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Programmer. Nerd. Introvert. Probable dumbass.

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Currently thinking about getting an 8bitdo Sn30 Pro for retro and cloud gaming on my iPad.

It looks like a very smexy controller: Hall effect thumbsticks, motion controls and rumble, reasonable suite of buttons, snes-style aesthetic.
A retro style gamepad, visually similar to a classic SNES controller: white with a black dpad, gray thumbsticks, and purple face buttons. It sort of resembles a dog bone.
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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These generated by Dall-E 3. They are a bit more fanciful: ice as shards of translucent glass, overlapping, laying in the water. The background of this image has some mountainous terrain; a fjord, perhaps? Similar in structure to the first. The sun hangs low on the horizon, center top of the image. Thicker flows of ice, with more of a top down perspective; no noticeable land masses. The sun reflects off the water at the top. Mountainous land and sun in the background; the foreground is dominated by clear ice shattered into a complex web of shards still connected.
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Via MAI-Image-1. A photorealistic image of ice flows, densest in the center of the image, open water around. Some of the ice is submerged, giving cyan hues; some in open air, giving white. The water nearer the camera is dark blue, while further away is more blue-gray.
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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#aiart prompt 1091: In white, cyan, steel gray, and navy: fractured ice on the water.
Generated by gpt-4o. A loose grid of irregular chunks of ice, with a nice gradient running from white along the left to dark blue on the right, transitioning through the other colors of the prompt.
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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These aren’t me trying to sneak genitalia past their GAN or violence or drugs or anything.

The following image, rendered by the gpt model, had its prompt (in alt text) rejected by the other two models.
The dirt path wove through the forest, meandering near a nearby river it occasionally intersected; a dusting of frost tinged the remnants of fallen autumn leaves scattered across the path. A wildcat cautiously bent over a puddle on the path, lapping at the scant moisture contained therein.
December 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. A much subtler image: very little visual distortion, mostly in focus. The subject, a woman, is seemingly reaching toward her hair at her right temple. Her eyes have a peculiar digitization effect, as though they were replaced with two small LED screens displaying eyes, which have just gone on the fritz. Some of this distortion bleeds out onto her cheeks and nose, but mostly as colorful highlights.
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Via gpt-4o. A woman holding her right hand up to that side of her face. The image is completely out of focus, and overlaid with dithered, blended static. Her eyes seem to have thick horizontal rainbows beaming outward to her sides.
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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#aiart prompt 1090: Black and white portrait, blurry and fuzzy; a hand raised to the cheek; rainbow static obscures the eyes and distorts local reality.
These four generated by Dall-E 3, across two runs. They all feature a woman in black and white, with colorful distortions over her eyes. In the first, her right hand is touching the right side of her face. Her form is blurred, and fuzzes into the black background. This woman’s lower face is more distorted, with her hair on the upper right being mostly normal. Fuzzed, diagonal streaks connect her dark lips to the black background. The blurring in this image suggests a bit of kinetic motion to me. The woman is touching the left side of her face, while the rainbow distortion covers her right eye and cheek. Vertical striations pierce through her facial features. Her hair falls forward on her right side, framing her face. Somewhat similar to the third image, only the right side of this woman’s face is distorted and overlaid with color. She is touching the left side of her face. Some lovely streaks along her right side, while her left is mostly normal. Against a white background.
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. A person in a dark snow coat with a hood stands on the vehicle’s right side s couple of feet away. We’re in front of the vehicle, so the person is on the left of the image. The road is fairly wide, barely plowed and snowed over, ruts indicating where vehicles have driven. Guardrails on both sides of the road. Highway direction signs can be just seen in the background over the road.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Via gpt-4o. A white/silver car alone on a snowed over road, sort of driving at an angle toward the shoulder. It’s activity snowing; hills and trees in the background. The shot is arranged much closer to the vehicle, at about standing level above the ground, from behind it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#aiart prompt 1089: Minimalist: stuck on the highway in the whiteout
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They generally show a vehicle some distance away from the camera lost in a snowstorm. The first has the hint of trees in the background. Another tree line. A barely plowed stretch of road can be seen. There appears to be a loop in the plowed road. Perhaps someone said “nope” and decided to go back. The road is a bit more discernible than in the second, but just barely. Each of these images has only a single vehicle, rather than a multi-car pileup. A few copses in the background. The car seems to be sitting in the center of a rather large, rather deep crater in the snow. A better defined copse of snow covered trees can be seen further away. Very aerial shot.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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These four generated by Dall-E 3. Like GPT’s interpretation, they showcase more of a chariot booth seat, rather than a saddle-style. The lighting and weathering on the dragon seat in this image makes it resemble mildly patinaed bronze. Elegant carvings with floral swooshes decorate the wing of the beast. This definitely has a patinaed bronze look, with some green on dull gold. A bit of a dull red leather seat back on the ride seat. This ride looks like the animals have separate rotational plates with a few other seats, like the Teacups at Disneyland. Dull silver coating on this dragon. The pole connecting it to the ride platform and ceiling is rather inconveniently mid-seat, which would likely make this conveyance unrideable. Either this dragon is twisted back on itself, or rotates in place, as its head is facing towards a seat booth behind it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Via gpt-4o. Darker in lighting. The dragon seat is more of a larger chariot-style booth seat carved out of the backside of a sitting dragon, which is oriented looking outward rather than along the rotation direction. Its front paws drape a bit over the platform edge of the ride. A horse seat, mid-gallop, can be seen behind on the right.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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#aiart prompt 1088: A close-up shot of an abandoned amusement park merry-go-round ride seat, stylized as a dragon. The day, cold and dreary; what can be seen of the ride and the seat: old and weathered.

