It's a bit like a gacha game, you feel successful because you put cash into a slightly better chance at pulling a "good" result.

Happy b-day! I got these two from my recent Japan trip.

Today my warlock panicked due to fey patron hijinks and almost thorn whipped a civilian because she thought that would solve things. Somehow.

Ah, the Crunchyroll defense

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You'd think so, yes.

I don't think games follow movie/series asthetics much anymore. The trends are born from copying other successful games. But HDR becoming common sure helped the push for those deep bright colors.

I have some some French-published manga like this, I guess from around late 90s when flipping artwork went out of style.

Pretty much every person that replied to me was either a bot or a scammer passing others art as their own. 🤷‍♂️ To be expected, really.

Go to conferences where vendors try to peddle AI solutions and say the quiet part out loud like "how far does it scale until hallucinations settle in?" and "how long did it took you to write that prompt and what was the net benefit?"

Wait, I've been on and off planes for 13 hours, what happened?

Oh, this sounds like a reason to dust out my Paralella.