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@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Trump paying the two pornstars hush money isn’t what he’s charged with.

It’s doing so during an election campaign through a proxy and not declaring the expense.

Man, Freedom Planet 2 has some really cool character designs. They’re all varied and unique amongst each other, and with a few exceptions, you can easily recognize a specific NPC.

Yep, that’s gotta be the reason why I like them. No ulterior motive whatsoever…

Sounds more like an Abridged!Guru situation, in which while Lord Slug was an antagonist, Guru was stated to be his ‘evil half’

Well I laughed, at least.

@Background Pony #F6E5
@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
@The Smiling Pony
Whenever AaronMK says something, just don’t read it. If you se his avatar, just don’t read the post. I have been doing that ever since he said “death to all rulers,” and it has made the politics thread here so much more bearable.

@Parallel Black
Models may have “all the images possible so far”, but they’re horribly categorized and limited by the language layer.

There may be 20k different images of The Mona Lisa in different styles, in 3D, cropped, different quality, alterations, etc, and most of them will be categorized as just “mona lisa”, when each should have paragraphs of details written out for the model to actually understand a fraction what each really is.

And that’s just for the current type of tech, there will undoubtably been new developments, some that may not even require prior real world training data and can train on its own creations and categorizations iteratively at unthinkable speeds.

As for what I said about “Krita”, it’s a different path entirely where the thing is trained on videos of watching people draw, trying things on its own millions of times, and figuring out how to draw a circle using the same tools humans use. Much like some current robotics, or some game bots have been made for research.

Bill Clinton is trending on Xwatter…

In 1998 Bill Clinton was accused of whipping out his “willy” in front of Paula Jones, obviously not impressed she left the room and sued Clinton and his willy for sexual harassment.

Bill Clinton “settled” the “so-called false claims” by paying her $850K.

That was “Hush” money…

Correct me if I’m wrong here:
From what I’ve heard the quality increase for these models requires an exponentially larger and larger image set, and that we’re pretty much already at the plateau, where all of or most of the content on the internet has already been taken account of. Maybe there’ll be an entirely new method of automatically generating images at some point in the next year or two, but for now, what we have currently is what we’ve got for the foreseeable future, in terms of AI quality.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
You were complaining about a 40% average rate when the top marginal rate (which only applies to the fraction of income of a single taxpayer over $578,125 — $693,751 for married couples filing jointly) stops at 37%. I have no idea what dumbass libertarian “taxation-is-theft”-type source put that figure in your head, but they were either full of shit or just bad at taxes.

No one’s paying 40% of their income in taxes (even the top 0.01% — people making more than a million a year — only pay an average rate of 34.2% over their total income), and certainly not you (a $30k income would put you in the 12% bracket, with an effective rate under 11.5%) so we don’t get what you’re complaining about (if it was solidarity with the people in the top bracket — people who, need I remind you, make at least 20 times as much as you —, it was misplaced since, more often than not, their tax accountants manage to make them pay even less through the creative use of loopholes).

Speaking of taxation, here’s Mark Cuban making it a point of pride of paying his fair share (and taking a potshot at Trump by the way):

@AaronMk
Dude, you’re clearly acting like a jerk and trying sound like you’re the most intelligent person while talking down to Goku Black.

Jeez. Retrain yourself, man.

@Mikey
It will not, I was shocked at having 5+ min load times on an nvme, especially in downtown Boston. I am hoping the next gen update that comes on the 25th will have improved load times. Only guessing here though.

It’s best not talking to someone who doesn’t respect your opinion.

I hate it when people assume shit I didn’t explicitly say.

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Music

Shocking episode and a heel turn from Chad

62148 silly ponies

@Meanlucario
That’s exactly what I’ve said before. The big push for better graphics was never for the benefit of gamers, or if it was, it stopped being about them a long time ago. Now, it’s to wow investors, shareholders, and other people who don’t play video games, whose view of video games is permanently trapped in the days of the Atari 2600 or the NES.

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@AaronMk
What?!

@Ciaran
I’ve seen plenty of artists pushing this sort of thing, but yes obviously not all artists are the same. I just find it interesting that some non-negligible amount of artists do support such a thing.

A veces me da miedo que Chile domine hispanoamerica. Asi que propongo que el liderazgo sea tomado por Peru o México.

Y Argentina sera el segundo al mando, nomas no le den mar a Bolivia, todavia hay que ver quien es confiable.

@Background Pony #52BA
It’s reminiscent of “Gothic Kawaii”, or “Kauai Noir”. Kind of like in pillow books.

Sometimes also called “Pastel Goth” style, or “Yami Kawaii” or “Guro Kawaii.”

It often features oversized eyes, frequently conflicting pastel colors, and implications of illness or injury, or overwhelming internal sadness. It’s sometimes used to explore and express complex emotions or societal issues.

If you haven’t read Junko Mizuno, highly recommended. You’ll never look at some of those big eyes ponies that are being uploaded the same.

Unfortunately, I don’t know a name or term for the eyes themselves. I’ll ask some friends to see if they know.