Vanessa Stockard
"Another Day, Another Chair"
Once again, US tech bros totally misinterpret how much your regular EU politician, or citizen, cares about their products:
Don't threat us with a good time, Sama.
"we want our methods to be copyrighted/closed, but we don't want to disclose our sources because we want to be able to keep using copyrighted content without paying or asking for permission of the owner".
Oh fuck off and die already, parasites.
sorry officer no i can't tell you where i got these comically large bags of money it'd potentially leave me open to legal challenges
Multitool item.
[“We’ve supported the table with a landmine 😂”
“Fucking what? What if it fucking blows?”
“We have another one.”]
It’s so funny to me that Dusk has a humansona.
You think she has a caard for ‘him’? Reference pages? I mean she has a backstory and characterization for him, a storyteller that frequents teahouses and tells many a tale simply because he enjoys it.
Do you think Dusk lays belly down on her bed kicking her feet excitedly about the noble winds and being unstirred by loss and unmoved by gain, rehearsing her stories to perfect their delivery?
“The Storyteller is always calm and welcoming, isn’t a hater, and even tolerates unemployed sisters with putrid taste in filmography… Indisputably, a paragon of virtue and scruples :)”
It’s just hilarious that she’s the opposite of people all around the world making thinly veiled overpowered self-inserts through which they project trauma. The actual physical goddess said “I self-insert as a regular ass dude who is pleasant”, queen.
It’s important to note that Dusk wore her humansona avatar so she could visit an artist she admires and offer him a Faustian deal: He’s going blind, so his paintings are decreasing in quality and he’s become disgraced, so Dusk offers him if he wants to ‘use’ all of his remaining eyesight in one night at the cost of going fully blind the next morning, so that he may imprint all of his surrounding world one last time to memory and make his final masterpiece.
Except, she may have messed up the blessing and additionally made him very long-lived if not immortal (which she didn’t intend) and may have also imparted a bit of her power to him, as he drew a Bitey and it came to life like Dusk’s. She also did not intend this.
This all happened because people were shit-talking an artist she liked, but instead of just minding her business as most people would, Dusk got so mad about it that she staged some divine intervention. Because this is Dusk we’re talking about (affectionately).
Also, the artist hit a bit too close home for Dusk’s liking at one point:
“Your essence, as I perceive it, sir, is too alike to that of a woman with a cold face and a warm heart.”
Dusk: “Hey.”
if 'photorealistic' fur and feathers are rendered like this its likely ai
ai (left) at the moment at least, really hates rendering fur well. either a tiny bit is in focus and the rest is completely blurred, all of it kind of ambiguously fluffy yet smooth looking, or each hair looks meticulously engraved on with the burn tool. one thing it’s really bad at is separating areas of different hair growth and hair tracts in a natural way.
hair doesn’t grow randomly on mammals, different patches grow in specific directions. ai really can’t strike a balance of following this flow and either doesn’t follow these hair paths and blurs/smudges it out(usually in cuter stylized images) or follows them way too harshly without any stray hairs deviating or natural debris anywhere (real wild animals aren’t spotless 27/4)
hairs often come out too uniform and lacking any natural imperfection.
it’s hard to explain if you don’t have the eye for it but real photos just have more nuance to them, everything feels more grounded and less floaty, and also the eyes usually aren’t super shiny. real wildlife photography doesn’t often get these super shots with such crisp foreground/background separation and when they do it still feels different and much less ambiguously smooth.
in real photos you can get lost in the details and gain more information or context the longer you observe them, cheap ai stuff is meant to be superficially consumed, and the more you look at the details the less it makes sense instead
