CMD (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 13:39:02 JST
CMD"I shall go to the Astrologer and get my chart read. :AYAYA: " "Well CMD let's look at your chart. Oh, hm..." "Well?" "OK I'm going to explain everything very, VERY slowly...and with pictures so that you can understand." "Well OK. :asui_what:" "So your chart says this and this and this..." "humu humu" "And basically that means you're a giant fucking retard."
@teto Are you fucking kidding me? There's entire university programs devoted to learning traditional Image Science, and they run right now! *I* use traditional Image Science in my job on a regular basis! We have piles and piles of non-AI/ML tools lying around, and they're even things that people in my generation know! How the absolute fuck do you fuck up your talent pipeline so bad that you can't find any of these people? There's anime shops which I've been to which basically have these professionals sitting in the back playing Weiss Schwarz and talking about anime girl feet - you can literally just grab one and tell him you're paying him 80k/yr, and he'll jump for joy at the opportunity to do so for the sake of masturbating to more feet pics.
Jesus fucking CHRIST, how bad are these retards fucking up?
I will fucking hang a nigger if they believe that you need AI to do reasonable upscaling for computer graphics. Even cubic interpolation can get you quite a long way, and we have lots of research on how to do better for certain applications: we can upscale medical images insanely good because we have excellent models of what our sensors do. Moreover, most video games use cartoon-like graphics: you can compress that hugely, there's no reason to treat it like some sort of hyper realistic shitshow.
@Ace66062@teto AI isn't a "fad" - it enables us to do...lots of things we couldn't really do before. But not every task needs or even benefits from using AI: we could solve a lot of problems before we picked it up, and lots of those solutions have benefits over using AI (primarily speed).
AI is just another tool in the toolkit, but it *is* a tool in the toolkit that should come out.
@MK2boogaloo If we're talking about it in a straight-laced completely serious fashion, I agree (although I will absolutely do it as a joke). It does nothing but untag a buncha people and splinter conversations up into dust.
You'd think there'd be an easy technical fix to wreck the practice, but getting people to agree to implement it on each instance seems rough.
I have been holding on to a lot of clothes I had from high school and undergrad, and I decided to go through them. I do not even remotely fit into any of them - I am way too small. I ended up throwing out two and a half garbage bag's worth of oversized clothes as a result of this; it is the largest single set of things I've just thrown away.
It is kind of amazing to look at your fat pants and say "I will never wear this again," and then throw it away. This is some of the best I've felt about my fitness ever, I'm genuinely really proud of myself.
@bleedingphoenix@EdBoatConnoisseur@Kyonko802@SIC_Guy@SuperSnekFriend There's absolutely a lot more out there but if you're *just starting* and you want to get into mahou shoujo, then that's probably close to an essential watch list? I'd say that this is what "everyone" has watched.
Shows that lean more on the action side of mahou shoujo (Shakugan no Shana, Kill La Kill) often end up being more like shonen with a female protagonist. Shows that lean more on the comedy/ecchi side (Mahoako, Mahou Shoujo Ore) are a lot closer to comedy/ecchi shows with frilly outfits. Starting out you should *really* get into the shows that revolve around romantic/psychological struggles, just to get a feel for the themes.
I wouldn't call it a "deconstruction," it's just that there's one or two common tropes that it subverts heavily and to be blunt I think watching something like Nanoha sort of sets you up for some of what happens in Madoka.
There's also shows like Precure, Tokyo Mew Mew, and Sailor Moon which are about magical girl teams beating up bad guys - basically sentai shows but with frilly skirts. You should watch a season of one of these, but they're far from essential watching.
More recently, there's Little Witch Academia and Madoka Magica - both of which are going to be held out as the most recent examples of good mahou shoujo.