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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rip_art_bell@lemmy.world to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

It's my turn to set the Community Challenge for this week...

Theme

Dive into the gritty neon-lit streets of cyberpunk with our latest theme: 'High Tech, Low Life.'

In this artistic exploration, I challenge you to capture the essence of a cyberpunk world where advanced technology and societal decay intertwine.

Picture towering skyscrapers and neon signs, juxtaposed with the raw struggles of life on the streets. Your art should tell stories of resilience and survival in an urban dystopia, where the futuristic and the forlorn are inseparably intertwined.

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we're all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    | Prize | Points | |


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| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +1 point | | Theme is clear | +1 point | | OP’s favorite (me, this week) | +1 point | | Most original | +1 point | | Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point | 6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points 7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities

I'm looking forward to seeing your creations. 😀

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"ESA survey showed" -- not exactly an unbiased report

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes! I hated that on reddit. I would sometimes have a cool thing to add, but because the thread was 8 hours old and had a thousand comments already, virtually no one would see it. There were some exceptions: on TV episode discussions sometimes they'd use new/contest mode default sorting for the thread and you didn't feel like you were shouting into a void.

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry you've been misled.

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

MIDI controller - I love how it put the keys on the front bumper 😂

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Samurai warrior in 1970s New York City disco; this one has me rolling... 🤣

[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

1980s arcade if it were in 19th century Victorian England

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If all you consume is news and social media -- which have incentives to show the most extreme views, events, and content -- you're going to have a distorted picture of the world as a 100% awful, dangerous place.

But most of the time, in most parts of the world, most people are just living their lives. I live in the Portland, OR area and you would have thought by the news coverage of the 2020 George Floyd riots that the city was burning to the ground; in reality, the disruptions were limited to a few square blocks downtown. The majority of the city went on like usual.

There's a lot more nuance to things about the US, too, than those outside realize.

People do fight back, every day. Our courts are prosecuting Trump. The House Speaker loony you mention in the thread came about only after a long, drawn out debate; the Republican Party is incredibly divided and ineffectual right now. Roe vs. Wade fell, but many blue states strengthened protections. Mass shootings get a lot of press, but they affect a vanishingly small part of the population.

Obviously there are problems and not everything is fine. And we have to be vigilant. But this sentiment among people -- especially certain Europeans I've noticed -- that the US is just a pure dumpster fire is a wild exaggeration by people addicted to screen time.

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[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The housing market isn't going to crash. We're at the highest mortgage rates in 23 years and it's STILL a sellers' market. The fact is, inventory being incredibly low + home buying being desirable for many == no reason for a crash. Even the Great Recession only resulted in a temporary price dip.

I know a lot of millennials and zoomers would LIKE for there to be a crash because they think it would let them afford a home. This is a false belief, though: if there were a major crash, it would likely be accompanied by a recession in the labor market too, so there goes your ability to pay for the house.

Also, it's not black and white. If house prices and interest rates cooled off, it would let me (a homeowner) refinance my mortgage.

Morever, there are benefits to home ownership outside of equity / profiting off a sale:

  • Tax benefits (I can deduct my mortgage interest and property taxes; can't do that with a rental)
  • Do what I want with my house -- customize, upgrade, etc.
  • No landlord to tell me what I can or can't do, or kick me out
  • For complicated reasons, there aren't many detached house rentals in my area, so owning a house means no loud, obnoxious apartment living -- this is the BIG one for me

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-crash-experts-191734802.html---

[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top

Nice!! This and the instance-blocking are welcome changes.

[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Capitalism ruins everything.

[-] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

People would riot. GOG would have a massive influx of traffic.

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