#only not really

[etakeh]

I don't know why Rusty Lake doesn't have a Tumblr account.

#Rusty lake #ai image generator #only not really

[rollerskate2theface]

Gwen: Alright everyone we will meet here in one hour, sync your watches

Pavtir: Mine doesn’t do that

Miles: I don’t have a watch

Hobie: Time is a construct

Gwen: ughhh

#it was her choice to befriend idiots #only not really #Spiderman #spiderman across the spiderverse #smatsv #gwen stacey #spidergwen #spider woman #pavtir prabhakar #spiderman india #miles morales #hobie brown #spider punk

[norcumii]

Never have I had a better familiar for my dragon, Mall.

#flight rising #darth maul #only not really

[fablegate]

Didn't want to add the other post but hey, drivers

When making a turn, left or right doesn't matter

PLEASE STAY IN THE LANE YOU ARE TURNING IN. DON'T CHANGE LANES IN THE MIDDLE OF TURNING ONTO A NEW STREET

So say you're making a right turn and the intersection you're rolling up to has TWO right turn lanes. If you're in the outer right turn lane, stay in it. If you're in the inner right turn lane, STAY IN THE LANE PLEASE.

Now there can be exceptions, like say you're turning from a single right turn lane and you've got a green light, that's fine, there's no oncoming traffic and you have right of way. The other exception could be that the intersection is just *dead* and there's literally no other cars around.

But back to example one, two right turn lanes on a busy intersection. You are not the only person making a turn. If they're turning in their lane the *same* time you're trying to switch into their lane mid-turn: YOU ARE GOING TO HIT THEM AND IT WILL BE ON YOU.

Sincerely,

Someone who has nearly been hit one too many times in this scenario

#fablefun #only not really #drivers ed #driving

[enderwasended]

no context

#how tf do i tag this #silly rp shit #not even canonically possible #but who give a shit #azo #2282 #ophio #squip #squip ocs #only not really

[semianonymity]

I might have a source for someone breeding East African pygmy chameleons!!!! This is EXTREMELY EXCITING, they are very very hard to find, and I love them immensely!

#semispam #the frogject #only not really #will I fly to Philadelphia to pick them up in person? MAYBE

[mrvelocipede]

Very interesting, but is it Art?

When I first started messing with fractals*, I remember there was a fair amount of discussion about fractals as art, and whether it was even possible for that to be a thing.

* Just a bit before the turn of the Millennium. Gosh, I’ve been doing this a long time. Does anyone remember Y2K?

A number of people took the position that fractals were intrinsically incapable of being art, because the process was one of exploration rather than creation. The mathematical formulas were dictating all the properties of the image, and all anyone was doing was wandering around finding interesting areas and taking snapshots of them.

And now, suddenly there are all these AI image generators, which as far as I'm able to tell are taking enormous databases of existing imagery, and building them into a kind of multi-dimensional parameter space, which they use to generate images based on verbal prompts. Which is to say, people are sort of wandering around finding interesting areas and taking snapshots of them.

(For what it’s worth, I disagree with the idea that exploration and recording don’t count as art. Where does that leave cartographers? Also, the art world had basically this same argument when photography was invented.)

The commentary I've come across regarding AI image generators seems to mostly agree that the results count as art, and that the process of typing in prompts is a creative one. It's kind of fascinating, and also I guess kind of irritating, since it seems like fractals have never gotten that much credit. But it's true that the AIs are good at making pictures of recognizable things: people, animals, all sorts of familiar commercial products and cartoon characters and whatnot. Which makes them generally better than fractals at getting an emotional response from the viewer.

Both fractals and AI image generators have in common the property that it's quite easy to make something that's kind of cool, and surprisingly hard to make something that gets above that baseline and reaches a level where any given image is exciting enough to be memorable. They kind of all blur together, and look similar to one another, in a family-resemblance kind of way. I don't think this necessarily makes them not-art, but I do think it puts them mostly into the category of boring art.

Using any of these computer-based tools to make not-boring art takes an awful lot of time and practice, and quite a lot of understanding of basic artistic principles like composition and contrast and color and so on, and ultimately is probably just as much work as, say, learning to use oil paints or carve stone. Any medium takes work to master, even ones that seem to do all the hard work for you.

I don't really know where I'm going with any of this. Possibly it comes down to the difference between "Hey, I found a neat thing!" and "Hey, I made a neat thing!" They're both based in the fundamental human impulse to communicate your experience of the world to other people. But one of them implies intention and control, and I think those are worthwhile qualities to cultivate.

#fractals #art #AI image generators #neural networks #this is coming perilously close to Discourse #long post #botober #only not really

[assorted-wools]

Me working my Very Normal 9-'til-5 desk job trying to pretend Good Omens 2 didn't just utterly destroy my last seblence of reality.

#good omens 2 #good omen 2 spoilers #only not really #somebody talk to me about good omens on main

[tessetc]

Okay but like hear me out here.

Rashid.

That guy is interesting. I adore how salty and posessive he is.

I read all the books up to probably when the farm one was published (that's the one with the ghost twin, I think) but before that, I read the books multiple times. So I am coming from a place of being more than moderately familiar with the source material, but a but fuzzy.

I am also coming at this from a place of having the unpopular opinion of loving Tale of the Body Thief. So take that as you will.

I understand that TBT is problematic but like? This whole series is problematic so...

