Release the kraken
Submitted 3 days ago by Saltycracker@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Stop posting AI slop, this doesn’t even make sense
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
It makes sense if you’ve read At The Mountains of Madness.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Okay, I read it years ago and forgot that necessary, context so that one’s my bad. I still take issue with the AI art/media that is creeping into Lemmy.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure but shoggoths have a lot more eyes.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 days ago
It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.
Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right
Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I think probably it’s easier to ask it to draw Cthulhu than the weird flying starfish tentacle monsters
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Man I used to think Lovecraftian lore was so cool until I found out that it’s all an allegory for virulent white supremacy.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 days ago
This thread has 798 upvotes at the moment so I guess you’ll just have to get used to it
buycurious@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kraken or Cthulu?
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
iflyspaceships@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ie! Ie!
arotrios@lemmy.world 3 days ago
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 days ago
Could AI comics ever become undistinguishable to real comics? Even though its becoming harder to tell, will it ever be able to get the text consistent?
Limonene@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How can you tell if this one is? The text differences within and between panels 1 and 2 are indistinguishable (to my eyes) from JPEG artifacts.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 days ago
Some lines are slightly longer, some circles are different
Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
They’re speaking a different language 🙃
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 days ago
By “keeping the text consistent”, i was referring to the letters in the same word/sentence
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tekeli-li is the call of the elder things.it has nothing to do with Cthulhu. Stupid AI
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Cthulhu is a priest whose role is to summon the ancient ones. In this context he is the middleman.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Wasn’t it the call of the Shoggoths?
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Possibly but if it was, they were repeating the calls their masters (the elder things) made before they were overthrown by the shoggoths.
Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world 3 days ago
When we discover the polar ice caps were a containment system.
QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hell yeah.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Old man Vanderhaus down by the docks, he says he has it on good authority that this has happened already. He says this is how we all got here in the first place.
At first I thought to myself, I said self, what if the deep ones are in cahoots with the government. With the more I look and the more they do, I thinks to myself that they’s just caught a glimpse of the madness. This was just the opportunity they’s needed ta get an edge on every man, woman, and child. They being the great old-ones of course.
Some say d’eys an erie glow down in the national harbor. You can only see it from the plains coming in over the Potomac. There’s an old quarry used to be there, She goes down deep. Got swallowed by the river back when the Indians were still running the roost. Some say it’s not a quarry at all and that it leads into the innerds of that world itself.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Awaken the shoggoth
Christobootswiththepher@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fuck, this is good!
tyler@programming.dev 3 days ago
These AI comics are terrible.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It’s a shitpost, calm down.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Same one was in political memes yesterday.
Brace for impact, the model that produces these came out only very recent.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, it’s usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.
If it’s funny, it’s funny
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
These canned responses are terrible.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least they’re not actively stealing ideas from other commenters and passing them off as their own.
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Didn’t know it was AI, but I did enjoy it