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AI image generation is dangerously addicting. It's like a loot box where one hope to get a good image or the perfect image. I've spent too much time yesterday generating portrait images for preparing to my D&D adventure. Also Bing's Dall-E has a content filter that makes it a little bit more tricky to make grotesque images. For example I wanted to create a fleshy and bloody amalgam of unicorn body parts that assemble into one giant and colossal unicorn. The background is that the heroes have defeated the wizard that used unicorns and their blood to fuse animals together. However the remnants of that magic and unicorn blood and the disposed bodies were tossed into the sewers and spread through the rivers. Now they have to "clean up" the whole mess and be some kind of Ghostbusters but with bloody unicorn blobs with veiny tendrils instead of ghosts.
Friday, 29-Dec-23 10:27:39 UTC from web-
@scribus Of course. The sewers will have gelatinous cubes with unicorn giblets and ordinary slimes. I also take a monster called "Malleable" from Tome of Beasts 2 from Kobold Press. This monster is somewhat a slime but it can merge from smaller parts to a bigger and more powerful monster. The smaller ones will foreshadow the gigantic one. It is also psychic has the urge to grow bigger and merge with other flesh. It'll be a good challenge for my hyper-efficient D&D group.
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@adiwan Oh heck, you always see the slime that divides when attacked; not sure how often I've seen slimes combine!
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@scribus Yeah. That's why I immediately gravitated towards that. I wanted to use them in my last adventure but my players avoided getting into the sewers. The Malleables can also be split voluntarily or upon receiving 20hp of damage from a single attack. https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-moderate/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-major/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-minor/
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Oh expression! Formula post, by accident? Emergent speech patterns?? Ha-hA!
Friday, 29-Dec-23 17:00:41 UTC from web -
Oh boy petsitting gets exciting when the cats decide to start a fight ON YOUR LAP O_O
Thursday, 28-Dec-23 06:06:17 UTC from web -
Finding good images of Giff is practically impossible.
Wednesday, 27-Dec-23 20:26:59 UTC from web -
I'm not a big fan of AI-generated images but it is real handy when it comes to digital virtual tabletop as it enables me to create character portraits of characters that I imagine. Before I had to "hunt" for images that resemble my idea. Or the workflow was just that I had to develop a character from an image I found. Both valid. The next D&D adventure I plan has a ton of Giff. Giff are practically anthropomorphic hippos with a colonial British attitude, as they like to conquer and hunt. I want them to invade the unicorn world I used last time.
Wednesday, 27-Dec-23 20:24:18 UTC from web -
Changed my avatar because I got bored with Komi, from the manga "Komi Can't Communicate". I AI-generated a cartoony image of a character from my last one-shot D&D adventure. https://i.imgur.com/v5QhrYZ.jpg
Wednesday, 27-Dec-23 19:54:54 UTC from web -
In that case buying boardgames for half or third the price is a no-brainer.
Monday, 25-Dec-23 10:45:47 UTC from web -
Also I have bought so many boardgames that I have gifts for the next year.
Monday, 25-Dec-23 09:45:26 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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It's easy to have boardgame loving relatives, even easier when most of the games were bought for dirt cheap on sale for 15€ a piece and have a decent rating.
Monday, 25-Dec-23 09:43:54 UTC from web -
Only slightly sad this holiday season that I won't be at the horse races on the day after Xmas, but they need to stop killing so damn many racehorses!!
Monday, 25-Dec-23 01:17:33 UTC from web -
I listened to Iji Sakura from LAD Ishin way too often https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ESM0ckHSBY I like how it gets more intense with each repeat.
Sunday, 24-Dec-23 21:03:34 UTC from web -
Almost forgot that the newest Marvel's What If season started. It was a cool cyberpunk-ish, noire detective story with Nebula. For 25 minutes it was good enough to be fun.
Friday, 22-Dec-23 21:21:46 UTC from web -
The composer John Powell never disappoints.
