Posting two days in a row? I know, who would have thought it?
Anyways.
Yesterday I had a notion. I’d give some various AI programs the various prompt–Anime image of a yandere–and see what it came up with. The AI programs I chose for this experiment were ChatGPT, Grok, Microsoft Bing AI Creations and WordPress’s own AI.
Now for those who don’t know what a yandere is, it’s a form of anime character. Always female, always in love, and always crazier than a sh*t house rat. The image should look something like the following:
They seems nice.
Anyways, here are the results, from worst to best.
Microsoft Bing AI Creations
I think someone didn’t understand the assignment.
Grok
In fairness, I had to work to get the picture this good. Grok seemed to think I wanted Goth. One of the pictures it gave me wasn’t even anime.
Outside of that, not bad.
Speaking of fairness, when Microsoft Bing AI Creations wants to do it’s job, it does the best Anime slop.
WordPress
I went through two tries, because the first one was so close, but really not on the money.
This is closer to the crazy look the character should have. Really fine.
ChatGPT
Now remember, the prompt said, and I quote “Anime image of a yandere”. Nothing about a weapon, or blood. Just the character type.
That’s dead on perfect.
I’ve found I like Microsoft Bing AI Creations’ anime images the best. When, of course, it deigns to give me an anime image. ChatGPT, though (and to a degree Grok) give me what I want with fewer issues.
Anyways, very interesting. Might be worth doing again next year, see if there’s improvements.
So, anyone got a guess what Microsoft Bing AI Creations was thinking when it made its image?
I discovered today something shocking. This classic and ever so important post has not been restored to this site after the reboot. As you can see, I’ve strove to correct this gross state of affairs by reposting it now. I have also planned an equally important and vital follow-up for, say, tomorrow. Or so.
I’d heard of “symmetrical docking” before. Even seen an example of it. Such as this, below:
I thought I’d post this image a second time, but after drawing arrows to fully describe the “symmetrical docking”. So everyone could see and understand just where I was coming from. Maybe even blow up the proper section of the image. Deleting everything else. Save the “symmetrical docking”. And the arrows.
Then I remembered I wasn’t thirteen.
Really. This has been a problem of late.
In essence, symmetrical docking describes two anime females (or just plain ole females) standing so close that their boobs are smooshed together. As above.
Aren’t you glad you now know this? Isn’t your life more fulfilled?
Maybe if you’re thirteen…
Knowing the term, I began wondering just where it came from.
Because I’m that way.
The quickest to do this, I felt, was heading over to TV Trope. What with it being a veritable fount of useless knowledge, I figured I’d find it’s page in no time.
Actually it took a little more than that, but this silly little essay is already almost 200 words long, and that’s about 200x longer than it should be. To summarize, here’s what I learned, via this quote:
A phrase commonly used to describe a picture of two girls standing so close together their breasts are squished against each other. Originated from a Super Robot Wars Alpha 2Yonkoma [4 panel comic] where, instead of showing Cho Ryu Jin’s [a giant robot’s] Symmetrical Docking Transformation Sequence, a picture of original characters (with huge breasts) Kushua Mizuha and Seolla Schweitzer are shown in [said] position.
Which looks like this:
It’s the “squish” onomatopoeia in the second panel that really sells this strip.
Anyways, that’s what I learned today. And now you know. And knowing is half the battle. Or a few cells of memory in your head that you’ll never use for important facts.
Honestly, I don’t see why I should be the only one to suffer.
Since rebooting this blog (a process, I must say, that has been much simpler than rebooting the Sister Site) I have notice a few old standby posts that have fallen to the wayside. One of which is the The Hell… ?!, in which I rant about the crazy things I have seen or have happen to me. I’ve done only two of them since starting over.
Perhaps this is understandable. I was so much younger and slightly (very slightly) less handsome back when I started things here at Welltun Cares Presents. Not a lot shocks and outrages me any more. I may even have become jaded.
Other things that have dropped away are less understandable. For instance, ranting about how stupid Green Arrow is. This never grows old for me. As well as it shouldn’t, as it’s an ever fresh topic. Everyone should rant about how stupid Green Arrow is. At length. With passion.
It’s shocking more people don’t.
WHAAAA?!
In between these two points of obvious understanding and bewildering disbelief sits a third topic: My love for the comic book character Power Girl.
Talking about her wasn’t necessarily a big part of this blog. It’s not like I’m her biggest fan, after all. I have no action figures. I own one collection of her comics, which, I should add, was given to me as a birthday present. While I know a healthy chunk about her history, I can’t point to individual stories featuring her. In fact, calling myself a fan might not be wholly accurate. I might just like the concept.
That said, unlike with the The Hell… ?! series, where I debated not rebooting, I always considered going back to the Other Maid from Krypton. My problem was that for a while there was so very little new pictures going around. It seemed like DC was avoiding using the character.
Looking at the character over to the right, I can see two reasons why this might be. These days it seems the bigger the reasons, the less likely the character is used. And that’s a damn shame, considering how “tolerant” the world is supposedly getting with diversity.
Today, though, Constant Reader henrybrennan has solved two problems for me. He’s given me another The Hell… !? post AND a blessed reason to talk about Power Girl.
I give you this headline.
Really.
Really.
Let’s look at the new costume.
Now let’s look at the classic Power Girl costume again:
Huh.
Huh.
Now let’s look at Supergirl.
And again, Classic Power Girl.
And, again, that new costume.
Yeeeeeeeeyeah. Not really anything different there, is there?
Portrait of a man on the verge of losing a finger. Among other things.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s probably the best costume… oh God, as I’m typing this, I realized something. They’ve recently changed Power Girl’s secret identify to Paige, and I didn’t get why until just now. It was originally Karen, and now Karen has a nasty stigma to it.
Wow am I dense.
Anyway, nice costume. Not sure about the face, as it doesn’t seem to capture the attitude Power Girl has been known to have (should be more like the right, frankly). Though I do like it.
What I can’t see is how it’s any different a change from what she’s been known to wear. The character was already quite distinctive. And not just because of the usual two reasons.
I dunno. Maybe it’s me. Maybe if I was a paid journalist, I could see how the new costume does anything the old costume doesn’t.
Or, as I have admitted, I am dense. Maybe that’s it. Maybe if I studied both characters really hard, maybe then I’ll see and know better.
Yes! Yes, that’s what I’m going to do. An in depth analysis of the two characters.
Here is the lighthouse. As this was on the same file as yesterday, there are houses behind the shown object. I’ve just made them invisible WITH THE POWER OF MY MIND!
And the option that removes objects from the render.
Not nearly that impressive, put like that.
Don’t want to go into how long I fought to get this. I swear, I followed instructions to the T and I still screwed up.
Everything started to go pear shaped when opening the program. Found I had a circle select instead of the box select on my cursor. It in no way shape or form worked like the previous select. I could muddle through and do the lesson, no problem. Well, a little problem. No worries though.
Then it went back to box select.
How?
Same way it went to circle in the first place. Computers are the tools of the Dark Lord and everything that touches them goes MAD!
To think I wondered what I would talk about on loading this up.
Next comes the rocky base. AKA an island the lighthouse and houses will sit on.
The picture is from the Golden Book version of Hansel and Gretel. Or, rather, my version, back in the day. It’s from the front of the book, with the two kids over to the left.
As said, this is a terrifying memory. The witch, standing there, staring out of the book. At the fool still holding the book.
At me.
Memory plays tricks. The face there has a more evil cast. Uglier. Wicked.
This, though? While sinister after a fashion, it doesn’t compare to memory. What is fails to compare to what the mind wants to believe.
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