• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    Old man Vanderhaus down by the docks, he says he has it on good authority that this has happened already. He says this is how we all got here in the first place.

    At first I thought to myself, I said self, what if the deep ones are in cahoots with the government. With the more I look and the more they do, I thinks to myself that they’s just caught a glimpse of the madness. This was just the opportunity they’s needed ta get an edge on every man, woman, and child. They being the great old-ones of course.

    Some say d’eys an erie glow down in the national harbor. You can only see it from the plains coming in over the Potomac. There’s an old quarry used to be there, She goes down deep. Got swallowed by the river back when the Indians were still running the roost. Some say it’s not a quarry at all and that it leads into the innerds of that world itself.

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      It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.

      Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right

      Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically

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        8 hours ago

        Same one was in political memes yesterday.

        Brace for impact, the model that produces these came out only very recent.

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          They’re getting better, AI content that emulates a drawn or painted piece of artwork isn’t immediately obvious that it’s AI.

          Eh, it’s fine for generating low quality shitposts.

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            I’d go as far as ai is completely fine tool to create art with.

            What bothers me is that these are unlabeled oneshots, the model does not allow creative user input nor a direct prompt and the user posted it without disclaimer.

            Here on shitposts thats sort of ok but i saw this one elsewhere first.

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            6 hours ago

            Generative AI is the ultimate shitpost, how much more low effort can you get? Besides postings someone else’s shitpost.