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Cinderella: The Feast at the Castle - Franz Hein

>>18547
Why does this image feel so creepy? Those chandeliers are like the eyes of some monster burning in fire while people are fleeing the building.

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And speaking of puzzles here's some former puzzles.

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(reposted because I goofed with files.)
I can post some. Although I 'll admit that I've been a bit jealous wit paintings because they make such good puzzle subjects, otherwise I'd probably have already posted them in before in other threads. I guess I should start with my favorite set of paintings.

I already dumped most of my painting folder here >>>/ent/28
It's a french board don't bother
I'll contribute there if something new and comfy.

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Stream starting at 17:00 CDT
(that's in about 2 hours, 5 minutes) - countdown https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-05T22

17:00 - Meitantei Precure! - 23
17:24 - Yomi no Tsugai - 13
17:47 - Azur Lane - Bisoku Zenshin! S2 - 01
17:56 - Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechuu S2 - 01
18:20 - Saijo no Osewa - 01
18:43 - Tetsunabe no Jan! - 01
19:07 - Mushoku Tensei S3 - 01
19:31 - Seihantai na Kimi to Boku - 13
19:55 - Zipang - 17
20:19 - Burn Up! Scramble Ep04
20:43 - FIN

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Stream starting at 17:00 CDT
(that's in about 1 hour, 6 minutes) - countdown https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-08T22

17:00 - Magilumiere.Magical.Girls.Inc.S02E01.A.Legitimate.Job.Admired.by.Everyone.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP2.0.H.264-VARYG
17:23 - THE.GHOST.IN.THE.SHELL.S01E01.EPISODE.01.PROLOGUE.SUPER.SPARTAN.i.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP2.0.H.264-VARYG
17:47 - Clevatess S2 - 01
18:11 - Grand Blue S3 - 01
18:35 - Lets Go Kaiki-gumi - 01
18:59 - Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu S2 - 01
19:22 - Youjo Senki S2 - 01
19:46 - Burn Up! Scramble Ep05
20:10 - LIAR GAME - 14
20:34 - Mushoku Tensei S3 - 02
20:58 - FIN

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Stream starting at 17:00 CDT
(that's in about 1 hour, 4 minutes) - countdown https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-10T22

17:00 - Chainsmoker.Cat.S01E02.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-VARYG
17:23 - Otome Kaijuu Carameliser - 02
17:47 - Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari - 01
18:11 - Ichijyoma.Mankitsu.Gurashi.S01E03.Rivals.Cat.VS.Hedgehog.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-VARYG
18:35 - Zipang - 18
18:59 - 15 - The Extremely Dangerous Family Vacation
19:23 - Burn Up! Scramble Ep06
19:48 - Suna no Bara
20:32 - FIN

https://cytu.be/r/loleron

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Saturday movie night this week on Homurachan is The Day of the Jackal and Baby Assassins 2, starting at 10 PM US eastern time.

https://homurachan.org/mtv/193022?last=500#bottom
https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-12T02:00

Slight change to Wednesday programming. At 10 PM US eastern time, we'll be watching the latest episode of Youjo Senki, then 3 episodes of Dungeon Meshi.

https://homurachan.org/mtv/193358?last=100#bottom
https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-16T02:00

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Stream starting at 17:00 CDT
(that's in about 1 hour, 37 minutes) - countdown https://t.trashchan.xyz/2026-07-12T22

17:00 - Magilumiere.Magical.Girls.Inc.S02E02.No.Logical.Means.of.Exterminating.This.Kaii.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.MULTi.DDP2.0.H.264-VARYG
17:23 - Meitantei Precure! - 24
17:47 - Azur Lane - Bisoku Zenshin! S2 - 02
17:55 - Honzuki no Gekokujou S4 - 13
18:19 - Lets Go Kaiki-gumi - 02
18:43 - Saijo no Osewa - 02
19:07 - Tetsunabe no Jan! - 02
19:30 - Yomi no Tsugai - 14
19:54 - Mushoku Tensei S3 - 03
20:18 - Seihantai na Kimi to Boku - 14
20:42 - FIN

>>1627
Great question! First, just establish in your understanding that the 'creation model' established in the Christian Bible is a two-creation one. There's a commonplace Christian heresy prevalent among YECs, 7th-day Adventists, and others (plus cults like the Mormons) that God is somehow going to ultimately redeem and restore this Earth to (in effect) bear the physical characteristics of the Garden of Eden, then set up His eternal kingdom upon that fictitious, redeemed Earth.

