#cyber-flow

she’s a superhero! her name is Suraya!

suraya is a big superhero fan who gained superpowers after she made a wish on her 13th birthday. she’d rather skip her classes to fight crime and kick bad guy butt- just like the ones in the comics she grew up with! she has super strength and invincibility, and with the help of her genius little brother Shaheem who provides the other gadgets for her, turning Suraya into an actual rookie vigilante!

suraya lives her action packed dream (and missing math classes) until she catches the eye of an evil corporation called RAMACORP, determined to capture and study her abilities and find out what exactly makes her so special. along the way she makes tons of friends and inspire others to be their own heroes, including a deadly android named SATRIA (who later defied her creator in favor to protect life, and most specifically- bunnies. she’s a big bunny fan)

The computer scientist in me says AI is all if statements lol 

Also I’m not going to say why (on a public platform lol) but this AI is very important to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA, they were one of the first AI ever created. (Also if you have an Apple phone and use Siri, asking Siri to tell you a story will have Siri give a short story where Eliza is mentioned)

I think humans over all like to give AI lots of human qualities, because we want to see ourselves in other beings (Just look at people who talk to their pets lol) 

I also think AI as characters are treated wrong by media which is why I actually really liked HLVRAI (I have not played/watched that Detroit: Become Human game that came out but from cursory glances at it, it follows what I’m going to say about media portrayals I think). 

Media likes to portray AI characters as being hyper intelligent beings, connected to the internet or integrated in important systems, making life or death calls to humans that they watch over. But most AI is not built to be that? At all??? Like Eliza was designed to ask basic questions in a limited capacity and AI Dungeon https://play.aidungeon.io/ look for keywords to respond to the user with. Chatbots and such parse for keywords in order to generate their responses (which is why they can jump crazy topics). Games with ‘AI’ dealing with dialogue options generally are responding similarly.  Game ‘AI’ on where the characters can go and what they can do is also highly limited by programming constraints such as area boundary meshes that are invisible to players or they key off of where a player is located or specific environmental flags like switches, event triggers, and so on. A great example of following the player is Sackbots from Little Big Planet 2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbMS6Q7IgIM or taking a look at what you can do in Dreams with a wider array of AI types https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZS67fCb0Ss (Both are made by Media Molecule and I love them alskdjfsldkj) 

What I liked about HLVRAI and the portrayal of AI was that Dr. Coomer as a character absolutely fit a hilariously hard programmed AI. Limited phrases, able to react to certain situations, bright and cheery pretty much all the time? Like that’s absolutely a very Game made AI thing. Realistically annoying from repeating phrases but also you can’t help talking back because it’s funny to see what will come next.

Where as media goes into this dark, gritty, overly intelligent route with AI were they are extremely human and have deep complex emotions and feelings. As well as give them really strong controls over humans like HAL in 2001 Space Odyessy (Great Sci-Fi film, recommend watching it)   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000. And other various movies do the same thing. Or you have a robot AI that is a killing machine or child that becomes a killing machine. It’s just... Sad? Sad that we would create an intelligence that we would be unable to interact with peacefully? Make humans suffer the consequences of their power (which they only have because they were programmed that way) or be forced to live the trauma that humans do, watching creators or those they have learned from die or become corrupted by the nastier parts of humanity... 

Crow doesn’t have a very high opinion of Heaven, but even he would be a little surprised at the blatant bullying. and Az would certainly have something to say about that.

the Archangels may have a personal vendetta against him, but he’s still going against God’s plan (or at least what they think is God’s plan.) the whole point of Zira is that other angels are not like him. not in the beginning when he was just different enough to disobey orders, and certainly not now that he’s grown his humanity by staying on Earth. if the Archangels don’t like him, then the rest know not to like him either. 

I think Tumblr just has been screwy today. Everytime I try to see Yunisverse blog it redirects me to one of her Critical Role drawings that she made a while ago somehow

It’s all good Cyber! Let’s answer this for ya. 

🙃 Which is easier: faces facing left, right, or front view?

Generally when I do faces, my default is a three quarters view with the face pointing to the right of the page. I find that to be the easiest, drawing from the pure front or pure side is difficult for me

📐 Whats your favorite kinds of lines to draw?