I went through a terrible in-between phase where I first went from drawing cartoony people to trying to draw more realistic ones. Never had an art class or anything, pretty sure I have aphantasia too, so I was just raw dogging it until I learned how to use refs. I specifically remember constantly attaching the thumb at a weird angle and wondering why my characters looked like they had crab claws.
That or some niche porn because I started thinking too hard about how my interspecies characters would have sex. Most of my characters aren't even attractive to me but that didn't keep me from drawing them doing shit to each other's junk.
Also My Little Pony crossover fan art but it was just characters facing left on a white background.
It's not even universally true in red states, unless you want to believe I'm the Super Special Exception. I was thinking of my own failed attempts to reach out recently and got bitter and started saying shit.
I WISH reddit would end. I used to love it for the batshit insane personal stuff people wouldn't share anywhere else. "I haven't pooped in a month, AMA", that kind of dumb voyeuristic crap.
It turns out that's what everyone else loved too, and it's profitable to have AIs write it so you can read it on YouTube for ad revenue. And y'all, it's so stupid.
The most bizarrely specific scenarios pop up again and again, and people eat it up every time. "AITA for not giving my evil infertile sister my baby?" "My parents promised my brother and evil SIL my house without consulting me, AITA?" "My evil MIL was female aka evil, AITA?"
And then you have subreddits like BestOfRedditor updates, which you'd expect to curate these posts so the slop doesn't come through, but in reality it's a handful of power users obsessively following and reposting any post with "update" in the title or even just edits with the barest amount of self reflection. Posts have wild plotholes, like a 30yo being divorced for 15 years, and it's considered "best of" as long as there's an evil woman/autistic person/trans person, I guess.
But no, this AI shit means it will never end, because it gets numbers, and numbers matter more than anything else.
Every time I get to know my neighbors, things are going well and then they suddenly drop something wildly transphobic, homophobic, or ableist. The last one was especially horrifying back when people were still talking about COVID— "but it only affects old/disabled people!"— pretty much saying to your face that they're cool if you die.
Relying on other people in a survival scenario seems incredibly irresponsible. It's America. Your neighbors want you dead.
ETA yknow what this is cynical and unproductive. Just do your best to protect yourself but if you belong to a vulnerable group you already know that. People aren't inherently evil and I need to log off when I'm upset.
True, I just assumed that reflection was required in order to give the AI the prompt, and the AI was mainly used to format it correctly. I might be talking out of my ass here since I haven't used it extensively.
I mean good moments are just things like "romantic moment with someone who ghosted me a year later", or "meeting a baby relative who I see three times a year". Don't get me wrong, they're lovely and important moments, but there aren't moments so good they change a person's day-to-day life.
But bad moments obviously impact your life every day. You can't walk correctly anymore. Someone you love is dead. You botched an opportunity so you'll never escape poverty. Et cetera. Those moments obviously have a bigger impact because every single moment afterwards is determined by them.
I wish I knew. People keep telling me to "organize" and "strike". Like yeah a Walmart full of 60yo conservative white people is going to strike over this, fucking idiot.
Wayyyyy too many variables. Are we talking weed or meth? Sexual assault by an adult, or by an abused child repeating behaviors? Is the DUI just barely over the legal limit or is it egregious? Is the theft a colonizer stealing land or a beggar stealing bread?
Mixed feelings. I decided not to study graphic design because I saw the writing on the wall, so I'm a little salty. I think they can be really useful for cutting back on menial tasks though. For example, I don't see why people bitch about someone using AI for their cover letter as long as they proofread it afterwards. That seems like the kind of thing you'd want to automate, unlike art and human interaction.
I think right now I just kind of hate AI because of capitalism. Tech companies are trying to make it sound like they can do so many things they really can't, and people are falling for it.
It was OK I guess. Did some petsitting, made a little money, bought a new desk. Thought a less claustrophobic setup might help me get back into art. Then I read the news and I was like, literally who fucking cares? The chips in my drawing tablet are made by slaves and my PC is a tool for multiple spy companies. Countries I'll never visit are being decimated by capitalism to provide the fruits and veggies for my healthy diet that I'm supposed to eat to be less depressed.
The internet mocks me for calling my reps instead of overthrowing the government but none of them are overthrowing the government either.
This is selfish but I wish I'd die in a horrible accident so I at least don't continue being a cog in this machine.
Yeah same, I live in a small town and in addition to marketplace, I need to check it every couple months to keep up with local events. My town has a website with a calendar but they never add anything besides "weight training at the senior center", no matter what else is going on
Not really. I find when people are jealous they either try to cut you down in subtle ways, or they self deprecate and guilt trip just because you happen to have something going right for you.
I'd like to be admirable, I think. I'd prefer to rub off on people in a positive way than a negative one.
Am I missing something? This explanation actually seems reasonable. I swear I saw a couple people last election complain they were suddenly following Biden, because they were following the POTUS account.
I'm not trying to defend the fash propaganda that is Facebook, but also its users can be pretty dense.
There are personality stereotypes associated with topping (giving) and bottoming (receiving) during sex. The stereotype is typically that tops are more dominant, sometimes masc, and bottoms are submissive, flustered messes. Doesn't always pan out that way in real life of course
When it comes up, I prefer to just describe the symptom currently at play— e.g. "no it was funny, I'm just slow to get jokes", or "I need to step outside, crowds stress me out".
It's not a big secret or anything, but I don't want every slightly awkward moment to turn into a big conversation about my neurotype. Besides, I am how I am, it would be fine even if I didn't have a reason. I don't want people to tolerate me because I have a disorder to "justify" it.
I went through a terrible in-between phase where I first went from drawing cartoony people to trying to draw more realistic ones. Never had an art class or anything, pretty sure I have aphantasia too, so I was just raw dogging it until I learned how to use refs. I specifically remember constantly attaching the thumb at a weird angle and wondering why my characters looked like they had crab claws.
That or some niche porn because I started thinking too hard about how my interspecies characters would have sex. Most of my characters aren't even attractive to me but that didn't keep me from drawing them doing shit to each other's junk.
Also My Little Pony crossover fan art but it was just characters facing left on a white background.