Catonator

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I have the C++03 and ModPlug brainrot. One half of @distantillusions.com Mail: contact@catonator.net Profile picture by Masked Golem Finnish/English

A CD copy of Angine de Poitrine's second album
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[Interlude] If you don't like my arrogance, you can suck my socks
So much of the fervor on AI just stems on a fundamental misunderstanding of what creativity even is. Creativity isn't as much an artist thinking of Cool Thing™ and putting it onto a paper, which now has Cool Thing™. It's trying to find a way to satisfy a nebulous, hazy thing at the back of your head. It's not quite an idea, it's not really even a direction, it's a very abstract feeling. Sometimes the ideas you get and sketch out are completely contrary to that feeling. Sometimes the feeling shifts. The only way to actually solidify that feeling into a concrete idea is to sketch out idea after idea in a rough form until you land on something and the pieces click together. Have you ever had one of those cases where you have a concept or word on the tip of your tongue, but you can't quite grasp it? And then you try to explain it to others and they go "is it this? or this? or is it this?" and none of it is what you want, and you completely lose sight of what you were looking for in the first place? That's kinda like what using AI feels like to me. You'll get a result wholesale, but it doesn't connect in your head since you haven't poured any effort into solidifying it, and as a result it makes the nebulous feeling in your head even more vague and confused. It makes you second guess yourself, "is this really what I wanted? Does what I want even make any sense?" It prevents the big picture from clicking, and just makes it harder to formulate the whole to make a satisfying result. Concepting and creativity isn't a matter of just building guidelines to other developers who do the level art or whatever, it's also a share commitment to convincing each other that, yeah, this is what we all want. This is what feels right. It's a lot of layers of doing something crappily so that you or someone else can go "oh yeah, I see what you're going for, but what if we did THIS?"
"is the n64 controller's joystick appendage a penis?" yes. the answer is yes. this image proves it. (it shows a man made of an n64 controller with the joystick appendage as his penis)
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A hatsune miku snow statue in Yakuza 5 (2012)