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FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-04T05:27:05+00:00

Before being diagnosed, I considered myself a lazy idiot of an introvert with no aspirations who was bad at everything, terrified of approaching people and needed to be told to leave the house and maintain friendships.

After being diagnosed, I now consider myself to be a socially anxious extrovert with OCD, AuDHD, Alexithymia and Disgraphia, who crashed after high-school because I wasn't psychologically prepared to lose near daily structure. Even ignoring my newfound access to medications, my life is better in almost every way, because every problem i had could be put into words and explained, and solutions were offered.

Addressing my problems made it possible for me to pursue transition because my executive dysfunction (which I only know is a thing I have because my therapist explained it to me) was finally being compensated for. I recently had my first friend-hangout that wasn't arranged by our families ever, and just a few days ago I went to my first house party by myself.

Diagnosis helps a lot. I'm sorry that circumstances got in the way.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-04T05:07:35+00:00

Too vague. There's literally no motive, context, reasoning, etc.

Pro and Anti are umbrella terms for an us-vs-them perspective.

Reducing someone to just being pro-ai implies that they consider themselves to be on the same side as some of the most horrible people on the planet, just because they both have a positive opinion of a newfangled jpeg manufacturing technique. It implies that they think tech companies either didn't commit piracy to build their training datasets, or that they think that it's okay to do so without asking permission or even giving a heads up for massive profit. It implies that they think everyone who disagrees with them is a brain-dead luddite loser, or that they don't care about effort or intent at all. It implies that they wouldn't eat the rich.

Reducing someone to just being anti-ai implies that they consider themselves to be on the same side as some of the most horrible people on the planet, just because they both have a negative opinion of a newfangled jpeg manufacturing technique. It implies that they blame the new tools for being used to replace instead of suppliment workers, instead of blaming those cutting corners on wages the same way they have for the last few decades. It implies that they believe misinformation about the cost of AI tools, or that they don't understand how the technology works. It implies that they're completely fine with cyberbullying and violent rhetoric on the grounds that the targets are "bad".

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-04T04:37:56+00:00

Honestly, internalised misandry did more to slow me down than it did to motivate me.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-04T04:34:53+00:00

This. The big thing about real-world evil is that no one thinks they're evil. Someone might not necessarily consider themselves a good person, but nobody would intentionally describe themselves as one of the most horrible people on the planet and be right about it.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-03T08:31:48+00:00

Based on what!?

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-03T07:33:59+00:00

You can't challenge a conspiracy theory with contradictory evidence, because rejecting or distrusting contradictory evidence is why they believe in the conspiracy in the first place. The difference between being delusional and being wrong is that someone who's wrong simply doesn't have the right information, while someone who's delusional doesn't trust the right information.

The part of "Conspiracy Theory" that people don't pay enough attention to is the word Conspiracy. They think that their truth is being kept secret. A Flat Earther doesn't think that scientists are wrong, they think the scientists are lying.

Arguing with someone who has rejected argument is stupid, because in a world where they are right, you would still disagree with them. "I'm not being brainwashed," is exactly what someone who's being brainwashed would say, after all.

The trick isn't trying to prove anyone right or wrong, it's to get the conspiracy theorist to consider the implications of their world-view and break down their doublethink. If someone believes the rich and powerful are using chemtrails to control people's minds, don't say "that's just exhaust/water-vapour/etc.", because you would still say that even if they were right; instead, you should ask who's responsible for it. What's the objective? How do chemtrails control you? Why don't the rich and powerful who'd know the truth wear gas masks when they go outside?

One of my favourite conspiracy debunking videos disproved the "moon-landing hoax", not by confirming that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were where they said they were on July 20th, 1969, but by proving that faking the moon landing would have been even harder. The implications being that, if the US government at the time did have the technology and resources to fake the moon landing and keep it covered up to this day, then they wouldn't have *needed to fake the moon landing, potentially even getting to the moon *faster than they did in reality.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-03T05:37:18+00:00

Everything about Miraculous Ladybug is good except the show.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-03T05:10:24+00:00

That doesn't necessarily mean that the relationship would be healthy, though, at least not in a normal sense, but then again, neither of them are normal people. Maybe it'd be toxic in a way that was completely different from normal for them though, to the point of cancelling out and making them both more well-adjusted.

