So I work at a home improvement store, and one of my co-workers does some contracting work on the side. He is trying to encourage one of his neighbors to put some simple small-park kind of stuff on a plot of land he owns so that he (my co-worker) can pick up some extra business installing it. He's seen me messing around with Stable Diffusion on some web apps at work on my down time, and he asked if it was possible if I could take a photo of the site and use AI to insert some of these elements into it so that he could show it to this potential client and maybe sell it to him that way. "Sure," I said, thinking to myself, 'I can just use inpainting to blend this stuff into the image pretty seamlessly. Easy-peasy.' It took me almost a full day of on-again, off-again work to get a picnic table I could live with. But I CANNOT get any model, any prompt, anything to make a swing set that I can live with. I've been pecking away at this problem for several days now, and every single attempt at a swing set has resulted in something that is mangled, twisted, or some terrible hybrid of OTHER playground equipment that my co-worker definitely doesn't want in the scene. At this point I'm just working on it for the challenge, but I admit that I'm stumped. Short of training my own Lora, does anyone have any advice on how to make a coherent swing set to bring into this image? \>\_\< Yes, this is a silly problem to have, I admit that, but I've also learned a great deal about how Stable Diffusion 'thinks' in the last few days, so I consider it a learning experience. Still, does anyone else have any ideas?
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
Have there been any movies made about this? I'd watch the hell out of it. The Wikipedia page doesn't mention any films made about her or her battles, but if it was some small Japanese production we might not have heard about it.
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 75%
Don't threaten me with a good time. >_<
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
I LOVE The Long Dark, but I do wish they'd have different seasons if you survive long enough. Something tells me that even summer would be no picnic on that island with the crazed wildlife and geomagnetic storms. Maybe for a sequel someday?
Also I admit that I like playing non-story games with the wildlife turned down to mimic more reasonable behaviors. Then it really does become more of you against the elements, rather than you against crazy wolves. @_
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 94%
This. No programs I routinely use images for support it.
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
Whelp, I've got the setting of my next horror game figured out!
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
"We didn't want light to interfere with the POTENTIAL of this room! Just IMAGINE all of the possibilities! It's so much easier to visualize in your mind when you don't have to actually SEE anything."
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
And now we have plotlines for another few hundred Doctor Who episodes!
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
I remember that when Star Trek Online was first announced, it was VERY different than what it is now... and it actually more closely resembled what you were describing. Each character would be free to do some of their own hero stuff in the galaxy but also be on 'hub ships' where you were a smaller part of a much larger whole, participating in shipboard stuff. Then it changed hands or somesuch, and the new leadership said, "Nobody just wants to be some random person on a starship! Everyone wants to be the captain!"
To which I said, "No, actually... ._. I think I would enjoy just vibing on a supercool space ship with my Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism lifestyle." So it would be interesting to see someone try to do STO as it was originally intended.
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
A strategy/management sim where you are a Madam running a brothel. Lots of ways to take it-- set it in different places/eras to signify how far under the radar you have to be, change your regime from harsh to compassionate, build out the brothel itself, recruit talent (ethically or unethically), decide if you want to theme the establishment to attract a certain clientele-- lots of interesting things you could do with the setting!
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 37%
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
Okay, firstly, I'm not sure Gurgaon exists. Yes, I looked it up, yes it appears to have its own wikipedia entry and all that. But that just SOUNDS like a fantasy kingdom ruled by an evil wizard. So I would NOT trust any callgirls from some evil magical realm, thankyouverymuch.
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
The cat DOES match the top very well. Good color choice. ^_^
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
I keep hearing from lots of news outlets that "the economy really isn't that bad, guys", and sure, compared to the Pandemic or Great Recession, maybe... but the big elephant in the room, the thing that NOBODY is talking about, is housing. Housing is still utterly impossible to attain for most people, and I have yet to hear of any good solution for it other than "hope the market fixes itself-- but NOT with a real estate crash, that would be bad! ;-;".
Office real-estate is crashing because so many places are still trying to make WFH, well, WORK, and lots of people are asking (quite reasonably I think) "Why don't we just rehab those office blocks into housing?" Unfortunately that is an expensive endeavor that the big real estate firms don't have the appetite for, because it involves running new utility lines and doing lots of other changes to the structure of the buildings to make them actually livable. It's easier for them to build their McMansions outside of the major cities while the cities themselves start to rot away.
There are SO MANY solutions to this that don't suck, but no-one is going to try them because the profit margins are too slim. >_<
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
The "Well, shit." look on his face really sells it for me.
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
It's a working breakfast. Gotta stay on that grind!
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
Memes! You'll have so many memes!
400 MEMES!
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 84%
The moment I hear someone try to call ANY job "unskilled labor", I have to fight the urge to shove the tools into their hands and say, "Okay, YOU do it, then, since it's so simple."
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
Very cool! Thank you for sharing this! ^_^
AuthorInkwell 1y ago • 100%
I would love to have one! ;-; Could you maybe just offer financing terms that I could afford? Please?
Courtesy of a new post recently on [kbinMeta](https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta).
Okay, voxel games were cute, everyone loved Minecraft. But that doesn't mean that voxels are the solution to everything! I really am sick of getting excited at a new game on one of the major services (Steam, Epic, etc) only to have the phrase "voxel graphics" tacked onto the end. Yes, I'm sure it's easier to design with than conventional graphics, and I respect that. Maybe you want to just get your game out there based on its other merits, like its mechanics or gameplay loop. Cool, I totally get that. But things like Urbek City Builder or Shadows of Doubt just make me cringe a little inside because it's an otherwise great concept mired in graphics that, to my eyes at least, look a little dumb.
Random illustration for a story idea; the story idea may not pan out, but I was proud of how the art came out! Steps: 40, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 10, Seed: 900795974, Size: 1536x1536, Model hash: 25ba966c5d, Model: aZovyaRPGArtistTools\_v3, Denoising strength: 0.3, Clip skip: 2, Token merging ratio: 0.5, Ultimate SD upscale upscaler: 4x-AnimeSharp, Ultimate SD upscale tile\_width: 512, Ultimate SD upscale tile\_height: 512, Ultimate SD upscale mask\_blur: 8, Ultimate SD upscale padding: 32, Version: v1.3.2