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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4h

I watched Evil Dead 2 tonight; my blu ray disc for it is a bit damaged, so a panoply of digital distortion, screen-tears, artifacts, and glitches abounded.

It was like watching something off Skinemax with a channel scrambler turned on. (Yes, I’m old.)

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4h

Those pigs really love hog, huh?

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 8h

The follies of Bloody Stupid Johnson make more sense than this drek.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 11h

These 4 via Dall-E 3.

They generally show a fresher jack o’lantern than the one generated by gpt-4o.

In the first, parts of a metallic doll rest near the pumpkin, including a silver skull. Leaves cover the ground, and there are hints of a building beyond.

The crown is silver with embossed filigree.

Slightly more rotten, partially covered with leaves. It lies on a street, feet from the curb, with a yard and houses behind. Another pumpkin can be seen behind it.

Its crown, silver has stylized fleur-de-lis for spikes, filigree, and very tacky tinsel at base.

While the Mr. O’Lantern isn’t too decayed, it is covered in mud and muck, resting in filth.

Its crown is very thin silver with circular crenellations atop.

This one looks a bit more rotten, with black splooge oozing out of its orifices. Leaves have accumulated around it.

Slightly more fancy silver crown that resembles pressed tinfoil with tacky amethyst beads stuck on.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 11h

#aiart prompt 1039: A rotten jack o’lantern wearing a tacky costume foil crown lays smashed upon the ground.

#NoKings

Via gpt-4o.

Lying on asphalt, a wrinkled, decomposing pumpkin with a shriveled, decaying cut face. It has a crinkled gold crown on top.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 18

#aiart prompt 624: dressed as she was, as an old candy striper, in clothes dirty and frayed, she moved about the rusting, abandoned hospital ward in an unsettling spider-like way. Where her face should be was naught but a featureless mask; (cont)

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Whomever was responsible for the clothing textures must be blind, as everything is hideously desaturated.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

The sheer amount of texture/effect/shadow/lighting pop-in present in the game on Series X hardware should be unacceptable, and is frankly embarrassing.

I love me some Bethesda, potato faces, jank, and all. But this is really not any of that.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been back in to #OblivionRemastered this past week; the more I play, the more I’ve come to hate UE5, think it a bad engine to throw at a Bethesda-like, and dread Fallout 3 Remastered (should the rumors/leaks about it be true).

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Or two of the characters smoking a joint in a car with the windows up when, surprise! Cop-dad! They roll the windows down just before talking.

Cop-dad is either incredibly incompetent, or knows his daughter is a pothead.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

I’m watching the original Halloween. There’s a lot weird in this film.

For instance, folks trick-or-treating, in full daylight, at what is, maximally, about 4 pm.

Windows open, on Halloween. After rainy weather, even.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing: Hamlet—at least within its first act—makes for excellent spooky season fare; gothic af.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Based.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

A much darker, closer, and painted image rounds this set out. gpt plays to its strengths.

The focus of the image is a classical feminine face, with the barest hint of her throat fading into a black background; not much is visible beyond the face. Cracks all along her visage show glowing red light from within. Her eyes are two black pools: either absent or lacking sclera.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

This subject, in three quarters, has a messy updo, glowing red eyes, and very prominent glowing cracks along her throat and collarbone. There’s a suggestion of flowers in her hair.

A white_haired subject, head downcast, three quarters. While cracks cover her skin, the bulk of the internal glow is central torso near the neck.

A view from behind, looking at the subject’s back, which is very prominently glowing. Her head is turned, perhaps painfully so, such that she is looking over her shoulder. Her eyes appear milky blue, perhaps due to cataracts. Her hair, white, is in a messy updo.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

#aiart prompt 1038: Porcelain skin cracked, dully glowing red from within.

$The first six images were generated by Dall-E 3; the last image by gpt-4o. Two separate runs were performed against Dall-E. In these images, a feminine figure with extremely white skin—possibly a doll or mannequin, though several do look human—stands, demurely, in a dark space, seemingly unclothed, their skin a web of fractured glowing cracks. The first figure, bald, head downcast, is mostly lit from its torso, with some highlighting along its lower jaw.$ A closer shot to the first; the subject is 3/4s, head turned to the right of the image, eyes closed. Hints of hair are present. A faint glow roses a cheek otherwise in shadow.

A closer shot to the first; the subject is 3/4s, head turned to the right of the image, eyes closed. Hints of hair are present. A faint glow roses a cheek otherwise in shadow.

Another three quarters subject, from further away. Bald, head downcast; much more prominently glowing cracks along the skin.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Federation ISEEE-27B/6 mandate a minimum of one (1) such letter, but more recent standards suggest that practice is unsafe and suggest two (2) with one being capitalized.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 17

#aiart prompt 623: on a dark cold night, under the pale moonlight, the person becomes the wolf.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

If these chucklefucks don’t want to run the government, why let them do so?

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Next Constitution, if a government is unable or unwilling to keep the lights on, all members should be compelled to automatically forfeit their seats, snap elections called, and the erstwhile members banned from office for a decade.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Dan 🕊️ 🐸 🇺🇸 @dan401w.bsky.social · 2d

I'm gonna sound a bit ageist here and for that I apologize... In the last two days I've seen videos of Nancy Pelosi needing assistance while walking, and Mitch McConnell taking an ugly fall in Congress today. Along with 77 year old Janet Mills wanting to commit to another 6 years with her Senate

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

Via gpt-4o.

This is a fair more literal interpretation, comparatively, which fixates on the “inverted” portion of the prompt.

A seeming color negative, with a person in shades of cyan, screaming, holding their hands to their face in shock and distress.

Horizontal fuzzed static distorts the image.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

#aiart prompt 1037: A moment of dread. Inverted, in orange and cyan. Blurred and fuzzy; glitched.

These four generated by Dall-E 3.

In the first, a person with long hair sits at a table; while their right arm is highlighted in orange, overwhelmingly they and the table are in shades of cyan.

Due to an extreme amount of visual distortion in frazzled high frequency waves or orange and cyan at the top of the image, their head is obscured. It looks like they might be resting it on the table, due to hair, but the posture is awkward.

A short-haired person squats on a wooden floor, head hanging between their legs, their shadow spread before them.

Glitched orange air above hints at a cyan skyline behind.

A person sits, head held in both hands, near a ceramic tiled wall, possibly in a bathroom. The image is distorted, primarily around the bottom edge. There is some blurriness around their head, suggesting movement.

The person’s outfit is in black; their arms orange, the setting and distortions in cyan.

A person with head back, hands clawing at their face and eyes, screaming. They appear to be in some sort of rectilinear tunnel. Heavy distortion vertically tears the entire image, giving a distressing suggestion of kinetic motion.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 16

#aiart prompt 622: rising from the crater deep, a nightmare from whence you sleep; bearded with a writhing mass of long tentacles which grasp; its eyes of unsettling sheen, dreadful spines complete its mien. (cont)

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck pithy one-liner posts.