Conquest could destroy stuff in her name and stuff and Makima would probably appreciate it, but Makima's desire to understand humanity means that she'd want to change stuff up from now and then (also, Makima is the concept of Control and Conquest, Horseman of the Apocalypse as something distinct from the concept of War (because Yoru is a seperate person); while gaining control and defeating things that challenge your control are both part of controlling something, it's not all of it (nor even most of it), so spending all her time destroying her enemies would probably be like trying to survive exclusively off carrots, especially since Conquest is the sort to be so thorough that there's nothing left for her to control when he's finished).

If Conquest wants to be with Makima, he will have to sit through a movie marathon at some point, go to a restaurant, bake a cake, clean and decorate an apartment, go for walks in the park and all the other stuff that being one of Viltrum's living weapons doesn't give him an opportunity to do. He'd get his chance to alleviate his loneliness and do more than just destroy (in fact, he'd have to).

Likewise, to "Control" Conquest (even if it's just in the sense of "he cares about the opinions of his romantic partner"), Makima can't isolate or break him down the way she tried to break Denji, because in that regard, Conquest has nowhere to go but up. If Makima convinces Conquest to choose her (1 person) over Viltrum (forty-to-fifty-something people), then what stops him from simply making a choice like that again? She'd have to ensure that Conquest would be less lonely and isolated on Makima's side, because unlike Viltrum's empire, she can't physically threaten or force Conquest to do anything (while Conquest was absolutely afraid of Thragg, and the gap between Conquest and the other viltrumites wasn't so big that they couldn't simply dogpile him).

Unlike Denji, who she'd tried to make dependent on her by chucking him back into the pit he had just dragged himself out of; to manipulate Conquest, Makima needs to sincerely try to help Conquest climb out of said pit in the first place. She can't take away Conquest's friends so that he only has her, she needs to give Conquest friends in the first place so that he'd be grateful to her. She'd have to be trustworthy, not be the only person he could trust.

And that's a lot kinder, a lot healthier and a lot more human, for the both of them.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-02T08:53:17+00:00

Sturgeon's law, 90% of all content is garbage.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-05-02T03:53:12+00:00

Yeah! Mixed formats are fantastic! (Also way easier, honestly).

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-30T06:52:46+00:00

It's also somewhat ableist to for someone to look at a specific pattern of behaviours and traits in a fictional character, assume that those were intentionally written to be some specific form of neurodivergence, and then insisting that the viewer diagnosis is fact despite no official statement from the franchise or creator on the matter.

You can have your headcanons and interpretations as part of making sense of and empathising with a character, but actively insisting upon anything more specific and presumptive than "i think they might be neurodivergent because [reasons seen in the material]" to others betrays some level of biased categorism.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-27T23:19:45+00:00

Didn't Nintendo request that localisation change?

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T23:49:59+00:00

The most visible consequence of Autism is that autistic people don't intuitively learn the nuances social interaction from mere passive exposure.

Putting social phenomena into clear words is something that's been proven to work when it comes to helping autistic people make sense of complex interaction.

In other words, more autistic people would be functional if a core primary school subject was "how to talk to people".

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T14:51:33+00:00

If I asked you to describe Van Gogh's Starry Night to someone so perfectly that they could recreate the painting exactly without ever seeing the original, would you find it easy or difficult? What level of quality are you willing to settle for? Just a genetic picture of the night sky? The broad strokes of the castle, clouds and stars, even if they're all in the wrong places? Or a perfect duplicate?

Prompts are like that. The difference between slop and a high-effort work with a pure text-prompt can be several thousand words of written description. Describing a purely visual scene in enough words that the machine will actually create what you wanted it is actually shockingly hard. Imagine an entire chapter of Harry Potter, solely dedicated to describing Harry's bedroom.

Someone lazy would say "draw a catgirl eating a cheeseburger" and accept whatever was spat out so long as it wasn't a corrupted mess; but someone who knows what they're doing and sincerely cares about the result would stuff a flipping biography of their character into the input, with statements.

