this strange entity called the “artist”. maybe then we can get more soviet-style space posters