petrol_sniff_king
@petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Yep 8 hours ago:
There is if you know where to look, but yeah, I feel you. I want to wear long flowy coats and such, but they’re all cut at the goddamn hip.
- Comment on Yep 8 hours ago:
and I’ve finally figured out style
Heeelllll yeah \m/
- Comment on Necromancer skill 1 week ago:
Okay, I accept this answer
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Here is a nice little inflation chart I’ve assembled:
You people are upset about (analogy) gas being 12.98 a gallon when you should be upset that you don’t make enough to afford gas at 12.98 a gallon. You should male enough to afford a $450 switch 2, and the fact that you don’t is because your masters have been stealing from you for 30+ years. Or since forever, if you’re as woke as me.
NES 1985 $179 -> 2025 $528 Games $49.99 -> $147
SNES 1991 $199 -> 2025 $464 Games $49.99 -> $116 SM All-Stars $59.99 -> $140
N64 1996 $199 -> 2025 $403 Games $59.99 -> 121
GameCube 2001 $199 -> 2025 $355 Games $49.99 -> $89
Gameboy 1989 $89.99 -> 2025 $230 Games $29.99 -> $76
Gameboy Advance 2001 $99.99 -> 2025 $178 Games $34.99 -> $62
Nintendo DS 2004 $149.99 -> 2025 $251 Games $29.99 -> $50
Playstation 1 1995 $299 -> 2025 $622 Games $49.99 -> $104
Playstation 2 2000 $299 -> 2025 $552 Games $49.99 -> $92
X-Box 2001 $299 -> 2025 $535 Games $49.99 -> $89
Sega Genesis 1989 $189 -> 2025 $483 Games $59.99 -> $153
Sega Dreamcast 1999 $199 -> 2025 $380 Games $49.99 -> $95
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Game consoles are sold at a loss. You are supposed to buy more games than the console costs.
- Comment on ghibli posting 3 weeks ago:
You know that thing our colelctive parents do when they want to win an argument so they just start attacking you for random things you did 6 years ago? That’s exactly what this person is doing.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
Uh. I’m gonna guess no. Is there an anime lady with robots?
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you’ve ever played that.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 5 weeks ago:
Your genome also shapes your scoliosis, but I don’t see anyone keeping you away from the whirligig inversion table.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 1 month ago:
Ha ha! We got this one for free!
- Comment on At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend? 1 month ago:
Ahh.
If I were writing a character play, I’m still not sure how this would go. I’m sure there are stories out there, though.
- Comment on At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend? 1 month ago:
I cannot even fathom how this happened.
Glad you two are happy, though. <3 - Comment on Got sum Zucc? 1 month ago:
Holy shit that’s scary
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 1 month ago:
You know, maybe one day I’ll do it again. The only people I would have play Drakengard are those with extreme patience, and unfortunately, I’m one of those people.
It does have a really good story.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 1 month ago:
Nooo, wait who actually plays Drakengard? I love that game to bits, but I would never tell someone to play it. Was I just bad? That game is truly awful, haha.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 1 month ago:
Fuck I miss SSX. I need to make sure I have a good one in my rom folder.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
> calls people media illiterate
> says other people are being too hostileMy god, that was a good laugh.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 months ago:
I don’t want any. :(
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
but I justify it by pointing to things like splatter or fluid acrylic painting.
The counter I would give here is that those are just techniques. The challenge, then, is whether the generation machine can be made to do things that are interesting and meaningful. I know it can produce spectacle, but spectacle and meaning are different concepts.
I don’t know much Pollock, but isn’t he valued largely for his process and expressionism? I’m not making this accusation of you, you do seem to actually care, but a lot of people who bring him up seem to think that his work actually is random and unintelligible—I don’t think that it is.
I will concede that the process of interacting with the generation machine to produce something is a creative one, I just don’t think it’s anywhere near what a lot of proponents claim it be.
I’ve used Suno, and my lasting impression of it is that it was fun, sometimes really funny, and overall kind of soul sucking. As a musician, there were essentially no times that I felt anything produced there was mine. It was just novelty. Some of it sounded really cool, but none of it was an expression of me or what I was really looking for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think that ultimately my push back is on the folks that argue that it can’t be art.
I’m not really jumping in on this discussion, but I did want to add one thing:
I can believe two things at once.
AI generated media can’t be art … because the whole purpose of a generative AI machine is to alleviate the burden of decision making. The fewer places you let something decide for you, the more “art” you can imbue into your project. Art is a communicative effort.
Artists can use AI generated media … but the points of interest, the meaning, would not (necessarily) be the decisions the machine made.
An example above, I forget if it was you or someone else, shows a pen sketch of a scene then filled in by the generator, and I think the artist there can be given credit for the perspective, the framing of the subject, the mech-suit, the sci-fi aesthetic; but I wouldn’t credit them with the tally marks on her left shoulder, or the shape details of her eyes, or the various light-up displays that dot the walls.
There’s also something to be said for choosing as opposed to creating outright, but I think we’re losing ourselves in myopic details at this point.
The bottom line is that, aside of any ethics issues, I’m not that upset about AI media that’s honest about what it is. I watch youtube channels that depend on AI for their performance art. But, AI proponents love selling this technology as a replacement for people, which is a sentiment I find… disgusting. Inhuman.
And, I find it really sad the way a person who spent the better part of their life perfecting a style and technique can be essentially shoved out of their own niche by the 10,000 style-copy images a generator can make in an afternoon. This isn’t like photography, where painters and camera-snappers can coexist in separate styles of image production: AI generators can replace both.
Sorry, I thought all that was going to be just two paragraphs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It doesn’t even make sense. Conservatives love, love, love AI.
Hey, does anyone remember that 500 billion dollar infrastructure package Trump wants to give AI companies? You should, it was two weeks ago.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
I say this again: never having to deal with us is actually very simple. She’ll never make fun of your toys.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
No, I think the bitcoin nft metaverse gooners of yesteryear have found a new thing to pretend is the future.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 2 months ago:
And this is the… only other option?
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 2 months ago:
That’s true! They’re very stupid.
Since this has been proven twice, it is now a known fact, what should the democrats do next time to enrapture these very stupid people and ensure a decisive victory against the enemy?
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
You’re free to show your AI images to your AI friends who will give you AI congratulations. I’m not sure why I need to be a part of this masturbation.
- Comment on my escaping the matrix moment was when i stopped being ashamed of my anthropomorphic wolf porn obsession 2 months ago:
Ah, fuck. Pot of Greed.
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 2 months ago:
I’m a busy man with a busy schedule, so I had chatgpt summarize all that for me:
The comment argues that the value of art lies in the artist’s choice to elevate an ordinary object, criticizing modern conceptual art for being vulgar and unoriginal, while also questioning the value placed on handcrafted items over machine-produced ones.
Uh, my guy, people love handcrafted things. You ever seen E t s y?
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 2 months ago:
If they didn’t care enough to do it authentically, why should I give a shit about their actor-accent auto tune.