A 1970 Corvette

I seriously need to stop watching the same stuff in bed before I go to sleep. But I always have the thoughts "well if I fall asleep watching something new I'll miss something" and also "if it's new and exciting I might not fall asleep at all"

There's so many things I could plow through if I actually just watched new stuff instead of retreading a few different youtube channels over and over

I really like this one in particular though I enjoy most of Noita's OST. Unfortunately in game most of the time you're deafened from the sound of rapid fire explosions, fire, and splashing toxic sludge in every direction

It's funny how impenetrable the reference/inspiration is for the english side of the internet, it's got a double layer of needing to recognize specific aspects of names (which as you pointed out, are obtuse even for people who have some experience with Japanese) as well as lining them up against a baseball team that english speakers may not even know.

I wonder how many weird collabs I've seen and thought "that doesn't make any sense" but it actually does, it's just something that doesn't quite jump the cultural barrier easily

I'm glad my same high school group never really drifted apart, though there are a few people that I was friends with and weren't part of that group that I wish I kept up with but now feel like it might be really awkward to try and meet up with them now, especially since I don't keep any conventional social media up at all (and one of them I had an awkward crush on throughout high school)

Though honestly I'm such a shut-in that unless a group drags me with them like said original high school group did consistently for years I'd probably have a hard time meeting with them often

When you ask "what kind of touhou fanart do you want to see?" there are two types of people: The ones that say "mo' miji" and the ones that call you a "mo'ran"

13 hours ago, Moby said:

I never manage to get that serious look when I try

Hey at least I'm not the only one, I've been wanting to try and branch out from more cutesy stuff and every time I draw something more serious it never quite looks right

Honestly given how simple "Crowvette" is of a name I'm surprised I've never had it taken before. It must be just dumb/out there enough that nobody would bother wanting to take it, I suppose

44 minutes ago, Moby said:

And no, I don't have an account on e621, when I go there, I usually just check for  top rated of the day and see if the image has the artist twitter or something so I can follow them.

Honestly I'm not really sure why anyone would bother having a booru account unless they were accessing "members only" stuff or a regular uploader/tagger. Maybe for favoriting stuff, but I dunno, I feel like most people browsing booru are totally fine with just saving stuff to their machine instead of keeping an online website-linked favorites page, especially since if you're in the world of following fanartists you know that shit gets taken down for basically any reason under the sun without any warning. If they've got so much stuff favorited that it would be too large to store on their device, then it'd also be impossible to navigate, so what's the deal? It can't solely be to post yiff comments.

Either way I'm sure like 99% of the users do what you do so I dunno why this minor rant even came to mind

1 hour ago, Moby said:

Also do you think I would make an account with my nickname on somewhere like Pornhub or e621?

There's nothing wrong with being a highly active e621 poster, don't worry about it

Actually the one that got me to say that was seeing a comment from Moby on a seven year old video, though I've ran into people on other sites too. Fortunately nowhere I'd not want to run into anyone... yet

It's always funny seeing random SPUFers on places like youtube comments. Even today I still see them on completely random videos and are like "Oh hey they watched this at one point too, neat"

I think that's a pretty reasonable way to look at it, it will become another potential tool to use, like how some artists already use 3D stages to set up backgrounds and other 2D drawing stuff. I don't think I have any qualms about it being used to inspire or help artists, and I definitely hope that's the direction it takes. 

I have to admit that it's another extremely cyberpunk thing to think that underground artists slandering a corporate AI's propreitary artstyle is just around the corner though

Yeah I think there's no reason it won't be able to work out the current kinks, a lot of the things that people meme about (hands) aren't probably much more than a minor speedbump in the improvement process. As an enjoyer of fanart I think that at least part of the appeal is lost if there isn't someone behind the work itself, but at the same time if it's impossible to discern can I really say shit?

I don't really know how to feel about where it's headed tbh, like most things it'll probably end up being something lame and pervasive as hell and I really just want to bunker down and ignore it in its entirety

I've picked up too many shows this season so I've still not finished all the episode 1s. I do plan on trying sword isekai though, maybe I'll start it today

I'm really enjoying Do It Yourself, Bocchi the Rock, and Uchi no Shishou wa Shippou ga nai so far, and overall I haven't really ran into anything throwing up particularly bad red flags yet (which is rare for when I've tried like 10 shows in a season)

6 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

So what's everyone's thoughts on this AI art stuff?

Two things on my end:

1. Real artists produce work at like five or more times the resolution most of the commonly used AI stuff is pumping out

2. People repeatedly posting ai generated images is the same as being a spambot but you're doing it for free

I only draw for my own fun so I can't really take any "they're taking muh jobs" stances tbh

10 hours ago, Rynjin said:

I typically wait until about two seasons later to watch stuff. If people are still talking about how good a show is after two seasons, it's probably worth watching is my logic.

