Pikachu chu train
chu chu train it’s a chu chu train
pika chu chu train ! chu chuu !!!
where’s it going
Straight to Hell
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Which path should he choose?
The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?
he should wander away and have a picnic while he thinks about what path to choose
Great idea! But where should he have the picnic?
Under the tree, or under the old fort?
By the sea, so he can enjoy the sound of the waves
A lovely choice!
Should he build a sandcastle to pass the time? Or perhaps go fishing?
Perhaps he could collect shells he finds interesting
Sounds fun!
Which shell should he pick up?
This one
That's not a shell, it's a tiny earpiece.
Should he listen to music? Or to the mysterious pre-recorded message?
He should give it back to the crab in the largest shell, they thought they had lost their wave-pod and are grateful he found it!
The crab wants to give a gift in return.
Should he accept the gift of power, or the gift of knowledge?
the gift of friendship :)
Friendship acquired!
Should they celebrate with pizza or ice cream?
The crab friend cannot eat either of those! Let's split a nice seaweed salad instead. :)
So many options!
Should they get tossed salad, wiggly salad, or spiky salad?
Seasar salad
Nothing beats getting it straight from the source
Should they use scissors or claws to cut the seaweed?
What about that sword in the first panel?
The circle is complete.
Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.
Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
These are just SOME of the messages I’m getting. The word “narcissist” is being thrown around which feels unfair to narcissists.
twitter does not deserve my discourse but listen. about AI art.
beyond the few exceptions and the very big elephant in the room with a sign that says “everything this thing does is allocated to how much human-made art it scrapped from the internet with zero permission, compensation nor accountability” is the fact that there should be a huge differentiation between, say, the animators and artists in spider-verse who used ML to offload a lot of the tedious repetitive work to speed up their processes and deliver something with DEPTH that is very clearly thought-out with a striking intention [and truly emphasize that SOME aspects of ML can really help artists focus on the more “fun” parts of the creative process] against a tryhard with a pseudonym like The Ominous Painter who has used a colored crayon in school once or twice and their next interaction with creativity is spending a whole “14 hours!!!” typing prompts into Midjourney to then claim the result as their own “painting” and “hard work.” Nobody cares that you mess around with AI for funsies. Nobody gives a fuck. What grinds people’s gears is trying to cosplay as an artist and deep-dive into a facade of creating fake WIPS, printing AI art on a real-life canvas and posing with a paintbrush next to it, all to get a little taste of what people who have spent their life, sweat and tears honing a craft MIGHT get if the algorithm doesn’t fuck them over. All with 0 transparency? Acting like you deserve the same respect and recognition is absolutely fucking absurd, and frankly trying to convince everybody you did something you did not do is embarrassing. Stop kidding yourself.
I'm stuck on thinking about the person saying, "Why are they shooting at that dog?" during the opening scenes of The Thing. It's a funny story, but I can't help realizing how many modern movie producers think the same way.
The modern producer would watch that sequence and have notes. Put in an explainer, he'd say, and have the Norwegian lines in English or at least subtitled so the audience can understand what's happening. The dog should get hit by a bullet with a close up so we can see it heal, that way the audience really knows what's up! And he'd pat himself on the back for how much better he made it.
I find myself connecting this to movies more and more trying to keep the plot under wraps, so secret even the actors don't know what they're filming! The audience will really be wowed with the surprise of learning what happens in the plot! That's what suspense and mystery are, after all - not knowing a thing and finding it out. Nothing to it.
There's something to it, this new idea that keeping the plot secret is suddenly hugely important while simultaneously insisting everything is always explained. There can't be a moment anyone knows what's happening before paying for the movie, and there cannot be a single second a paying customer is unsure, or even a little worried, by anything the second they've parted with their money. If you pay your shot and punch your ticket you get everything delivered to the base of your brain in a cup of easily digestible slurry.
Anyway, not all movies and all that, but I think a whole bunch of producers are pleased as punch these days at how much better they are at suspense and mystery.
I love that the memes and style of posting Redditors are bringing over are very Tumblr-esque but they're not quite the same, with just enough distinction they have an ever so slight different vibe to them.
It's like convergent evolution where we've both got wings but one's leathery, the other feathery, or we're both large aquatic swimmers but one has gills, the other a blowhole, and we inhabit slightly different but potentially overlapping niches.
Twitter users on the other hand evolved from us after leaving the population and are now unrecognisable.