u/Blue_Jay_Raptor

I kinda want to contact him to see if he did any other work for Spec Dino that isn't public along with wanting to see if he did any work on other projects outside of Spec Dino

he's kind of a big inspiration for my own Crossover project SYNCED since its own Dino designs are HIGHLY Specworld inspired as a way to pay tribute to it and because Spec Dino kinda lead to the project being themed around the mid-late 2000s, so I'd like to ask him on how he'd design stuff like Permian Synapsids if they were in a project similar to Spec Dino

Screw it, we ball.

This is honestly the dumbest piece of tech I've actually seen -_-

1. This is like if you had a dedicated key for chrome, except UNLIKE chrome (which atleast can fill multiple purposes), Copilot only fills one
2. Copilot literally can be uninstalled, which makes the Key COMPLETELY USELESS
3. Considering how sucky Copilot apparently is, I feel like even the AIbros would look down on you for having this (not to mention how any computer with this key will become HORENDOUSLY dated, even outside of the AI bubble popping)
4. This is like if spartans had a "call your AI" button as a Mjolnir attachment he could press just to annoy their suit's AIs (90% sure Halo 5 would happen during Halo 3 from cortana crashing out if that was the case)
5. Some games have a key for right ctrl that now is taken up by this
6. Removing the Key needs you to take apart the entire goddamm laptop most of the time

As someone in the process of getting a new laptop, it really annoys me that lenovo has to commit to microslop's AI bs so hard it probably even turns off the AIbros >:/

They're the most durable laptop brand outside of framework, wtf

In comparison to his finalized design, I find it super interesting how Slash looks here

https://preview.redd.it/rkhu06hluuoh1.png?width=853&format=png&auto=webp&s=31a9cc01449d890eaeec04a570e4e55a7bff100b

he's a lot more aggressive looking in comparison to his finalized design, and honestly with his personality I think I had a very different characterization for him at the time.

As for every other character though (who's concept arts I'll probably post at a later date), Slash is a lot more odd looking in comparison.

I remember he was the hardest character to nail down, whilst everyone else was nailed from the Get go.

I'll probably post the others concept designs at a later date, but I should note a few things:

• Sail probably didn't even have concept art as I remember doing his design freehand, but if he did it seem to be lost
  • Solastar is the first SYNCED character I know for sure was made without traditional concept art though
• Every other character was nailed the first time, and even with Slash's 2nd concept it's essentially a 1-1 version of his model

goddammit

If I add Mekanism it's going to fuck over my Modpack's balancing, and I really need some way to have it be create friendly

EDIT:

Okay so a few things-

1. I am specifically looking for Nuclear Fusion, mods like Create Nuclear add Nuclear Fission reactors which are similar, but not the same as nuclear fusion ones
2. the Owl in the other image is Elva from the Tales of Zale Webseries, she is commonly confused with her Reboot counterpart Alba due to the fact that Sif savery (who is ToZ's creator and has their birthday right now as of me posting this, so please wish em a thanks) does use their names interchangably despite being different incarnations.

EDIT #2:

• After an attempt to get Forgotten Technologies, I now have to note that I am sadly on forge 1.20.1, so my mods are restricted to that version :[

Gonna be tweening it but eh :p

YESSSSSS >:3

Whilst I am hopeful we can beat AI in the long run, we certainly shouldn't have to sit around doing nothing.

Because of this, I would like to make a few ideas

1. We could develop more potent versions of Nightshade and Glaze

Atm stuff like those don't really exist to poison Large Scale AI models, HOWEVER, I do wonder if we can make some way to advance around those models.

When some models were trained on Studio Ghibli's art, it created the Piss Filter, so I'm wondering if we can create something more potent and train large scale models like ChatGPT on it on purpose

I think poisioning the datasets that GenAI uses by using essentially what would be bloatware for training data would be a HUGE advancement on our side, and being sucessful with poisoning a large dataset would be the first way to get a huge win.

+going off what the guy who scraped all of Cara said, he did find a way to deactivate Nightshade and Glaze somehow, so having a way to

2. We could try unionize

Atm subreddits like ours are united, but we mostly seem to be reactive

Most posts here are like "look at this stuff that these AI supporting chuds are pedalling", but I think we could think more tactically.

Imagine if during the CaraAI scandal where someone scraped all of Cara, imagine if we responded with Glazing all the art on Cara.

