I feel like this is something I’d hear discussed on the Park After Dark podcast (Trailer Park Boys thing, now with 100% less Bubbles for obvious reasons)

Just when I thought I was done with it forever, back to topics in Digital Humanities I go. Surely differences in generational attitudes towards AI art is something someone in a DH department has been diving deep on these days…

‘Ordinary’ is doing a lot of work here. I can think of a lot of ordinary people I’ve met who hate AI art. Seems more accurate to say that not everyone is put off by it.

Does seem to be a generational element though, with older generations not caring as much. Case in point is one of the pinball places here. The owner’s been an AI art enthusiast for a while, younger folks hate it to the point that they’ll actively avoid the place, the older ‘I was a pinball wizard in the 80s’ crowd don’t seem as bothered.

My father referred to me as ‘almost 40’ the other day, which I deemed rude so I called him ‘almost 60’, which he also deemed rude.

How I do it: Make text, create a new background layer, make the same text but slightly bigger in the colour you want your outline to be, align background text as needed. Save as .png and import into new image if you’re looking to add the outlined text to somewhere else (though I suppose you can just merge layers, I do my crap in fits and spurts so I often prefer having the little pieces as discrete files so it’s easier to come back to it. Also I’ve fucked up and merged when I probably shouldn’t have a LOT).

Takes some futzing about for sure but that’s part of the fun for me.

Edit: Super shitty outline done just by doing the same font size bolded in black. Can obviously be done much better but you’ll get the idea.

It’s the reason that while Joe Flaherty is a legend in his own right, the first thing to comes to mind when I hear his name is this:

Massive Beatles fan, Moody Blues, Beck, Nirvana are the ones that stand out. Both children absorbed the first and last ones. Lots of others that got tuned out during my teenaged years.

But he’s still a casual seeker of music via radio, so there was a period where he got really into Chaise Longue by Wet Leg.

Call me selfish, but I’d go back two weeks and salt the walkway for sick Cracks and company.

Was a very Life is Strange-esque, ‘this action will have consequences’ branching path event.

sad OSCAR noises

Oh shit, I guess that wasn’t a microdose…

Oh shit, I guess that wasn’t a microdose…

Fuck yeah, Pocket Paint gang.

I’d say a script-kiddie can modify a script, but only if there’s some resource that says ‘change this part to do x’. They don’t understand why that change does what it does, though, or how to troubleshoot if it doesn’t actually do the thing.

Signed: config file kiddie - I just do what youtube or forum denizens tell me to do until it works. Imagine there’s script-kiddies out there that do something similar.

Not quite the same, but a recent idea that’s been stuck in my craw is ordering a bunch of cheap credit card style mp3 players* and loading them up with local artist tracks to share with interested people. Maybe with some weird/fun stuff saved to memory if anyone connects it to a computer (though noted this would be a piss poor security practice)

*Something like this:

For folks waking up to a weird morning: “I’m pulling for ya; We’re all in this together.”

It almost always comes down to set and setting, imo. You (mostly) get out what you put in.

Don’t get me wrong, it can also just be a fun time, but even that should be approached carefully and with some respect to the substance (most of the stories I’ve heard where someone gets psychically bitch-slapped is when they start getting a little frivolous in their approach. SWIM told me about that once…)

Edit: Also noted they’re not useful/good for everyone and that’s ok - important to know, even.

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Even more out of context, it’s a horrific way to treat the corpse of a rock and roll legend.

Before Christmas occurs, I must listen to this several times.

It’s not only a tradition, it’s the law in Canada. If you don’t any presents will be forcibly confiscated the day after Christmas. Some people try to fight this, which is why it’s called Boxing Day.