It isn’t harmless and we should be boycotting it. There’s a big difference in saying it sucks because of the author and it sucks because of the content though.

It’s fun and deeply anchored in nostalgia. Let’s not pretend it isn’t entertaining. I won’t even pirate the new series regardless because of the author’s lunacy, but still.

No fun allowed 😠

These are my sons Cream Cheese Jr and Kraft Singles

Just a thought but you could drill two holes in the automatic feeder and slip in an Hc-sr04 with an esp-32. It’s an ultrasonic sensor, it could measure the depth of food and signal you when it’s going low.

It might seem daunting but these things are a lot easier to use these days, lots of info online and it can be connected to your home assistant set up.

Ya, those look fine to be honest. I wouldn’t worry about it.

What does showing up entail here? How many hours a week? Use the time to slowly build towards another career, something that uses both so you don’t start at square one maybe.

His comic is open source. Might seem like a moot point seeing as how most comics can be seen on the web for free but it lets people use it for other stuff. From what I understand, a few of his comics have been turned into short animations and things like that. Kind of cool tbh.

My point is that once you can’t tell, then you’ll go back to judging a comic how you used to (a mix of art content + message content)

Right now, you first look if it’s AI or not and toss it in the bin if it is. That’s fine but are you going to start chasing down Krita files for everything you see in a month?

We are seriously close to not being to tell if a comic is AI generated, and I’m talking about raw output from a two sentence prompt.

Not the only value, just that it’s the main one. Because we read comics to be entertained, not to marvel at someone’s drawing talent. If comics were only about art quality, then we wouldn’t have stick figure and paint drawings getting upvotes either.

Like I said, having something hand drawn well is always a huge positive, but it doesn’t make up for trite low denominator content.

Good content + art > good content + AI > bad content + art

Going Art > AI no matter what just means you have little perspective and live your life through knee jerk reactions.

If you go just by content, his comics suck, deal with it.

It’s crazy to imagine someone judging something on the value and enjoyment it brings them.

This administration has more chances of making it mandatory than illegal.

It means that once the comic output from AI is indistinguishable from the output of an artist, then people will stop concentrating on the tools used and go back to judging a comic on if it was funny or entertaining.

This guy draws really well but none of his comics are good. It’s all trite boring pandering.

To be clear, I’m not saying hand made art has no value, just that a shit joke isn’t somehow better than a good one just because of the tools used.

Good content + real art > Good content + AI > boring content + real art

If it’s any consolation, we are nearing the point where it’s legit impossible to tell and people will slowly go back to caring about the content instead.

I’m a big fan of sci Fi and the expanse does hit a lot of boxes. It’s in my top few as well.

There’s probably a good chance you would come of as more mocking than quirky tbh. It’s not like it’s illegal though. I’m guessing you mean the shower headcap looking thing?

You were making ends meet with the debt before. Put it towards your future: buy another 18tb hardrive. Spend the last 100$ on drugs.

Winzip

Tell me what they do that’s worth one man having a billion dollars worth of boats.

No one deserves a 30% cut for hosting virtual game files, even with the extra features included.

Steam, Epic, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are literally sucking out profit for something that has virtually no expense compared to that profit.

That profit could be going to the actual people making the product and all it needs is a minimum of regulation. We could be getting more and better games right now but instead Gaben and company get big boats.

All of them have fluff like friends lists, multiplayer frameworks and what not. Sure steam is better than the others but they are still part of the same club playing the same game. Even worse, with their small staff, steam probably has the highest cost to revenue ratio.

I’m trying to explain to you that the features don’t matter and certainly aren’t currently enough to justify robbing devs of literal billions.