I would use infinite money to purchase 20$.

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To be honest I've never played half-life... i never played either of the games

Yeah, me neither. I own the orange box, I just haven't played it.

I haven't even played Portal..

Sacrilege.

I like dogs, but I would never adopt one

Ngl I hate dogs. Was scared of them when I was young, but now I just dislike them. Cats FTW!

Never heard of Expage before but I searched it now and discovered a tale of early 2000s horse website discrimination  Web stables made on Geocities and Angelfire etc refused to cooperate with the inferior Expage stables, which lead to the founding of the Association for the Support of Expage stables. They wrote (translated by me): "The discrimination and belittling of Expage stables on a MASSIVE scale has begun recently. E.g. compared to Geo-stables. On Expage, you can see stables equally as good as on Geo Therefore, we started this association - for all expage stables. Every Expage stable is welcome to join us and we also wish for it from the bottom of our heart!"

Interesting piece of history...

I have no Idea what Expage is, but this is horse website discrimination is suxh a funny concept.

If I'm being completely honest, I was way too young to see the Geocities era web. I just think the aesthetic is neat.

Personally I believe there is a line of separation between a tool and something that makes the art for you, a line that (in my opinion) AI goes far over. This line (in terms of visual media) is determined by whether or not someone needs to know what makes something visually appealing in order to make something visually appealing.

An experienced animator knows how to make a smooth motion, how to time their motions, how to manage complexity and complete works in a reasonable amount of time. An experienced photographer knows what makes a good shot, what angle to take a photo at, how to use editing software, how to use their camera effectively. An experienced digital artist knows how to compose a scene, what colors work together, how to make something look good, how to draw hands. These are all examples of theory. Theory is knowledge about your media, rather than knowledge about your subject).

AI image prompting removes the need for theory, for all you need is to give it instructions on what it is you want, the only bit of theory around it is how to tell the AI what you want. The AI is what's providing most of the visual appeal. This is the line where tools turn to automation.

(Note: I don't mean that you need to know theory to make art, I'm trying to say that in an authentic art form, artists have to have a reasonable amount of theory that they will learn as they cultivate their skills. My point is that it's dishonest to claim that AI prompters are artists (due to the minimal amount of theory used and the indirectness of the effect that prompters have on the final product) and to claim to they deserve the legal protections (such as copyright) and public attention of artists.)


I've often seen people use the argument that there isn't a problem with AI taking over in the commercial sphere because art should be about personal enjoyment and expressing emotions rather than making money (along with a similar argument that art shouldn't be copyrighted because it takes away from artistic expression as a whole). This argument is (and forgive my sternness here) wildly naive, and has only been able to propagate because it tries to pull at your heartstrings. We currently live in the year 2023, on planet Earth, and people (artists included) need to work to live. Artists are passionate about their art, and they (like everyone) want to work in a field that they're passionate about. We (as people) shouldn't need to worry about losing our entire field of work because enough people thought AI art was novel enough to let it stay around long enough to take us over. So long as we live under a capitalist economy, (which doesn't seem like it's gonna be changing for a while) AI image generation needs to have heavy governmental regulation in order to defend the field we've been spending our whole lives studying or else the world's talented artists will be forced into either soul-sucking jobs or poverty.
But hey, that's just the classic capitalism experience^TM.

Sorry if this post got a little heated, I'm just kinda passionate about this stuff.

I dislike AI art. That being said, I'm willing to tolerate AI art if the prompter is 100% transparent about it and is not using it to get money or... "clout". On the topic of copyright, however, I don't think the prompter should be able to copyright the art that the AI makes because, well, the AI made it. If anyone should be able to copyright it, it's the people that made the AI. The most that a prompter could hope to copyright is their prompts as that's what they made.

Uncopyrightable AI art (partially) solves the problem of AI stepping on the toes of professional artists. People using AI art for projects may be able to use that AI art, sure, but they will lose out on copyright for whatever the AI makes. Having to regenerate the image over and over again may take time, but (and I don't say this with the intention of insult) there isn't much skill in pressing a render button until the image is satisfactory. Giving prompts to an AI is like to giving prompts to a freelancer. The prompter of the AI is more like the client, not the artist.

I just used Visual Studio code with the Neocities CLI and Servez to test it on a web client. Not sure if it's better than much else as I haven't had need to try it, but it does seem to be more efficient than on the Neocities editor.

After careful consideration, expresses an emotion of sheer unabashed excitement like that of no other. The lack of torso emphasizes his immense sense of being merely a little guy. His tiny eyes suggest a lack of sight into the darker side of the world; a blissful ignorance if you will. Truly a feat of engineering like no other.

(tl;dr: heheheha)

Hello and welcome to the forum!
Violently combusting on high velocity contact with concrete has always been a bit of a hobby of mine as well!

The whole "no necroposting" has always just been frustrating to me, probably because I often see situations where if you were to make a new topic, those same people would come back to harass you about duplicate topics.

Definitely Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. I feel like its one of those games where I am the only person on the planet that still cares about it, despite the fact that I've never owned a GBA and I played it on a sketchy browser emulator. I just really like the idea of Kirby in a Metroid-vania game.

Honorable mention to Sonic Adventure 2, but if I'm being completely honest I only really care about the Chao Garden.

Edit: I forgot about Kirby Air Ride how could I forget about Kirby Air Ride.

Rock (Dwayne)

My dad has been getting into culinary experimentation recently and showed me this syrup that you can mix with bubble water to make a homemade soda. It's really good but I can't remember how he made it, I think it was something about cooking down some spices in a saucepan.

Im going to become an expert at becoming an expert at things, or inventing genies, whichever works. >:smile:

Havin' teeth fall out of my face. Generally a bad time till I started getting dosh under my pillow.

sheeeeeeeesh!!!!!!

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!!!!!