#i also deleted my main

[reunitedinterlude]

dnp doing the choreographed eye contact (1, 2, 3)

bonus:

[rathonk]

Phlegmexpo or whoever..

[rusty-courage]

things i wish i'd known before getting an animation degree

[lambment]

Sorry I’ve been busy thinking about women, I forgot to cherish the clown

[tiredcherrie]

Guess what I got to watch!!

[kaiserouo]

hello i've never played valorant, ooc warning

[6sleft]

hello fellow monster fucjers

[moeblob]

Look, I just think it's VERY funny and on brand that I thought of an entire premise of colorful characters for half the cast and immediately drew the only one void of color.

[peekychu]

Tfw you are littleguy regressed and like. Kids shouldn’t be on cell phones it’s bad for their small brains, but I’ve lost any way to stimulate my brain without this rectangle. The only option is to Nap and Sleep but also that’s no fun :// It’d be so sick to levitate crayons with my mind

[velvetjune]

Jesse would probably have the same reaction to Saga’s profiling as Tor or Odin, being able to directly communicate, which would lead to the best situation of both of them just staring into space while they’re silently and psychically communicating at random times

[birdricks]

admit it. you would have been me

[thoughtfulrobot]

I'm replaying The Final Shape for the third and a half time and once again, I have a single question that's bothering me about the whole thing.

How can Cayde play that harmonica?? He literally doesn't have lips?? And being able to create an airtight seal with your lips is kind of really important for playing such clean notes on a harmonica??

[obeymetournaments]

after this can we have a fluffy positive tournament l.

actually, I was planning on making a post after this tournament was officially over, but I'll use this anon as an excuse to talk about it now!

I plan on making the next tournament an Aromantic Swag tournament--similar to my Trans Swag one. Would people be interested in that? (or do we want a different, more fluffier one?)

[lesbiancarat]

want to give my two cents on the AI usage in the maestro trailer--

i think seventeen doing a whole concept that is anti-AI is very cool, especially as creatives themselves i think it's good that they're speaking up against it and i hope it gets more ppl talking about the issue. i also understand on a surface level the artistic choice (whether it was made by the members, the mv director, or whoever else), to directly use AI in contrast to real, human-made visuals and music in order to criticize it. i also appreciate that they clearly stated the intention of the use of AI at the beginning of the video

however, although i understand it to an extent, i do not agree with the choice to use AI to critique AI. one of the main ethical concerns with generative AI is that it is trained on other artists' work without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. and even when AI generated images are being used to critique AI, it still does not negate this particular ethical concern

the use of AI to critique also does not negate the fact that this is work that could have been done by an actual artist. i have seen some people argue that it's okay in this context because it's a critique specifically about AI, and it is content that never would have been done by a real artist anyway because it doesn't make sense for the story they're trying to tell. but i disagree. i think you can still tell the exact same story without using AI

and in fact, i would argue that it would make the anti-AI message stronger if they HAD paid an artist to draw/animate the scenes that are supposed to represent AI generated images. wouldn't it just be proof that humans can create images that are just as bad and nonsensical and soulless as AI, but that AI can't replicate the creativity and beauty and basic fucking anatomy that's in human-made art?

it feels very obvious this was not just a way to cut corners and costs like a lot of scummy people are using AI for. ultimately it was a very intentional creative decision, i just personally think it was a very poor one. and even if some ethical considerations were taken into account before this decision, i certainly don't think all of them were. at the very least i feel like the decision undermines the message they want to convey

i would also like to recognize that i myself am not an artist, and i have seen some artists that are totally on board with the use of AI in this specific context, so clearly this is not a topic that is cut and dry. but generative AI is still new, and i think it's important to keep having these conversations

[desire-mona]

yall its actually ROUGH out here having keating as ur dps blorbo because as far as im aware im the only one. i see a post specifically about him maybe once a month, and its a gamble as to whether he shows up in hc posts. oh mr keating we're really in it now.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

I'm just gonna cope by rewatching all my amvs thanks