This way the 3rd and 2nd attempts at Cara mass scraping would've backfired because all the art was outright toxic.

A fact I want to bring up is we're like ants to corporations like OpenAI or Billionaires like Elon Musk, one ant can't take down a Elephant, an elephant is just too strong and too large for one single ant to take down.

But what if we worked together? Corporations are able to secure most of their power because they're organized, it's why stuff like the Roblox boycotts failed, rather than a organized group doing one thing, they acted like the Spider Society in Across the Spiderverse when trying to get Miles and tried to execute an mostly uncoordinated and mostly self oriented mass where the only real coordination was "don't use Roblox", there was not that much coordination or communication between other members of the Boycott, and so it ended up falling apart.

I think we could unionize against Corporations like OpenAI and deal actual damage.

If places we work at use AI, we should convince our coworkers to go on strike and refuse to come back.

Now we probably can't become a proper union per sey, but we can become a proper organization.

I think we should form something like an AntiAI organization to rival OpenAI. If OpenAI is a monster, we'll pull a Pacific Rim and create our own to fight them and even the playing field.

Now granted, I am not someone experienced with this, but an pro Artist AntiAI organization would essentially function like this:

• We bring awareness to the actual harm AI causes to society on a large scale through harming workers, estranging children from having good relations with their parents, and it generally being a piece of techology that only exists to make the rich richer whilst harming the enviroment
• We also try provide tools for Artists to keep their works safe from AI through one method or another (Ex: Running a site where your works aren't easily able to be trained on AI), and could help with finding them jobs for studios that actually value them
• We also could try act as one single voice similar to a Union against AI based and Pro AI companies and campaign against them

I feel we could be like Stop Killing Games for artists, I would say Stop Killing Games at this point is an organization. And Stop Killing Games was significant enough it scared coporations into rallying against it.

We scared companies like EA through Stop Killing Games.

Yes the people in charge of positions of power may be Pro AI to an ridiculous extreme, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE NO VOICE TO SPEAK UP

If an AntiAI organization becomes so strong it manages to get OpenAI to try collaborate with other companies in attempts to beat it, I think we know we're in the big leagues then. Cause they fear us now.

So, I think the best ways to take down AI are:

• Work on tools to actively combat it on a individual level
• Create an Organization to actively combat it on a global level

for every rich person and AI company there are a 1000 Artists to oppose them

If we combine our voices into one single beam, we can move mountains.

WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE SO MANY QUESTIONABLE SCENES.

Basically I'll be putting my Laptop's product care into action so I can either get it:

• Replaced with a more powerful Laptop (like what My Brother has)
• Repaired and fixed

Because of that, I likely won't be able to play games like Minecraft or Halo for the 2 weeks its away

HOWEVER, I still have traditional art and I can also still (probably) play DA if I'm in a private server (though provided on very low graphic settings). So this could be pretty helpful for me to get back into being more active in DA's fandom since I've mostly been restricted to Tales of Zale and Halo, and DA will likely be the only game I can play in those 2 weeks outside of Prehistoria, which even then I'm not really that much of a Dino fan atm :p

Now I want to do this without any events getting in the way, and I feel 2 weeks before october 1st is a good time for this.

• It's inbetween Halloween and Solstice so I'm only going to be missing out on the first 2 weeks of the new season (which I'm not that interested in)
• It'll be during my exam period so I won't get distracted

So with all this in mind I'd like to have a two ideas what should I do :3

• How should I get myself back into being a part of DA's community (now that it's really the only game I can play)
• How can I make the game run better on mobile outside of private servers

Other than that though, I do hope this plan works out XD

Maybe y'all will see my Dragons on MUCH higher graphics when I get my new Laptop :p

Art of Optimus taking down Lord Umbrax to commemorate Peter Cullen for my Crossover Project SYNCED

------------------------------

I honestly can't come to terms with the fact he's gone, but I want to celebrate his life whilst I can.

I was mostly listening to this whilst making it, and I honestly think it fits quite well. Optimus may be fighting an entity that shattered the Multiverse, but he'll do anything to allow everyone within it the freedom to live.

Other than that though, fly high Cullen.

We'll miss you.

Considering what I have planned for Elva's Song, I just want to say I think Elanor might be underselling it TwT

I don't really feel like it's possible or going to happen considering how Sonar is handling the models for DA currently (making them meshes with weight paint instead of individual parts), but it'd be really nice to give my Howler Proper Blue Jay Markings TwT