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If you walk around Raffles Place area you can find quite a few guys with like almost half their dress shirt unbuttoned. Why do they do this for? Is it to assert their big energy alpha male dominance or something?

I even saw one guy with like at least 3 buttons unbuttoned and nearly his full chest popping up. And before you say SG too hot, come on, he was sitting in an air conditioned restaurant

Now I'm not saying all but it does seem like a common trend mainly among Chinese uncles.

I've worked under three Chinese male boomer bosses and all were complete horse shit toxic to deal with in their own ways. One thing they always share in common though is being skyhigh in their ego, stubborn as shit, refuses to admit any mistake they make and having unrealistic warped expectations in their worldview. It's like their secret goal is to just make employees as miserable as possible till they break and cry.

Likewise at home, my father behaves like this. My friends I know tend to complain of their fathers behaving badly and being hard to talk to too. When we think of the typical Chinese uncle, it's usually the sort of guy in a white singlet, half balding and loves spitting and smoking everywhere.

What's with this attitude? Malay old men I see don't have this issue. It feels like a Chinese cultural thing too because I'm sure it's kind of the same for the older men in China. I mean of course not all Chinese old men are like this but I feel like a far more significant number of them are

All those media outlets talking it's the end of artists and Ai companies themselves claiming AI art is the future should shut up at this point.

I don't know if it'll improve in the future but unfortunately right now AI image generation is still so backwards compared to video generation tech. Image gen is only good if you're looking to make a one-shot one-time marketing collateral poster or a single concept art for example.

But it's still absolute trash when it comes to making comics for story-telling or refining specific elements. Like right now I'm trying to give ChatGPT Image 2 directions to refine a comic panel and despite me telling it like 10 times in a row what it SHOULD do, it just refuses to do it. For example, all I ask is for the grass in the image to be a taller at waist length.

Yet ChatGPT just keeps ignoring that request and makes all kinds of other changes and when I make the instruction super clear and specific? ChatGPT just gives up and keeps regenerating the same image over and over.

The same goes for characters, especially when it comes to their appearances. Over time ChatGPT eventually hallucinates more and more in drifting the appearance further from their initial concept art. I also noticed the AI is simply incapable of making a certain art style that is beyond the conventional design norms. Like if I asked to adjust only the nose width of a character, ChatGPT instead adjusts the entire face width along with the nose. It's like the AI simply cannot comprehend at all adjusting just any one singular part of the human body.

So yeah I feel like giving up. I think comics currently only work for people just looking for the AI to do everything and go ballistic in creating whatever art style, character design and camera angles it wishes with very little human intervention. But by then it's hardly your creative input left.

At this point I feel like it's better to just use Seed Dance to make my story-telling then screenshot frames of the video to make into comic form instead lol

For those who havent noticed, the Collectors Chest in your house now has greyed out icons for every single document in the game, meaning if all this time you've just been selling away those useless bounty posters and even basic small notes used in quests because you thought they were insignificant.... oops sorry, PA just said ALL of them should be put in their Collectors Chest.

This is so so stupid beyond disbelief to me. No offense because all the rest of patches PA has been putting out has been great. But this is the first time I have to say it's been a really stupid change from them.

It was never made clear from day one EVERY single one of these papers, from the generic bounty posters to simple quest notes with only one line written on them, had to be kept. And why keep them when PA themselves made all these seemingly insignificant papers sellable anyway and every guide website on day one was recommending players sell them to clear inventory space? Also these documents are all recorded on our journal tab so there was literally 0 reason whatsoever to keep the physical items.

So now if you're looking to fill your Collectors Chest for completionism, too bad. It's all over. All because of a sudden change from a patch. The strange thing is PA lets us know retrieve unique weapons/armors so why not the documents too? Or otherwise, they should just automatically give us back all the documents we already unlocked and have record of in our journal

Some people also think of Grab but Grab is technically not due to its founders being Malaysian.

Ironically I don't see much Singaporeans even talk about Razer as much as Grab. Some people, especially non-gamers, never even heard of Razer. The company seems more well known in the US than in SG funnily enough

I've been using ChatGPT to do some recreational comic for fun lately but it also got me thinking if AI is even relevant for making comics these days.

Comics used to, traditionally ,be a medium for story-telling for artists with a very low to no budget and obviously with none of the resources of Hollywood to make a movie. It's same as for book writers. But now with AI being able to generate entire movies for anyone sitting in front of a computer, is there even a point in making comics with AI anymore?

The price for a full meal at Saizeriya is still astonishingly low compared to every other money-grabbing restaurant in a typical SG shopping mall. How's Saizeriya able to do that yet afford such massive rental space in shopping malls? And most of the staff seem to be local, not foreigners.

Or are they the only honest restaurant chain left not trying to scam Singaporeans with inflated prices under the pretense of rental, GST and stuff? Some of their food is even cheaper than that from a food court.

