I could totally see Bandit playing something like this with his kids. Just... keeping it age appropriate.
Sorry for the delay. Was out of the house for Christmas.
Here's an example. On the left are my original, all from my head designs for my two main characters, in the middle are the best AI prompts I could generate for them, and on the right are my new designs taking some cues from how the AI interpreted my descriptions of them.
Merry Christmas!
I've used some of the AI generation to create concept art to help flesh out ideas that I've been having a hard time visualizing. Then I draw the actual subject myself using the generation as a reference. It's helped a lot
Hi, Pot. Meet kettle.
Bold take, to raceswap The Grinch.
You definitely do. Part of why I bring it up is in the second book, the "enlightened" human villain gives himself over to "the great force of the universe" and immediately regrets it once the demonic entities he's been chatting with accept the invitation.
Demons would fit the secular definition of extraterrestrial life. Especially the interdimentional variety. While I definitely believe God isn't so creatively bankrupt as to stop short at Earth, (The Space Trilogy is so good...) I wouldn't be surprised to learn our leaders have been consorting with literal demons playing the role of ET. Pretending to be angels of light is their MO, after all.
I don't want to live in a world where you can't express an idea because someone else expressed it first and called dibs. Actual plagiarism sucks, but how are you supposed to be able to avoid reiterating something someone else said in a world where literally EVERYONE is pouring their stream of consciousness into the void for archival?
Many of the greatest minds in history believed in God and studied His world to better understand His mindset as a Creator. Ironically, I see a lot more blind faith in people who believe Academia to have all the answers.
I always liked the concept of Steel. It's a shame that he didn't become DC's working-class Iron Man.
The girl cried wolf and the villagers descended upon the friendly sheepdogs.
...There's a Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoon in here somewhere....
I've mentioned it here before, but there's a thirty year old episode of Adventures in Odyssey that's a dead ringer for the current "book burning" nonsense going on. From an explicitly liberal teacher decrying their removal as censorship, to the books implicitly being sexual in nature. Listening to it again recently, I was shocked how much of it went over my head as a kid even though I still got the overall message.
I came up with it myself. I haven't read Dawkins either. The high-energy, constantly changing nature of the internet just makes radiation a fitting analogy. Especially looking at the results....
Scrooge McDuck has been lying to me this whole time!?
My brother got banned from a prominent Mega Man discord for "transphobia" because someone dug up a years old screencap of him saying he disagreed with trans ideology. He refused to recant, so they banned him. It's because of nonsense like that I refuse to use discord.
It really is a worldview that can only survive by infecting unrelated spaces and banning dissent.
The word "meme" comes from gene, being something that spreads and changes as part of existence. Social Media has been like exposing our memetic code to intense radiation, causing mutations and growths of unrestricted cancer.
Gotta love the Nintendo Directs. How else will we know that seven Farm Simulator RPGs are coming to market?
If the devs make a good game, great! Good for them. I will watch their careers with great interest. But if they don't make a good game, why should I care?
The "Indie Debut" award went to a game with a developer who's made at least two other games. Pizza Tower got robbed.
Not canon, as far as I'm concerned. Terry being genetically related to Bruce detracts from the idea that he was just some punk kid who had his own dead parent trauma that pushed him towards justice.
Yeah, evangelism will be certainly be made so much more efficient by killing nonbelievers.
The newer Pokemon trailers have given me an absolute hatred for the term "game footage not final." And the sheer number of midwits it has enabled to defend Gamefreak's corner cutting.
Something I find interesting is that they HAVE to race swap, because they've made the stories and history of everyone else off limits.
Think about it. Any display of an ethnic nationality other than white (or gag white-passing) is immediately labeled a racist stereotype and offensive, doubly so if it's a historical representation of a native culture. It makes everything that's not a safe "current year" narrative downright radioactive. And if you try to steep everything in a fantasy setting, they'll declare everything be "coded." Everything must have a real-life analogue that must be apologized for.
It's just another cog in the homogenization machine.
Laughs in MegaMan Battle Network.