I think it's pretty valid for most things but I will admit there are things that are fun to watch seasonally due to weekly episode discussions and stuff like that. But it's pretty dependent on the content and where you're discussing it I spose

This last season was surprisingly good. Ironically I think the love live spinoff was the weakest entry. Jashin-chan dropkick x had a dip in enjoyment in the middle but I think it balanced the gags with the very, very strange tourism ad thing they did (the emu episode really fuckin' got me, the sheer absurdity of the end contrasted with where the episode began was hilarious). Mofukashi no Uta was a fun story and I'm a sucker for cute vampires. Love live superstar is fine enough, I feel like it really struggles with the serious side compared to the fun slice of life bits but that's always going to be a love live series issue. I liked the developments between characters and wonder if we're gonna just get a full-frontal gay kiss in love live soon (as much as I loathe yuri goggle shit, it's all but spelled out for two pairings in particular.)

I didn't watch LycoReco until today... Then I watched it all in one sitting. I dunno why I didn't bother trying it when it started. I heard a lot here and there about it and I thought it would fall into the classic traps of original anime projects: low quality, unsatisfying plots, not using characters to their fullest, and poor pacing. Especially with the themes the premise was built off of; It made me think it would be really blunt and handle the themes poorly.  It actually kept up its visual quality throughout, was super exciting, and had a great ramp up of the plot. It's definitely great, probably AotY or at least a strong contender.

Well even if nobody's watching seasonal stuff I might as well say here's to the next season! I've picked out a lot that could be fun so hopefully I don't drop them all 

Still funny how quickly the previous tiams filled and how long this one's persisted

And I actually do mean funny, I think at this point I don't really feel that sad about it. Honestly just glad we've got posters still kickin' at all

3 hours ago, Moby said:

"Whoops we blew up our money and covered the story too fast, time to outsource the animation for a filler season."

 

One Punch Man had the same problem. The first season was amazing, then the second season downgraded the animation and visuals into the sewer.

I remember saying when I was watching it in a few places "that'll be fixed in the BDs right?" 

There's a particularly heinous scene where two characters are fighting, there's blade clashing SFX and everything, and the shot is just a slow pane over scenery with absolutely no action. Not to mention the random slideshow AMV that happens too while one voice actor sings for two minutes in the middle of an episode, AND at least two action scenes that had to be outsourced since they look nothing like the show's artstyle at all.

If they intended to drag out a first season long enough to leave enough material to get to a second by adding the anime original stuff, I think they seriously fucked up because I don't think anyone wanted what the story of Ice Queendom was offering. Cuz when people pick up an anime about quirky characters with crazy weapons in a school for fighting off wild magical monsters... they really want a meandering psychonauts/inception plot without any smart themes or subtlety at all

Sincerely doubt anyone cares about it but the anime adaption of RWBY is hilarious. SHAFT literally bamboozles fans of the show by faithfully adapting vol 1 and actually organizing and pacing it better for the most part with pretty good visuals and animation; then completely abandon it for an anime-original plot that takes up the entire season, looks like shit, and basically is pointless because it's addressing a conflict that was solved in the first arc to begin with - then the last episode is essentially another faithful adaption of the start of vol 2 (and the quality of animation returns as well) and the show ends.

What the fuck were they doing? Why?!

If it really summarized current year it'd be some shitty menhera vtuber and not a 2010s character like Tomoko, though

29 minutes ago, Rynjin said:

There are some pretty solid LPers with only a few dozen to a hundred views a video, so I'm kinda down. I watch Lotus Prince off and on and his last video got *checks notes* 55 views.

 

He only pulls numbers when he reviews a Resident Evil game (his RE2 one got 1m views lol). I respect him for not chasing those numbers with every video.

Honestly you've kinda got a point, I'd be more likely to give a long LP series with low views over one that's got all the stupid clickbait stuff plastered all over it

Youtube's doing that thing where it recommends me random video game playthroughs that have only double-digit viewership numbers. It's so consistent, it's even in the exact same spot in the list every time.

I only take note of it because the rest of the videos in the list are just "stuff I already watched" so anything that isn't that really sticks out

Meanwhile a 2022 game's update documentation on steam:

"Update is live. What's in it? Fuck you, join the discord and ask us. Why would you want a changelog posted on the store page of the game?"

Honestly by that time the only star wars related stuff I was enjoying was redlettermedia making fun of it, and even that tuckered out basically by the time rise of skywalker came out since it became clear there wasn't going to be much of anything to discuss moving forward and the franchise was tanked to the point of just being sad, rather than funny

I really hate that there's an attitude of "the sequels were bad, so the prequels must have been good" that is now becoming common. I think I couldn't care less about anything in the franchise but there's something that really irks me about that specific revisionism. Yes, Star Wars Battlefront was good. That doesn't mean you have to pretend like Episode 2 was good.

Destroy all furries. They can't be regenerated.