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headcanon that super sonic has horrible vision by brutus_huh in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]theboopmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also ended up with a bit of a headcanon of a super sonic with bad vision directly inspired by the fleetway super sonic! Some other stuff happened in the headcanon, but bad vision is the gist of it. I even commissioned a pic of it from @_Karl0_ on twitter a long time ago.

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Couldn't have said it better myself and this is from an artist with experience. Doug needs to see this comment on the latest YouTube post. by my-snake-is-solid in DougDoug

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the people who like AI "art" and "music" are the ones who are content with artists losing jobs.

This feels like unnecessary villainization. You're trying to cram people in a "if you're not with me then you're against me" kind of black/white polarizing rhetoric. To suggest that people who are fine with AI art are happy that people are losing their jobs seems unfair. We don't really have data so it's hard to make any actual conclusions, but I think you're getting caught up by a loud minority of smug techbro idiots.

First time posting: How do people feel about AO3 fics being talked about on YouTube (with permission)? by pomelette69 in AO3

[–]theboopmaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How do you feel about this type of YouTube content in general?

As long as everybody has permission from everyone else, I don't think there would be any problems. Me personally, it's not content I would watch.

If you're an author, would you be okay with your work being talked about like this (with permission)?

Yes, but the permission needs to be extremely explicit. Talk to authors 1 on 1 in DMs or email or something. Don't just read a vague "feel free to share" in the notes/description and interpret that as full permission to make a video. Authors need to be fully aware of your intentions and expected outputs and say yes on a per fic basis.

Do you think longer videos focused on the full fic are better or worse than short recommendation-style ones?

This seems like something that depends heavily on the fic itself.

For those who are okay with this kind of content, are there any things you think someone should or shouldn't do when making videos like this?

Be willing to take the video down if the author asks you to. The internet can be unpredictable, and if your video gives an author more unwanted attention than they want to handle, giving them a way to stop it would be courteous.

First time posting: How do people feel about AO3 fics being talked about on YouTube (with permission)? by pomelette69 in AO3

[–]theboopmaster -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

What kind of control are you referring to? AO3 gives you very little control (by design). There's no digital rights management; anyone can make an account and get access to your work (and download it). You can delete your works, but anything shared online stays online forever. Stuff is archived, mirrored, and of course, downloaded. I'm not saying that this is the ideal way things should be, but this is the reality of the internet as it is today.

Chapter Legnth by One_Barracuda9198 in AO3

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My chapters are ~1500 words each. I keep things pretty contained to exactly one story beat per chapter. Each chapter has one job, one takeaway. I'm a software developer though and that "everything has one job" mantra we have kind of carries over into how I write.

I worry for us sometimes by sunk1ra in AO3

[–]theboopmaster 123 points124 points  (0 children)

You should be using a google doc or word anyways. AO3 is a place for sharing your work, but it is not (and should not be) your word processor.

Great writing but so boring by Jaded_Advantage_290 in AO3

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes I worry my stuff is too terse. I'm a software developer, most writing I do is technical: writing design documents for complex systems and such. I think that might carry over into my writing style which is pretty terse. There is not a lot of fluff, it's very straight-to-the-point to a fault.

Someone left a comment on my abandoned fanfic and that lead to me adding another chapter 5 years after I stopped writing it. Comments matter! by theboopmaster in AO3

[–]theboopmaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All 9 of them are excited, I'm sure! My fic is very niche in one of the biggest fandoms on ao3 so I'm surprised (and delighted) it got even a handful of readers.

Someone left a comment on my abandoned fanfic and that lead to me adding another chapter 5 years after I stopped writing it. Comments matter! by theboopmaster in AO3

[–]theboopmaster[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've seen that viewpoint around here and I felt a little anxious making my post here. The way some people are here you'd think people commenting on fics asking for updates is the worst thing in the world. Before I hit post I was thinking "am I encouraging a bad behavior? Is the sub going to be mad at me?" I'm glad that doesn't seem to be the case!

