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  • Ray Trace: Commander Dark Light's too grumpy, she really needs to "light"en up.

    Dark Light: One more joke about my name and I'll keep you in your room.

    Ray Trace: Well, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Konny.

    Kontrast: MY NAME'S NOT KONNY!

    Ray Trace: You know, Konny, sometimes you gotta be the opposite of Commander and shed some "light" on the "dark"ness.

    Dark Light: Ugh...
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Kontrast: How many times do I have to tell you!? My name. Is. Not. KONNY!

    Blueshift: Isn't Kontrast already the opposite of Commander? You know, Yin and Yang? Even black = girl and white = boy.

    Ray Trace: Yeah, I guess I have to agree Kontrast is already the opposite of Commander, that's why he's incompetent and short.

    Kontrast: You know, the one THING you could be like Commander is learning how to SHUT UP.

    Ultra Violet: You know, with "friends" like these, who needs enemies?

    Bluminescence: I told you having friends is a good thing, Ultra Violet!
    Mags
    Mags
    Blue.
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    The duality:
    Just because I look scary doesn't mean I'm evil
    Just because I look nice doesn't mean I'm good
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    An evil version of Dark Light would look sweet and cuddly but is actually a monster deep down inside.
    Dark Light uses a Dark-Light Device to light up a dark portrait of Ray Trace, who had a light snack before entering the ghosts' dark room. Unfortunately, the dark chocolate gave light to the gruesome ghost, who was saving it for a light picnic in the dark.
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    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Dark Dark Light is the dark version of Dark Light, who isn't getting any lighter due to her affinity to darkness. A bit dark, don't you think? Lighten up.
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    Cayde
    Cayde
    If Dark Light were to light up, her name would be Light Light.

    At least she would brighten up the room.
    I've seen the internet react to AI art (especially those that win art contests), saying it's not "real" art + modern art "sucks" and all I'm saying is that we're just seeing a repeat of when emerging new technology threatens the old and reignites those arguments again. Back then, when photography was new, it threatened traditional realistic painting and people were very terrified that it would eventually replace actual artists. This eventually gave arise to more abstract art such as impressionism, dadaism, surrealism, but almost single art movement in history spurred from a reaction to either emergent technologies or as a reaction to established art (ie academy art). The same thing happened when computers arose and so did digital art, as well as 3D modeling. People have argued about intent and how all you do is push buttons on a prompt to generate an image, which means all human manipulation is gone, but it really isn't much different than back then in 1917 where Marcel Duchampe plastered up a urinal and called it a sculpture or when an artist defecated into a can and made a piece called "Artist's Shit", or when Jackson Pollock splattered paint all over a canvas, or when John Chamberlain glued car pieces together with welding techniques and insisted that there is no deeper meaning other than they are just car pieces glued together. Even earlier before the rise of realism, when gritty realism of common life was new, that caused an uproar when it challenged the romanticism (ie perfect venuses and idealized aristocracy) of academy art.

    All I'm saying is that I think the dismissal of AI art because it doesn't follow our traditional mindset of what art is is (such as arbitrary boundaries intent...which is debatable because AI art does have an intent or the extent of the human element into an image) just par of the course for general art for whenever there is a new art direction. I do think the ethical concerns of it are valid when money is involved (it's practically automation vs humans argument) and corporations will probably try to replace human artists with robots, but I simply don't agree that AI art isn't "real" art. I don't necessarily like "modern" art (such as shock art or taping a banana on a wall) but it's still very fascinating to see where that notion all came from and usually, artists who do shock art are very likely very good at traditional art but are just rebelling against the system. In fact, I'd argue that because AI art stoked the "what is art" argument pretty passionately, I think it should join the ranks of impressionism, Van "I was never popular when I was alive and everyone hated my art" Gogh's post-impressionism, surrealism, Dada, modernism, etc. as art because it fulfills the criteria of "causing uproar among people on what is art".

    Not going to defend all AI art. Some people do it because they think they're smug and more self-important than they really are. And I understand the controversy behind it winning art contests against other genres. But AI art isn't going away and I think the controversy it generates will likely just give rise to a new art movement of some sort, and I think we'll learn to eventually accept it, just as we did with photography and we learned photography is a legit art when time went on, AI art will likely develop similar techniques of human manipulation under its belt.

    BTW, I know nothing about musical history but I'll guarantee you that electronic instruments and MiDi very likely caused an uproar with musicians too.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    They actually do use autotune to give the robotic feel, that's one of the positive perks of it I like seeing used for.
    zel
    zel
    ai art can be fun to heck around it but im really iffy about it bc artists Can lose their jobs because of it and because of businesses being awful
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    As I said, this is the age old automation vs humans argument that has been threatening people for ages and to be honest, capitalism at its current state already subjects people through horrendous exploitation regardless if there was tech or not. In addition, the same could be said for digital art implanting traditional art (we don't see 2D animation in movies much anymore thanks to 3d animation practically supplanting it but both tradition and 2d art also survived).

