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4mo ago

Backseat pressure
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Bad @jlai.lu 4mo ago
Thanks 🥰

4mo ago

Disproven

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Bad @jlai.lu 4mo ago

4mo ago

Sidney Sweeney with a time machine

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Bad @jlai.lu 4mo ago

Ah yes, peak lefty meme: a meme about a manufactured controversy using the sexism variation of the racist meme template.

4mo ago

A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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Bad @jlai.lu 4mo ago

I wouldn't say it's exclusively an effort issue, there's pretty legitimate reasons why people don't draw: fear of judgement, lack of belief in self, anxiety…

In my case the last time I had fun drawing was in school, until my art teacher repeatedly told me I drew like shit and I just gave up drawing. Thought I'd never be able to draw. Took me 20 years until I tried again. People's words can have unexpected effects, that's why I try to be extra encouraging to new artists.

I can relate to the frustration of really wanting to draw but thinking you can't do it. I understand why they use the AI drawing generators instead of doing it themselves. I just wish they could believe in themselves the way I did. It's not easy, but it's absolutely worth it.

5mo ago

A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

I started by making comics with horribly drawn stickmen in Paint, black and white, no colors, yet they got a positive reaction due to the writing (example of my work 2 years ago).

Unless you suffer from a severe physical disability, there's no excuse, you can draw your own comics.

The best part is while drawing your shitty stickmen, you'll get better at drawing, learn to represent emotions and actions, develop a style, start to have a visual identity, maybe even get good at it who knows.

I learned to draw from scratch in my late 30s, two years later I'm doing illustrations for my own games - there's still a lot of room for improvement, but it proves practice pays off even without tryharding and you don't need AI to draw your comics for you. You just need to get over your fears of judgement, try your best with the skills you've got, and keep doing it on a regular schedule. Slowly, over time, you'll get better. I promise. It'll be fruitless and frustrating sometimes, but you'll get big visible leaps in your skills every now and then.

That's why I'm always upvoting and complimenting those who are just getting started and can't draw much yet, but have good ideas and a vision. I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. A lot of people tend to stop if they don't get positive feedback.

If you're considering making AI comics, try drawing them instead. Who cares if it's ugly, give it your best and share it with the world. You might not get many upvotes, but if your ideas are good enough you'll get a few comments and the motivation to keep trying, and that's a lot already. Don't fret over having no "talent", I don't have any either, still can't draw anything decent with a pen and paper :-)

5mo ago

En 2028, la musique générée par l’IA captera 24 % des revenus des artistes

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

Très mauvaise idée de croire que :

les LLM ne sauront pas imiter la nuance humaine tôt ou tard
les gens moyens sont capables de ressentir la différence / de perçevoir la qualité musicale

En réalité au bout d'un moment la seule chose qui séparera la musique de LLM de la musique humaine, c'est le fait de savoir que c'est des humains qui l'ont crée, de pouvoir aller les voir en live, etc.

Faut faire gaffe à pas trop être dans le déni parce que tous les milieux créatifs vont être frappés très fort de la même façon. C'est comme les peintres qui disaient que la photographie n'était pas du vrai art et que les gens ne trouveront jamais les photos belles parce qu'il n'y a pas l'effort humain du geste de la peinture derrière… ça a permis au milieu de la peinture et des arts plastiques de se réveiller, de se révolutionner, et de devenir plus intéressant et important que jamais, mais ceux qui ont refusé d'accepter que le changement arrivait se sont juste trouvés largués et dépassés (on se souviendra par exemple d'un peintre autrichien médiocre qui est devenu dictateur génocidaire parce qu'il pensait pouvoir s'en sortir en faisant des peintures semi-réalistes sans le moindre esprit créatif derrière qui ne valaient pas une belle photo).

5mo ago

Dogwhistle

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

I like colors.

I color things in my own ways because it makes me happier than using normal colors.

Don't overthink it there's no message (except the orange skinned fascists, that's a tradition in my comics).

5mo ago

Dogwhistle

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

Can a bro not do an innocent roman salute or two anymore in this day and age?!

5mo ago

Dogwhistle

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

Bonus panel for no good reason

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

It's a specific type of leftist we have in my country, french communists are a… special breed, let's say.

In the 1980s our communist party bulldozed a migrant worker dormitory because they hated migrants that much. Red MAGA or something. The party recovered from that era, but french communists are still chauvinistic, xenophobic, and strangely not that much into anti-imperialism (which is meant to be the redeeming quality of tankies). They do however share with tankies the traits of applying "class first" logic to a lot of conversations, which makes them deathly allergic to intersectionality, and being terminally online and way into infighting. Thus they usually end up booted from actual activist groups, since they tend to hold us back and prevent us from actually getting shit done in the streets.

Hence me calling them pseudo-tankies because it's hard to label them. We just call them tankies here: they're members of a party that supported the crushing of the hungarian uprising with soviet tanks, and is ambiguous about tienanmen (no denying it happened but very alt-history about it), so pro-tanks they are.

I have an easier time getting along with the average online american tankie than with our local communist party's members.

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

It's the factory preset look for these pseudo-tankies that show up in my local activism group every now and then.

Always the big earring, unkempt beard, this specific shape of glasses, and the cheap aliexpress t-shirt with a political message on it.

Not my fault Vaush stole the look!

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

Hell yea I would love to vote for the people I actually want to vote for

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

Lore accurate explanation I'll use if anyone else asks, thanks!

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

I'm not from the USA and I'm tired of US politics 🥺

The current rise of the far right in my country started two decades ago, in part because of leftist infighting. I'm not going to point any fingers, I was guilty of infighting on that day too. It was so unexpected, nobody thought the far right could beat any of the leftist candidates… many lessons were learned that day.

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

TFW you worked so hard on little details but didn't take into account the big details…

whoops☹️

5mo ago

Infighting

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Bad @jlai.lu 5mo ago

You caught me: I spent a lot of time working on getting that bit juuuust right because because I'm going to get it printed on a mug and gift it to a couple people who'll love it. Glad you liked it, it means I did it right!

Making t-shirts and merch is my sidequest when drawing smuggies. I don't sell them, it's just for self-wear, I've got an entire wardrobe of them by now. The one I'm wearing today :