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weky | 21 | resident maybe guy

[acolytics]

Hey hey! I go by Weky - I'm a digital artist with a flair for character design, fun color palettes, and funky creatures!

⚠︎ I'm critical of media I enjoy and I value nuanced discussion about serious implications and topics that may pop up; that being said, please do not interact if you consider yourself a pro-shipper, lolicon, or similar. ⚠︎

Media:

Fallout: New Vegas

Strange Hill High

Deltarune

Psychonauts

Portal/Portal 2

Minecraft & Hermitcraft/Life Series

I jump between interests and fixations a lot, so the stuff above isn't set in stone :]

weky woofs -> talk tag

weky draws -> art tag

vedriivan -> youtube channel

roboguts -> modrinth [for when i make mc stuff]

All art under the tag is mine - none of my artwork uses, or will use AI in the forseeable future. I also post under #b3d, if you want to see wips of my 3D art :]

[yellow-cat]

has anyone else noticed that its awesome to have an anthropomorphic animal representation of yourself that you can draw in situations

[fluoresensitives]

Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

[castrolle]

wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees

[postillfastill]

Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.

[almostdefinitelydying]

Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in

Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com

[brightlotusmoon]

[acolytics]

working on richie's outfits for my short film this semester 🍂

[hotvampireadjacent]

[smol-blue-bird]

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

[smol-blue-bird]

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

[smol-blue-bird]

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

[theriu]

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

[acolytics]

this movie has my whole heart - the story, cinematography, the hopeful message... it's one of the better movies i've seen as of late and i couldnt resist making some fanart for it :D

b&w version + thumbnail under the cut!

[commiefaggoth]

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

[acolytics]

testing a resource pack

[hollow-head]

"who do you self insert as when you read?"

This is me when I read:

[helenvaughans]

"crime" for conservatives is basically just existing in public as a person of color

[dragon-in-a-fez]

always thinking about that Oxford study that found half of adults define "young people hanging around in groups" as "anti-social behaviour"

[stantler-and-walrein]

>"anti-social behaviour"

>looks inside

>socialising

[teaboot]

>L'enfant plaza metro

>Les enfants

[vnknowcrow]

Seen headcanons about courier bridging the gap between Manny and Boone again like Manny wasn't happy that a pregnant women he knew (no matter how much of a 'bitch' she was) was kidnapped and possibly sold into slavery. I dunno about you but I don't wanna bridge that gap actually the gap is a perfectly reasonable gap to form

[trenchpng]

* it's something i've noticed and can't say i'm a fan. you're doing both characters such a disservice by removing the entire tragedy of their relationship instead repackaging it with a neat little bow that makes it unrecognisable. i can't help but ask: why? why does boone need to have manny in his life again? why does boone need to forgive him, who is that really benefitting in this scenario? is this not antithetical to the main crutch of his story that the life he once had no longer exists and he needs to accept that?

boone was no stranger to carla being hated. the people of novac weren't shy with their opinions of her and so when his best friend came to share the same sentiment it was but another bitter sting. one he could've gotten over. he had grown to accept that no one was going to see her the way he did. then she disappeared. surely whatever personal grievances he had, no matter how justified, could not outweigh the basic right for her safety. but it did not.

even back then boone didn't have many friends. they were hard to make, harder to keep when carla guaranteed his isolation. that was fine. he was happy. now he had no one. manny couldn't even stick to his facade of caring - what had she ever done to deserve such a fate? worse still manny didn't seem to understand. he still doesn't. to him none of it mattered. she was gone. things could go back to the way they were, the way they were supposed to be.

so why won't boone acknowledge him? everything used to be so perfect, what went wrong? why does he treat him with the same coldness as a stranger? maybe he just needs some more time. he will come around. he has to. it had always been the two of them.

how can you look at all this and then decide that it is not worth delving into? instead pretending that none of it ever happened, that they are holding hands and walking off into the sunset, is more interesting of a story beat. i am blowing this place up.

[factbot]

In a high school talent show, Lenin performed “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”

[trenchpng]

* so the tomodachi life save is going great actually

[paranoidnatrix]

humanization of the criminal butterfly family (i love them) and some father-daughter sketches in attempts to understand how to draw them (i love them too)

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

[acolytics]

horsecade... now in MOTION [woah]

wip of a shot from this! i'm very happy with it, i need to practice lipsyncing more often