Friday, 22-Dec-23 20:21:09 UTC from web -
Finished LAD Ishin! in 48 hours with 95% of all side stories finished. The last few ones were basically friendship missions. Also the battle dungeon stuff I ignored mostly. It is a pure grind for crafting materials in the most boring hallways imaginable. I would say that it's the barest of the bare minimum of level design. It's not even randomly generated but looks like it as I recognize the same handful of repeated hall segments and junctions. Also the troop card mechanic is asinine. The plan is that one can assemble special modifiers and attacks to augment the combat but it ended up for me as a big dud. Getting those cards is random and the actual abilities are either broken or the minor ones recharge too slowly. I used a slow health regeneration ability and an "unblockable" spin attack (bosses somehow were able to block...).
Friday, 22-Dec-23 18:50:31 UTC from web -
Also Unreal Engine 4 irks me a lot, especially loading scenes. There is so much texture loading delay that I'm not used to with the Dragon Engine. Also animations on load behave weirdly: A sitting person stands for a frame and snaps into a sitting position with physics-driven secondary animation wiggling wildly. In rarer occasions distant scenery also flash white.
Wednesday, 20-Dec-23 20:59:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan It seems to actually be the Yakuza 5/0/Kiwami engine with an Unreal Engine wrapper over top which i think is part of why the game is so jank. Not sure what the game played like in Japan originally, but I imagine it wasn't very different.
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@zeldatra Makes sense that it is based on 5, as I found out that quite a few characters were in the original Japanese version. In the Unreal Engine remaster they were replaced by from 7. It's strange but I get it that Zhao is more popular than Baba.
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Like a Dragon Ishin starts to feel good to play after 5 chapters, similar to Yakuza 3. Once enough skills are unlocked combat the combat is suddenly fluid and doesn't feel like brakes are applied all the time. The only things I don't really appreciate is that there are soooo many money sinks everywhere. I get it that they don't want to make the player accumulate too much money like in the other games. Fine... But progression is also somewhat tied to money like the crafting and enhancing of weapons. I'm constantly low on money. Also seeing familiar faces with different names is discomforting, like Majima being called Ogita and Kiryu called Ryoma/Saito. It just f-up what I've learned in 9 games. It gets better with time in that regard.
Wednesday, 20-Dec-23 20:56:53 UTC from web -
In a weird way I feel sorry for all the future anthropologists, historians, and archeologists (also students) for what is happening culturally now and the last two decades. It's like culture worth of 1000 years happened in that time.
Sunday, 17-Dec-23 23:51:55 UTC from web -
American Express gives me $120 a year ($10/month) off of dining orders but the catch is I have to use GrubHub and the level of inconvenience that causes me might actually be enough to stop me from taking advantage of it
Monday, 11-Dec-23 20:41:31 UTC from web -
Female escorts near Little Caesar’s (they’re not very good but they’re cheap as hell)
Monday, 11-Dec-23 14:15:24 UTC from web -
Two of my friends finally got Covid. One who is always very, very careful, and one who is working as a teacher and got it after a day visiting university to attend a doctor thesis presentation. 3 out of 7 had it.
Sunday, 10-Dec-23 20:36:43 UTC from web -
If people truly believe the Panera bread lemonade that kills people is so bad they should simply vote with their wallets and purchase lemonades that don’t kill you, this is the free marketplace at work
Sunday, 10-Dec-23 05:17:08 UTC from web -
I’m so behind the time on memes that I think I got COVID in 2023
Saturday, 09-Dec-23 20:18:06 UTC from web -
I think I unwrapped my blood donation bandage at least an hour too soon O_O
Saturday, 09-Dec-23 01:47:43 UTC from web-
@adiwan Maybe you could organize a blood drive at work? I've had a couple of jobs where they had them fairly regularly.
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@scribus There is no need to. There are basically weekly blood donations all around town. The thing is that I'm always too tired to get to them.
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@adiwan Yeah, that's why I was thinking of integrating it into the regular day like that.
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