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Yeah, Buddy is right. I should have just said, "Shut the fuck up," and kept it moving.
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He's gonna hit that billion mark and there'll be like at least 8 Avatar movies. Goddamn you all π. -
There isn't going to be a civil conversation if you don't step out of this fairy tale mindset. You have no empathy and just gush over how advances solely made to steal art and is fucking over artists is just so fan-fucking-tastic. Who the fuck that's ever taken their art seriously wants to hear that shit? AI art on top of massive layoffs was a curbstomp to artists when they were already down this year. Now their efforts are diminished by people who put their names into prompts and brag about how they have that's artist's work without paying for it(bonus dickhole points when they tag the artist too).
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I forgot to comment on this. Bruh, you've been demeaning as hell to artists by making blanket statements about them in your posts. Don't throw heat out there if you can't take it.
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I'm not giving that clicks and fuck Evil Wizard Bitch. Ghiblifying popular media has been a thing, so meh.
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I have no idea how far you think AI art has gotten, but it's not some mythical creature you seem to think it is. It has no actual independent thought. All it's doing is putting out collages of artwork that have mostly been used without permission. It's why it keeps creating fucked up hands and eyes. It can't think and figure out their purpose. Many artists create billions of interpretations of how they should be drawn, so there's nothing consistent in the data gathered. And it's not harmful just because it takes jobs, it can also be harmful because it can make people lazy. Tor, one of the best Fantasy publishers out there and usually has consistently beautiful covers, has started to use AI art(which was recognized on sight because of how fucked up it looked). Right now, it's a couple instances, but it will grow and the beauty in their covers will disappear. AI writing programs are definitely improving, but I have no interest in them either. Some people will flock to them, but my stories stand out and other authors' work too because our personal experiences are in them. The same thing with art. I don't care what AI will come up with because it will never feel like mine. My ugly art, my so-so art, and my best art locked in a drawer because I can't stand to be reminded of how much skill I lost while being inactive for over a decade are all MINE. Gunstar brought up great points about being a chef. I will never reach that level, but learning how to cook has been fun and I'm so proud of my achievements even if they are small. In writing, food, art, and other stuff, I don't want to just copy another person's technique. I want to learn. I see nothing in AI art as it presently exists that will let me do that.
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π Ain't no way I'm reading that red ass text.
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"I love my son and I'm devastated by my daughter's death. BUT! You know what makes me feel good? This box of Snoop cereal!" That man is going straight to hell. -
Those sites used a bunch of stolen art and users even mass targeted artists who didn't want anything to do with them, so yes, she's correct. Those sites could have went about this in a way that paid artists and gave them credit, but they chose not to and caused a lot of drama. I'm not twisting folks hands to stay away from those sites because what's really gonna matter are the court cases right now. But, pretending these sites(how they were created to steal work) aren't harmful to artists, just sounds like denial.
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You know what, I agree with the blogs. Meg shouldn't have lied to the cops at first. She should have taken her chances and let them two fuckers get turned into swiss cheese. Nothing of value would have been lost. -
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English is already an annoying language, so I see no point in complicating it further with exercises like this. I'm happy this wasn't a thing at my school either. -
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I ain't ever seen this thing in my life. -
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Being nosy in Twitter employees' subtweets is fun. -
Barbies were the only girly shit I was into because they gave me the ability to have a long running Young and the Restless spinoff in my bedroom while I avoided all the kids who wanted to whoop my nerdy ass outside. Their vintage outfits also probably contributed to me liking fashion back in the day and considering being a designer for some years. I do like nostalgic movies like this when it doesn't feel like the goal is to shit on people who liked what the movie's based on.
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It's an almost 3 hour PG-13 Fergully with groundbreaking special effects but a script from the 80's. It pissed me the fuck off, and I dropped it like almost halfway through the movie. How the fuck you gonna spend all that money on razzle dazzle but the writing is shit? HOW? -
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Oh y'all are WEAK! Don't break down and go see Avatar for that damn Barbie trailer. It's gonna be on youtube right before or after. We can wait that old man out! -
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I had no idea Ben McKenzie was out here writing books about the finance world. Okay, get those extra coins. And that's why Viserys Targaryen looked so damn familiar. He was on Hot Fuzz! -
Happy Birthday Buddy!
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Even More Random Shit Found on the Internet
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I just ran into a reference about this guy for the first time, and this is a lot: Tarrare Tarrare ([taΚaΚ]; c. 1772 β 1798), sometimes spelled Tarar, was a French showman and soldier noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he would swallow corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer. At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadrupling the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He would eat any available food from gutters and rubbish heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards, and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight and, with the exception of his eating habits, he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament. General Alexandre de Beauharnais decided to put Tarrare's abilities to military use, and employed him as a courier for the French army, with the intention that he would swallow documents, pass through enemy lines, and recover them from his stool once safely at his destination. Tarrare could not speak German, and on his first mission, he was captured by Prussian forces, severely beaten, and underwent a mock execution before being returned to French lines. Chastened by this experience, he agreed to submit to any procedure that might cure his appetite, and was treated with laudanum, tobacco-pills, wine-vinegar, and soft-boiled eggs. The procedures failed, and doctors could not keep him on a controlled diet; he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for offal in gutters, rubbish heaps and outside butchers' shops, and attempted to drink the blood of other patients in the hospital and to eat the corpses in the hospital's morgue. After being suspected of eating a toddler, he was ejected from the hospital. He re-appeared four years later in Versailles with a case of severe tuberculosis and died shortly afterwards, following a lengthy bout of exudative diarrhoea. -
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Dancer secret: we can have some of the shittiest taste in music. All we want is a decent beat and don't care about shit else. Look up "Imagine Dragons" and "choreography" on youtube and you gon' see. -
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I don't care, I like Unholy by Sam Smith. I know it's the dancer in me that likes bad music that lets me groove. Thanks to the folks that took out Kim Petra's parts the best they could though. -
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Thank fucking God I switched to serial stories. Traditional publishing is just more depressing news back to back. -
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I just want to try Whataburger one time. Why won't the lines calm down? I refuse to wait an hour+ for fast food because that ruins the experience before you even eat. Damn that university near it and other folks wanting a 5 a.m. burger.