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Hey.
So, as I have discussed it with some of you here, our almonds have been activated, but even weaponised autism bodies need the fuel.
All jokes aside, inflation is crazy everywhere. Just ordering some stuff was viable some time ago, but it's getting less so. Plus, tasty food is good for your general well-being and making it so is not only a skill all adults should have in my opinion (you are strong, independent adults, learn life skills that make you depend less on everyone else), but it can also be fun.
As much as I would love to feed you all, that's obviously impossible. The next best thing is, I curate a little collection of recipes and break it down so you can make it with relatively simple ingredients that don't depend on specific brands and using from scratch stuff as much as it is viable. Making your own pasta and churning your own butter would be fun, but I work a full time jerb that's not ASMR whisper cooking on Tiktok in a peasant dress.
It's going to be a combination of food from all different kinds. Some Hungarian (none of the war crimes Americans call goulasch), some Asian, some inauthentic shit that will get you cancelled, some mains, pasta, soups, desserts.
So gather around, my friends and eat like kings.
1st Place: u/arglide
2nd Place TIE: u/Norenia and u/Eltrion
This was a very difficult contest to judge because all the submissions had good things going for them in different areas. Norenia and Eltrion's pieces had strong kinetic posing, and arglide's piece used the chocobo and the blocking to set up a starting beat to an action scene. In my opinion everybody had an argument, but a winner must be called, so I went with the piece that was most intriguing to me. Congrats everyone!
Welcome to AikiA I, an art contest on KiA2 using only AI images! AI capabilities have made it possible to translate ideas into art simply by directing a model. Contrary to complaints about AI slop, I think this could substantially widen the band of human creativity, as many more visions can be realized in much less time. This contest is an attempt to help make that happen.
- Prompt
This contest's prompt is an action scene with Tifa Lockhart. Any version (FF7 original, Advent Children, etc) and any art style (anime, realism, Ghibli, Disney, etc) works. *Any other character or setting can be included. Don't think you're limited to motion shots either. Poses that would happen on key beats are also part of the prompt, like this or this. (I don't think these are amazing shots by themselves, but you get the point.)
Comment below with your suggestions for future prompts!
- Rules
- Upload and link images using catbox.moe in the comments on this post
- *Limit 1 entry per person, but you can replace your entry until submissions close if you want to revise.
- 1300 pixels is the max of the longest side of the image. This is easy to game (i.e. generating HD and resizing), so it's on the honor system.
- All secondary techniques are allowed, such as LoRAs, inpainting, refinement passes, etc, EXCEPT ControlNet or reference images. This is so people won't just draw the art and color it with an AI, and also to encourage freshness. Also on the honor system.
- No overt erotic imagery, such as cameltoe etc. I reserve the right to use the Miller test.
- Submitters should provide their model, prompts, LoRAs, and other parameters upon request.
- Judging criteria
The judgment criteria is based on two factors: fidelity (technical quality of art) and expression (the depth, originality, and effectiveness of sentiment expressed).
I'll be the judge for this contest. Everyone's biased, including me, but let me know if you see a problem. I reserve the right to change anything if needed.
- Scheduling
Submissions will be open today and Friday or until u/DomitiusofMassilia stickies this thread, whichever comes last. So if Dom doesn't sticky until Sunday, submissions will be open until then.
- Winning
Contest winners *and their winning submissions will be recorded on future AikiA threads as a hall of fame. (Sorry, no prizes right now, not sure if Scored supports flairs etc. If we do get prizes up and running, they'll be retroactively given to winners)
That should be everything. Good luck everyone, hope you have fun!
- Future contests
Comment with ideas for the next prompts!
10/11 days ago 4chan went down as mentioned here
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19AxC0OeGm/4chan-hacked/c/
It's now back.
It's still shit, don't worry.
Here is an original Colonial Penn commercial from 2024 with a white couple talking about the seventy year old marathoner.
https://youtu.be/EXGTeKt1fqw?si=iktgzr6pF9M3Xj6B
And here is a 2025 commercial with a black couple talking about a seventy year old marathoner
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/TfZZ/colonial-penn-sisters-neighbor
Sorry this is the only place I could find the latest commercial. Anyways it's essentially the same commercial except the couples race is switched.
Original: https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1915233075455521020 (thread)
Archive: https://archive.is/PRj1h
This snuck by me yesterday.
In case you have been living under a rock, disparate impact has long been a tool which the feds use to come in institutionalize rules that favor minorities over whites, and has been used to turn school districts into the worst sort of lord of the flies institutions you can imagine. How it worked was that the mere appearance of disparate impact on any minority by policy was de facto assumed to be racist, and draw federal investigations. I can think of two school districts that were utterly destroyed by this, Minneapolis and Orange County, FL. Blacks now run the halls in Minneapolis violently assaulting people at will, and they know they won't face any discipline because of the policies the school district had to institute at the point of Federal agent guns. Treyvon Martin was suspended from school after being caught with stolen jewelry, instead of expelled and referred to police for indictment.
It is my hope that this EO starts us on the long road to overturning Griggs vs Duke Power.
First, obviously don't give Disney money. Shouldn't really have to say that, but you never know.
Second, hold off on setting sail if you were planning to in the first place. The first 3 episodes were ok. Kind of boring, not a lot happened. Very similar to how the first couple of episodes in the first season were slow and kind of boring too, but the difference here is that there is supposedly big time skips between each set of 3 episodes. So unlike in S1 where the slow beginning was building up to something, it's hard to see how multiple disconnected sets of 3 episodes could be building up to anything.
But so far, I'm not as enthusiastic as I was with S1. There are several really awkward and just odd scenes with the blonde ISB chick and the tryhard security guard, Mon Mothma's daughter's wedding, and Cassian being basically sidelined for most of the whole 3 episodes. The big standout character from S1, Luthen Rael has much less screen time unfortunately, though he does get a cool moment.
As far as woke goes, there is a very hamfisted plot point about some of the people from S1 being on the run from the Empire and working odd jobs on another planet. The Empire is doing a census sweep and there are some clunky and obvious references to being 'undocumented' and 'illegals'. They just couldn't help themselves.
S1 was good enough to me that I'm willing to extend them a little bit more rope, but the cracks are starting to appear. Giving the male leads less screen time, focusing on random relationship nonsense, injecting some real world political claptrap, no real major story hook yet apart from references to the Ghormans.
The whole experience was very mid. If it's being set up for a really great payoff, that's one thing. But the show appears to be, if not yet digging it's own grave, it definitely has a shovel in hand. I'm gonna wait to see what it does with it, but if you were planning on giving S2 a try, my advice at least is to wait.
Look up his background lol
This is almost fucking COMICAL.
Humam Sakhnini who is an Israeli American by ethnicity was born in Nazareth, Israel and is the new incoming CEO of Discord.
