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thetoughestbean posted:PHUO: AI-generated pictures aren’t art As a corollary, the AI "upscaled" video games and movies look like absolute garbage and it's embarrassing to see people recommend using them for new peeps. It's like people recommending those lovely HD texture packs that add a million greebles and gribgrobs and that gently caress the art direction right up. Also LCDs and Plasma were a mistake and we need to go back to CRT's
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I think the closest thing I've had to a panic attack was being super crowded in on a tram when I lived in Germany. Everything started trembling once hte doors shut and I knew I couldn't get out, then I felt like my limbs just suddenly turned to jello and I briefly lost consciousness. Fortunately since I was cornered I just kind of slumped down into the corner so I think people probably just thought I was drunk.
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Jun 5, 2022 01:35
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You fainted.
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Obviously, but it was preceded by freaking out that I was boxed in.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You fainted. …what would you say an incident where someone faints from fear is called? Some sort of Fear Incident? A Panic Episode?
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I would call it fainting.
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Jun 5, 2022 01:59
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The reason my 2012 'anxiety attack' lasted a whole month was due to (1) my brain's autistic wiring, (2) it's tendency to perseverate and repeat percieved threats inside my head, and (3) my tendency back then to go 'yes everyone says it's bullshit and will not happpen.....but what if???'
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Jun 5, 2022 02:22
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Stop invalidating other people's experiences with anxiety, stress and panic attacks.
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Jun 5, 2022 02:27
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Stop invalidating other people's experiences with anxiety, stress and panic attacks. Not a problem at all, my good mod. There’s dozens of other things I can and will invalidate.
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Jun 5, 2022 02:43
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Every Olympic games should have more events than the previous one.
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Jun 5, 2022 04:05
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The Olympic Games shouldn’t exist
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thetoughestbean posted:The Olympic Games shouldn’t exist Oh yeah there's other stuff, like they should always take place in a single purpose-built city, which would eliminate a lot of the corruption and waste and homelessness that they currently bring to the host cities. But they should also have way more events.
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1) Sponsoring sports in any way should be illegal. 2) Anglo publishers should stop with the insanely stupid numbers game and just print "Nth impression YYYY" in every book. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:07 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Gaius Marius posted:As a corollary, the AI "upscaled" video games and movies look like absolute garbage and it's embarrassing to see people recommend using them for new peeps. It's like people recommending those lovely HD texture packs that add a million greebles and gribgrobs and that gently caress the art direction right up. What struck me in the latest AI art thread is how much the output does look like one specific type of art. It looks like the piles and piles of 'professional workflow' portfolio concept art for Hollywood and video games you find on places like artstation. So yeah IMO it can't create art, but it can create uninspired regurgitation of such ideas of 'crashed spaceship', 'girl with sword', 'mountain castle' as good as or better than industry artists touting for work online.
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Jun 5, 2022 11:31
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Art, as it exists to communicate between artist and people viewing it, is always going to have differences about what it is or not. But I think a lot of stuff about how things "are" or "aren't" art comes down to personal preferences masquerading as objectivity. Saying that, one of the few art styles I really dislike is Pop art. Warhol in particular creates stuff with no soul and no meaning. Wizard on the side of a van art has more to tell you about the artist in a positive capacity than any Warhol does. But I still don't think I couldn't call it art. Its just shite.
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I always figured art is an expression of an emotion, idea, or feeling that an artist wants to convey through whatever medium they've chosen. AIs don't have feelings so what they make may be pretty or neat, but I wouldn't consider it art. Maybe if AI's become sentient I'll change my mind, but I truly don't believe that will ever happen. We tend to think we're smarter than we actually are and I don't think anyone is going to be smart enough to program consciousness.
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Jun 5, 2022 13:26
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If you have to argue about if it's art, it's art. Also, summer sucks loving rear end and sun likers should be shamed.
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I can be swayed on the "if you're discussing it, then it's art" opinion, but summer rules.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:summer sucks loving rear end and sun likers should be shamed.
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Autumn is the best season. I just want forever autumn, the day lengths asymptotically progressing toward solstice but never reaching winter. Like a Bizarro Narnia.
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nationalism, the idea that people should be ruled by people who share their national identity, is just legitimized racism/xenophobia. The only exception is nationalism used for decolonization.