#DragonTuesday
Generated by MAI-Image-1, from the above prompt text; this is a fair interpretation of the prompt, with a ride seat that passably resembles a merry-go-round animal.
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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MAI-Image-1, meanwhile, decided to go more glitchwork: an abstract circuit pattern in reddish pink fills the air around the person, while glitched distortions efface the person’s upper face, especially around his glowing white eyes. Unlike the other subjects, this one has hair, albeit short. In an upward arc around the neck, in red, the text “we. we. are. data.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Via gpt-4o. Dall-E, for once, didn’t attempt to put text on the images. GPT, on the other hand, did. In bold red letters, across three lines taking up the lower half of the image, the quoted words of the prompt text: “WE. ARE. THE DATA.” This is superposed on the black torso of the person, slightly creeping up their neck. Very stark, minimalist, and stippled. Much more two-toned poster.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#aiart prompt 1087: Head back; eyes glowing; digitally possessed; “WE. ARE. THE DATA.”; red toned; minimalist; high contrast; stippled; wavy, as in visualizations of noise.
These four images generated by Dall-E 3. With the exception of the second image, each shows a frontal view of a person’s head tilted awkwardly back, eyes glowing, with coruscating waves of energy surrounding them in red. The face, the energy, or both, are stippled. In the first, rays of energy burst from the person’s eyes upward. There’s a nice interplay of light and shadow in these images: the necks and lower parts of the noses are black, with highlights elsewhere. The second image is a three-quarters shot of a person’s head craned back. Spots of glowing energy light up their cheeks, forehead, temples, and ears. Like the first, beams of energy seem to come from their eyes, or conversely. This person seems to have a third glowing eye, and a spark linked to it just above their crown. The waves of energy near their ears are yellowish, with the image itself having a deep red background gradient. Rays of energy fan out radially from the head. A bit of lens flare off the lower portion of this person’s eyes. They are mostly in silhouette, with a touch of lighting at the top of the head. It’s worth noting that each person appears bald in these images.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Unlike Dall-E and GPT’s googles, this woman’s pair are clear glass, giving a view of her eyes. Peculiar reflection lighting, like several of the other images, suggest an interior with overhead lighting.
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Via gpt-4o. A darker image: the background dark with a few stray embers, and the woman’s attire similarly black. Her helmet and googles resemble motorcycle gear. She’s looking up-leftward.
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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#aiart prompt 1086: She wore a sleek, reflective helmet and googles in shiny black carbon fiber; her lower face, exposed, revealed her parted mouth, as she looked up at the emberfall. Close up on the subject’s head. Gritty atmosphere; low depth of field; high contrast; gothic.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They generally show a helmeted woman staring at a fire. The reflections of a burning tree line can be seen in her goggles in this image. Embers behind and in front of the woman, staring to the right. Her googles reflect a bit more abstractly: perhaps a planetary horizon, the edge of which burns, occasionally with much more brilliant blazes. Slightly further away from the woman, in this image. Her googles are a bit mysterious, as a layer under the glass in front of her eyes appears to be carbon fiber. The glass itself has a light reflection, as from an overhead ceiling light, and a few indications of reflected fire. Her outfit suggests a combat suit of either pleather or alloy, in black. This woman appears to be wearing a spiked choker collar, though this is indistinct. Also, some sort of vest with a deep front neckline. Her googles are appear slightly askew. She seems to be in an interior space, as overhead lights can be discerned in the background, and are reflected on her googles.
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. What appears to be a diver, swimming upward through the kelp towards the surface. The kelp nicely frames the image, adding some dark to the brightness of the surface.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Via gpt-4o. This model decided to go black and white, and to feature a fish staring upward. Most of the kelp is indistinct and silhouetted; the surface bright and reminiscent of plasma.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#aiart prompt 1085: Among the kelp, gazing up at the turbulent surface. Motion blur; out of focus. High contrast.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. Generally, they showcase a seal-like creature swimming among thick kelp beds, strands of which reach upward. The surface appears rippled and choppy. The seal seems interested in the photographer. The waves have nice swoosh patterns, reminiscent of a Van Gogh. The seal appears a bit green in this image, possibly due to light filtered through the kelp.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. A much denser, crowded, claustrophobic interior, with messy shelves to the sides and some out of focus items in the center. The windows are elevated on the wall, rather than being floor to ceiling; they are multi-paned, with some looking like they could be slid open for service purposes. The image vaguely feels chunkily painted, as bits and pieces of it don’t quite line up or meet correctly; this is most noticeable in the framing of the windows, which exhibit odd gaps.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Cold lighting; anaglyphic; high contrast; low depth of field.
Via gpt-4o. Characteristic of this model: very dark interior, with the only illumination coming from the window. A slight reflection of the window can be seen on the floor. The window itself is multi-paned, but does not appear to have a door. Little of the shop can be discerned, other than some shadowy shelves. The horde seems to exist within a sort of staticky fog.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM