The lighting on the gun is completely mismatched from the image and tipped me off pretty quick.
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swagmoney@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
i see the watermark but is this actually a generated image? I’m normally good at being able to tell. this image feels fine to me though? like the reflections on the light switch cover and on the picture frame feel natural. the keyboard looks correct. i guess the vents on the slightly stubbly crt are a bit wonky and the calendar can’t decide between 1998 and 1958 lol
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
swagmoney@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
is it though? looks like it’s reflecting the camera flash to me
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There’s a friggin’ drop shadow on her arm and the gun as if somebody made this in Microsoft Word. The shadow falling across the corner of the computer tower wouldn’t line up with the part on the wall and bookshelf like that, not to mention the edge of the door frame.
cevn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Check out the noise on the computer screen which magically disappears over the dialog box
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
it could be an error over an ATI tuner window, but they liked to show blue when there was no signal. The taskbar button for the window is really wide and that’s a sony trinitron tube with a namebadge that didn’t really exist back then
cevn@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think I see what you mean now, it was worded confusingly. That taskbar button is too wide though.
swagmoney@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
yeah i agree that the computer screen doesn’t make sense. but like it’s not a dead giveaway imo. like if this picture was organic, maybe these people chose an image that didn’t make technical sense because it wasn’t too important for the photos composition. you know what i mean? like this is scary close to being indistinguishable from some old photograph and i hate it :p
cevn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Just the thumbnail and I wouldn’t even question it. Scary times.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
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rumba@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
it’s messy AF, but lines up with 98 which it kinda looks like it was trying to print. I’m actually a little scared with this one, it’s a lot less obvious that previous generations.
People mention the gun was wrong, but that’s outside my wheel house.
The monitors badge is not any name that existed back then and they gave it a trinitron tube.
The task bar button for the error window is WAY too wide.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
March started on a Sunday in '98, though.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
ahh crap, totally right. I was looking at it as a monday index for god knows why… it matches 99, but is def not 99 in display so the closeness is just by chance.