Weatherby

Appreciate everyone's support over the years but it's time to move on from the idea that having that stuff up here means anything or matters. Sure, this whole site has probably been fed to an AI already but whatever. Fuck this place.

Unless I missed something, all my art has now been removed from Twitter. You can find me on BS, username is weatherby.

Even though BS is in the process of mutating into Twitter, going to plug again that I'm posting here now. If you're looking for art/reviews, you won't see them anymore on my Twitter page.

@Marlutte1 Don't know how familiar you are with his relationship to his father but it explains a lot. It also gives context to why he uses sockpuppets to convince himself he's a good dad, a window into the misery being disowned has created for him, and I take fiendish glee in that.

@Weatherby_art Seems like its the only thing we can say we have as solace as he single handedly makes our lives and world worse. Because he can't be loved by anyone.

Just poking my head back in here to say I think it's cool and very funny how the guy who owns the site is having Kuuenbu level meltdowns almost daily, apparently.

wow, bad year

Oh good, twitter back to sending me notifications for bigoted tweets from accounts I don't follow. Time to delete the mobile app and know peace.

@alldaycomfort The inevitable end point of "you can't say something has aged bad" generating the most annoying video game Free Thinkers.

@Weatherby_art Insane

Having a real M&M's-meet-Santa "they do exist!" moment as I encounter the straw man from the end of my Bubsy 3D review.

still setting up the art account, but I'll only be posting finished stuff there from now on

@R3DDV5 I kinda want to purge my art but at the same time, can't bring myself to nuke the pieces I did numbers with. Pretty sure it's all been scraped anyway, I don't trust Twitter to have not previously done it and only now update their TOS verbiage.

might delete my art account...

@tzuyus_anxiety I think that's an incredibly pathetic mindset to have and shows a total detachment from their craft. Worse, if they're misrepresenting what they made as being hand drawn then they lack integrity.

@Weatherby_art their reasoning was time efficiency. instead of a 6 month wait on a commission they could generate a baseline instantly then tidy it up over a few days. these were all artists with big followings that had high demand. feel like art became cold production to them long ago.

Tweeting this again and giving notice that I don't think I'll be posting art to Twitter anymore. I'll be leaving art up here that's already been posted, I'm sure the site has been broadly scraped for ages.

@tzuyus_anxiety Only unethical if they misrepresented how it was made and accepted money for it, or used other people's work to train the model. Otherwise, it's theirs and that's ultimately their choice, though sad to see anyone trade their craft for cold production.

@Weatherby_art that's wild. the AI wars are hot and heavy. how do you feel about big artists that have trained a model on their own style and then sell that art? unethical or timesaving? seen that happening now.

@tzuyus_anxiety Artists *should* use it, but the person you quoted I think has a different level of investment in this site and strikes me as the sort to think they have the one know-it-all solution. No offense to you. Just don't care for their tone and I think they're somewhat disconnected.

@tzuyus_anxiety Glaze is a program that essentially poisons your art so AI's can't add it to their model, but doing so can cause visible artifacting. One particular image I did, the program did not agree with the background color and added these trenched patterns all over it at the default level

@tzuyus_anxiety Also, the main motivation for me here is less whatever Twitter is opting people into, that's why I'm not bothering to remove anything. It's more that Blue Sky isn't driven by the same psychotic algorithm this place uses and, so far, it's been easier to get my stuff seen.

@tzuyus_anxiety The problem with Glaze is that it can cause artificating in your images depending on color usage and complexity which might require turning the process down to less reliable levels. A recent picture I did ended up looking like a capcha image on medium.