>Nope.mpg.exe
Regardless whatever else He does here before the consummation of the ages -- ultimately -- He is going to consume this entire universe + all it's laws & constants of physics...including this Earth in a fervent heat (where even the very fabric of spacetime & all t\he fundamental particles unravel and are no more). Kinda like
mc^2 = E

Then God will create a New Heavens and a New Earth, and a New Jerusalem will descend out of heaven, and there He will establish His eternal kingdom with the children of God.

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So first, let's just start with that since that whole basis bears on the further, unimaginable things to follow in eternity. AMA, GreerTech. Cheers.  :)

>>1628
Interesting. So you think the end times are coming soon?

I'm not disagreeing with you, but where does it say all this in the Bible?

>>1629
>soon.exe
Lel. Actually Jesus clearly stated that no man knows the timing. I'd be lying to state I did know.  :D

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Eschatology (study of end times) is scattered all throughout scripture. The book of Revelations is the chief one however, suitably-placed at the end of the library to bookend the entire with Genesis at the beginning.

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>where in the Bible
Let's try to take it a bite at a time, like eating the Elephant thread on /robowaifu/  :D  

First, the 'fervent heat'. There are a few passages, but the key one here is in 2 Peter. [1]  There are more, but let's first establish this fact, then we can regard the physics-related aspects of that.

>>1630
Fascinating. I have never heard of this total universal annihilation before, but I read the chapter, and your exact words were in it.

>>1631
>but I read the chapter, and your exact words were in it.
Heh, trust me, there's lots more hidden in the Christian Bible!  :D

One of the fundamental aspects of creation as God has devised it is the so-called 'fabric of spacetime'. One might think this is a modern, new idea. It is in fact an ancient one. [1,2]

All the fundamental laws of physics rely explicitly on this characteristic of the nature of reality. Change spacetime by even the slightest bit, and not only does life itself become utterly impossible, but the entire universe would "implode" in on itself. I hope that makes sense, Anon.  :)

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1.  "All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree."
https://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-4.htm  (BSB)
2.  "The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place."
https://biblehub.com/revelation/6-14.htm  (BSB)

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Man I love argyle pantyhose.

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>>116138
>You're going to have to be more specific than that.
The one from your own post.

Are the things with tag based filenames from NAI?

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>>116142
Oh the Raphiel cosplaying as Maxwell (Nikke). And yes the ones with those descriptive filenames are usually from NAI. 

Not sure how to get her legs without prompting Maxwell though. Also the term you're looking for is "segmented hips". Robot hips doesn't mean anything to AI or genners. You can also add "mechanical joints, mechabare, exposed internal machinery".

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>>116147
>the term you're looking for is "segmented hips". Robot hips doesn't mean anything to AI or genners. You can also add "mechanical joints, mechabare, exposed internal machinery".
Thanks for advice, next time I'll fire up my setup I'll test it.
Before, I generally stuck to "doll joints/robot joints" sometimes adding "blame" since these designs have good joints.

>ctrl+f "meka"
>1k+ results
Jesus, I really liked generating that OC.

>>10569
>Do you guys have a version of hShop with equivalent functionality?
PKGj and NPS

>>10569
NoPayStation is different from hShop in that it's not a server that hosts actual content and it's basically just a database of direct download links for official PSN servers along with decryption keys. Also it doesn't have everything, only hShop gets that privilege due to Nintoddler autism.
If we can trust "players will still be able to download previously purchased content after the closing date for the foreseeable future", NPS should be functional for the near future as well, but no new content will be added to it after the official store "shuts down".
The priority for the "preservation community" should be buying (digital-only) content and contributing it to NPS. But talk is cheap, and I myself won't be doing that because I don't have a job and all.

>>10588
Even just letting people know what needs to be purchased is useful.

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>>10613
Well, for Neptunia-related things, Producing Perfection is still a Vita-exclusive to this day and that's probably going to be lost if it's not backed up since any potential rerelease is going to have to go through NISA.
MeiQ Labyrinth of Death is another Compile Heart game that has yet to leave the Vita.

>>10627
>have both physically
Life is good.

>>18572
>Time for 1k /comfy/
Woohoo! I'll plan to join in 3 or 4 hours from now or so.

