A Sea Made In Blender

I don't know what i just watched but it's incredible

I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

lab experiments you say

Medimon - POKEMON/DIGIMON/TELEFANG/DEAR GOD THERES SO MANY OF THESE- (JOTAFIED)

In a world where people can control viruses and where medical research is revered next to godliness, some lab experiments have been used in a sub-culture of people who fight using these viruses and other creatures, mostly for battling, or companions

Most monsters follow a theme of lab experiments (I.E, Godzilla's kaijus, usual lab-born monsters, ect) and viruses

the whole culture of "trainers" was themed around plague doctors and taming viruses

A little something i made

It makes more sense with some context

When a random guy with a saxophone shows up to the club

I've finally figured out an argument that convinces coding tech-bros that AI art is bad.

Got into a discussion today (actually a discussion, we were both very reasonable and calm even through I felt like committing violence) with a tech-bro-coded lady who claimed that people use AI in coding all the time so she didn't see why it mattered if people used AI in art.

Obviously I repressed the surge of violence because that would accomplish nothing. Plus, this lady is very articulate, the type who makes claims and you sit there thinking no that's wrong it must be but she said it so well you're kind of just waffling going but, no, wait-- so I knew I had to get this right if I was gonna come out of this unscathed.

The usual arguments about it being about the soul of it and creation fell flat, in fact she was adamant that anyone who believed that was in fact looking down at coding as an art form as she insisted it is. Which, sure, you can totally express yourself through coding. There's a lot more nuance as to the differences but clearly I was not going to win this one.

The other people I was with (literally 8 people anti-ai against her, but you can't change the mind of someone who doesn't want to listen and she just kept accusing us of devaluing coding as an art) took over for I kid you not 15 minutes while I tried desperately to come up with a clear and articulate way to explain the difference to her. They tried so many reasonable arguments, coding being for a function ("what, art doesn't serve a function?") coding being many discrete building blocks that you put together differently, and the AI simply provides the blocks and you put it together yourself ("isn't that what prompt building is") that it's bad for the environment ("but not if it's used for capitalism, hm?" "Yeah literally that's how capitalism works it doesn't care about the environment" she didn't like that response)

But I finally got it.

And the answer is: It's not about what you do, it's about what you claim to be.

Imagine that someone asks an AI to write a code and, by some miracle, it works perfectly without them having to tweak it---which is great because they couldn't tell you what a single solitary thing in that code means.

Now imagine this person, with their code that they don't know how it works, goes and applies to be a coder somewhere, presenting this AI code as proof that they're qualified.

Should they be hired?

She was horrified, of course. Of course they shouldn't be. They're not qualified. They can't actually code, and even if by some miracle they did have an AI successfully write a flawless code for every issue they came across that wouldn't be their code, you could hire any shmuck on the street to do that, no reason to pay someone like they're creating something.

When actual engineers use AI what they do is get some kind of base, which they then go though and check for problems and then if they find any they fix them, and add on to the base code with their own knowledge instead of just trying different prompt after prompt until they randomly come across one that works.

People who generate code like this don't usually call themselves engineers. They're people who needed a bit of code and didn't have the knowledge to generate it, and so used a resource.

And there you go. There are people who have none of the skills of artists, they don't practice, they don't create for themselves. When they feed the prompt to the AI they then don't just use the resulting image as a reference point for their own personal masterpiece, and if they don't like it they don't have the skills to change it---they simply try another prompt, and do that until they get something they like.

These people are calling themselves artists.

Not only that, these people are bringing the AI generated thing to interviews, and they are getting hired, leaving people who slave over their craft out of the job.

And that is the difference, for the tech bros who think AI art isn't a big deal.

were you playing with the linux version ? and did you try using proton ?

i couldn't find the solution online do i figured one of you trannies can help me

why does celeste look like all artifacty in some levels (fedora linux 42, nvidia drivers, wayland, plasma)

installed with steam

Everest did not help

CelesteLinuxifier did not help (supposed to convert windows version to linux)

I did not try the archive.org version because i assume celeste linuxifier gives me the same end result

I tell all my friends to use prism launcher because it's not bloated but it comes with everything.

Also it's on every platform, Mac, Windows and there's even a version specifically for the steam deck

(BTW if you're using the flatpak version, use flatseal to add hardware acceleration permitions or else you'll always get driver errors)

day 11 of being a Linux user. Found out about Prism launcher (dedicated Minecraft launcher for Linux) and I'm like. Is it this real. Is really everything on linux better than on windows. If this keeps up I'll never go back to the old ways, goodbye losers

I'm going to 36.760692704015696, -90.91475641281271

Good luck.

Debian 12

Firefox

Rythmbox

GNOME Videos

GNOME text editor

vsCode, Firefox and GNOME text editor

IOS :(

Safari

Discord

Whatsapp

No

Maps

GNOME text editor or notes

GNOME Document Viewer

idk Godot ?

G.I.M.P.

Firefox

No

No

I don't

No

I don't know git

Blender

Panda

budgie-screenshots

i know you nerds have lots of opinions on this

what software do you use ask game

base distro

browsing on desktop

listening to music

watching video files (or streaming video ig)

text editing

code editing

mobile OS

mobile browser

chatting on desktop

chatting on mobile

custom system font

IRL navigation

notes and/or to-do

ebook/pdf reading

bonus option for hobbies

image editing

email

rss

file sync/sharing

terminal muxer

home automation

git hosting (or svc if ur a boomer lol)

any miscellaneous tool you can't live without

unrelated to the other questions what's the name of the plushie that's nearest to you rn

screenshots

Made this during the weekend

looks a bit off