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cradling the em dash in my hands what the fuck have they done to you
it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.
and this isnt just about shounen i just mean like. if you're excusing misogynistic writing with "well it wasn't written for girls" then i'm seriously questioning your approach to all this.
many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.
this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.
as part of their ongoing boycott, Canada will no longer provide the US with totally real long-distance girlfriends who definitely exist
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queer rep goes thru these cycles where every couple of years lgbt people are like "we get no rep in media and the representation we do get is way too sanitized and it feels so fake and flat. wheres the queer characters that are messy and flawed and REAL??"
then someone gets brave and makes a character who is a real bastard and makes all the wrong choices and is maybe even malicious at times and they make this character explicitly queer. and then fans are like "this is what you think of us?? worst representation ever" and the creator gets absolutely lambasted, ESPECIALLY if theyre queer themselves
then everyone else sees this and either thinks its too risky to include a queer character, or wants to make sure they're only doing the good and nice representation with no flaws or mistakes
then queer people are like "we get no rep in media and the representation we do get is way too sanitized and
and no im not blaming queer people for our own lack of representation, or when "representation" exists only to mock us and shame us. I am however saying: stop attacking queer creators for making queer characters who are nuanced and complicated and even ugly or cruel. theyre not reflecting you, their character isnt you. its just their character
what is it about things being gender neutral having to also be ‘masculine’. like, why can you wear a suit and tie and call it gender neutral but not a dress cause that’s feminine. why can you call people dude or guy as a gender neutral term but not girl cause that’s feminine. short hair is neutral but long hair is feminine. i mean i know why this is fully a rhetorical question but let’s think about that
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Actually if you look at his username you’ll see he’s played at least one other game
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"It's a huge part of human life yet it gets erased in so many stories..."
What world is op living in and can I move there?
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arguments opposing generative AI based on the artistic merit of its output are not very useful or actionable because art is simply too subjective to base any legislation on and also most of these arguments devolve into some bullshit about the human soul or the importance of toiling or whatever.
setting aside all the actionable reasons to object to the technology for a moment, I think image generation had a lot of potential for the kind of art where you just kind of see where the medium takes you and curate the most interesting results. the unpredictable and surrealist quality of the output was a lot of the appeal of the early models back when it was just a novelty and we were generating "bloodborne horses" and stuff
it also saves a lot of time when making images of which its presence matters more than its contents anyway, such as background decals in video games or whatever, but that's not really what this post is about.
this "see where the medium takes you" approach is particularly suited to abstract art, and the more abstract the style the harder it becomes to distinguish the computer generated from the human-made. there comes a point where the computer's inability to actually understand what it is depicting becomes a strength as it allows for abstractions that are counterintuitive to a human pattern-seeking brain. this is something where I genuinely think the technology could bring something new and unique to the table.
this medium-first approach to art has existed for as long as unpredictable mediums have existed and curation is also a legitimate and extremely undervalued skill, so self-proclaimed AI artists are not completely full of shit when claiming this stuff takes legitimate skill. the reason a lot of AI generated art that gets posted is mediocre anyway is because a lot of self-proclaimed AI artists have a poor eye for art and are therefore not actually very good curators. a lot of self-proclaimed AI artists are more interested in the speed and quantity of the output than its artistic merit, and because they care little for the merits of artistry to begin with, they lack the eye for art to be able to see the ways in which the image they have curated is kinda ass to anyone who does have a more developed eye for art.
this is how you get people who are deeply wrong about what images are just filler and which ones actually matter too, but that's still not really what this post is about.
I think it's interesting that one of the more common arguments for the effort that goes into AI generated art is that it's difficult to get the model to actually understand your vision. the biggest artistic strength of the medium of generative AI is the unpredictability of its output, so the clearer your vision the less useful the technology is to executing that vision. the computer cannot actually take the image in your brain and make it real unless the image in your brain wasn't that clear to begin with. generative AI in general is strongly marketed as a tool for people with no ideas for this reason, which is very self-damning in my opinion.
I think this is particularly interesting as an argument coming from self-proclaimed AI artists because it shows they don't understand the actual skills they are employing in this process. they do not recognise curation as a skill, they do not recognise the value of having a good eye for art when trying to get worthwhile pieces out of an unpredictable medium. the unpredictability and lack of human understanding is a flaw they have to fight against rather than the whole point of working with this technology. they are wrong about the potential merit of the thing which merits they are trying to defend, which is even more self-damning.
these people with an underdeveloped eye for art are the majority of the actual users of generative image technology, because most people with enough of an eye for art to be able to curate interesting results were getting up in arms about it instead, or simply have too clear a vision for the technology to be of use to them. as a result a lot of that interesting surrealist unpredictability has been trained out of the models to accommodate these majority users that are mistaken about the actual artistic potential of image generation. which is also rather self-damning.
and ultimately it's rather self-damning as well that the most straightforwardly useful application of a tool which people will insist has artistic value is to mass produce images of which the contents don't really matter anyway.
"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose
People talk abt the erasure of high support needs autistic people among autism communities on here and that's extremely important but also it honestly feels like people have straight up forgotten that autistic people have Needs. Like needs of literally any kind. I have literally watched people pooh-pooh the idea that autism is a disability (calling it a "metaphorical disability" as opposed to physical disabilities which are "real"), have seen countless memes where the punchline is "autistic person has a common symptom or trait of autism", and you just see a bunch of people talk about how they're super autistic but conveniently are never seen as weird or unlikable and never have meltdowns or lash out and have zero trouble understanding sarcasm or jokes or social cues and hit all their life milestones at appropriate times and aren't lame loser virgins like the rest of you shut-ins. Like it is just extremely common to mock and harass autistic people for displaying very typical autistic traits. There's a point where "dismantling stereotypes" becomes "not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism" and we've really reached it it feels like. As always just a stunning lack of compassion for people who are disabled in ways that disable them and not disabled in ways that are cool to you
"There's a point where 'dismantling stereotypes' becomes 'not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism'"
Me trying to say something to my partner about some cool fanart I just saw on my dash.
Him: back up back up, what the FUCK is Mouse Effect.
Lizardsex I love you...
The burning question of course is whether everyone is mice, or just the humans. Like are the salarians little frogs or is it Mice and Mice With Blue Tentacles???
sorry im absolutely too floored by the fact you just called me 'lizardsex' to give you an answer
... I see now your name is probably Lizards Exposed and not in fact Lizard Sex Posed.
This exact phenomenon is why there’s now a hyphen in my url.
Nintendo uploaded a video about Marth but for some reason I can’t get over how this video starts
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Been reading Murderbot to my wife and she’s staked out a position that she’s won me over to, which is that Murderbot is fem coded and you’re all drawing it wrong (and the show cast it wrong)
okay thank god i'm not the only one who read it that way
Like, it’s not hard to read the character who is a thankless protector of careless idiots and who is bound into service and only seeks pleasure silently and internally as like, “societally fem”. It's objectified, it's treated maternally, it's expected to be there when it's needed and be out of sight when not, and it's both feared and hated when it exerts any kind of authority. Murderbot is very distinctly agender (or like, it's own version of that), but even a page into the first book i remember relating to it on that level, and ever since i've always read it as a fem-coded character in that specific way.
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Yes, and the red one seems to look back at the rainbow each time it happens.
