Seems more niche than the ai argument but idk it’s clearly something that happens often enough to you to bother you so go off monarch

Why bring in the plant thing? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about that. The ai death cult thing sure, but the plant thing I haven’t even seen before. Seems weird.

I think deer cameras are cheap?

My city’s basic help line has some classical music that sounds slightly sad but also like you’re going on an important quest and that really captures the mood of being on hold but making it feel epic.

Alternatively I would go with one of these bangers, they are great to put on in the background of a party

I read it was too make a sterile environment for the micro abrasions from flossing and brushing but idk I’m not a mouth scientist.

The source of my existential crisis

Ohio has that

If AI is so smart how come it can’t figure out how to run without a shit tonne of water and generating all that noise?

I started looking up basic stuff after I saw a video of that guy who would shit in his hand in the bathroom and thought that was normal.

Turns out I was brushing my teeth backwards, you’re supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don’t spit.

Well when you are in an apocalyptic ai come and want to make a machine good to do everything for you, of course you think it’s selfish for people to not make the machine God.

What a shit take. People interact with art way more in person than you’re giving credit for. Plus there’s entire art mediums that can’t be experienced digitally. Ceramics, fiber arts, sewing, fireworks, cooking, just off the top of my head. Seeing a painting IRL is a very different experience than online. Reading a physical book even hits different.

And again, the point isn’t the end result. The point is making it. If people didn’t want to make art there would be no craft supply stores, no one would buy instruments and learn to play, people wouldn’t bother.

Saying “oh we should give up” is ignoring that people want to make and decorate stuff.

You know a lot of art isn’t digital, right?

This is different from what a lot of people have posted, but if you want spooky ambiance, kinda lofi trip hop but with horror elements, this is one of my favorite channels Ill Advised Records

Also I like to put on just haunted house special effect soundtracks myself like this

How’s this a Halloween song?

Kinda shitty of you to be that dismissive over pixel art. That’s something that still involves choices.

Ai still can’t replicate things perfectly, people can spot it.

And they don’t like it.

The point isn’t to have an image made, the point is to make something, which I feel some people don’t get

Bugs Bunny changed so much of the world you have no idea. Changed the diet of rabbits because he was making fun of a celebrity. Changed an obscure biblical character into a name for an idiot.

Dr Seuss changed the English language almost as much as Shakespeare.

Also, Shakespeare.

BioShock Infinite accidentally, and indirectly, caused a massive advancement in the animation industry.

Kung Fu Panda changed China’s movie industry.

With Pollock, he was exploring the process. The end result looks like splatters but it’s actually really hard to make a fake. Also sometimes those splatters are because he was doing shit like throwing the paint into a jet engine, which is cool.

Andy Warhol can fuck himself, his whole gimmick was people will buy the dumbest stuff if you call it art, the whole thing was a gaff and a grift at the same time and everyone knew it but bought into it anyway.

However they are both superior to slop makers. Because art is about choice. Each color splatted onto a canvas and each color chosen to repeat on a silkscreen by those two was a choice they made. Bots don’t make those choices, it’s just stolen pictures turned to static turned to numbers and then covering words into numbers into static into an image. The prompter doesn’t make a choice about the image and neither does the bot.

I wouldn’t even care if it wasn’t Rob Ross and was just some rando, I’d have the same reaction.

That timeframe is a much larger cultural gap than what I was depicting, but regardless, it was not meant to imply that other countries remain stagnant.

Someone who’s family came from India two generations ago might still identify as Indian even though they never have been there, for example.

History.

No really looking at all the crazy stuff that happened in the past, you realize these aren’t unprecedented times, at least as far as tragedy goes, but the truly unprecedented part is how much less shitty things are in comparison. Not even with technology but with social progress.

It doesn’t feel like it but when you think that within the lifetime of people alive we had segregated bathrooms and pools and that seems insane now, that’s at least some hope.