YES

at step 2 it’s not a staw anymore, that’s a narrow funnel.

It was worth the couple hours I spent on it.

I’ve finished the original work, all fifteen chapters of it. Final verdict on the politics: This isn’t a political piece. Any political themes are just set dressing for the plot. It’s cosmic/psychological/body horror all wrapped into one, with a hint of lewdity. Honestly, I’m disappointed. However, how fucking evil the affini faction is is kinda inspiring to make my own sexy alien cosmic horror faction even worse than I’ve already wrote them. Overall, worth the couple hours I spent on it.

So, I’m 6 chapters in, and I’m horrified, aroused, intrigued, and inspired to make one of the factions in my own writing infinitly worse.

Too early to make an opinion on if the work actually has a point to make or not.

I’m reading it now, I’ll let you know after I’m deeper in.

perusing the wiki, and this looks suspiciously like something that I’ve been working on for the past couple months. I’ve been scooped! Again!

I think I’m going to have a great time reading it tho

wait, it’s an actual book? I need to read this! what’s the author and title?

Both, of course, but not at the same time.

The number of songs that I used to headbang the fuck out to when I was a kid, but as an adult realized it was about suicide or domestic abuse or something else traumatic. ooof.

Fuck I miss being able to enjoy system of a down (among other artists).

Gonna be honest, I haven’t bought a physical copy of a game since I stopped playing console games almost a decade ago.

However, I do miss the gigantic obnoxious boxes that pc games used to come in back in the 90s and such. The maps of the worlds of Might&Magic were some of my favorite posters. I’d have nowhere to store them these days, but I miss it.

From the title I thought this was going to be about personal computers and upon opening the image I was very confused for a second.

No, I don’t look at what community the post is from when I’m scrolling all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium Non-mobile link.

I keep seeing this kind of argument, and I understand, but I disagree.

The comparison isn’t between using an ai service and doing it yourself, but rather between using an ai service and commissioning an actual artist. I can afford $20/mo for infinite mediocrity. I cannot afford $20/image (or more depending on the artist).

Of course, there is a flaw in my argument, in that I was assuming that the techbro was being honest. People aggressively pushing dalle or midjourney or whatever aren’t interested in “making art accessible”. They hate art and artists, and want to force creative types to be miserable doing jobs they hate. I have to remind myself that this is the kind of person that the comic is complaining about.

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You can judge a man by his enemies.

I miss having the spare time necessary to enjoy fiddling with settings.

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If you don’t routinely overwrite and delete your comments online after what we saw on Reddit that’s kind of wild, but that’s also your prerogative. Either way it’s irrelevant and not the “own” you think it is.

Bye now 👋

Except this is not what you’ve been doing here. You’ve been getting owned, mostly self-inflicted, and you’ve been deleting your comments in an attempt to hide the evidence. I am calling you out on your bullshit, an activity that entertains me to no end.

The best way for you to save face now is to take your own advice. “don’t bother responding unless the last word is that important to you”

Well apparently it’s not that easy to tell because that is not what I believe at all. So are you going to actually ask me what I think are you going to keep smugly telling me what my opinions are as a parent?

Actually don’t bother responding unless the last word is that important to you. You clearly have an ax to grind and you’re being an asshole. Have a good one.

I genuinely laughed at this. Countdown until the above is deleted by creator? This comment exists to preserve yours.