secretly we're saviors

Lii/Emily. 28. INFJ. Fighting game nerd. Amateur voice actress. Sometimes does character art and writing on the side. Core member of the Renegamers (Writer, artist, voice actress). Current voice projects include Final Fantasy VII: Abridged (Aerith, Red XIII), Resident Evil Abridged (Jill Valentine, Annette Birkin), Metal Gear Solid 4: Puns of the Patriots (Crying Wolf, FROG soldiers)

[vanyamired]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[sfaira]

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

[biomic]

[monsieurenjlolras]

Hot tip that, legally speaking, absolutely did not come from my mother (who was, and still is, an activist starting in the early 80s and continuing till now): if you fill one of those thin glass Christmas ornaments with paint, it makes an excelent projectile that you can really whip with a lot of speed and distance, say, out of the passenger window of the car, and it will explode on contact covering whatever flat surface it hits with paint. On an unrelated note, there are a lot of anti-abortion billboards covered in misinformation, manupulative language, and straight up lies all over the U.S. right now.

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Barker then turned his attention to his fellow author J.K. Rowling, who has had her fair share of controversy over the last few years over her opinions on the transgender community. “There’s a lot of pain amongst the transgender people that I know,” Barker stated. “They have a lot of issues in the world as it is, without a famous author opining on the subject. It just seems redundant. It just seems unkind.”

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

‘Hellraiser’ writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry’s homophobia and J.K. Rowling

Prejudice.

[evilspice]

[rapguystuff]

[pusheen]

Tag yourself and get ready for FFXIV Shadowbringers - out now! 🎮

[lil-sunshine-explorer]

[sailorcuba]

FUCK everyone else, i respect YOU!

[everythingfox]

Very important video

[metalslugx-deactivated20220413]

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is fist fighting members of the Yakuza in a bathhouse completely naked except for a hat and a whole line of baskets covering their lower halves while guitar riffs of the battle theme play in the background Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army is truly a serious game and a work of art

[broken-clover]

This has kinda been kicking around in my head for a while so it isn’t exactly new but AU for GG2 where Ky’s the one who gets fridged for the whole game in his magic circle while Dizzy is unfrozen with Thunderseal and proceeds to beat the hell out of Valentine for messing with her family and have some mother-son bonding time with Sin. 

Everyone benefits! Ky finally gets to take a damn nap, Sin get some healthy family time and maybe a bit more understanding on why his family is so messed up, and Dizzy gets to be a badass and stab things.

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[isyourcomputeratorrunning]

[bruhless]

Wow

[iwannabeadored]

that’s the kind of thing I like to see

[johnny--guitar]

he’s not even mad he just sits back down

[toastbutteregg]

[pokemon-personalities]

remember in x and y when u could send other players an out-of-context “Nice!”? i vote for gamefreak to bring that back

[pokemon-personalities]

[pokemon-personalities]

tthis image… this image looks the way happiness feels…

[zangief]

A little taste of serotonin for you all

[sprachtraeume]

rb to make a trans person feel loved 💕