• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    wtf is going on with his feet

    (he said, already knowing the answer)

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        11 days ago

        I just assumed they were thongs.

        american translation: i just asumed they where fIip fIops

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      12 days ago

      it’s amazing how that isn’t even what tipped me off, it just vaguely looks like AI, which is a tad strange for such a simple style

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        12 days ago

        AI seems to really love that extreme high contrast side-lighting on everything. Then the text itself is irregular in a very non-human kind of way, like there’s no natural processes that would result in an ‘E’ like the one in ‘BECAUSE’.

        Then you’ve got the person’s face, which if it were drawn by an artist of the skill level we’d expect from the rest of the piece, one would imagine they’d do a better job of conveying some sort of personality or emotion.

        AI Art is fundamentally antisocial because it’s the Art equivalent of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle; it took less effort for OP to create that than it did to pick apart exactly why it feels so unsatisfying and unsettling in all the wrong ways. Always downvote AI Art.

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        11 days ago

        I did suspect it, but what confirmed was the not-really-crossed legs. I do not think anyone would draw that this way. The fingers are also weird. Humans would draw them too straigtt rather than too wavy.

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    13 days ago

    Ah, what a marvelous idea, we should look to the present!

    [reads the news]

    Hm. I think I may have noticed a problem with this theory.

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    12 days ago

    People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.

    Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.

    And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.

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    13 days ago

    It is quite logical to search for something in the place where it might be (future) and not in the place where it obviously isn’t (present).

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      13 days ago

      Searching for something in a place you’ll never reach is about as useless. By the time you reach it, it’s no longer called the future. All there is is the here and now. It’s ever changing and infinite, so keep looking.

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      12 days ago

      The future is just a moment of now shifted forward. Anything you will find then you can find now.

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    13 days ago

    The idea is good enough that it would’ve deserved at least some effort in the final execution.

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    12 days ago

    The top 5 regrets from people that are about to die. Stop worrying and just touch the grass.

    Not having the courage to live a life true to oneself, instead of the life others expected.

    Working too hard and missing out on life.

    Not expressing feelings.

    Not staying in touch with friends.

    Not allowing oneself to be happier.

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      Because capitalism (and religion before it) told us it would come in the future. As long as we worked as hard as possible in the present.

      In the case of religion, this was after you died, until people figured out it was a little too convenient, a little too much of a blank cheque that leaves very little room for recourse if it doesn’t turn out as advertised.

      In capitalism, “defferred gratification” is sold as a virtue, a sign of good moral character, you are made responsible for your own happiness in a way that requires continual vigilence.

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    12 days ago

    Eugh.

    If you have enough money to not worry about your next month’s rent, it’s rather easier to “live in the present”.

    This feels like a live laugh love vibe, no offense. I’m not just at a place to accept this… uh, “wisdom.”

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    13 days ago

    Honestly, if I wheren’t addicted to Lemmy or Reddit, I would have a pretty decent life.

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    12 days ago

    I looked at this with suspicion, decided it wasn’t AI, then I went into the comments and got convinced otherwise. It’s scary.