Moonside

Moonside wrote

Reply to AI art endgame by twovests

Tbh I have the feeling that the real dystopian parts of this will be the social ones, image generation brrr is really the innocuous part to me. Like imagine Disney automating in-betweening work using patented proprietary methods, outcompeting every other animation studio in the business. I fear the backlash will lead to an expansion of copyright, whereas, as a provisional demand at least, we could be demanding something cooler like basic income.

All that said it's cool to have someone deep in the topic around here.

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Moonside wrote

I kinda feel like there's a misunderstanding why astrology and occult have been seen as cool in the first place. People into those have been into them despite the polite society seeing them as silly. It's this disregard for respectability which makes them cool. Making it a wholesome queer aesthetic that demands to be respected misses the point and also any "wholesome" social space is pretty unbearable imo. Not everything needs to be a fandom.

I feel like queer spaces have really happily embraced up the gendered marketing.

Yeah I definitely agree. My expectations by now really are that it's a bunch of people with somewhat aligned interests inopposition to cishet norms and anything beyond that is a result of struggle.

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Moonside wrote

Also on an entirely different tack: I just dislike how in some queer and SJ spaces it's beyond gauche to consider astrology silly. Like we ought to have some kind of reverent attitude towards it or we're some hegemonic white cishet dudebros. Like it's ok to like goofy and silly things and not to expect people to all agree with it or to think that voicing disagreement is a moral failure.

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Moonside wrote

As a kid I had a demo cd that had you walk in a space ship to access video game demos and one of them was the Beavis and Butthead adventure game demo. Probably should watch the show and play the game someday!

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Moonside wrote

Wow looking or touching /r/SRS in our Anno Domini 2022? TBH it was cathartic and funny to yell at poop and see how upset it made people when basically it was all with-in the freezepeach norms your average gentlesir poster supposedly subscribed to. Also it was hilarious what a boogeyman that subreddit was back in the day!

That said, I feel like the Social Justice nexus of early 10's really doesn't exist anymore, sort of like the edgelord right got largely ingested by the MAGA machine and became more mainstream, not that their views ever were that far of from the conservatives except for liking weed and weeb stuff.

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