palmotea 2 days ago

For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if

  • echelon 2 days ago

    It's funny to see as a joke, but you can go the other way with this too. Image editing models and LoRAs for "previz-to-render upscaling" workflows are actually incredibly useful.

    I was just writing about this (scroll about halfway down to the images of Sam Altman - though if you like that, do watch the second video):

    https://getartcraft.com/news/world-models-for-film

    The best model I've found for this, that almost bakes in full ControlNet capability, is oddly gpt-image-1.5. It's absolutely OP at understanding how to turn low-fidelity renders into final draft upscales.

    Here are some older experiments:

    https://imgur.com/a/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-5-3fq042U

    https://imgur.com/gallery/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-x8t1ij...

    https://imgur.com/aOliGY4

    I just wish it didn't require invoking such heavy-weight, slow, and expensive models to do this. I'm sure open models will do this work soon, though.

    • pousada a day ago

      You are able to do this stuff with open models for 1-2 years now, i for example have a comfyui pipeline that achieves a similar setup. It’s of course more work and you have to dig into the details more. I also have to adjust the pipeline and tweak it and use different models for each use case. But overall you can definitely achieve that level of control with open models already, it’s just not that user friendly

  • GenerocUsername 2 days ago

    It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes.

    The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

    • n2d4 2 days ago

      That doesn't pass the sniff test, many other pages on knowyourmeme correctly attribute memes to 4chan.

      If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? Maybe you're getting tricked by the fact that 2018 was 8 years ago?

      • miladyincontrol 2 days ago

        I think you are taking their point literally, its not that knowyourmeme is not crediting 4chan, its that the racism/edge is polished off presenting a more mainstream version of many memes.

        • cwnyth a day ago

          This is you explaining that you have never plunged into the depths of Know Your Meme.

      • itishappy 2 days ago

        > If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018?

        How?

        • iwontberude 2 days ago

          Link to a message on one of the many historical archives of 4chan?

    • nurettin a day ago

      > racist trope on 4chan

      So what? Are we going to bring back generational sin as well?

      • appreciatorBus a day ago

        That is exactly what is being proposed.

        Words, ideas, and of course whole classes of people, are tainted, untouchable if you will, and can never be redeemed.

        Progressive "thought" is reinventing caste systems, just with their preferred brahmins on top.

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rollinDyno 2 days ago

This is just Moscow

  • CGMthrowaway 2 days ago

    OK this is too fun. I did Reverse Anti-Render on a dreary scene in Moscow:

    https://imgur.com/a/mqMEPUl

    • theendisney 2 days ago

      I remember looking at an architect representation thinking, but the sun is always on the other side of the building.

    • turzmo a day ago

      Love how the sign "Ulitsa" changes into something unintelligible but keeps different cyrillic characters.

      • HPsquared a day ago

        Diffusion models struggle with text.

        • Sharlin a day ago

          Less and less these days, at least if the text is in Latin letters.

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    • junon 2 days ago

      Looks like Luebeck, Germany.

  • comonoid 2 hours ago

    It seems you haven't been to Moscow for the last 20 years. With all the oil money + cheap workforce it looks much better than EU capitals.

    It is rather Novosibirsk.

  • ErroneousBosh a day ago

    Or Dundee. The third "after" pic needs more Surron tracks up the grassy bank though.

fredley 2 days ago

As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.

  • varispeed a day ago

    For context, internet has been nerfed in the UK, because of Epstein scandal politicians there started thinking too much of the children.

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  • TeMPOraL a day ago

    For however brief a moment. It's gone now.

    • CodesInChaos a day ago

      Reddit shows cached versions of posts on the front-page, so it might actually remain there for a couple of hours after the subreddit mods deleted it.

  • tucnak a day ago

    > Thank you for submitting to /r/memes. Unfortunately, your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):

    > Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND FOLLOW A GENERAL MEME FORMAT

    > All posts must be memes following typical setup/design: an image/gif/video with some sort of caption; mods have final say on what is (not) a meme

    Reddit mods, man.