We'll have some new anime up later this week, but for now enjoy the last of Iseyuru!

Isekai Yururi Kikou: Kosodate Shinagara Boukensha Shimasu - 12
https://mega.nz/file/tYUAzZ7A#IRaScfjaWrcud6u0ppuo99fz7glLrGsX9RswQWRaV8w

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Tonight we're starting Nagi no Asukara!

Nagi no Asukara - 01
https://mega.nz/file/FR8ihC7D#cI-3g9RvQ2XZGCUMKbXXU33kS5Irspial-LbDmfGx3o

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Next up we hop into Seitokai S2, staring with an episode 0!

 Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2 - 00
https://mega.nz/file/pJd3yawA#k040TRpxjKtBpSYbx44y9rTapHoRzQpnOgtSI81sPu0

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Our newest anime is Anima Yell! Tomorrow we stream the last bit of Minami-ke!

Anima Yell! - 01
https://mega.nz/file/pd8B0JSA#y8BfDebBSx3DjxghkBA39gYk68mKstnT523btMMK6NI

The stream starts in 10 minutes!

>>17896
I suppose that's inevitable as people get older and their lives change.  I firmly believe these friendships can be just as real as any other though.

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I thought I could make some friends after sharing my exclusive brand new software that I made but I was mistaken. I think I gotta make more software until I got a friend then. I 'm really into making new progamming software nowadays but recently my computer has been cacating the bed causing disruption of my work and lost some of my files. I really hate troubleshooting on computers at the time when I just want to write program . Why can't eberrything be smooth sailing without dealing with all these obstacles nonsense.

>>17924
Software? Which software if I may ask

>>17928
I wrote japanese vocab trainer in shell script  https://git.nixnet.services/miro-jpnlearning/jvocab-trainer

>>16209 (OP) 
no clue other than trying to consistently talk, find topics and or hobbies you like, getting familiar with the digital milleu, cliques, slang, do's and don'ts etcetera

>>18512
After looking around bit, I'm seeing a lot of berry similar looking "soups" that are fruit, milk/yogurt/cream/sour cream/etc., and some extra flavorings. I guess it's more or less a smoothy of sorts in a bowl.

>>763 (OP) 
u remainded me to eat thks lv u

>>18501
I tried to cook something like this tonight lol  :D  ; I didn't have anything like your wonderful peppers, so I used sliced bell peppers. Made a 12" skillet full using 10 eggs, 2 peppers, a little milk & oil, and about a pound of pre-cooked rice I made.

Not as I'd say it was good food & all, but I enjoyed it all the same. Thanks, Chef-Anon!  :)

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>>18550
It's good to hear you made something you enjoyed. I think the flexibility of frittatas makes them a fun dish to play around with. You could put almost anything in one and it wood probably turn out okay. 
>I didn't have anything like your wonderful peppers
That's was just a jalapeno.

>>18534
It's important to eat and stay hydrated anon!
But most of all, it's important to have pleasure eating :)

>>4119
>supposed to
Well Anon, I'd guess there's the landlord's "supposed to", and the city's "supposed to". The city is alright with it (and they make the local laws); OTOH the landlord probably has his regulation against it b/c it very-slightly reduces the amount of sheqels in his purse. Simple as.

aww i posted my new phone number for a voip phone i set up but jannys deleted it :( thought it could be fun

I just watched Angel's Egg. I loved it. It was so beautiful and haunting throughout. And... uh... wut?

>>4123
Never seen it before, I don't think. What's it about, Anon?

>>4124
I don't know.

>>116103
I used to use gimp, but after switching to Krita I never came back (aside for text edits, Krita is absurdly shit at that one thing).

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i'm lost, where is (a not dead) /hgg/ ?

>>116124
4chan.org/v/
Or you can make a thread here and see how it goes.

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Hear me out:
a visual remake of FF6, where all assets are made to look like Yoshitaka Amano's art.
I like the idea so much I might even attempt it myself.

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July 11 was Masao's birthday!
Sorry I missed it. My internet was down.

>>1311
>The more legs a mech has, the less of a problem this should be.
Carcinisation strikes again.

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>failed carcinisation because nolegs
>needs to be lifted up any time it's serviced
>loses every fight
>sucks outside of water (unlike real crabs, which are always awesome)
>survival rate is too low to LARP as a cancer cell instead
>pulled from service mid-show
Biology and engineering have spoken: you fully adapt to the crab life or you die out.

