I'm Staying Subscribed To A Repetitive Anime Channel That Writes All Its Scripts With Ai And Recycles

The approaching battle in aesthetics is between the reactionary/essentially right-wing movement against AI and slop/mass aesthetics

Anti-AI is based on the economic interests of small business owners (comm artists are small business owners) and has conservative values as a result. These include measuring the value of art based on the ‘hard work’/‘effort’ that went into its creation, and discomfort with art that is not made under the domination/control of a specific individual. This merges with the explicitly right-wing hatred of modernism, abstract art, etc. 

Mass slop aesthetics are based on mass participation in consumption, absence of the cult of the creative individual, maximalism. It’s not obvious, but I think it also includes a culture of mass participation in art through its rejection of aesthetic hierarchy and standards

Let’s sink into the tide of slop forever

new Touhou game title idea

texture of ultradimensional sin

People have noticed! My uninformed guess is that whoever is writing these is trying to like, emulate some kind of Chinese prose style that has lots of four-character phrases/proverbial allusions or something? And is using English figures of speech as an equivalent? But I can't read or speak any kind of Chinese so I don't know if that's a real feature of Chinese prose writing. It's just a vibe I get that this is a translation of something that hit different in the source language

flipping back and forth between the document i’m editing for work and the wikipedia page for cantonese opera like a kid hiding a comic book inside their textbook

I don't actually enjoy arguing, but seeing an opinion I really disagree with in text feels sort of overpowering and makes me want to carve out a space against it. Like in a response comment. Maybe it isnt such a good idea

The hidden aspect of this (and something I feel this analysis doesn't get) is that there's something missing in our society that can only be filled with a good vs. evil battle. It probably corresponds to a mass ritual in ancient times. But altered and filtered through a moral framework which is not natural to it... people want to be heroes to get immersed in a moment of violent intensity and cosmological forces

there's a fun thing about the eventual perfection of the "random crime" in the hero video game because it calls to how the desire to be a hero is also a desire for people to be in trouble, because you need people to save, and crimes to solve, and if there are no crimes there are no heroes, and

why would you complain about a super hero who can run out of things to do? shouldn't that be a good thing? to want to save those who are hurt one must need people being hurt. you are the same as your enemy you fucking imbecile

I hate all those youtube videos called like "This book is the worst" and they have some ooc suggestive or risky quotes on the thumbnail next to an npc loser affecting a shocked expression. It's so evil.

Please don't promote the idea that weird or explicit lines are a serious flaw in books

Edogawa Ranpo

really interesting concept. I feel like if you grew up in the universe where daemons were commonplace, this wouldn't feel like a big deal though. It would be as natural as saying, "we have to make sure the actor has the same face as well as the same body type of the character/historical figure."

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

the best argument for space travel is Bataille's The Accursed Share

waste is inevitable and it must only be spent in a way we choose...

In terms of science communication and space exploration advocacy, Elon Musk has sent us back into the fucking Stone Age.

it feels like we're only beginning to realize how much psychological heterogeny exists among humans

let's forget about the idea of human nature together