Everywhere...
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. The Gothic Sorceress sits alone at the university of magic's cafeteria, without her Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot. However, something feels off: she's surrounded by Avian Intelligence ads everywhere, big posters and marketing object "AI Next", "Go AI", "Join AI", "AI Win", "Use AI", "AI Now" etc... and many users around with their AI Parrots. She thinks out loud.
Gothic Sorceress: Ugh, can't escape it.
Panel 2. She runs down a staircase filled with the same AI ads everywhere, even large statues of parrots are here.
Gothic Sorceress: sighs Everywhere...
Panel 3. In a corridor with still many ads, she runs and push the door of the toilets.
Gothic Girl: Get me out! Somewhere, anywhere!
Panel 4. She sits on the toilet, looking exasperated, still fully dressed. The toilet paper, wall poster, and even the wallpaper all feature the same AI ads.
Gothic Girl: Seriously?... Even here?...
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davidrevoy
🎨 📹 Timelapse/Making-of video: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/038.mp4
It's not often that I paint directly from scratch with no sketch or line art, so I wanted to share this one. It's a risky technique, and I'm even eyeballing all the perspective, no grids here. I also avoid blending and smoothing, showing the brushstrokes on the canvas more clearly. I'm doing this to incorporate 'errors made naturally by humans', and I like it. It feels closer to the spontaneous style I like in my ballpoint pen sketches.
88 ★realtegan@wandering.shop
I feel this comic so much.
ginaintheburg@mastodon.world
@realtegan
Ditto! Ever so ditto...
wakame@tech.lgbt
At least on the toilet paper it makes sense...
★landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place
To be fair, the last panel (and related plumbing) is the most appropriate location for it 🙃
Archivist@social.linux.pizza
We will fight the avian intelligence with all our wingless might
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
@Archivist ✊
stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
you are still really traumatized by AI aren't you?
yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
@stefan I don't mind 😁
stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
@yuki2501 Don't get me wrong I enjoy Mini Fantasy Theater as well.
ChrisMcZork@metalhead.club
was at a tech conference today. Same vibes. So many booths that presented the same slop.
mkj@social.mkj.earth
I feel this one so much!
#miniFantasyTheater
jimfl@hachyderm.io
I did in fact see an ad for an AI powered “clever commode” this morning, so, it’s happening
leah@chaos.social
I feel it sooooooo much! Thanks for putting the feeling in a comic!
gekitsu@toot.cat
oof, this one is so real, it hurts…
brazmogu@mastodon.gamedev.place
at least it's a place you can say it deserves to be in
*really* in
VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
At this rate AI in the bathroom wouldn't surprise me since everything must be smart now and every smart thing must contain :sparkle: AI :sparkle:
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
The coin op company that handles the washing machines in my apartment building has left a little announcement that in some short amount of time, they will no longer accept cards or coins, and everyone using those machines has to install their app to use them.
The other level to this is you need an app to get access to the toilet paper in a bathroom stall
★capergrrl@mstdn.ca
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Please don't give them anymore ideas... heh
benroyce@mastodon.social
but i like Weird Al Yanovic
(/s)
try this:
imagine every "AI" you see is "Al" and you can turn it into a game of "who is this Al everyone keeps talking about? he seems important, but I don't know this Al. Could it be Weird Al? Al Pacino? Al Green? Al Gore? ...Wait! It's Al Roker!"
★Dianora@ottawa.place
Be sure to have the AI controlled app so you can get the toilet dispenser to work.
capergrrl@mstdn.ca
@Dianora Oi don't encourage them...
Dianora@ottawa.place
@capergrrl I'm just irritated today. I have a parcel coming today and the damn company wanted me to download an app to track the delivery. Fuck that.
Bredroll@mas.to
AI is eating itself, I can imagine a blue cannibal parrot already
davidrevoy
@Bredroll :blobthinkingeyes: Oh, that's a brillant idea. Thank you for sharing, I'll see if I can do something with it. I'll keep it in a corner of my brain.
4 ★f@ieji.de
Investors and private equity usually turns products into a mess that fails to serve the user well. "We suck more, and that's guaranteed"
pantaRhei@freiburg.social
in the last panel she's misunderstanding the intention of the Avian Intelligence.
