I Thoroughly Enjoy Experimenting To Toy With Different Styles And Ideas. It Rarely Turns Out As Visioned

“What if asuras with longer hair”, next chapter. This time I imagined my own chars having it. Two fabulous and one not-so-fabulous, but still precious baby.

i stayed up way too late drawing him too, i'm a goner

Just a Druid healing his boyfriend after battle :>

Rhywel, @ me Pyrrhus @dion-iron

A piece I made a little while back while waiting for EoD to drop

Meet Veffo! They are fabulously goth and enjoys being a cryptic bitch at the most inopportune times

When you have places to be and a world to save but your newborn daughter is clingy and also 2x bigger than you are

So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

GORRIK precious

even more questionable rats

mini timeline for the inquest detritus. settled on a chestpiece i prefer over the aetherblade coat... my sibling described this look as "evil monk"

this guy

Kevske's good and straightforward plan:

get some nice, useful qualifications in dynamics-- nothing too flashy, the kind of skills to maintain and repair ubiquitous equipment.

make plenty of connections (easy when you're this likeable) and angle for a high-paying position fixing golems or defense turrets or something else the hoity-toity geniuses are too good for

use the good will earned in the previous steps to secure a decent position for Alga (friend/partner)-- probably something with lower skill/social requirements, of course

profit in relative comfort, keep out of everyone else's business.

problem 1: Alga wants to go fight dragons all of a sudden. this is a stupid idea, of course-- he's a meek little nerd with no applicable skills and besides, the best thing the asura can do while everyone else is getting themselves killed is come up with new ideas and tools, not wander onto the frontlines like cannon-fodder. end of subject.

problem 2: okay Alga has disappeared. probably dead already. whatever, who needs him anyway. the plan should still be on track except, the demand for work is moving away from the big labs and populated areas and further into active, increasingly dangerous warzones. it can be avoided for a time, certainly, but eventually that offer to trek into the newly rediscovered rata novus is just too good to pass up...

problem 3: it turns out the expeditionary team scrambling for dragon data in a dead city does not particularly care if you get your face blown up by a decayed ley-energy battery, and they'd actually prefer if you stopped complaining about the "side effects" and got back to work. oh it turns out Alga's alive, though-- maybe this can all be salvaged if the two of you just get back home, nevermind the plan. surely he'll see reason.

problems 4-???: social and professional bridges all burned, the ley-poisoning sure hasn't worn off yet-- does it even do that? things are looking desperate. time to stop being picky. the charr need someone to work on their tanks? time to learn fast. the durmand priory needs someone to play handyman to their miserable little remote outposts? sure. some priory magister needs an escort to go study worms or something? ...why not.