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"When nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I dislike, it is bad, but when nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I like, then it is good'. Promoting a common identity/set of principles/ideology can be a good thing IMO, and is done all of the time. That might be the main goal of the SA Forums moderation, to use this website as one example.
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Jun 5, 2022 17:21
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silence_kit posted:"When nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I dislike, it is bad, but when nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I like, then it is good'. common identity is great as long as anyone can be a part of it
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silence_kit posted:"When nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I dislike, it is bad, but when nationalistic thinking reaches conclusions I like, then it is good'. PHUO: Results matter more than the path taken to get there. No matter the merits of democratic representation and reflection of the electorate, a democracy that freely and cleanly votes in Mitch McConnell is worthless.
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Most people living in the EU are nationalists to the extreme and would view the idea of being ruled by a "non-national" as an existential threat.
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When there are actually some shared values and a feeling of pride and common purpose, I don't see the problem. That seems to be vanishingly rare now as politics becomes utterly bitter and people take up completely indefensible positions to own the libs. Combined with a fair immigration policy I don't think nationalism has to be aggressively exclusionary. That said I have always resented the left wing focus on 'communities' for the exact same reason so maybe I'm just being a hypocrite. Do you get welcomed into ~the community~ just because you live and work somewhere for years? Not in my experience.
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Americans hate my wife because she's a mail order russian slut who wants to give Vova a five dollar handy and my wife's family hates me because I'm a bought-and-sold western jew corrupting proud slavic stock. I think nationalism should be expunged cuz it's loving stupid and inevitably leads to bigotry.
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Jun 5, 2022 17:55
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I guess the question is whether top down aggressive humanism would actually cure poo poo people
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Strategic Tea posted:When there are actually some shared values and a feeling of pride and common purpose, I don't see the problem. That seems to be vanishingly rare now as politics becomes utterly bitter and people take up completely indefensible positions to own the libs. I think the issue is that a lot of nationalism today is essentially "blood nationalism," membership by birth. that combined with climate crisis is recipe for atrocity
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Jun 5, 2022 18:03
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People self-organize into groups, and nationalism is just one example of that. As a way of doing things, it's probably better than some and worse than others. FishBulbia posted:Most people living in the EU are nationalists to the extreme and would view the idea of being ruled by a "non-national" as an existential threat. How would this "non-national" achieve the position to rule anyone? If you do not have the permission, and indeed the request, of someone to rule them, you can only have that position through violence (or the threat of it).
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doverhog posted:People self-organize into groups, and nationalism is just one example of that. As a way of doing things, it's probably better than some and worse than others. Weird how you default to the assumption that say a syrian living in Germany wouldn't possibly get to be leader of the ruling party but go off, it definitely shows that nationalism doesn't exist in the EU
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That wasn't what I said. If they did have the request to rule Germany, they would be a "national" by the definition I was using. *it is completely irrelevant what their place of birth, culture, or anything else is. If they have the support of the nation they are not "non-national" anymore. doverhog has a new favorite as of 18:18 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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doverhog posted:How would this "non-national" achieve the position to rule anyone? If you do not have the permission, and indeed the request, of someone to rule them, you can only have that position through violence (or the threat of it). You do have a good point. Europe is a lot less diverse than it was thanks to all the murder and cultural genocide.
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doverhog posted:That wasn't what I said. If they did have the request to rule Germany, they would be a "national" by the definition I was using. They'd be seen as a non-German German citizen.
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Jun 5, 2022 18:18
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If that's the case it's sad but does not alter what I said about the ideas being talked about.
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All this is why I only hold allegiance to fictional countries, and not very serious ones at that. So on any given day I might swear my undying loyalty to Dictionopolis, San Seriffe, Pottsylvania, or Phaic Tăn.
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Today I learned John D Rockefeller gave 10% of his earnings to charity from the moment he became a business clerk, respected women, helped a freedman buy his wife out of slavery, all before he turned 20 in 1859. I'm reading his biography and I no longer think he's completely evil.
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Jun 5, 2022 22:46
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We need to go back to the villains in all movies being wealthy white men with non-specific European accents.
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The villains should be enemy nations illegally enriching uranium.
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gently caress it just make them all Austrian
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