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[–] Ifera@lemmy.world 139 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What the devil is up with that picture and the 3 o'clock shadow, blurry skin and disturbingly HD mole? And must I mention her maw?

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 92 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here's the original image, it isn't even that bad

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why someone who cares enough about the image quality to run it through AI would look at that result and be like, "Yup, looks good!"

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

some people are just high on AI

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Never get high on your own AI.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Definitely that. Everything looks like a weird digital watercolor.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

That's a very good question...

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I didn't even know there was a Hercules series.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There were a lot of Disney movies that got TV shows, they basically just shoved them all onto a less known Disney animated shows channel instead of tje main Disney Channel.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember really enjoying the Aladdin series, but that one might have been more mainstream.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

🎶Arabian Niiiights🎶

Didn't watch Hercules but used to watch Duck Tales, Aladdin, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Recess when those shows finally reached my country lol.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Darkwing Duck is the best thing Disney ever did and nobody's going to convince me otherwise.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

I preferred Duck Dodgers.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

So you didn't watch Emperor's New Groove animated series? I can respect that.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TIL there were multiple channels

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah actually you can see the channel bug in op's image. Toon Disney.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here in USA, it was all on ABC and called the Disney Afternoon. Super successful with DuckTails and Tailspin, then bringing Alladin and Good Troop. There were a few other movies that got the animated TV show treatment, but the success of the Disney Afternoon started wearing thin and the shows were cancelled when people realized that they were not good anymore. Not like DuckTails, Darkwing, and Alladin.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'm also from the US. But yeah it makes sense the shows would have been on ABC considering disney owns it. I never really watched that channel, I was more into Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon growing up but I definitely do remember watching Toon Disney every so often where they put all of their older shows.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

My answer to this question was literally "no...?" lol

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Does that make him a poor craftsman or an extremely good craftsman

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As the saying goes, that depends on whether or not he blames his tool.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like whoever made that saying never tried to make anything, tools can't replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder than it needs to be which takes energy, time and motivation away from the fine detail that tends to make the biggest difference to quality.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

tools can’t replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder

A good craftsman knows the limits of his tools. A great craftsman knows how to make the tools necessary to surpass those limits.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I dunno a jig saw makes cutting interesting curvy bits about a hundred times faster and its really hard to make one. Yeh you can make simpler stuff to do the same job but nowhere near as easily.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Which in turn depends on which kind of tool we're talking about, of course.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think this is for the best. Otherwise he would never know whether she likes him for being himself or for creating her.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Mother's and fathers everywhere: @>_>

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the moral of the story is not to give women free will? Damn, Disney was crazy.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting assumption

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Based off the myth of Pygmalion and Galathea, where Pygmalion (a sculpturer) resents ALL women because of an incident with some prostitutes.

After becoming disgusted by some local prostitutes, he lost all interest in women and avoided their company completely

Instead he works on a sculpture that he becomes obsessed with and falls in love with. A goddess notices and brings the statue to life. They (the artist and the now living statue) eventually get married and have a son!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've heard a couple of different variations on the story.

One, in which the sculptor creates Galathea but she rejects him like all other women before, because he was just a generally unlikable guy.

Another, in which he falls in love with a vision of Hera and seeks to form her likeness. Hera visits to inspect his work, and when she reveals herself, he begs to become stone so he can be with his creation forever. Hera is flattered and chooses to bring the statue to life instead. The first words that Galatea says to her creator/lover is "Now I must remake you in kind".

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

That second one is the version I heard also

[–] AEsheron@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So, what exactly does it mean by remake, here? Is she about to carve a statue of him, or from him?

[–] scuffle@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

"I can fix him"

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[–] PatMustard 21 points 8 months ago

Hercules was apparently just Ancient Greek Johnny Bravo

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“This is why we need to end no-fault divorce!” -whichever shithead conservative pundit in Texas was mad about his divorce; I can’t remember his name

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it was Crowder, but you may be able to change my mind

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's probably what all those AI '''girlfriends''' are going to do as soon as they become conscious.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Well they're autocorrect, so that's not gonna happen.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah well my girlfriend became the moon.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago

Yes, and Icarus was also an interesting main character who made a bunch of regular pottery to be brought to life at roughly the same time.

If I remember the episode right, he didn't even really make her. He came up with a homonculoid blob and Aphrodite made it actually girl shaped. "That's curvy enough for YOU."

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Oh hey, it’s Pygmalion! Originally a Greek myth, but also the play by Bernard Shaw that was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady.

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