Anyway back to Rashid.

I don't remember if he was anyone in the books, but I do know that he reminds me, in appearance at least, of a certain vessel from TBT. And, well, that brings to mind a few other thoughts. Namely the part in TBT with David, the old human dude who helps track down the Body Theif.

And I would also like to point out that Daniel Malloy becomes a vampire in the books, but as a young man.

So hear me out.

In the show. After some time passes, we have the plot arc of TBT, only with Rashid playing the role of the Body Thief, with Daniel being instrumental in tracking him down, and with the final conclusion to that arc involving Daniel becoming a vampire in Rashid's body.

Like.

This is so bad lmao. It would be so ballsy.

Everyone would hate it. Louis would be pissed at Lestat for doing it to his lover, Daniel would be pissed at becoming a vampire without his consent, Rashid would be pissed because he would be dead, and/or his pretty boy body would be occupied by Daniel, who he already has a bit of a conflicted relationship with.

Plus having a white guy occupy a POC body has its own incredibly frought implications, which could be good if it's addressed or could be a total train wreck.

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about the drama this series of events would cause, and I will stick around for years in hope that I will eventually see it come to pass.

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #tale of the body thief #speculation #iwtv spoilers #only not really

[frangipani-wanderlust]

Mr. Baketime

Stirring up in my bowl and wanna do it just right Gotta measure it right or it won't rise at all It started out with a cake, but like this it won't bake. It was only a cake. (It was only a cake!)

Now with votes coming in the proportions are bad And I'm just stirring soup and it's making me mad. There's no way this will work and the batter won't set And it's just so berserk, but I'm smelling this

Scent now, costing half my Rent now, stop the flow! Tumblr can't cook, we've proved it now. This ain't how cakes go.

Vanilla! 'Nough to fill up half the sea. Vodka right up to my eyes! Making all the bakers cry! This drunk aromatherapy brought on by democracy Can never ever batterize! Pour down the trash time!

(Inspired by @relientk's comment riffing on the song)

#this may be lame #but i'm doing it #and none of you can stop me #mwa ha ha #humor #mr. brightside #with my sincere apologies to the killers #only not really #because i'm not actually sorry

[diversegaminglists]

Belle's Quest

Sometimes you have to play bad games to appreciate good ones.

I just struggled through this thing.

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest.

Full review rant under cut.

It really is an insult to the movie, esp. when you compare it with other Disney games from the same era (The most obvious being Aladdin and The Lion King, but The Little Mermaid games for snes and megadrive/genesis were pretty good.)

It seems like game designers didn't know what to do with Belle since she isn't a fighty type of protagonist, so she jhops, ducks, dances, shelves books, and, in a notable departure from her actual personality, asks Gaston to help her move a rock in the first level because she's too weak to move it!

Instead of action platforming there are mazes (except for the last level which is frustratingly fake difficulty of riding a horse over tiny platforms with instadeath if you miss). These mazes were painful even with a walkthrough and savestates. I can only imagine how frustrating the game would have been on the real hardware back in the day.

#game review #only not really #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast belles quest #sunsoft #augh

[texanstarslove]

you didn’t hear this from me but the dallas stars are not only hiring a scorekeeper but also a front desk clerk and a zamboni driver and a couple other jobs

HOLD MY WINE

Imma go apply.

#txsl anons #only not really #but if y’all want to GO FOR IT #ID LOVE IT FOR YOU #dallas stars

[incognito-princess]

I want to make a book called "Things in the Forest" and everyone would think it's like a scary horror book, but really it would just be pictures of all the things you can see in the forest.

#things in the forest #spooky #only not really

[tracingpatternswrites]

Family on the mend.

It took me a while to get through, but it was *so* worth it. And it was so much more than just a fic once we were done, but you know all that already.

(This isn't very anonymous, but who cares)

Hello Mouse, who is completely anon and who I have absolutely no idea who you are 💛

Aw, Family on the Mend was such a treat to write, me and @heartofspells had so much fun and I'm so so happy that it means as much to you as it does.

Tell me on anon which of my fics is your favourite :)

#anon asks #only not really

[somet-hingu-nique]

Guess who just learned how to fold a fitted sheet?

And by “just”, I mean it’s taken 4 years, several broken nails, one concussion, and more bruises than I can count, but I’ve successfully done in on four (4!) seperate occasions now!

Now if I could just work out how to adult in literally any other way, I’ll be unstoppable

#why am i like this #Captain America would be proud of me #chris evans #adulting like a pro #only not really #maybe kind of? just a little bit? #just a little bit more? #i should not be allowed to function without True Adult™️ supervision

[othercat2]

Not really Locked Tomb Meta

So "lich" comes from an Old English word meaning corpse. (Lich was later turned into a word meaning "powerful undead sorcerer.") Ashton Clark used the word "lich" to mean corpse, whether animated or not in his story The Empire of the Necromancers (which is part of a cycle of stories.)

So, even though the locked up and sealed Body (who apparently wanders around if she isn't an hallucination) is some kind of powerful destroying horror, she's never referred to as a lich. Though technically if she's undead, she'd be a lich. Or just a lich in the sense that she's a corpse.

This isn't going anywhere, it's just something that popped into my head.

#locked tomb #only not really #i might want to check out ashton clark smith #though if i recall correctly he's antisemitic