    • Pikamander2 a day ago

      > 4,613 points

      > 96% upvoted

      > Removed by a single moderator for subjective reasons while the sub's front page is full of crap

      Ah, the quintessential Reddit experience.

      • hk__2 a day ago

        There’s nothing subjective in the removal reasons.

      • Imustaskforhelp a day ago

        Well to be fair Hackernews posts can get flagged too by the community itself where people then later talk about how or why a particular post gets flagged and discussion starts moving about the moderation/flag issues in HN.

        (But this isn't to say that the fault's within the moderation community of HN which are great but just the issue which to me is imo that if many users flag a post, it can get flagged and the friction of getting it back is hard or a post typically ends up dying usually if it gets flagged in general imho)

    • sph a day ago

      Born too late to be a Stasi bureaucrat, born right on time to be a Reddit mod.

  • Imustaskforhelp a day ago

    I was also wondering how the image got 16k+ views (as of now) (the stat was on imgur)

    I was wondering what/how many HN users clicked on the image (not knowing it was uploaded to reddit too)

    But now I seriously wonder out of those 16k (as of now), how many were/are from the hackernews community and how many from reddit.

Toutouxc 2 days ago

Looks like Machinarium. I like it.

  • sebmellen 2 days ago

    What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!

    • SamBam 2 days ago

      I played it with my wife on the couch over many winters evenings, and then ten years later played it with my daughter. Good times. Reminded me of playing Sierra games as a kid.

      • alterom a day ago

        Same here, though no kids yet.

        I bought the soundtrack on vinyl (by Tomáš Dvořák, aka Floex), then got a record player, aaaand ended up accumulating a ton of records since then.

        I still play that record though, it never gets old.

        The other game that we enjoyed in a very similar way is Primordia [1]. Named our first cat Crispin afterwards.

        You will probably enjoy Boxville [2]; it's very much Machinarium-inspired. Its sequel, Boxville 2,came out recently, so there's more in store.

        It's Ukrainian-made (Machinarium is Czech), so the devs share a gritty post-communist childhood to draw the inspiration from.

        [1] https://primordia-game.com/log.html

        [2] https://store.steampowered.com/developer/triomatica

    • yokljo 2 days ago

      I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.

    • eps 2 days ago

      Yeah, it's really a masterpiece. It's utterly fantastic.

nicbvs a day ago

This looks like the average abandoned World's fair location from the 2000s

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HPsquared a day ago

Looks like a lot of the "millennium" architecture (late 90s-early 00s) we have around my home city.

magospietato a day ago

Complete aside, but it's beyond infuriating I need to enable a VPN here in the UK to view this link.

lloydatkinson 2 days ago

Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

  • reallydoubtful 2 days ago

    The link is blocked by imgur themselves, not the British government (authoritarian or otherwise), because the ICO was going to fine them for historic poor handling of children's data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

    • Aeolun 2 days ago

      What does that even entail? Why does a site like Imgur even need to know which users are children?

      • lmz 2 days ago

        Didn't it have user accounts and comments?

      • ErroneousBosh a day ago

        It had user accounts and it hosts prodigious amounts of porn, so it ran afoul of the part of the law that says that if you have user accounts and host user-generated content of any sort you have to make sure you're not showing porn to children.

        It's annoying, but Imgur really do need to get a handle on things because that's where people host all the CSAM they post into Matrix channels.

  • Analemma_ 2 days ago

    If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.

    • 0x3f 2 days ago

      I wish the UK looked this good.

  • Imustaskforhelp a day ago

    > Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

    Here you go. I had it uploaded after hearing from the magospietato's comment but then saw you talk about the same so I am pasting the same image link here as well

    https://files.catbox.moe/c4smhd.png

junon 2 days ago

This was the first thing I thought of, and it's gotten the hug of death now; thank you for uploading it.

Kye a day ago

This looks like a scene out of Enterprise.

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