Well, certanly not with that attitude

Yes, ai is a tool. And the person in the screenshot is criticizing a generative gpt-like and midjorney-like ai, which has a massive impact on the climate and almost no useful results.

In your examples, as I can see, they always train their own model (supernovae research, illegal fishing) or heavily customize it and use it in close conjunction with people (cancer screenings).

And so I think we talking about two different things, so I want to clarify:

ai as in neural-network algorithm that can digest massive amounts of data and give meaningful results - absolutely is useful and, I think, the more the time will pass (and more grifters move on to other fields) the more actual useful niches and cases would be solved with neural-nets.

But, ai as in we-gonna-shove-this-bot-down-your-throut gpt-like bots trained on all the data from all the internet (mostly reddit) that struggle with basic questions, hallucinate glue on pizza, generate 6-fingered hands and are close to useless in any use-case are absolutely abismal and not worth it to ruin our climate for.

Yeah

Yes, I agree that self-hatred can be used as motivation sometimes, and it can be a good one too. But it is a somewhat dangerous path.

I myself struggled with my body - I hated looking in a mirror and even more I hated going in public with even remotely tight/revealing clothes. In my case the rational decision was to go to the gym and get a diet, and this is where self-hatred failed me - it always told me I wasn’t good enough, why do I even try, I always gonna look like shit this doesn’t work. Only when I noticed it and started actively pushing against it, cutting myself some slack and, in a sense, just loving myself, it allowed me to start getting slow but steady progress.

but there’s always a way to work with what you’re given and turn it around, even if just to make a little bit of progress each day

Yes, I completely agree. And I also think that you need to have some level of self-love and self-compassion to know and understand that, and to allow yourself to grow in that way.

Also, on the other note: Congrats on the progress, man! Keep up the good work! :)

Well it maybe is technically correct to call many games with level-up progression incremental, but it is not what the term means.

In essence it means cookie clicker-likes or games more akin to that experience. They’re “incremental” because in all of them the main end goal is to make some number bigger in an incremental (comically repeated action, ie “clicking cookie” or “producing paper clips” etc) way.

Besides: the level-up progression is just a mechanic that enables you to scale your power. The main objective (or mechanic) in other games is usually story, combat or puzzles. The main objective of incremental games is make the number bigger - everything else comes after that.

Can you explain the last part (about solarpunk) what fatalism do you mean and what goal did they fail? And who are “they”?

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It’s not about fixing the garage door, it’s about friends we made along the way

Oh my god they are all in love! <3

You can get space cadet on arch?? (also: looks really good!)

With all the buildings and stuff it looks like a printed circuit board

You alright?

He can have her if he lets me talk to a lil fire dude and then feed it bacon

Tbf if you’re drawing exclusively/primarily pixel art I think libresprite is better - because it is more focused on it/made specifically for it.

Krita is an all-can-do program more a-kin to photoshop (but krita is better imo), it can do pixel art too, but it has a lot of other options, bells and whistles because it was made for digital art as a whole.