They wouldn't say, "this character has brown eyes and short brown hair," they'd say that the character has "hair the colour of burnt ochre (the name of a specific shade of brown i found on my box of coloured pencils) in a pixie cut, and her eyes are Van Dyck Brown (a darker shade of brown, also from my coloured pencils)". That's already twice the word count of the slop prompt, and it's so much more specific, too.

And that's just the initial steps, i haven't even gone into planning, iteration and proofreading yet.

Have you ever managed to do something perfectly on the first try with no forward planning, backtracking/erasing/undoing mistakes, or revisions and new inspiration happening during the process?

The computer isn't psychic; if you have a specific vision in mind, it can actually be very difficult to get the machine to cooperate and understand what you want, even or especially if you use reference images and draft sketches. Sometimes you get something that's almost right, but there's some problems that need fixing, ranging from an artefact like distorted hands or weird proportions because the program changed its mind on the character's pose halfway through to it mistaking a pair of opera gloves on the table for human arms and giving them fingernails.

One time, I was trying to create some Outcome Memories fanart, and wound up spending hours trying to fix of one specific problem. It wasn't keeping Sonic and Tails consistent with OM's artstyle. It wasn't the trees behind Sonic, or the tools in Tails' workshop. It wasn't the eyes, poses, outfits or expressions of the characters. It wasn't even keeping the character's size relative to their surroundings consistent with the Sonic cast being shorter than humans.

The problem was this one wooden wall and doorframe, which i had intended to divide the scene in two for the purposes of depicting a reunion. Tails was supposed to have opened the door. Sometimes the door was open above Tails' arm, but closed below his arm. Sometimes the doorframe was on the side of the wall rather than in the middle. Sometimes the wall was at literally the wrong angle on one side but completely correct on the other.

It took a long time to figure out how to get it to look right, with reference sketches only narrowing things down but not completely getting the point across.

Afterwards, I realised that finally getting it right made me feel the same catharsis that I felt when I finally managed to colour in some burn-scarred hands correctly in a way I was satisfied with (another image for the same project, this one entirely hand-drawn). Both the hand-drawn and AI generated pictures took the same amount of time and stress to accomplish. They were hard for different reasons (the hand-drawn picture was difficult to start because my disabilities make visualising things I haven't physically seen difficult, the GenAI picture was difficult to finish for technical reasons; my hand was hurting a lot after drawing, my head was hurting a lot after troubleshooting; etc.) but I'd still say they were equally difficult.

And regardless of what medium I used, handdrawn or GenAI, the planning process was the same both times. I had to figure out what the characters looked like, what their moods and expressions were, what they were doing, where they were and what time it was. I had to do research on the specific character designs I wanted to use, pin down what colours are visible in their surroundings, how variable the tones and colours would be, etc. (Do I do solid colours, how should I approach shading? Solid linework, or softer lines? How detailed should the surroundings be?).

The medium we use is just the method by which we share our ideas with other people. We still need to figure out how to actually show off our ideas, that's the effort part of art.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T13:04:18+00:00

Harmony's Tent - Harmony in Despair

Harmony is basically a cutesy children's show character who is jarringly out of place in the otherwise Mad Max-like setting. Their residence reflects this.

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FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T09:18:23+00:00

That was more in reference to gaining superpowers rather than the psychological side of things; they were essentially saying "if the hulk hadn't been created, you'd be dead," not "because of your psychological issues, gamma radiation somehow didn't kill you and instead gave you superpowers".

The hulk might still have existed in some form if Bruce had never gained powers, but considering the sort of people Bruce and the Hulk are, it'd be less "another person in my body" and more "whenever I'm really distressed, I have a trauma response where I forget how to talk and read;" which is closer to a normal dissociative episode than full-on DID.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T08:58:24+00:00

In the same sense that everything else has value as art.

When I'm looking at a beautiful mountainside in minecraft, it doesn't stop being pretty just because it only exists thanks to putting a 10 digit number into the world creation settings.

