Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 1 day ago:
I think this is completely missing the point when it’s talking about “the minutiae of art”. It’s making two claims at the same time: art is better when you suffer for it and the art is good whether or not you suffered. But none of that is relevant.
When Wyeth made Christina’s World, I don’t know if he suffered or not when painting that grass. What I do know is that he was a human with limited time and the fact that he spent so much of his time detailing every blade of grass means that he’s saying something. That The Oatmeal doesn’t draw backgrounds might be because he’s lazy, but he also doesn’t need them. These are choices we make to put effort in one part and ignore some other part.
AI doesn’t make choices. It doesn’t need to. A detailed background is exactly the same amount of work as a plain one. And so a generated picture has this evenly distributed level of detail, no focus at all. You don’t really know where to look, what’s important, what the picture is trying to say. Because it’s not saying anything. It isn’t a rat with a big butt, it’s just a cloud of noise that happens to resemble a rat with a big butt.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
I try to listen to SMN once in a while, but I often leave it for when I can watch the video. It needs different editing to truly work as a podcast, there’s a lot of info presented as pictures or graphs and skimmed over by the narration. And you miss all the jokes made by the title card monkey.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
The post includes a link to the very video, but here it is again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3rSA4FSqk
It’s a very good analysis of political violence in the US. Cody Showdy generally does great work discussing not just the news, but the olds too. Fair and Balanced™©® and all that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, not just because someone is being an asshole. Everyone should feel the need to protect their personal information, because the world is full of assholes of different levels and your personal information being publicly available can only cause harm to you. It really is as simple as setting your profile to “friends only” to counter the lowest level of assholes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Everyone regardless of victim status should use the tools available to protect their personal information online.
If someone is publishing your personal information without your consent, local laws and regulations may apply. You kinda have to be lucky with police and the legal system to take you seriously though.
- Comment on Clock logic 4 weeks ago:
How important is it to your theory that “hour” is related to “house” in… ancient Assyrian language? Because they’re completely unrelated in English, “house” coming from Germanic hus and “hour” coming from French ore. If we look at ancient Greek, the two are hoora for “hour” and oikos for “house”. I think English post-vowel shift has to be the first language where those two even sound similar.
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 weeks ago:
They already made an editor’s note, but in case they decide to take it down after all: archive.is/Kb78K
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.
- Comment on *They drew First Blood, not me.* 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if they are shopped or just imgen based on these hands, but they look very similar down to the light and dark patterns on the skin.
If the proportions match, I’m saying shop, but I’m still not quite ruling out imgen that tried to recreate this exact picture.
- Comment on It's almost here 1 month ago:
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 month ago:
It has existed for decades (though it had a reboot), but it’s spiked in popularity in the past few years.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 month ago:
Soulseek is the most popular now. It’s peer-to-peer on a different level than torrents, you download from a single other user, which is a little more finicky than connecting to a swarm. But there’s a lot of music available there.
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 1 month ago:
My favorite part of not driving is the drinking. I’m lucky to live around a good train network and even luckier that the shop at the station has a fridge full of beer.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 month ago:
It’s the rare Golden Woodman, 1 in 10000 odds that you see him on the third night when you look at the security cam for animatronic storage.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 1 month ago:
My only complaint about Frieren is the exam arc. Up till that point, it’s a tightly knit group of adventurers traveling with a very vague goal, it’s about their journey and their internal relationships. But the exam arc has an actual goal and introduces a lot of recurring characters, which really changes the vibe of the world. I liked it enough in the end, but I would’ve preferred more smaller arcs. On the other hand, season 2 could put the exam arc in a whole new light and make me appreciate all those characters much more when we see them again.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 1 month ago:
I was just thinking, can I honestly think of a perfect anime? But yes, Steins;Gate, without a doubt. It is so perfect that the second season, which is an almost-perfect anime and fits neatly in the events of the first, can only bring it down in perfection.
I recently rewatched it and there’s a lot of foreshadowing and plot points that hit harder when you see them coming.
- Comment on Girl (optional cuz bi) 1 month ago:
Curling her arms around me, dragging me into the dark deep, holding me tight as I struggle to get free :3
- Comment on that's a sunday night 1 month ago:
How old is this picture? Or am I looking at the one retro game collection that doesn’t have a whole shrine built around it?
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 2 months ago:
Now the next unsolved question is: when a person is multilingual, should that count as multiple languages or are they all facets of the same idiolect? Is code-switching between formal and informal English the same as code-switching between English and French? Can a person even have multiple idiolects?
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 months ago:
I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 months ago:
How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 months ago:
The hard part is getting the 10 IQ points to follow the specs properly when designing the components.
- Comment on Best Gacha Game ever created 2 months ago:
And that’s ignoring the Uma Musume manga releasing earlier and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark enjoying modest popularity. And of course the simple fact that people can still be quite fond of cartoon horses who no longer get any new episodes.
- Comment on Best Gacha Game ever created 2 months ago:
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 9 Episode 26: 2019-10-12
Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 1: 2018-04-02
There was an 18 month overlap where you could watch two sets of animated cartoon horses.
- Comment on Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms 2 months ago:
For the English dub, yes. I even found Italian, French, German, Spanish and Russian. But none of the pirates set their VPN to Netherlands to get the Dutch dub.
- Comment on Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms 2 months ago:
And then you have me, who’s so hardcore I was forced to sign up for Netflix so I could watch the Dutch dub of Tonari no Totoro . If I was any more hardcore, I’d figure out how to rip it from there, because it’s the only home release it ever got, as far as I can tell. Can’t even find a second-hand VHS (wouldn’t be acceptable quality anyway).
- Comment on Project Diva 2 months ago:
The girl from Fortnite. Here’s a video that explains nothing.
- Comment on Suzumiya Haruhi "Mutekiteki Happiness!" MV Short ver. 2 months ago:
Wow, how strange to hear Gotou Yuuko use her Mikuru voice again. I recently heard her in a minor role in HanaShura and she used this old lady voice that immediately made me feel ancient, but now I realize she can do whatever she wants with her voice and it wasn’t a sign of her (or my) age. I’m still young! 2006 wasn’t 19 years ago!
