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redslug · 5 months
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I'm a sucker for punishment. Challenged myself to achieving exactly what I want purely in AI without cheating by finishing the pic off in a proper drawing program. Behold the struggle of making this fine gentleman.
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Here's the base I drew in all it's MS Paint-looking glory.
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What I surmised from the about 2 hours of struggle this took me: 1. The statement that "it's as simple as writing some prompts" is a fat lie. 2. AI art has a stage of looking like ass before it starts to look good similar to normal art. 3. The algorithm can be unimaginably, remarkably, monumentally dumb. Artificial Stupidity is a thing and it's pervasive.
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Mother of God
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Did...did you just draw a dog there?
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STOP I'm putting both dog and cat in the negative prompt.
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Screw you too, bot, screw you too. Honestly can't imagine what it must be like to try getting your exact vision in SD without having at least some art skills to help the algorithm through it's mental deficiencies.
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howtohero · 5 years
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Being Eaten By A Giant Monster
So... you’ve definitely seen better days. You’ve been eaten which is... less than ideal. You’re so much more used to eating food than being food. You foolishly missed out on taking “Being a Food 101″ in community college. I bet you really regret that now. That’s a five credit course. You could’ve learned a lot then. That could’ve really come in handy now. Sure you’ve got this guide, (either because you had it on you when you were eaten or because you were not the first superhero to get eaten by this thing) but we’re no substitute for a five credit community college course on how best to cope with being a food. But whatever, you can’t change the past (unless the thing that ate you also ate a time machine, if you see one I’d use it). It doesn’t need to be all bad. It’s sort of like the time you shrunk down and went inside your buddy to fight off a living virus or some evil germs. And that wasn’t so bad. You got through that with only minimal trauma. So let’s do some damage control.
If you’re lucky (well, relatively) you’ve been swallowed whole. If you’re unlucky then you were eaten by Ken the Monster With Twelve Thousand Teeth And Not All of Them Are Where You’d Expect Them to Be. In which case you’re probably bleeding a lot. Possibly missing some limbs. Honestly, you might be dead. Have you considered that? In which case, you don’t really need this post anymore, so you can leave. You’re dead bye. See you when you get resurrected when Ken takes a dump on a magic crystal depository. If you’ve become a ghost then you should have no trouble escaping the monster of the beast you’re in. Go out and bring fear and fright to cold autumn nights. You got this and I believe in you!
If you have survived though and are severely wounded because the monster was pretty good at chewing but not like good enough to severely mutilate you, you need to tend to your wounds. Turn bits of your costume into a makeshift tourniquet (bet you wished you had a cape now.) And begin making your plans for escape. If you were eaten along with some sort of doctor, then ask them for help. Legally they have to help you before attending to their own injuries but you should still act fast so they don’t die from their own injuries before they can help you. (I don’t know if this a real law but as the most powerful person alive in the monster you get to make the laws so hey!) 
Escaping from the inside of a monster is a bit more difficult than getting eaten by one is. You see, giant monsters will eat just about anything. This is a facet that can definitely be used against them if you’re trying to kill one, but at the moment it’s being used against you. You should’ve coated yourself with poison before getting eaten. It’s much easier to climb out of a dead monster than a live one. Once again your lack of forethought has led to your downfall. If the monster is one of the like eight? Is it eight? (Ah man I think it might be nine these days.) Really? Wow ok. If the monster that has eaten you is one of the nine types of whale-like monsters we’ve got running around the planet then your best bet at escape is through the blowhole. This might be a bit scary. Naturally your first instinct is going to be to stay by the mouth. But that’s just a great way to get knocked over by the next thing Big Blue eats. Which, if past trends prove reliable, is going to be an aircraft carrier. So hop on down that throat. Take the trachea tunnel to the blowhole and climb out through there and hope you’re not underwater. If you’re not in a whale monster then your options are a tad more limited. Basically you’re going to have to create your own escape hatch. I hope you brought a weapon of some sort. Hopefully a blade so you can slice your way out, but an explosive will do in a pinch. As long as you can get far enough away from it after you arm it. Which could very well be possible depending on the anatomy of the monster you’re in. They might have a very wide throat or something. Or an extra spacious small intestine.
You could also try triggering the monster’s gag reflex. Try to locate the monster’s uvula. Which, honestly, could be anywhere. And there might be more than one. Remember that monster from a few years back? I think it was called Vlarnox? All of its toes were uvulas. Every time it stubbed its toe it puked acid everywhere. Bit of a pain in everyone’s butts. Bit of a day ruiner that guy. If you can do that, and it’s not an acid puking monster, then you can just ride that regurgitation railway out to safety. 
Some monsters actually aren’t all that unpleasant to spend some time in. Monsters eat so many people that some monsters actually have fully functioning societies living inside them. These people form a sort of symbiotic relationship with their monster home. The monster protects them and they in turn protect the monster from monster sized germs. This sort of situation can of course only happen if the monster happens to have the sort of biology that’s conducive to human survival. That means no flesh-burning stomach acid. Clean water from somewhere. Food. Breathable air. Some sort of light source maybe? Situations like these are certainly rare but they do occur!
Take for example the giant monster known as Dr. Brainwave’s Greatest Shame. This brute is hulking 38 feet tall and about a mile wide. She’s got it all, dozens of eyes, face tentacles, back spikes, a flaming tail. She’s got all the makings of a fearsome monster easily capable of terrorizing your average urban metropolitan area, if not for the fact that it’s so adorably stupid. DBGS acts like a giant puppy. It’s honestly pretty cute. But one night it got into Dr. Brainwave’s lab and drank all of his sentientium, a substance that grants objects sentience. However the substance only works when it is applied externally. So Dr. Brainwave’s Greatest Shame became no more sentient or intelligent than she was before. However, all of her internal organs did. They all came to life and they’re actually incredibly pleasant people to be around. They’ve set up a rather comfortable little society inside Dr. Brainwave’s Greatest Shame. Plus, they sing fun songs to teach you about biology! They’re really catchy. 🎶If your liver’s inflamed you may have hepatitis/ Or it could just be a nasty virus!”🎶 🎶”The brain’s job is to think/ It tells monster’s what to eat and drink/ Unfortunately for you Zach/ You looked like a tasty snack”🎶Classic. (See you’d never have met those fine organs if Dr. Brainwave hadn’t moved into our basement!) I still could’ve done without being eaten. (Oh please, you survived.)
Being eaten by a monster is either a terrible situation (a bit more than you can stomach eh?) or an excellent opportunity for adventure! You could explore uncharted lands, make great strides in our understanding of monster biology, win a world record for most days spent living inside a monster, discover a nefarious plot to weaponize the stomach linings of monsters. The possibilities are endless. Or you can die. But let’s try to avoid that one! Ah but you definitely might though. I hope you didn’t bite off more that you can chew on this one. 
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