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knowledge long forgotten

got really into reading item descriptions on this playthrough. anyway did you know the silent princess is one of the only raw materials with a cooking effect to not explicitly list that effect in its description

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weeks 11-20 on my weekly poster challenge this year, crazy I've actually managed almost half a year of getting these done. 1-10 here.

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Her Knight

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reposting these, i touched up some ink and colors and took better photos 💛

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I love botw koroks

I think they’re so cool, unironically. So i wrote about that in some analyzing idea idk y’all i think it’s neat

(spoilers btw for botw and part of totk)

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More accurately, I have so much love for the ones in Hyrule Castle, even more so since I made it to the Lost Woods in totk. like wym my little leaf friends were hurt get back here you son of a bitch

I love what they seem to represent, very much in a depoliticized manner (i’ll make it make sense): resistance.

Koroks in Hyrule castle are looking at Calamity Ganon and laughing. They play hide and seek games around its prison, they will be the first on its path to destruction and the corrupted guardians are all over the place.

(Full disclosure, I have no idea if they can die, but they can be scared of monsters and Hestu had his maracas stolen so I guess they can be hurt.)

So it’s reckless of them to be here, you’d think every living being not corrupted and/or engineered by the calamity would run off but not the koroks.

no they’re children playing hide and seek on wasted lands and they don’t care! Maybe they don’t realize but the main point is: the koroks are at Ganon’s doorstep and they laugh and play.

It’s a form of resistance, to laugh despite the threat, to refuse to quiet down and despair. It might not be a conscious choice, maybe they really don’t realize but still, when the Calamity struck, it lost. Despite all the destruction, Hyrule lives.

“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times” (Bertolt Brecht)

In the ruins of Hyrule Castle, at the worst of the Calamity, there are children and innocence. Across a devastated kingdom there are, everywhere you look, small things still laughing and playing and living.

The koroks, to me, symbolize resilience and the victory of life over Evil, literally. A korok hiding above the sanctum is some of the brightest ‘fuck you ehehe’ i’ve ever seen, and even if the train of thought was ‘ooh hiding spot’ and nothing else, the koroks don’t shake before Ganon, even when they sit right next to it.

The koroks are, symbolically, Hyrule’s survival and victory.

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traditional happy pride month from everyone's favorite transgender video game characters

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tumblr exclusive lesbian version of this post because if i post this on instagram they will burn me at the stake <3

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So many people who love generative AI don't have a creative bone in their body and can't imagine anyone actually enjoying the time and effort it takes to write something or draw something.

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You’ve probably been asked this before, but do you have a specific view on ai-generated art. I’m doing a school project on artificial intelligence and if it’s okay, i would like to cite you

I mean, you're welcome to cite me if you like. I recently wrote a post under a reblog about AI, and I did a video about it a while back, before the full scale of AI hype had really started rolling over the Internet - I don't 100% agree with all my arguments from that video anymore, but you can cite it if you please.

In short, I think generative AI art

Is art, real art, and it's silly to argue otherwise, the question is what KIND of art it is and what that art DOES in the world. Generally, it is boring and bland art which makes the world a more stressful, unpleasant and miserable place to be.

AI generated art is structurally and inherently limited by its nature. It is by necessity averages generated from data-sets, and so it inherits EVERY bias of its training data and EVERY bias of its training data validators and creators. It naturally tends towards the lowest common denominator in all areas, and it is structurally biased towards reinforcing and reaffirming the status quo of everything it is turned to.

It tends to be all surface, no substance. As in, it carries the superficial aesthetic of very high-quality rendering, but only insofar as it reproduces whatever signifiers of "quality" are most prized in its weighted training data. It cannot understand the structures and principles of what it is creating. Ask it for a horse and it does not know what a "horse" is, all it knows is what parts of it training data are tagged as "horse" and which general data patterns are likely to lead an observer to identify its output also as "horse." People sometimes describe this limitation as "a lack of soul" but it's perhaps more useful to think of it as a lack of comprehension.

Due to this lack of comprehension, AI art cannot communicate anything - or rather, the output tends to attempt to communicate everything, at random, all at once, and it's the visual equivalent of a kind of white noise. It lacks focus.

Human operators of AI generative tools can imbue communicative meaning into the outputs, and whip the models towards some sort of focus, because humans can do that with literally anything they turn their directed attention towards. Human beings can make art with paint spatters and bits of gum stuck under tennis shoes, of course a dedicated human putting tons of time into a process of trial and error can produce something meaningful with genAI tools.

The nature of genAI as a tool of creation is uniquely limited and uniquely constrained, a genAI tool can only ever output some mixture of whatever is in its training data (and what's in its training data is biased by the data that its creators valued enough to include), and it can only ever output that mixture according to the weights and biases of its programming and data set, which is fully within the control of whoever created the tool in the first place. Consequently, genAI is a tool whose full creative capacity is always, always, always going to be owned by corporations, the only entities with the resources and capacity to produce the most powerful models. And those models, thus, will always only create according to corporate interest. An individual human can use a pencil to draw whatever the hell they want, but an individual human can never use Midjourney to create anything except that which Midjourney allows them to create. GenAI art is thus limited not only by its mathematical tendency to bias the lowest common denominator, but also by an ideological bias inherited from whoever holds the leash on its creation. The necessary decision of which data gets included in a training set vs which data gets left out will, always and forever, impose de facto censorship on what a model is capable of expressing, and the power to make that decision is never in the hands of the artist attempting to use the tool.

tl;dr genAI art has a tendency to produce ideologically limited and intrinsically censored outputs, while defaulting to lowest common denominators that reproduce and reinforce status quos.

... on top of which its promulgation is an explicit plot by oligarchic industry to drive millions of people deeper into poverty and collapse wages in order to further concentrate wealth in the hands of the 0.01%. But that's just a bonus reason to dislike it.

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Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?

Just in case this isn't a spam message:

Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.

Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.

Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn't give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.

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dude zelda minish cap is literally so magical, its like a ghibli movie to me. sure tears of the kingdom has sprawling cg vistas or whatever BUT IN THE RAFTERS ABOVE THE BAKERY THE LITTLE GNOME PEOPLE HAVE OPENED A CAFE

this lil dude put a candle in a mug inside his home. this is like a fireplace to him. his tablecloth is a leaf. Are You Seeing This

you can shrink down and help an overworked shoemaker who fell asleep at his desk by fixing the shoes for him. look at this. you are smaller than his goddamn pinky finger

this guy LIVES inside a library book that he CARVED OUT!!!! u can see the freakin depth of the pages and how they overlap each other where he carved them. im crying. minish cap you will always be famous

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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I know a lot of people get frustrated with Zelda games in regards to consistency, things like the layout of the world map changing, when trying to put together a cohesive storyline it can drive us a bit crazy when the temple of time keeps moving around throughout the series.

It's the same with items, the mirror shield is in many games but looks different every time, the master sword changes a little etc etc.

Obviously they do this to make each game feel fresh and new, it's necessary, but the way I see it..

What we are seeing is a retelling of a legend, stories passed down through the ages, we're seeing the version of these legends that have changed throughout history. Legends are like Chinese whispers, each retelling is a little bit different, depending on who is telling it, who is remembering or misremembering, embellishing it etc.

We aren't seeing things as they were, we're seeing things as they're imagined.

At least, that's the only explanation that doesn't make me lose my mind trying to make it all fit together.

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thank you totk for blessing us with link with his hair down 🙏 (also happy 2nd anniversary to totk! 🥳)

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there’s more to this but i won’t have time to work on it for presumably the next few months at least

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