Pet peeves: The return (Part 4)

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Posting art with fingers to flex on the machine.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1059294110990737470/1138861953180246097/Merondill_Half_Body_Majocuellar.png

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I actively judge people who use art because it means they have more money and/or talent than I do, and that’s just not okay.

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I’m sure there are strange bards out there in it for the art and joy of performance rather than the lad(ie)s at their feet.

It doesn’t mean I understand nor condone it.

AI pictures can be conceptually interesting but calling it art implies more human involvement than I’m willing to grant.

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https://i.imgur.com/Fe0XNLr.jpg

here’s one of my most recent commissions

I have literally closer to 100 commissions across all my characters

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The bookmark being rigid and glued onto the tome upsets me.

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AI Images.

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it’s his favourite prayer

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only the best metallic bookmark for my favorite verse.

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Also saw the most un-Addams family caricature ever.

Which is weird because this was in the same dump;

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Hope things are ok :pensive:

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I hope so too.

In other news, while everyone is on the BG3 hype train, I re-discovered Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt now that it had it’s next-gen update and got a beast of a pc to run it. And good god, its good to be back on the Continent, especially after Netflix’s Witcher ( havent even seen season 3 yet).

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Started reading the books and I caught up (and passed) where the show’s at, and honestly I thought season 3 was actually a quite decent season. It was faithful to the books, albeit with some artistic liberties that I didn’t feel detracted from it.

My only problem was

That the Thanedd Coup was made out to be Mages vs Scoia’tael in the show instead of Rebel vs Loyalist mages slaughtering each other which was made worse by Francesca’s betrayal of smuggling the Scoia’tael in during the chaos.

In the books there’s a tragic angle to it with all these mages having known each other for decades if not centuries, many of them growing up together, but the promise of power was all it took to make them turn on each other.

But besides that it was a surprisingly faithful season. yet it was too little, too late.

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I see!

That’s the thing though, I do not mind artistic liberties if they add to or improve upon the original, or if it has to be done to make it better for another form of media. Heck, Lord of the Rings trilogy made by Peter Jackson was not 100% faithful to the books either but it’s still loved by both hardcore Tolkien-nerd and casual alike.

What Netflix’s Witcher’s been doing though, it’s just… why.

I might give season 3 one look, just to see Cavill as Geralt one last time but after that I doubt I will continue. Then I’ll be back to hearing our old boy Doug again.

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Some of the remarks being made by the showrunners/management have been incredibly. :grimacing:

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Oh my sweet summer child.

(For the record, I myself am not one of those hardcore Tolkien nerds who see the Jackson movies as an abomination, but there sure are a lot of them.)

But yes, the LOTR movies are beautiful and well-crafted, and are more faithful to the book than you would expect of Hollywood blockbusters either now or back then.

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Just dropped my steam deck on a tiled floor.

I need to be alone for a while.

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I think the reason so many people are pissed off is because at the start, the showrunner -promised- they’d stay close to the books. That didn’t happen. And now we got a dude out here saying the show was dumbed down because the Americans are too stupid to understand it.

Eh, I know there are also the kind of Tolkien nerds who will argue over what shade of green the grass over in Bree is but… they take it too far, and I do not consider them actual fans but just purists that want to feel better than others and found this hobby to do so.

And worry not, I never took you as of those my friend, you always came across to me as someone who’s deeply passionate about LotR, but not in an unhealthy or unpleasant way!

I think Peter Jackson once said that he didnt want to put his own ideas or idealogies in, but that he made the movie as if he were making it for Tolkien himself.

Not pressing like on that post. A moment of silence for Mito’s poor steam deck.

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I pressed like as a :hugs: :frowning_face: kinda thing :((((

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I mean, they’re very wrong about the show and the backside-backwards direction they went in to the point of losing Henry flipping Cavill…

But they may have accidentally had a perfectly valid point there, at least :eyes:

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