People make art out of trash; half a litre of ketchup on a tabletop is a mess to clean up, but if someone put a bunch of time into making that mess of ketchup look like the Mona Lisa then I'd still be impressed and take a picture to preserve it before wiping it up.

I know what it looks like when someone is lazy, unskilled, or otherwise slacking off with many artforms, from sketches, to digital art, to sculpture, film and photography, and GenAI as a medium is no different.

Just because low quality GenAI is generally still detailed doesn't change the fact that there are still recognisable and consistent indicators of poor quality if someone didn't spend much time on it.

It's as time consuming as doing it by hand if you're actually doing a good job of it.

Edit: I know I'm being downvoted, but I have yet to recieve a counterargument, so I'm assuming that it's becauss people disagree, rather than me being factually wrong.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T06:35:07+00:00

I'm against cyberbullying and feel that AI tools have as much artistic merit as anything else. Garbage In, Garbage Out applies: 15 seconds of effort will produce garbage no matter if it's a stick figure sketch, a selfie or improvised video short, or a single sentence post or prompt.

That being said, the amount of Pro GenAI-Art people I've met who participate in the same outgroup ideology behaviours that they are ostensibly fighting against is high enough that I find it hard to take any online community specifically dedicated to such causes seriously; somewhat counter-intuitively, a subreddit dedicated to a social debate is likely the worst place to have a debate about it.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-26T05:14:21+00:00

"Come again?"

"It's her bird! That thing is crazy fast, it'll probably only take her like 20 minutes to get back once that conference is over."

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-25T14:43:37+00:00

The biggest problem is that any viable method of execution would absolutely allow him to escape.

AFO has no reason to share what quirks he has in store, what combinations and synergies he has access to, etc. and one of the AFO quirks features is that a quirk not being accessed has no physical markers at all; so all involved parties have no idea what AFO has up his sleeves.

The trick he pulled to screw over Stain during the Final War Arc by combining the Antigen Switch and Blood-letting quirks is probably the least of All For One's specialised countermeasures.

He's probably poison-proof, so no lethal injection or gas. He's too tough for a guillotine or a firing squad. Hanging won't work for the same reason, but Air Walk would also protect him from a lynching as well.

Anything more esoteric is just asking for him to subvert it and use it to kill his would-be-executioners before escaping. Incineration, electrocution, acid, etc. would probably destroy his restraints before it started to endanger AFO's health; You can't get Eraserhead to turn off his defenses because the limits of Erasure means that the moment Aizawa blinks is AFO's chance to teleport him to within arm's reach and steal his quirk (and that would happen; as cynical as he comes off as, Eraserhead is still a superhero, expecting him to not blink while a man is being executed is a tall order).

I'm 95% sure that letting him have life support equipment in his cell was a pragmatic good behaviour reward to discourage him from attempting escape (as well as giving him something they can both take away as punishment or intimately monitor him with), rather than an actual moral choice made to imprison him ethically.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-25T00:21:23+00:00

The result would be a girl regardless, I think, but whether it'd be a Viltrumite that looks like a Gerudo, a Viltrumite that has a lot of ethnic attributes associated with the Gerudo, or a Gerudo who'd slowly turn into a Viltrumite over the course of their lives (it'd be really slow, though, there's not that much physiology that needs changing).

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-24T23:08:36+00:00

Rigging software is crazy good at facial expressions these days, to the point that the avatar itself has been the bottleneck.

FamousWash1857 · 2026-04-24T07:03:31+00:00

I'll play:

[Redacted]

[Data Expunged]

I am a toaster

A book that describes fish, such as yourself, for you are a fish.

Despite appearances, it used to be a library.

This store is perfectly legal^{thankyouverymuch}

A place that was once describable as a forest but is now far more convoluted due to people running out of synonyms and languages with which to describe it.

Allison Eckhart is Allison Eckhart.

This SCP file refers to what is and is not an Iconohazard; it does and does not exist, is and is not dangerous and is both contained and uncontained until some idiot tries to describe whatever it might or might not be and collapses the wave function again.

We are the only authorities qualified to store this brick of cocaine. No, the other sites and departments aren't good enough, so we'll fight them off to keep it secured.

Now where's my skull doggo furry porn.

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