    The whole jobs thing additionally applied to synthesizers vs real musicians as well (as we brought up earlier in this thread), synthesizers also put musicians who worked on say silent films out of the job because of its easy access and cheapness. But on the other hand, synthesizers opened up gates for more people to be musicians not in the traditional sense and I also do think AI art has the potential to open up more people to art as well because of its easy to use nature.
    You and @Ignazio Salvaggi each order a Mini Mario toy from eBay. The packages arrive, you open them and... sike! They were actually Mini Wario's!

    What do you two do now with your toys?
    @Waluigi Time @winstein @Bill Cipher @Rohan Kishibe @Dr. R. Bushroot @Flygon64

    I'd personally like to express my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for taking the free time to draw/render my characters for this fantastic awards show. I adore seeing other people's interpretations of them and how it's viewed through the lens of another person always fascinates me.

    I'd also like to thank the community for voting Ray Trace as the third most popular community character (he is third in command of the Protectors after all, and his trophy is the bronzest, shiniest, most third place of all trophies), he's been my passion design and it really means a lot to me to see him have a good reception in this community.
    Man my opinion on diet soda took a large turn.

    I legit love the stuff, especially for a chronic soda drinker such as myself. It's a way I can enjoy fizzy, sweet beverages without having to worry much about extreme sugar counts. Plus diabetic people can enjoy it without ill consequences.
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    Vivian
    Vivian
    big brian move: alternating between sugar and sweetener sodas
    Vivian
    Vivian
    Guess what sucks?
    They don't make caffeine free versions. Sure, you can opt for another brand, but what if you wanted caffeine free Barqs? Mug don't taste the same.
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    where i'm from/currently at, Coca Cola Zero Sugar tastes fine. no idea why people hate it.
    I LOVE TO SPEND MY SPARE TIME REINSTALLING WINDOWS!!!11!!!

    and then reinstalling all programs I had! :) :D ;)
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Basically, whenever I booted up the computer, it would stick to a "Please Wait..." screen for like, five minutes, and it wouldn't install any new updates because of it.
    MiracleDinner
    MiracleDinner
    Is it good now?

    Did you lose your data or do you have personal data on a different partition?
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    It's good now! No data was lost, Windows even backed up my old programs file in a Windows.old folder in my C drive, but I have to reinstall literally a lot of stuff (because whenever you install stuff it makes edits to the registry and what not so you can't simply click and drag folders of old apps onto the new installation). I think I could just move files from the windows.old folder to the new folder once successfully installed.
    don't tell ray trace I said this but

    blu is the best protector 😍
    Flying on the Fourth of July is an absolute magical experience, especially when you're landing, holy shit. I greatly implore everyone on here to fly on the 4th of July and arrive on an airport by 9pm at least once in their lifetime, the LA county was literally flickering with lights like a Christmas tree, the explosions little more than tiny little pinpricks, and it's across the entire county nonstop, for miles on end.
    do you feel anything being the creator of the poll that was airing during the Will Smith slap
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Not really no. The only notable thing I remember about the slap is the fact that the media immediately dropped the Ukraine war to talk about it and how it annoyed me.
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    To be fair it was a really iconic event and an interesting one, but it isn't good to cover it for several days. I just hate when for example the media has a legitimate chance to make a case against Trump on policy like his tax cuts for the rich and how he signed an executive order trying to punish companies for censoring any content no matter how horrible it is but they only talk about his affairs or other things still important but not as much.
    Transphobes deserve to live in a power outage and water capped off without internet for a week straight.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    They do deserve freedom like everyone else (unless you meant the freedom to say hate speech in this case, nah, they should shut the fuck up), but they should also be made to suffer inconveniences that make our lives slightly worse and more annoying.
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    I feel like outright penalizing someone through law just for saying something bigoted is not good because of freedom of speech, but you should not be frowned upon for telling them to piss off, no matter how much they resort to "I think *insert blatantly intolerant comment here* but won't judge you if you don't" to try to look more reasonable than they actually are.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Yeah nah they deserve power outages for a week.
    It's been decided: I'm taking a week off this community.

    I love you guys, thanks for exposing and weeding out toxic members, and best luck of you. I will be fine, rest-assured, I'm not under any depressive episode, so please don't worry about me and continue having fun and enjoying life, but I need to spend time not interacting with people on the internet.
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