odessacubbage

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by odessacubbage 4y ago
there are plenty of ways to earn an income doing both of those things, it just might not be 'for yourself' and it might not meet your expectation of 'a lot of money' but you can in fact be comfortable and earn a living.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-limits on Tumblr looking at the new terms, tumblr still is not an option.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
we used to have a whole literary niche based upon authors retelling their dnd campaigns. i'd love to see similar eve or dorf fort novelizations.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
unless you are in fact a living and breathing cyborg [in which case, congratulations] , the wet work inside your head is not analogous to the neural networks that are producing these images in any but the most loosely poetic sense.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
do we really expect underpaid and overworked jannies who get to spend 12 hours a day checking gore and cp will have a better error rate than bots? customer service & support is dogshit even for the users that these services are ostensib
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
if you can dig up a hacked wii somewhere, that's probably a pretty perfect device for that age range. stuff like wii sports & just dance + the nintendo back catalogue is not a bad place to start.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>critical thinking and focus if he can get into them, i think tekken and soulcalibur are potentially great for both while also having enough action and cool factor to hold his interest. sc might be more approachable for a kid (i was his
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
anecdotally, fighting games and mmos pretty much taught me how to actually study and develop a skill set. mmos in particular also serve as a very good proxy for the kind of team management environments you encounter irl. >Stuff like th
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i do not think there is a single homeschooling or unschooling advocate who would've told you that keeping kids locked indoors on conference calls all day is a good method for educating children.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
anecdotally, i am willing to put in far more hours if i don't have to worry about falling asleep on the commute home.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>I think chasing productivity has led to an extraordinarily toxic work culture. i will say that crunch from home is a lot easier to optimize and ultimately sustain than crunch-in-office.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
if you have the good fortune to still have an arcade in your area, i'd highly recommend giving it a visit. fighting game locals are also a great way to experience gaming as a in-person activity... provided you enjoy playing fighting ga
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
ultimately the iwata strategy of 'sell hardware that is underpowered compared to the competition & and bank on 1st party titles & exclusives to stay competitive' was going to create this problem sooner or later, even 10 ye
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i really think it's going to take much longer than people think for this technology to go from 'pretty good' to actually being able to meet a production standard of quality with little to no human involvement. at this point,
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i find myself mentally unable to comprehend people who believe that the drawing part of drawing is monotony. discovering that this mindset not only exists but is widespread has been equally as disturbing as any ai advancement.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i can guarantee you that requiring a wired connection for ranked matches would do far more to improve your experience than any kind of blizzard panopticon scheme will.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
similarly japanese servers in mmos have typically been regarded as being high quality despite having no entry barrier other than language.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
most people spend their leisure time browsing mindless content on aggregators or netflix. this guy just really likes being a cowboy. >building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity eh, there's a
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i love ps streaming and chiaki because it lets me play visual novels and super robot wars on my ipad (with occasional lag spikes and drops in fidelity) but that is an incredibly niche use. game streaming has thousands of niche uses that mak
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
what's also important here is that people are very invested in the ownership of their games, probably more so than they are of their films/their music. 'your games' are intrinsically tied to your saves in those games; yo
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
when you are very poor, meals are uncertain and every dollar counts, saving a few bucks on a big mac is actually a pretty big deal. not to mention mcdonalds are open much later than homeless shelters or soup kitchens, safer too. being able
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
most of the sites that scrape patreon's content have better interfaces and loadtimes than patreon
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
the vast majority of participants in any given field are, by definition, mediocre.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
until ai actually starts procedurally creating images with bespoke tools rather than blending pixels it will in fact be fairly easy to distinguish a made image from a generated one for the same reasons you can usually tell if someone painte
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i mean what is even the point of pursuing a new skill if you can't create things anymore because the act of creation and craftsmanship have been so thoroughly devalued in favor of cheap volume? what kind of fucking joyless bugworld is
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i think people underestimate just how many commercial images effectively fall within the 'ambience' category. i'm really convinced that in the mid to longterm, the only viable future for human artists will be a matter of GANs
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
groceries have definitely been pushing the limits of my budget a lot more. even at the height of the covid shortages i could pretty comfortably get a month's worth of food & necessities without breaking 200$ now it easily takes aro
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
using work without permission is a violation copyright. imo the fact that the original has to be scrapped to create the dataset completely negates any argument about whether the final product is transformative b/c it cannot exist witho
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
you also didn't flip millions of illustrations into a commercial product without paying the creators or rights holders to license them. this is theft plain and simple.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
honestly i feel the opposite. one of the worst situations to run into as a designer is a client who is simply too married to a bad design. i would much rather work with something you scribbled on the back of a napkin than than some highly r

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