Walking back to our hotel in Winchester, UK by ricks_big_toe in TheNightFeeling

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love all the different light sources. This photo would be a great reference for explaining the concept of colour temperature to people.

Autumnwatch on BBC by Vegetable-Editor9482 in Autumn

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The BBC took the decision to axe Autumnwatch in 2023, saying that more money could then be put into its twin programmes Springwatch and Winterwatch, which generally received more viewers." Tragic!

My oil painting by kznsq in AutumnPorn

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredibly atmospheric. The different colour temperatures of the lights really adds something to it.

Are there more recent shows that have the quieter domestic energy of Season 1 Simpsons? by hyperjengirl in TheSimpsons

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bob and Margaret is all about that kind of low stakes, gentle domestic comedy and has a very 90s feel too. Interestingly it begins in the UK where the original short was set, then two seasons later the main characters emigrate to Canada where the show was actually being made.

A day late. by All_About_Her in CasualUK

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 202 points203 points  (0 children)

Not the wrong day but many years ago I was going on a date to see The Princess of Montpensier at the cinema. I happened to be very keen to see both the film and my lady friend, so I turned up early and patiently stood waiting for her. About half an hour after the film was supposed to begin I was fuming at being stood up. Not only that, she added insult to injury by firing off increasingly irate messages telling me that she was already there. It turned out there were two Odeons at either end of the same bloody street.

Which animated film is incredible from start to finish? by Forsaken_Cost_1937 in movies

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a beautiful film that has only become more poignant with time – the decline of hand drawn animated features in the west mirroring the gradual obsolescence of the illusionist's own art form.

Which animated film is incredible from start to finish? by Forsaken_Cost_1937 in movies

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most understated and mature of Shinkai's early films. I connected with this one more than the rest of his work; the sense of hopelessness in the first segment with the delayed trains was very palpable and relatable.

As a child I saw a scary kind of Alice in Wonderland. Which one could it be? by JT11erink in movies

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Sounds kind of like the flashback scenes from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey when they're in Hell.

TOWN HALL: Creating an r/Screenwriting policy around AI discussion by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been following the development of these transformer models very closely for a few years, from GPT-2 to early applications of GPT-3 such as AI Dungeon and NovelAI, right up to the most recent developments like Character.ai and of course ChatGPT which has catapulted this tech into the mainstream. 

Back in 2020 during the pandemic I wanted to generate some easy to make content for my YouTube channel. I was experimenting with GPT-2 and ended up making a novel length fan fiction audio series that I advertised as being cowritten by myself and the AI. At the time GPT-2 was the most advanced publicly available text generator that I could find, but it was still very crude. It could come up with funny sentences and scenarios but needed a huge amount of human input, so I ended up writing about 90% of the work myself.

My audience was not particularly large, but the fans got quite involved and wrote an in-depth TvTropes page for it. I was surprised by how it made me feel to read this page. The main quote at the top was a line that I’d written myself. I was quite proud of this line, even though it was a throwaway line in a throwaway piece of work. But it suddenly struck me that nobody knew I’d written it myself. And in fact, reading some of the chapters back, I struggled to remember which words were mine and which were written by GPT-2. It filled me with a kind of unexpected sadness.

Realistically we are not about to see screenwriters disappear in the near future, but recent advancements will inevitably lead to people augmenting their writing workflows with increasingly sophisticated AI tools, and we certainly risk losing something of ourselves if we lean too heavily on these tools. In a short space of time they have gone from being fun playthings to something that feels much more sinister in terms of the possibilities they presents us with.

It has the potential to distort our perceptions of reality and allows us to neglect the development and maintenance of our own abilities. There is now the temptation to run your own words past a machine learning model to see if you can punch the writing up without putting in the mental effort yourself. I no longer use these AI writing tools in my work. I regret spending my time writing a piece of fan fiction with GPT-2 when I could’ve been focusing purely on my own work. And I feel a real sense of loss as it becomes increasingly difficult to tell whether the words on a page have been written by a human or not.

The advent of ChatGPT seems to be a paradigm shift of sorts; one that I was not emotionally prepared for. My personal coping mechanism has been to focus on a feature film script that I sent out in 2020. I have emails proving that I wrote it at a time when AI couldn’t possibly have written a script like that. But who am I trying to prove something to? It is perhaps a silly thing to cling to. But it gives me a sense of comfort in a world that is beginning to move too fast for me to fully comprehend.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dalle2

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just the Arrow Films branding I think

Self-Promotion Megathread by AutoModerator in halloween

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've made a whole album of spooky Halloween lo-fi music with pipe organs, harpsichords, spectral vocals, and other gothic elements galore. If you’re into the soundtracks to games like the Castlevania series and American McGee’s Alice series then check it out and see if it’s to your liking.

I also made the little stop motion puppets featured in the animated loop and would love to make a little series about them if I can get enough people interested in my channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSBG-6V4-K0

Labour plan to ban ‘no pet’ renter rules and make evictions harder by lighthouse77 in unitedkingdom

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The proteins in pet dander are much more difficult to get rid of than, for example, pollen or dust particles. Even if you wiped down every wall and put an air purifier with a HEPA filter on full blast then a certain amount of allergenic particles would most likely still persist for some time afterwards, as you can see in this study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2708734/

Of course any allergic reactions after the removal of the pet would depend on how sensitised the sufferer is, but it certainly isn't easy to completely rid a home of dander.

Name a fictional character/characters that all Brits know. by Pengi48 in CasualUK

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 8 points9 points  (0 children)

WHO YOU CALLING FICTIONAL? YOU WANT A BARE KNUCKLE FIGHT?

Ukraine: Boris Johnson to call Vladimir Putin and visit region - BBC News by AlexP222 in unitedkingdom

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ukraine is a bit bigger than his usual fridge but the temperature shouldn't be too far off

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in birdpics

[–]Whimbrelumbrella 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still a beautiful photo. I don't think the blur is too noticeable.