Physkal a day ago

Sorry, I don't get it. whats with the terydactl substance

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  • somat a day ago

    The caption is what really sells it for me. It is the classical farside experience.

    Looks at comic, (shrugs) it's weird but not funny in any way. Reads caption

    "Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to capture a mood. Think of something to add."

    Literal spit take and laugh. Yep he still has the touch.

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    • chrisweekly 16 hours ago

      Yes. The word choice is exquisite; "loose" got me, right as I was visually interpreting the scene. Larson is a genius.

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    • jjkaczor 19 hours ago

      Hmmm - my interpretation is that this is an example of a "prompt" for a generative AI "artist", and the result was something that "craps" over the original intention of the "house on a hillside"... (so, a bit of a commentary on generative art from someone who was professional cartoonist)

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      • hobs 17 hours ago

        I think you are applying the wrong decade(s) of thought. This is a man who had to clean his pen to use it - it is very likely he is using artists "prompts" to practice his digital art (as he mentions its very new to him), which is something that was normal before the current era.

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  • hcs a day ago

    For the benefit of me 30 minutes ago baffled by the responses to this down thread, this is perhaps a r/BirdsArentReal thing? e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/1n1yr3d/wha...

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    • firesteelrain a day ago

      Nah, its just absurd Larson humor.

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      • hcs a day ago

        Oh I get the Larson humor, I mean Physkal's comment and iancollmceachern's implication that a reference was missed by stickfigure

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  • iamwil a day ago

    This is my favorite too.

    The caption reads like an AI prompt. The last instruction, "think of something to add" resulted in the AI adding a pterodactyl on the house, dropping bird poop on it. Probably not what the prompter meant, but technically correct.

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    • tristramb 11 hours ago

      Same here. My first though was 'This is an AI prompt.'

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  • stickfigure a day ago

    Pretty sure it's bird shit.

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    • iancmceachern a day ago

      This exact chain of interactions is what I come to HN for.

      When Meat Loaf died, I commented "His name was Robert Paulsen" (you know, because in death membersbof project mayhem do have names, his name was Robert Paulsen". Someone commented something to the effect of no it wasn't, meat loaf wasn't his real name it was Marvin Aday, and then someone else commented to their comment "It's literally a fucking line from the movie".

      I dont know why these layers of weirdness delight me so, but they do.

      Thanks for the pterodactyl shit commentary folks.

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      • bitwize a day ago

        Was gonna say, I thought Robert Paulsen was the guy who did Yakko's voice?

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      • MrDrMcCoy a day ago

        I posted the same thing on Reddit and got downvoted to hell.

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    • latchkey a day ago

      winged reptile shit

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      • jcynix a day ago

        Let's call it "early bird" shit …

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        • card_zero 19 hours ago

          Well actually pterosaurs were way different from birds, and don't even count as dinosaurs. Though they had a downy covering similar to feathers. But they're not bird ancestors.

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