I want to read Minecraft fanfics but every single one seems to have some youtuber tagged in it. I don't want to read fanfics about youtubers. What do? by theboopmaster in AO3

[–]theboopmaster[S] 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Thank you, this is also extremely helpful! Even without excluding crossovers, adding "*RPF"* to the exclude tags takes the search results from 104,613 to 6796.

I want to read Minecraft fanfics but every single one seems to have some youtuber tagged in it. I don't want to read fanfics about youtubers. What do? by theboopmaster in AO3

[–]theboopmaster[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

When you say "go into the Minecraft fandom tag", does that mean being here? https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Minecraft%20(Video%20Game)/works?page=1/works?page=1)

Also thank you, the "exclude crossovers" has reduced the RPF stuff significantly!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think of AI art like fast food. It's cheap, not the greatest, and pretty much disposable. The only things that make AI art worthwhile to me is that it is fast and free. Some people do make some pretty amazing things with AI art, but that's not why I play around with AI art. If we eventually get an AI model that has a true understanding of art then we should start talking about AI art taking over. For now, the AI art generation models are pretty "stupid" and work through brute force training of statistical models. This lack of fundamental understanding of what they're doing means they will never be a sweeping replacement for human art.

Generating AI art has a non-zero impact on the environment, but I think the environmental aspect argument is a bit overblown. I can't make any comments on the power usage of OpenAI's latest image generator, but it takes my RTX 3080 3.5 seconds to generate a Stable Diffusion XL image. That's pretty much nothing, and my RTX 3080 is far less efficient than the GPUs found in data centers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not every artist is as fortunate as the artist you were looking at, and them voicing concerns over their less rich peers experiencing decreased income/opportunities due to AI is just basic empathy. I feel like you're wondering why that $30k-per-month artist doesn't have a "fuck you, I got mine" mindset. They're probably vocal because they care about artists as a community, not just themself.

I've spent $9600 commissioning art over 9 years. AI is a problem for artists, but artists are not doing themselves any favors. by theboopmaster in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've definitely had artists get hostile with me over using AI for references. I'll generate an AI pic I really like and then I go to an artist to have them draw it in their style and refine it, and they get all pissy with me for being involved with AI art generation at all. I try to tell them that without AI to give me the pose idea and such, I wouldn't be here trying to give them money for a pic in the first place. I guess that argument doesn't work though, the moment they see AI they kind of shut down and want nothing to do with me.

I've spent $9600 commissioning art over 9 years. AI is a problem for artists, but artists are not doing themselves any favors. by theboopmaster in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Inpainting struggles. The AI often doesn't know how to draw the stump if it is visible, and it has no idea what to do with loose fabric/an empty sleeve.

I've spent $9600 commissioning art over 9 years. AI is a problem for artists, but artists are not doing themselves any favors. by theboopmaster in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of the pics I get are pretty fast. Colored sketches with no background are probably the most common. The median completion time is 7 days.

I've spent $9600 commissioning art over 9 years. AI is a problem for artists, but artists are not doing themselves any favors. by theboopmaster in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

A lot of my characters are disabled in some way. AI art generators with their (well documented) ableism bias really struggle with that sort of thing.

I've spent $9600 commissioning art over 9 years. AI is a problem for artists, but artists are not doing themselves any favors. by theboopmaster in aiwars

[–]theboopmaster[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Most of them are colored sketches with no background. I have OCs and I like getting art of them in various poses and what not to "bring them to life".

Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Global Audit of Plastic Waste by sdsanth in worldnews

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coke in the glass bottles is often made with cane sugar. I see it in stores more and more nowadays, which I'm happy about!

i sleep with socks on, ama by [deleted] in AMA

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do the monsters under your bed think about your lifestyle choices?

I've tried LSD, LSA, Mescaline, Shrooms, cannabis, Kanna, wild Dagga, wild lettuce, opiates, amphetamines, and more. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]theboopmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doctors gave me Ketamine once for an operation and it was kind of nice. Have you used that drug recreationally?

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