Racing the Darkness - Comments, Questions, and Engagement

[Buster's Uncle]

The tradition in the SMACX fan community is Fungal Gin.

[Trenacker]

I dislike gin. I decided on beer, partly because it fits what I think the Tribe and Pilgrims would drink. I'm sure fungal gin is also made, however.

Re: Lamarckianism, you are correct there was an error. It should have originally read "...the transmission of acquired physical traits, such as from use or disuse, from parent to child."

[Geo]

I'm kinda curious now if it wouldn't be possible to let some picture AI tool create more Chiron-like environments as we know it from the game.
Makes the visuals of your work here less going all over the world.

[Green1]

Looks sharp, though AI still has issues with consistency of style and using same model for persons over multiple images.Also, some of your images are not loading, but that may be my browser or AC2 itself.

Careful.

On some corners of the internet, people are irrationally hostile to AI art.(I don't believe here, though).

In another gaming community, there was a passionate user by the name of Murder Unicorn that used AI art to illustrate a playthrough of a ASCII/ tile set rogue like.

The amount of hate and threats he got was concerning. So much so, he had to delete it which I would not do.

There was a Youtuber by the name of The AI Wizard. Loved his work. He would make battlemaps using AI. Some of the techniques he used were very advanced like AI inpainting and AI outpainting. Anyone that says that true AI work is not art fails to see it if it's done properly as a tool like Photoshop or Dungeon Alchemist (which uses AI, too). But the Patreon map makers hated him. Even death threats. After all, well heeled DMs for DnD paid for their maps. If you could go to an AI and just pull a map without paying them, it would mean the end of their hustle. Art always promised a path of creativity, autonomy, and just a more humane way of living without being born to privilege (for at least the top 10 percent of the trade).

But even in a pre AI world, art was mostly limited to those that had the cash to live while they improved their skills. Either that or supportive spouses that would help float them. And the art world was always pay-to-play.

[Buster's Uncle]

I should say that I luvs the Gurl Tarkin image for being that, though.

[Buster's Uncle]

I was just reviewing the last page of Racing and, reading reply #391, came to a thing you do sometimes that could be done better: the multi-subject entry.

Here, I'm reading about a population boom 100 year after Planetfall, and the generational change in attitude that accompanied it.  The next pic is of a handsome young man in a spiffy white dress uniform and, with no transition whatsoever, we're suddenly talking about smart fabric.


-Instead,

(^the both-ways pointing arrow button towards the right over the Reply box^)

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or even just

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would provide a universally-understood break and ease the jarring-ness of that - contra-wise, sometimes you figure out a connection between subjects and come up with a transitional phrase, obliviating the need.  It's unfortunate that forum formatting makes simply some extra vertical spacing between topics somewhat impractical -most especially with pics involved- but I think it's communication/style issue worthy of giving some serious thought...