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Like shooting poo poo in a barrel I'm trying to finish the 3rd draft of a short story, nearish-future scifi primarily focused on the interaction between the protagonist and an emergent, city-spanning AI. Writing sucks and is bad and I should go back to drawing. I dunno if you've already posted about this thread in the art threads, but you might wanna pop into the major CC threads and let people know this is here, since many folks only read the threads in their bookmarks.
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lofi posted:Is your AI self-improving ? I can imagine weird poo poo with a relationship when one person is growing smarter by the second. It'd be a bastard to write though. I'm focusing on one construct within the AI, created to facilitate interaction with the protagonist. The construct is indeed self-teaching, but this is a problem when it starts to disagree with the rest of itself! No fuckin' idea if i'll pull it off.
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Jun 19, 2018 03:11
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Al! posted:so can we post dumb poo poo we made itt i hope jk im gonna subject u 2 it anyway 
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Jun 19, 2018 05:17
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this broken hill posted:when i was a kid i used to draw all the time and my people looked like pyramidal gooey-eyed alien things but i didn't care. now i can't draw because every time i try, i look at what i just made and think "that's not a loving human, that's a space crab in a skin suit, kill it, KILL IT" and have to tear it out and throw it away. i don't know at what age i learnt to recognise what does and doesn't look like a human face, it was only like in my mid-20s, but i wish i could un-learn it and go back to the horrific manga beasts of old this broken hill posted:now i can only derive artistic satisfaction from cramming my rear end full of conte pencils and leaving a trail of finely powdered charcoal wherever i go, an ephemeral monument to my passage through this world is this art? am i looking at an art right now???
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Jun 19, 2018 09:40
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this broken hill posted:no sorry, i'm just a space crab in a skin suit Oh, well in that case, if this is some kind of normie spacecrab skinsuit thread, im out
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Jun 19, 2018 09:45
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whenever i find myself struggling with the hollowness of the creative process, I make myself revel in it. Like, gently caress, it's not illegal to make meaningless poo poo. If you think too hard about anything it starts to feel meaningless. So I open a google doc and start writing all like "yeah you're a dirty, pointless little story and no one will ever love you. i'm gonna write you so hard even though it's all bullshit, i'm gonna MAKE you exist even though you're trying to shove yourself back up the sphincter of my imagination"
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Jun 29, 2018 01:19
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sebmojo posted:Mod note But enough about your modding
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Jun 29, 2018 19:57
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Stuporstar posted:I'm just sitting here with a blank page spacing out on the tunes what the, im also Sitting Here with a blank page shameful admission, i've been writing a lot to the Sim City 5 soundtrack. Something about the bustle gets me going
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Jul 2, 2018 06:21
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Tollymain posted:im looking forward to the apocalypse because i'll either end up in a commune self-medicating even more heavily with weed than i do now or ill just die eithers good honestly eeeew there are way too many pnw goons on here i'm waiting for The Big One so i can start my apocalypse cult in eastern washington. i will use the stories telling skills i learned on these very forums to put my followers under my spell and marry them all to each other and stuff.
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Jul 4, 2018 03:20
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avshalemon posted:in this age of corporations, the only way to survive is to become a corporation I'd get voted off my own board of directors so fast
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Jul 10, 2018 03:32
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Stuporstar posted:Every word I've written in the past few weeks has been unadulterated poo poo, but I've filled in all the holes in the first half of my first novel. I've passed the halfway mark, after five loving years chipping away at it. Only ten chapters left to finish, holy poo poo I'm gonna loving do this. I'm just gonna keep going and get the loving first draft done already. Let's do this, gently caress yes, right now gooooooooo gently caress yeah writing buddy i got serious about writing approx. 6 years ago (largely thanks to you and the others who started thunderdome) and i am JUST NOW finally like "aha it's fitting together" so thanks, and yes go do the thing goooooo
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Jul 17, 2018 03:41
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avshalemon posted:right now i'm working on a few things but this is the strangest hey, neat
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Jul 21, 2018 21:19
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sebmojo posted:Go for it! Keeping a weekly (or at least regular) schedule, having the winner of last week judge the next and not responding to crits are the key elements that make td work but grab what works, I suspect artists might be tougher than writers about having their babies told they are ugly. Let me know if you want mod help for anything. i was summoned from my dusty crypt to talk about thunderdoming but yeah basically this. additionally, the reason writing TD has worked so well is because it's incredibly simple (three judges, the winner of one round judges the next, don't respond to crits), so there aren't too many rules to rules lawyer about. We've added a few over the years, as needed, but mostly the contest is a loosely functional headless monster, and I think that's its strength. I would probably throw my hat in the ring of artdome, though I got nothing on a lot of the very skilled folks here! e: readingatwork posted:
This depends, really. A traditional contest certainly wouldn't have losers or dishonorable mentions. So the question is whether you want people to feel like they're participating in a contest, as opposed to a cage match. I know what worked for writing TD, and honestly, it's thrived in spite of hurt feelings. Sitting Here fucked around with this message at 06:46 on May 24, 2019 |
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May 24, 2019 06:31
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Warbird posted:Sorry, but can one of you explain what you’re talking about? A drawing contest of some sort? Thunderdome is a weekly short fiction contest here in CC. Each round has a winner, a loser, and some honorable and dishonorable mentions, chosen by a rotating trio of judges. Right now people are talking about creating an art contest with a similar structure.
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May 24, 2019 07:02
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I am trying to make a habit of doing artdome more and I really like the prompt this week: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3890426&pagenumber=20#post508237833 (Draw magical folk inspired by real life forests)
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Sep 20, 2020 23:12
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Just a friendly reminder that the next art dome round is live! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3890426&pagenumber=21#post508830150 Rooms that reveal the character of their occupants.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:56
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So a little while ago Sebmojo asked people to weigh in on what could make CC better and a big thing was that it would be nice to have a central, bookmarkable hub for links and projects. To that end we've come up with the Creative Convention project index, where people can link to their individual threads. Also included is a list of links I hope are helpful.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:07
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I am curious to know which Discords are active and not run by weirdos. For writers and idiots, the Thunderdome Discord is very active, but I'm curious if there are other, similarly active goon art servers. I would love to have a list of them if so!!
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Nov 19, 2020 22:19
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Kanine posted:I made a post in the OSHA thread about some sketchy poo poo that happened when I was in art school. I don't have any stories to add but holy poo poo I'm glad the pointiest tool I use is a micron pen  I love horrifying OSHA anti-porn
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Nov 28, 2020 17:35
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We also did sort of establish a commission resource thread, though I think it fell off page 1 and into obscurity https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3964463
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Oct 29, 2021 21:12
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Hey guys! There is now a very comprehensive and effortful youtuber thread!
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Dec 8, 2021 23:25
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some innovative thread-making happening in this subforum, dang. There's also now a screenwriting (and plays and podcasts and) thread!
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Dec 12, 2021 10:24
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I like the top one more except for the detail on the mountain. I think it looks better with no texture (or at least something more vague and painterly)
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Dec 26, 2021 11:21
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Hey, it was brought up to me that people might like a place to dump assorted encouraging art/writing memes. That's a little bit more PYF's territory, but since it came up, I decided to see if that's something people would like
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I knew I forgot one! That is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3527487
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