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  • They did, actually yeah! And I agree it was a little weird. They had to hit the same “Oomph Oomph” pattern of Beast Wars, so it was “Bease Tees”, basically. It works, it’s the version that plays in my head when I think about it, but it’s definitely not as natural as two short words…


  • Beasties in Canada. I guess they didn’t like “wars” in the title of a kids show? But we got an American station too, so when we’d watch it in Ontario it’d be Beasties, and then we’d flip the channel and it’d be Beast Wars coming out of Buffalo. As far as I know everything else was the same, or at least I never noticed anything…





  • I do wonder if they plan to draw a line somewhere in “how AI” the image needs to be. Like, if it’s a raw photo, that’s fine. If it’s enhanced by filters or something, probably not AI fair to say.

    But what about the, like, magic eraser and infilling? If I use a tool to erase a bunch of people from a bridge and draw new parts of bridge that weren’t in the original photo… is that AI?

    If I use AI to pull a mask and cut someone out from the background, and then put them overtop of a stock background, that uses AI to do work I could have done by hand. Probably fine. But what if I use AI to paint a new background that didn’t exist before this photo. Is that AI?

    If I take a picture of me in a real place, doing a real thing, and then use AI infill to paint a different face onto my face so it’s not me anymore, but the rest of the photo including my body is real, is it AI because that person doesn’t exist?








  • Ah, the Relay Server is only half of the service! If I understand correctly from the documentation I skimmed, and my existing knowledge of streaming systems, the relay server is just there to handle relaying the video stream from one device to another one in the worst-case-scenario that they can’t reach each other to form a direct client-to-client connection.

    So probably your relay server has never been used.

    But that’s just for media, and just for bad network configurations. The actual part that coordinates who can see which devices, etc, and sets up the media connections, is the other server, which it sounds like you’re not running. So your services are currently still using the public server to find each other and initiate contact!







  • psycotica0@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldTattoo - Deathbulge
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    1 month ago

    Nah, respectfully, I think you’re wrong. Or at least you and I don’t agree on what’s the funny part.

    In the original the comic introduces the guy died, we learn about the tattoo, and then the joke is that Death is bashful or whatever. And the extra panel doesn’t really move that joke forward at all, or enhance it or build on it. It kinda undermines it by leaving us with a feeling of “none of that mattered though” rather than leaving us with the image of embarrassed Death. It’s still in there, but it’s no longer the final image that lingers.

    But the thing I find interesting is that you’re not alone… I’ve seen jokes and comments before that I felt were just one panel, or one line, too long. We had the punch, and then there’s just something more after. And it’s happened enough I feel like it’s got to be like a “kind of person” or “sense of humour” rather than just “skilled vs unskilled”, you know?

    Because your version does have a kind of subversion to it, a sort of second twist… but I think for me it’s a twist back to where we already were, so rather than feeling like it’s adding to the scenario, it instead feels like it’s unconfident in its punchline. Like the comic equivalent of asking someone out, but then hedging with “as a joke”, because you wouldn’t want to be seen taking a risk and failing. But by not sticking to your guns you’ve also weakened your initial pitch. In this case they made the joke that Death is excited and shy, that’s the bold premise, and the new panel instead says “but whatever though he’s still cool and unmoved and the same thing would have happened whether the guy had the tattoo or not, and the joke is actually that you’d think it would even matter nevermind”

    Well, that’s my unsolicited critique! Sorry I just happened to read your comment while I had time and was feeling “typey” 😛