Imagine an alien sharing a cool human fact they just learned like ”hey guys did you know that the silvery markings on humans actually aren’t true stripes? They’re called stretch marks, they happen when the human is growing fast enough to actually outgrow their skin, which is apparently something that just fucking happens to almost all of them at some point of their life.”
and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”
”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”
”I swear if you tell me one more weird human thing today I’m beating your ass.”
The human in the room looks up and goes “Wait I have stripes?”
“what do you mean cats can see them, but I can’t?”
what do you fucking mean cats can see them
I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESS
MY CAT THINKS I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!?
NO NO ITS NOT “IT THINKS I HAVE THEM”
BECAUSE WE DOAPPARENTLY
SO ITS ACTUALLY A VERY DISTRESSED “MY CAT THINKS I KNOW I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!”
AND I THINK THATS A BIT WORSE TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST
apparently there’s a disease where they become visable, and these are the most common kind??
Ngl it looks cool but???? I’m still in shock tbh
I NEED TO KNOW WHAT PATTERN OF STRIPES I HAVE AND THE CATS WON’T TELL ME
I COULD HAVE A CHECKERBOARD ON MY BACK AND NO ONE WOULD KNOW???
They’re called Blaschko’s lines!!!
The reverse can also be true … kinda.
I remember reading somehwre the human eye can see more shades of green than any other colour. I just googled it and the human eye can see 10 Million different shades of green.
So human could see stripes and patterns on, say, a reptillian race who maybe can’t see as many colours as we do, and think they’re just one boring shade of green.
Human: We have stripes?! I wish I could see them. I hope they look like yours.
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
I’m pretty on board with the headcanon that what Link gets out of being the bearer of the Triforce of Courage is the power of being a video game protagonist, but I genuinely can’t decide whether it would be funnier if he’s 100% aware of how much bullshit his everything is, or if he honestly doesn’t realise.
Like, does he know that normal people can’t recover from life-threatening wounds in a matter of minutes by drinking a jar of really good soup? It’s the sort of thing you’d assume would be obvious just from being around other human beings, and yet.
The fact that Breath of the Wild Link’s laser-parrying trick is something that only works for him is made explicit in the dialogue, so presumably he’s at least aware that it’s exceptional, but does he understand that it’s complete bullshit, or does he think it’s just a skill issue?
Link: No, that’s fair, if I fuck up the timing I have to eat a laser to the chest and that is, understandably, extremely painful, so I don’t recommend you practice this unless you’re really confident about your timing.
Random Guard:…Link people die if they take those to the chest.
Link: I mean you should be angling yourself, i’m not saying to just let your sternum take a whole blow, to just take it square, that’s a terrible idea
Random Guard: It explodes rocks.
Link: You have armor for a reason my guy.
Random Guard: …
Link: If it helps, drinking some fire resist potions has proven to be moderately effective for me.
I put my thoughts on this down on Twitter, where nobody was ever going to read them, so I might as well do it here too. I’m someone that has experimented with AI image generation extensively to understand it and learn its limitations. (And there are a lot of limitations, AI art has a reputation for looking bad for a reason.)
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I have more to say on the topic. But firstly I want to say something I said on Twitter, and expand on it somewhere that I’m not trying to squeeze my thoughts into limited characters:
Al-Image-gen advocates always try to say that it’s making art “Accessible”, but the tools are not user-friendly in the slightest. Knowledge of coding and language learning is required to get any kind of coherent results. It’s accessible, but only to tech-bros who know those things.
But also, it’s not accessible because it is expensive, the actual powerful tools and API for image generation are locked behind subscription paywalls. There are free models and samples, but they are intentionally less powerful and produce significantly worse results.
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So, no, it is not “accessible” in the slightest, unless you’re satisfied with the uncanny horror and random daubs of paint and fifteen fingers of the ‘free’ versions.
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So, apart from being morally bankrupt, AI art is just bad art, it produces substandard work and always will because of the way it is set up to “create”, frankensteining based on algorithms and patterns and drawing from a library of stolen scraped work. Artists use the term “plagiarism software” to refer to image generators in the business now, and I encourage everyone to start using the term.
But my biggest point I wanted to make about it though is this fact about art theory that I haven’t seen many bring up before:
Art should have intention, or it isn’t YOUR work. Pressing a button after typing in a prompt just doesn’t amount to actually picking and choosing your subject, your composition, and your meaning and message. The result is too random and belongs more to the machine than to you.
Just letting people know as I see nobody is talking about it on my dash: European Union Parliment is working on an AI Act that regulates usage of generated content like this.
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