>>1312
I've never heard this term before, but it might be partly correct. I'd expect that 2-legged mecha will be somewhat rare purely because having only 2 legs means they have less redundancy; most will have 4-6 legs. Where 2-leggers exist, they'll be ultralight vehicles designed that way purely for cost reasons and used for purposes other than battle. I'd expect something closer to the AT-RT from Star Wars Episode III rather than a combat-focused AT-ST-like, let alone a Gundam-style humanoid. Even the AT-ST is technically a scout walker; it just keeps getting used for combat much more often than it really should.

Looks like /robowaifu/ is down again. But anyway, how do we feel about a tower shield on a realistic mech? I've never seen a mech design outside of Gundam use them, but they could solve the form factor armoring problem. Of course they'd also be very heavy and limit mobility, so there's a price to pay for their protection.

>>1313
Is that an OZ mobile suit?

Weekly update:

Very slow week.

TW
- A couple text bugs in Koishi's alt dialogue got fixed.

BLUE_RESORT
- In addition to the usual "more characters, more art, more bug fixes", a new feature to change employee rest days was added.
- Some of the skill editor got translated.

WIP
- The JP TW devs are working on a lot of engine stuff. Refactored map drawing code for better performance, reworked pathfinding, NPC scheduling (to make it easier for devs and dialogue authors to make characters go to certain places at certain times)...
- The JP Megaten devs are still working on the Soul Hackers 2 route.
- I'm going to try and find time to finally implement Dracostrikes for that one guy who really wants them.

>>77140
>- I'm going to try and find time to finally implement Dracostrikes for that one guy who really wants them.
God bless you

Weekly update:

Another very slow week.

TW
- A TEXTR bug that could cause crashes got fixed.
- A translation of Sunny's dialogue by an anon on 4/jp/ got merged in.

MEGATEN
- A new version got merged in. Mostly just bug fixes and minor tweaks, along with some new small Card Summoner things (you can now fight a series of consecutive battles against AIs in the Computer Room, certain rare cards can now be purchased from the Secret Shop, etc.)

OTHER GAMES
- I merged an update from an anon on /bag/ for eraBlueArchiveK which adds some more characters.

WIP

>>77146
Is card summoner worth bothering with? Do you actually get anything out of it outside of itself? Does it have endings, obtainable characters or equipment, skills whathaveyou for regular gameplay?

>>77147
It seemed a bit too much to bother with to me as well, but that's definitely where the tons of card spirit demons got moved to.
I remember plenty of them having decent portraits and barions & loyalty skills, back when they were from Rag's.

>>115515
If IP didn't exist, what would stop a a literal nobody from legally cloning a a big corporation's project the day it launches and diminishing its profits? How is that corporation supposed to pay for food so they can keep making things?

IP only ever protects the giants, the smaller you are, the more useless it is. What, you're going to go to court and pay a lawyer over someone """""""stealing""""""" your project? Lmao. Whereas D*sney or N*ntendo can sue literal nobodies into the ground for daring to hack their consoles or games.
Consider for a second what IP actually is: a license to call police on your ass because you copied something without permission. Calling organized armed men who are authorized to kill those who resist *because of fucking copying and distributing of files*. Now it sounds absurd, doesn't it? Because it is absurd. There's a time and place for the threat of deadly force, and copying ones and zeros is NOT that time and place.

>>115523
POTD

>>115518
>Neither of these will make your product sell. They won't stop random people from selling unofficial tshirts of your game. They won't stop the Chinese from copying you, or kebabs from selling low-quality DVDs of your jewtube animation in Middle Eastern markets. You still have to be a good businessman or deal with one. If you are a small guy trying to make a dent, copyright and patents are usually way more annoying than they are helpful.
Here we can see an anon that actually worked in production/distribution/selling of something. Selling stuff and making money off of it isn't easy, and ((( copyright ))) doesn't help you with finding your clients and figuring out logistics.

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>>115511
>That does look comfy. What is it may I ask?
Sorry, force of habit, its literally called "comfy ui", a frontend (I think?) for diffusion generation. Its node based and people write their own nodes for it, so you can do some crazy shit with the right setup.
Once I made something that went through a list of artists, generated something with their tags, then put their tag in top left corner. It went through 392 artists so I could see which ones the model already knew or made good things with.

