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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i feel like must be where part of the disconnect lies because despite my personal antipathy towards suburban living, pretty much every one i've visited has had superb infrastructure for walking and biking.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i'm not sure many people would describe phoenix or tampa as suburban
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
it is highly specious reasoning at best especially when you consider that the advent of helicopter parenting and the boom of suburban development/white flight/etc are separated by decades. i would say the stranger danger panic of
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
Modern Colour Theory For Traditional And Digital Painting Media by Dr David. J.C. Briggs, > http://www.huevaluechroma.com
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
photography is actually a very good example of how this talking point breaks down. there are a great deal of laws and social codes around where you can and cannot film and take photographs. photography is explicitly disallowed in most museu
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>ableism unironically skill issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDLoleIfAro not to mention the blatant disregard for the many disabled people who rely on art as our only means to make a living. i've seen far too m
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>Would your opinion change if these models were trained exclusively on works in the public domain? this would be the ideal
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
> https://twitter.com/sinix777/status/1604514161391677440 'Digital devices are not afforded the same "observational rights" as humans. You can't just buy an extra ticket for a video camera
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
photographers literally sued google into entirely removing the view image button and link to theft/infringement in that case was far more tentative than unstable diffusion promising to scrape portfolio sites and re-add artists who opte
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
not only would that cause way less antipathy and backlash, i also tend to believe it would end up producing a tool that is far more useful for commercial purposes and actual working artists in the short/midterm. ethics and morality asi
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
the luddites may be one of the most singularly wrongly vilified groups in human history.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
the issue at hand has nothing to do with gatekeeping, elitism or any kind of psued debate about what constitutes real art. people are mad because job & portfolio sites are being flooded with aishit which is making them unusable for both
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
it's been very frustrating to see how much ignorance and incuriosity is held by what i assume to be otherwise very worldly, intelligent and technical people in regards to what working artists actually do .
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
it is worth remembering that occupy wallstreet was also declared 'an illegal occupation of a city centre'
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
it only takes 1-2 years of study to draw at (what a layman would consider to be) a competent level. most single person indie games also exercise some level of compromise in their scope and art direction, very few have anywhere near the numb
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i've always wondered why these meat alternatives don't try to target exotic & rare meats rather than aiming for the most common staples. i would think you would have much more leeway with something where there is less familia
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
how many of twitter's new features marked an increase in revenue or market-share? it seems like twitter's main innovation in recent years has been inventing increasingly byzantine procedures to cull users from their platform, incl
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i'd really love to be able to fast like that but my productivity falls through the floor whenever i've tried
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
most big tech companies have more than one product that has not meaningfully changed or added competitive features in 10 years. twitter is being run like it's world of warcraft when it is actually ffxi.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
there are advantages to both systems. alternative schools are more like an idealized & harmonious version of the world while public ed mirrors the dysfunction and corporatocracy of 'real life' (and not to mention the blatant i
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i have still never seen a 'targeted ad' that is even remotely related to my interests or purchasing habits.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
it's actually worse than tone deaf because they clearly understand why people are mad well enough to propose fake solutions.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
this is such a weird sentiment to see in tech communities like hn that are generally so focused on data privacy.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
the reason is because pawoo and baraag are de-facto lolicon servers with neither the censorship requirements of pixiv or the content moderation of twitter. servers in different countries are going to have different laws and different cultur
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>the sameness of it. the skills required to do entertainment design are broad enough that they give you access to a pretty wide range of jobs across multiple industries. if you get bored of being a render monkey, it's really not har
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
concept art is fine just as long as you go in with the right expectations for what the job actually is. also if you already have a technical background there is nothing stopping you from finding a marriage between both of your skillsets and
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
imo this limited definition of peer groups is in fact one of the biggest issues with our education model. short of being drafted there is virtually no other social or work setting where your entire social stratum will be comprised solely of
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
there are literally thousands of years of artwork that fall under public domain, the idea that the dataset isn't big enough to make good images without copyright infringement and attribution laundering is frankly laughable.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
why not just train it on your own code or an opt-in data base of voluntarily contributed code? why does everyone else have to make your life easier [and generate enormous wealth for a third party with zero compensation for their work] invol
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
have you ever considered providing mentorship opportunities to high schoolers? imo it is very possible to get the joy of teaching and passing on your knowledge & skills w/o being in the system.

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