Tools like SeedDance 2, Kling and VEO can already full movies starring characters with utmost consistency but yet when it comes to generating comics using AI tools like NB and ChatGPT, character consistency is still horrifically bad. What is up with this difference?

And why can't AI just use the same method of making videos to make images of consistent faces?

I just got ChatGPT Plus free trial so thought why not make full use of the new image generation tool.

Before making the comic I needed to generate the concept art for my characters and holy shit, it's way more tedious than I expected. Well, it also depends on how anal you are on keeping your characters consistent and to your liking. To me, I couldn't stand any too slight deviation from how I envisioned my character to look so I ended up generating over 20+ concept art. All this, just for one character btw.

Then when it came to making the actual comic, I had to keep correcting the image generations multiple times to get I wanted.

People nowadays act like AI art is low effort slop but really, it's not. At least not if you're trying to make the art look as quality as possible. It made me realize generative AI requires a skill people think they have but not many do have: the precise prompting and description of words. You can think of AI as the employee and you as the manager. If you can't give precise instructions, you'll get shitty results.

The game certainly doesn't have the best story-telling but I've heard a lot of people claim outlandish stuff like "the game doesn't even a story", which is outright untrue and makes me question if these people even played past the first several hours.

I've played 150 hours and have reached Chapter 8 so far and the main questline has been pretty cohesive to me. The whole story has been following Kliff's quest to find his Greymane friends again, build up his camp then finally start chasing after the Black Bears. All the while, also getting mixed up in the politics and conflicts going on in each region.

I think the confusion comes about because the questline constantly diverges into other subplots involving other non-related characters. But this is actually necessary, given the insane scope of the game's world which is unprecedented for any video game in history. There's at least 5 distinct huge regions and over 70 bosses that PA must somehow entangle Kliff together with so the story had to become less cohesive. In Witcher 3 for example, CDPR only had mainly Novigrad to care about working the story with. In Skyrim, yeah there's more regions but the world is incredibly small by comparison and all joined by the same Imperials vs Stormcloaks thing.

And one thing I also loved is how the main questline slowly nudges the player region-by-region to open up the map eventually. So yeah I don't even care if the story suffers bad writing so long as it serves as an excuse for players to battle some new cool giant boss.

For me it's...

1. Neighbors from hell - Utterly ridiculous nothing can still be done about such people and I pity those residents who have to deal with them while the authorities can at best just 'mediate'

2. Gay peeping in toilets - Those creeps who take advantage of male urinals with no separators to stare at other guys peeing, or even j**rk off to it. It's happened to me a few times especially at those certain infamous MRT spots like Clementi... I still don't understand how this isn't illegal and no one has got arrested till now.

I don't wanna ask this question on the other r/acheraviation sub since I know there's a ton of Joby fanboys all lurking there ready to let loose their guns shooting as usual on Archer's main weakness. So I'm asking here as I want to hear from the people who support ACHR and truly believe they can make it through.

Just what makes you guys think Archer can transition?

One thing I seriously don't understand till now is why Archer chose their eVTOL design the way it is for. If vibration is such a massive issue for the flight, then why the hell did they even choose this design?

In fact, I'm kinda confused as to why no other eVTOL company has tried to follow Joby's design, which remains the only one radically different from the rest. Archer, Vertical and Beta all have the same tilt rotor design. If the tilt rotor design sucks so bad, why are most of the eVTOL startups using that design for???

Also I still don't understand why Archer's design has so many more tiny rotors compared to say, Vertical's design. Maybe that's why Vertical could finally transition their aircraft but Archer is still struggling?

Ever since I switched to dual wielding, I feel so unstoppable as Kliff. His attacking speed is vastly improved due to the dual wield animations being faster. And even better if when I stack on gears on both weapons, allowing me to fire multiple weapon effects all at once.

Right now I wield a mace and sword with like 4 different wep effects flying out everywhere anytime I attack. I feel like ultra instinct Goku or something.

So what's the downside to this combat style? Or is there none? I struggle to find any advantage to reverting back my shield again or just using a single two handed wep

I've been working the typical office job for some years now but this is something I can never get used to. I don't understand how all my colleagues seem to have no issues with their butts planted to their chairs 9 straight hours in a row? To me, staying at my desk sitting down for more than 4 hours straight is just madness. I will get sleepy eventually by the 2 hour mark or so and also feel horribly uneasy and it's even worse right after lunch when the food coma kicks in. My office also doesnt have standing desks unfortunately so I'm really just forced to sit there the whole time.

I've also read sitting for such prolonged periods of time is incredibly unhealthy so it really surprises me how no one else in my team feels like that. They can literally sit there for hours on end from morning to lunch, lunch to 6pm, without getting up much.

Anyone else like me or am I the odd one out? It just feels so weird because it shouldn't even be natural for humans to sit for so long without moving around