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I really like Liru

>>18521
I want to meet a beaver. I've only ever come across a muskrat before, and that was under weird circumstances.

>>18529
I've seen a few beavers but only from a distance. The largest rodent I've been close to are groundhogs.

>>115967
>What follows quickly goes from sort of mundane to the most nightmarish thing I've ever read. It's cosmic horror in the sense that it's like the book a Lovecraft character goes mad from reading, because it tells him things about the world he cannot handle.
I remember feeling like that after reading Uncle Ted's book, everything he wrote seemed right on the money, including the conclusions, but the conclusions were really unsettling for me.
Though your post makes the book seem more interesting than the blurbs. I'll probably give it a shot though.

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isekai in general has made me want to research older civilisations and religious practices. though my reasoning for this is because isekai world building is usually so fucking shit that I refuse to believe the author has done any research and I want to learn more to know for certain that the world building is shit. I especially despise how everyone uses magical circles to portray any magic system (after further research I did find out that people used to believe that words and letters could bring forth blessings and whatnot so I guess it's not incorrect, but I still hate magical circles)

>>116087
>isekai in general has made me want to research older civilisations and religious practices. though my reasoning for this is because isekai world building is usually so fucking shit that I refuse to believe the author has done any research and I want to learn more to know for certain that the world building is shit.
Based, lmao.
>I especially despise how everyone uses magical circles to portray any magic system
Magical circles are cool tho. Shame most of the time they're only aesthetics, but at least they're neat aesthetics.

>>116087
The especially fun part of doing that kind of research is that not only does it help you spot bullshit, but it really helps you appreciate when the author gets something right, especially when it's subtle.
Given how much of isekai is at least loosely riffing off Medieval Europe, my go-to starting point for anything medieval is C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It attempts to lay out the overall medieval cosmology as it was generally perceived by artists and average people, and introduce the reader to some of the less obvious late Greco-Roman and early Christian influences on it. Given how interconnected the medieval model of the universe was, it inevitably covers fields such as medicine, astrology, alchemy, the fey, magic's relation to language, and so on along the way. Not only that, but it does an excellent job of conveying just how differently many of these things were viewed back then from how they are now, and drawing out subtleties which are easily overlooked by the contemporary reader.
If you want to spot places where a medieval fantasy writer (eastern or western) truly gets the medieval mindset and how they viewed the world, I can't recommend this book enough. It won't help with the material past the way >>115954's familiar

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>>116094
Okay, that was a slightly drunk recommendation, and the average isekai likely draws on almost nothing from it because the genre is so heavily based off JRPG fantasy. Even Escaflowne, the best isekai I've seen so far, instead riffs off far older myths and the relationship between scientism and western occultism.
I still stand by that book as helpful for better medieval fantasy works though, and it unfortunately does help highlight when an author is completely oblivious to the medieval worldview. The big exception is Frieren, which parallels a different strand of it than the one Lewis focuses on.

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>>116045
AMERICANS. ARE. WHITE.
also learn to sage asshole

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>>116048
No, Americans are Americans. We're a nation established explicitly for people who agree to keep and defend a certain creed and values, summed up in our declaration as life, liberty, and property. Anything saying otherwise is just someone looking to sow discontent and division in the country through class, racial, and/or religious warfare. And to those people, you can fuck off!

>>116068
Yes, america is a melting pot. :^)

>>116068
>We're a nation established explicitly for people who agree to keep and defend a certain creed and values
Are newborns not American in this framework? They sure as hell can't comprehend this creed. If I explicitly state that I am against your creed and values, do I get denaturalized, or does the piece of paper saying I'm American win out here? Does the scenario I just detailed have me deported if I'm a literal Mayflower descendant who hates everything about my heritage and chants Death to America on the regular? What is this ridiculous framework you have, man?

>>116129
Its just a local schizo who likes to start shit.
Anyway, this thread (or specifically the schizo's baits/takes) seems to be a drama magnet, so fuck that, I'm locking it.

>>5309
>People will see that AI was used and ask "Why did you use AI for this minor part of the process, when you could've used better tools and not need to use AI"
Seriously, who gives a shit. If the end result is good, its good, if its shit, its shit. No one gives a shit if a digital artist photobashes or traces over 3d models to get to his final art, but they suddenly do if there's some "ai". Its absurd.
>>5314
>Yeah, I don't think digital art would generally be worth using AI for given the options available for that sort of thing.
Look into Krita with the comfyui plugin.

