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Comment on Do you have favorite lighthearted or silly songs? in ~music
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Comment on What's a word from another language that you wish was a thing in English? in ~humanities.languages
cold_porridge (edited )LinkI love the French phrase yogurt singing (chanter en yaourt). Specifically it refers to when French speakers sing English songs but don't know the language. The phonemes are imitated, but what...I love the French phrase yogurt singing (chanter en yaourt). Specifically it refers to when French speakers sing English songs but don't know the language. The phonemes are imitated, but what actually comes out of their mouths is gibberish.
And while I am a native English speaker, I listen to plenty of foreign musics I can't comprehend and yogurt along with them while driving. The phrase is too specific and sympathetic not to use.
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Comment on AI, Stable Diffusion, Models and Prompts in ~comp
cold_porridge LinkFor sure check out civitai for rendering models to play around with. Most of them are designed to produce different styles of women to be frank, but a lot aren't and are very good. Read up a bit...- Exemplary
For sure check out civitai for rendering models to play around with. Most of them are designed to produce different styles of women to be frank, but a lot aren't and are very good.
Read up a bit on unfamiliar parameters, such as you'll want to know about noise schedulers and guidance scale.
Toy around with inference steps (roughly correlated with image quality at cost of speed).
When you're ready, start playing with inpainting for finer control.
And finally regarding silhouettes - unless you find a particular model trained for it, I suggest this might best be done with a little manual labor atop stable diffusion. I know that's not the most fun answer, but I believe it's probably the best answer. Use photoshop or equivalent to break down images into their composite shapes, turn those shapes to black. If you're lucky you might be able to specify "in the style of a silloute" though and get solid results. If you try let me know how it goes.
Most importantly have fun with image generation you can run on your own computer, and hope that helps!
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Comment on Imax CEO says weekend box office shows “paradigm shift” in moviegoing: Revenue jumps, company swings to profit in Q2 in ~movies
cold_porridge (edited )Link ParentHah maybe this is a difference in the circles we were in then. There was definitely something of an "Avatar fever" in my high school, for better or worse. People sure made the connection of it to...Hah maybe this is a difference in the circles we were in then. There was definitely something of an "Avatar fever" in my high school, for better or worse. People sure made the connection of it to Pocahontas, but that only continued to show how often they were talking about the movie at all. I would describe the overall feeling I got at the time as "this film may define our generation."
Obviously it didn't (right? What movie does define millennials anyway? Harry Potter? LotR?), but the excitement was sure palpable in the moment.
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Comment on Imax CEO says weekend box office shows “paradigm shift” in moviegoing: Revenue jumps, company swings to profit in Q2 in ~movies
cold_porridge Link ParentI agree and disagree. While I typically wouldn't argue that anecdotal evidence should hold much weight on anything, against ideas like "cultural impact" I feel that anecdotal evidence is really...I agree and disagree. While I typically wouldn't argue that anecdotal evidence should hold much weight on anything, against ideas like "cultural impact" I feel that anecdotal evidence is really our best measure to work with, especially in the moment.
Hindsight being what it is, and grade school culture being what it is, I remember Avatar 1 being a box office juggernaut when it hit theaters. Week after week it felt like the zeitgeist wasn't slowing, and the film kept finding new box office records to beat. Merchandise was absolutely everywhere. Every company wanted a piece of the IP to put on their product package. People were getting tattoos. With special effects like nothing anybody had seen before, and at the height of the 3D film revival, at the time it felt like movies would never be the same again.
Now fast-forward to Avatar: Way of Water, at the tail end of covid, at a time when theaters are afraid that streaming might just kill them, and frankly hitting when I'm just a more jaded adult. The movie crushes the first week of box office, and continues to hold well above water (heheheh) for several weeks after. It manages to become the 7th highest-grossing US film of all time.
And maybe it's that my circle is just much more homogeneous now as an adult than it was in grade school, but despite all the above the feeling I'm presented with about Way of Water if ever people talk about it is always the same: it was "good." Really good special effects, mediocre story, but overall distinctly unnoteworthy. A far cry from the loud zeitgeist of the first. We watched it, we said "neat," then we stopped talking about it.
Perception bias to be sure. I'm curious if anybody got a different read than mine amongst their peers, especially since I live in a bubble and I know it.
Freedom Call's A Perfect Day is too much fun not to love. Powermetal as a whole tends to be a lighthearted and silly genre, but this song in particular tickles me.