sometimes i do stuff

arcade the fakest idgafer on earth

So I asked my guy Felipe @feliville , master of color, to make me a Whitewashed™ Patroclus. You heard right! I wanted to see what he looked like, and as an aside I said it'd probably prove that he was a white guy painted brown. And y'all-

Tbh, I almost miss the original 🤣🤣🤣 das a Hwite Man, all right!

To quote 🎤:

"ALRIGHTY, SO, From time to time I make simple Black edits on mediocre or bad Black character designs for funsies, but whitewashing a character on purpouse felt Vile and Horrible to do, it even made my stomach hurt 👎🏽 ,, I hate the end result and I hate that his design is so bad that once the dark grey skintone is gone, there's no traces left that he's Supposed to be Black."

What's wild to me is how good this looks. Not as in attractiveness, but as in this is such a sufficient white guy character design. It's why I be saying I wish people would just... Draw another white man if they're not gonna put in the effort to depict us. No one would have flinched if this was the millionth white Patroclus in the rotation. Well I would have, but no one that companies care about would have.

Anyway, when I asked what he did and if it was possible to use the same technique for Black character design:

"I ONLY CHANGED THE COLORS, NOTHING ELSE... OKI, I MEAN, I DID LIGHTEN IT UP, I used 3 effect?blending? layers.

[from left to right; Patroclus edited to have an Actual Brown Skintone, the Original sprite, and the whitewashed edit.]

Happy to help with this Fucked up Painful edit🫡🫡!! I'll be sure to see white Patroclus in my nightmares

It's because it could be defined in completely different ways, and includes content that cannot be meaningfully grouped together.

It can include movies that children are legally not allowed to watch (which is a shitty concept), movies made without children in mind, but that still attract children (like most action or horror movies), movies made by someone who's trying to be an edgelord on purpose because they believe "adult" media should be offensive (like a large part of cartoons that are marketed as for adults), movies that are considered too complex for children for some socially constructed reason.

The New California Republic

What lessons should be taken from this? What real world analogues? If you were abused, live with guilt, have hurt others, and want to die rather than atone and move forward, I guess you should just kill yourself, everyone will get over it. Do you worry that you won't be able to accomplish what you want to accomplish, because the world seems against you? That's right. Just give up. Do you have qualms with generative ai, and how it is negatively impacting individuals and society at large? Do you feel powerless against it and the shady tech oligarchs that created it to spread disinformation / warp reality? Well, it's here to stay regardless, so maybe you should just get used to it and learn how to work with it, buddy.

(After some time)

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?