>>5317
>Seriously, who gives a shit. If the end result is good, its good, if its shit, its shit. No one gives a shit if a digital artist photobashes or traces over 3d models to get to his final art, but they suddenly do if there's some "ai". Its absurd.
It shows the skill of the artist, in the instance of AI art. If someone is only capable of producing a "good image" because he relies entirely on the computer to do the work for him, that's the sign of someone who is incapable of producing consistently quality work. However if it's an artist who's using AI to supplement his already developed skills, then there's no issue.

It's like the difference between someone who uses Vocaloid to replace the lack of musical experience compared to someone who uses the program to supplement his musical composition being made.

>>5317
There's a big difference between embedding "AI" in a graphics program that makes the fuzzy selection tool less retarded or gives you some brushes that better mimic physical media and going "holodeck, make me an image, oh and sign my name in the corner when you're done."
>Seriously, who gives a shit.
Well the artist should for one. The moment people hear that someone used AI tools they begin to disregard the product and doesn't matter  how much other work the artist puts into a composition and it doesn't even matter if the people aren't anti-AI or are even pro AI, in their mind all they hear is "the computer did this". Compared to the guy that goes 
>Yeah I booted up Win 3.1 version of MS-Paint and basically placed every individual pixel by hand
the response is always "HOLY SHIT THAT'S AMAZING.
It's just how it is.

>>5319
>There's a big difference between embedding "AI" in a graphics program that makes the fuzzy selection tool less retarded or gives you some brushes that better mimic physical media and going "holodeck, make me an image, oh and sign my name in the corner when you're done."
Yes, and? The places I frequent where people generate images are all perfectly self aware of the level of effort their things take. The existence of grifters shouldn't invalidate the tech itself, or everything made with it.
>The moment people hear that someone used AI tools they begin to disregard the product and doesn't matter how much other work the artist puts into a composition and it doesn't even matter if the people aren't anti-AI or are even pro AI, in their mind all they hear is "the computer did this".
Just like they did years ago when digital art was new. Its all performative anyways, since if you convince them something was/wasn't made with "ai" they flip their opinion 180, showing that the actual content of a picture hardly matters to them, but the optics do, (at least here and now).
>Compared to the guy that goes 
>>Yeah I booted up Win 3.1 version of MS-Paint and basically placed every individual pixel by hand
>the response is always "HOLY SHIT THAT'S AMAZIN

>>5320
>You can look at who's more popular online, traditional artists or digital ones. Even though traditional is leagues harder than even ms paint, people don't *really* care. 
I do when it comes to things like painting and photography.

>>5289
That looks very cool, Anon! Please take good care of it, it looks a bit fragile.

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>>5290
It seems solid enough to me. It's got an aluminum case, which is a big step up compared with the standard DIY version that uses 3D-printed cases. Here are a couple examples I found of what those can look like. My biggest worry is just that I'm not going to be able to make anything compelling with it. I'm still learning my way around it though. I've managed to get some of the basics down. I managed to make a crude version of those bloopy SID-style arpeggios, at the very least.

Being that it's an open-source project, it should only get better over time.

>>5291
OK that sounds great then; I take it back.  :)

I hope you'll share some of what you come up with once you like it. Cheers.

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>Setting up my new office
>Took and old CRT that was hanging around in the garage for years and attached it to the VCR that I had repaired a year ago and set it up in a shelf I put in said office
>Decide to throw on a couple of tapes
>The image quality if astoundingly sharp
>And this is through coax cabling as the TV doesn't have the RCA inputs
Okay, anyone who at all declares that the quality of old TVs was "shit" are just retards who have never actually watched a damn thing and trying to rewrite history. Yes, it isn't as "clean" as an image on an HDTV, but it isn't "You have to squint to see it" quality that people effectively talk about it being.

>>5321
The image quality is blurrier, but it's not like it's unwatchable or anything. With a CRT TV, VHS tapes have their own appeal compared to more hi-fi formats. People act like VHS always looked like a haggard old tape that had had Growing Pains reruns recorded on it several times over. It's not like you're doomed to just sit down and stare at tracking errors for an hour and a half.