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or...

both...

ok i wanna start posting my music somewhere so i need some help

if i find other sites or get some suggestions I'll add to the poll also hwjxhwjsg

also depending on how i do things I'll still post them here and i may or may not upload them to youtube as well

m a y b e

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lmao 50 50 -.-'

fuck it I'll flip a coin HSHHSHDHSHS

ok i wanna start posting my music somewhere so i need some help

if i find other sites or get some suggestions I'll add to the poll also hwjxhwjsg

also depending on how i do things I'll still post them here and i may or may not upload them to youtube as well

m a y b e

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i keep getting asks about gaza fundraisers and i still don't know how to tell if they're real p^q if someone could give me advice or even take a look at my screenshots that would be great,,

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ok i wanna start posting my music somewhere so i need some help

if i find other sites or get some suggestions I'll add to the poll also hwjxhwjsg

also depending on how i do things I'll still post them here and i may or may not upload them to youtube as well

m a y b e

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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.

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there it is

the steamed clams

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made this after hearing something on youtube but I'm not sure how to use it

if this was to play in a game, where or when would it play? also i wanna know how i could add to it or change it...

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lmaoooo so you know how sometimes in rpgs bosses have these really elaborate and dramatic pre fight cutscenes

sooo i may have finished sound design for one such cutscene for one of my story's boss characters HWHXHSSHSHS

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Prompt #1174

"You're paranoid."

"I was right once and I will be right again."

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it's for the computer worm centipede CODE RED from this post

so i accidentally just made a badass miniboss battle/chase theme but I'm so mad that i can't post it anywhere yet

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so i accidentally just made a badass miniboss battle/chase theme but I'm so mad that i can't post it anywhere yet

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HAPPY BIRTHING DAY

WAAA THANKING U,,,,,,

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aaaaand I'm old

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@flamma-nocturna submitted i bring you

a baby ✨️

last two pics are for scale :O found in [removed] (pls remove tyyy)

dumb question but i was always curious for years, is this the typical woolly bear everyone sees but it hasn't gotten its black coloring yet? or is this just a different bug altogether? bc i don't know if them developing color as they age is a thing :/

Oooooo ahhhhhh a baby. I love them. And that's not a dumb question at all! The banded woolly bear caterpillar you're talking about is an Isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella. They can have varying degrees of banding or they can be solid-colored like this fella. I can only tell you this caterpillar is a tiger moth, but not which one, as there are a bunch that look super similar!

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when i grow up i want to be myself

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Hey. Spreading the word to tumblr, aka "I don't like this change so I WILL complain about it" personified.

Discord is bringing mobile ads in June 2025. They've officially announced this.

SPREAD THE WORD!!! WITH ENOUGH BACKLASH, MAYBE THEY'LL RETHINK IT- OR AT LEAST DELAY IT!

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or what if. bc i got some more input

what if

fellas. i need help naming this character here:

second photo is for character scale

so basically this guy here is the Doctor, the highest ranking official in one of my worlds' city company and government, serving directly under The Eye's Mind, the big robot on the right in the second photo. aside from being the head of many programs in the organization, The Eye's Mind mainly uses him as a personal caretaker and maintenance worker (since he's an ancient robot and all) and also sees him as a son or grandson figure