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Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

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ok so here's the thing

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New Year’s resolution is to post more so I’m gonna start off with critiquing generative AI.

My dad sent me this for new years. Obviously he didn’t know it was Ai and I didn’t immediately know for sure but I got the feeling. The feeling that’s like “hey something is off about this.” I wanted to talk about the process of recognition that I go through as an artist when I see something made by Ai because a lot of the time at first glance nothing seems wrong.

First thing that I notice is how after 2025 there something that is clearly supposed to be an exclamation point but it’s too small and incomplete. This immediately made me realize for sure that it’s Ai. Ai is usually bad at doing text and it would be pretty easy for a human to fix.

Then I see the rest of the inconsistencies. The n in new is disconnected. There is a stray line coming out of the h in happy. Snoopy’s hands: one has a different line weight and the other has a finger that’s way too small. The stray little lines on Snoopy’s mouth. Woodstock only having one eye brow. Then this part is debatable since it is clearly trying to replicate the style of the CGI Peanuts movie, but Snoopy’s eyes being different sizes bothers me. The ear which I didn’t even circle is probably trying to replicate the loosely colored in ears in the comic strip, but in the CGI version it’s fully colored in. The golden firework blending into the top of Snoopy’s hat. Woodstock’s hands. Woodstock’s feet. The blurriness of Snoopy’s foot that isn’t anywhere else. The lines on Snoopy’s foot which doesn’t reach the end. The blurriness at the top of Woodstock’s head.

As an artist in art school we are critiqued on every little detail of our work. These kinds of inconsistencies are not okay for professional artists to make so the idea that companies want to use Ai shows how little they cared about artists in the first place. Any company that uses Ai instead of hiring an artist is clearly is cheap and is making themselves look bad.

I know that Ai can look convincing and pretty at first glance, but I want people to look at artwork for more than a few seconds. With social media everything is so fast paced and we are conditioned to to want instant gratification, so Ai is a quick and easy way to make ‘content.’ But the things that generative Ai makes are low quality and infuriating to see as an artist. I would much rather see someone try to make art as a beginner than see a computer steal art from other people.

So when you share or like something take an extra second to see if it was made by a person because if a person didn’t even care enough to make it it’s not worth your time.

Any other artists feel free to point out anything that I missed.

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Open Hearth Games of the Year 2024

Every year we put together a podcast episode featuring community members picking their favorite ttrpgs from the last twelve months. These aren't necessarily ones published in 2024, but ones they played, read, watched, or otherwise experienced this year.

This episode is one of our largest yet, with 40+ community members submitting and over three dozen different games mentioned. The show notes for the episode have links to most of the ttrpgs mentioned.

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help me and sylvie stay together!

help me and sylvie stay together!

hey guys it's bree, it's my turn to pass the hat around. the deli job i got to make ends meet until i find another clinic position isn't paying the bills, i'm still about $500 short of my December rent and it's almost January. if i don't get this paid down fast, i'm going to lose my aparment, and if i lose my apartment i'm not going to be able to keep my cat. losing my possessions would fucking suck, but having to surrender my cat would be heartbreaking.

i could really use some help! everyone falls on hard circumstances eventually, and now it's my turn. if you can spare anything, just the $5 you might have spent on a treat today, it'll add up fast! if you could give this a share, that would really help me out too! anything more will go to january rent!!!

happy chanukah y'all!

v*nmo: @ B-M-1-178

c@shapp: $hunnybreeze

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The first time you think "I might be a trans man" it's already way too late huh

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Hey if you've ever paid for Discord Nitro they owe you over $750 soon due to a class action lawsuit. Don't let them keep your money keep after this one

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For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and…the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There’s over 100, and they’re not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I’ve found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I’ve ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don’t approve of them and how he’s desperately awaiting the day they’ll be married.

I haven’t found the latest of the letters, but the fact it’s up until 1915 and then stops…doesn’t give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there’s some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can’t wait until they have a little house together and can ‘please each other all day’…

There’s. So many.

I’m going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie’s love story.

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I haven’t kept up with anything about the new nosferatu since it was announced and I can’t tell you the soul crushing disappointment finding out that Queen nepo baby lily rose depp is starring in it

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seasons greasons to everyone

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this post feels like it’s lost some of its original context because I remember reblogging it in 2012 when I didn’t have a smart phone and smart phone ownership was much lower in general. So being on tumblr on Christmas meant being physically at a computer and being visibly unsocial if not completely removed from any festivities. Now everyone’s on social media every day of the year. A true heritage post really

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He turned out to be more weird than I expected

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first thing you should do when you go to your local library is dunk your head in wax