It's surely meant to remind her: Aw, 💩 - oh, by the way … 🤪
SCNR
cryptax@mastodon.social
amazing! But I'm surprised you put in the text first, image after! I do it the other way, but I'm a real amateur, so maybe actually what I do is stupid!
thematic@mastodon.green
@cryptax This had me think of printing text and only text, then penciling.
davidrevoy
@thematic @cryptax I took this habit after applying this (gold) tutorial, that was an in-house comic 'tips and tricks' at Disney: https://www.tumblr.com/fundz64/150897623108/aapstra-disneys-comic-strip-artists-kit-by (page 1 shows the problems, page two the solution).
The max area size of the panel is rarely what we can fully use to express the art, character and acting. The space occupied/eaten by the text speechbubbles substracts to the full area of the panel (and usually goes on the top). That's why I prefer now to place it first.
5 ★cryptax@mastodon.social
@thematic thanks! Very interesting!
cryptax@mastodon.social
@thematic this is gold mine!!!
Pixlar@mastodon.social
wow!
Leah@macaw.social
Thank you! That's awesome. Your talent is truly impressive.
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
If you hadn’t written that, I wouldn’t have realized it.
(the only thing that loos a bit off is the toilet seat)
runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place
This comic looks quite different to me than your others (also before I read your description). Less traditional cartoon-like and more painterly. Somehow even the facial features and expressions seem quite affected. Both styles are nice, but there’s a certain charm and expressiveness to this one here.
davidrevoy
@runevision Thank you
edgarej@sunny.garden
nice, i love it.
yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
BTW I would appreciate more misc. comics. Even in parodies AI gets tiring 😅
Stellar@mk.absturztau.be
@yuki2501@masto.hackers.town @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org pick up a pencil and make it happen :ablobcatcaramelldansen:
matt@mastodon.nz
advertising on the toilet paper haha that's dark (don't give the industry ideas 😬)
gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno
"Wipe your ass with our AI Toilet Paper™ today, for an enchanted user experience"
daniel@masto.doserver.top
Well, at least AI is in its rightful place in the last frame
mcpinson@mas.to
Report reason:
[✔️] I'm in this comic and i dont like it
hj@shigusegubu.club
i need that AI TP, i need it for wiping my AI (ass interface) after i take my AI Slop (doomp)
pdragos@todon.eu
Took a shuttle today to the airport, and it was playing art deco retro-futuristic slop reels alongside (presumably) slop jazz.
It was bizarre. Playing ads at least makes sense?
csolisr@hub.azkware.net
Well, at least they already know what they think about them, as they handily put their logo straight in the toilet paper so people join the dots
globcoco@mamot.fr
well... as toilet paper (PQ), c'est plutôt bien trouvé
ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org
Feels like that yes.
sindarina@ngmx.com
I love this whole series 😄
hellomiakoda@pdx.social
Of course it's in the bathroom. The toilet flushes directly in to the AI so it can generate "new ideas".
lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
@hellomiakoda , no bathroom there that I can see…
sigsegv@hachyderm.io
@lp0_on_fire that’s a water closet in the last frame.
dontony@hachyderm.io
my coworkers have started generating their reponses to me with AI, they overuse emojis and it’s making me tear my nonexistent hair out.
★davidrevoy
@dontony I totally understand. Since I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing , my AI style radar went super sensitive to many things more than the em-dash and emojis in lists: Rule of three, Elegant variation, False ranges "from ... to", and more... It's everywhere, esp, companies communications/blog now.
crow@irlqt.net
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org where else would you expect to find piss colored shit
normjess@tech.lgbt
last year one of the top 'culture shocks' for people visiting the US from the UK was apparently 'screens on urinals showing ads'
so this isn't a joke, its just our grim late stage capitalism/consumerism reality
davidrevoy
@normjess 'screens on urinals showing ads' really feels like some cyberpunk dystopian stuff. Oh yes, late stage capitalism, I'm sure they'll show us how they can dig deeper and deeper to new 'innovations'.
lasse@social.tchncs.de
✅ Toilet Paper Over
★ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
★https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUfbdSnSNno
PersistentDreamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
This. This comic right here. Nominate this for comic of the year or something. This is exactly how it is.
Stem
J'avoue, ça serait tellement jouissif de se torcher avec l'IA.
davidrevoy
@Stem 😆 😆 hehe. Je crois que c'était mon point de départ au niveau écriture: "comment avoir du PQ en case final avec IA marqué dessus?" :D
★TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com
👍💯👍
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