YOU are the final boss 🫵!
copilot prompt
a man in his 40s staring in the bathroom mirror of his lower-middleclass home. he is gripping the sink to brace himself. natural morning light comes through the window. he looks worn down. his reflection in the mirror shows a two-thirds empty videogame healthbar over his head. somber. photorealistic.
I am my own greatest challenge and toughest enemy. I have put myself through the ringer, but one day I will defeat myself!
I'ma be honest, as I was making it, I forgot what the theme was and thought it was "the final boss". But I had already committed to the idea, so here it is in it's depressing epic glory. Now where did I put my pill planner?
But really though. Dresses look fun. If I had a body to pull it off, maybe I'd give it a go.
But I don't think I could deal with even more social ridicule than I already face lol
It seems like our socialized healthcare doesn't cover our sarcasm detector organ 😅
Lol well, fair enough!
I still aggressively assert that it still benefits humanity to protect each other, even people who don't know they need it.
But that's a pretty reasonable response, I have to admit lol
Throwing babies in the deep end is how you get a lot of dead babies who would have grown up to be excellent swimmers.
Like, you fail to understand that youre first on the chopping block if we start to push darwinism. You wouldn't be sacrificing yourself, you'd just be the first to go.
But in those cases, isn't fear supposed to be balanced by some reward? Competing instincts/motivations?
I really tried to get it to generate Mac from the film Mac and Me, but it just wouldn't
Why is it always the people who most need OSHA who want it removed.
Why is it always the least fit people who want to promote survival of the fittest?
But specifically fear instincts seems strange. It makes sense to us because we're us, but look at it more clinically: we seek out to stimulate the instinct that keeps us safe. That means that it'd doing the exact opposite of its purpose. If we seek to stimulate our fear, that means we seek to put ourselves in situations where fear is a reasonable response, which is exactly what fear was evolved to prevent.
How did this behavior develop, and how did we survive once it did?
That's still a pretty messed up pass time if you're not anthropomorphizing. It's a crazy way to have evolved.
I like that "safe space" theory, that seems very plausible.
It's still a bit messed up though, because that part of our brain can't distinguish between play fear and real fear, so we get "rewarded" for both which seems like a very risky move, evolutionary.
I can imagine the aliens being like
How did they survive to become the apex species?
Although with all the brinkmanship and poor threat analysis we've exhibiting now on a global scale, perhaps we won't survive as the apex species for long, so 🤷
I imagine that'd be just as fucked up to aliens:
Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!
Im gonna edit my post because everyone is too hung up on extreme sports.
Horror movies also fall under the same category of thing. It's not about the risk, it's about triggering fear response. I just picked extreme sports because I couldn't fit the whole premise in the title
Maybe I'll edit my post because you're not the first person who misunderstood. I'm specifically talking about thrill seeking, not extreme sports specifically. I couldn't fit the whole premise in the title so I just picked an example 😭
Extreme sports was more supposed to be an example. Horror movies are the same.
People go out of their way to feel scared, what would aliens think of that?
What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?
Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.
Edit\ Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports
Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think I've decided my next contest theme, if I win one in the near future
> a large green pear with a large mouth. the mouth is open, showing large blunt teeth, and a tongue. the pear is on a meadow with small hills, on a sunny day. oil painting
I know FNAF is a "kids game" but putting it next to the Care Bears seems a bit excessive lol
Theme
Unexpected Astronaut!
What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
- Most upvoted: +3 points
- Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
- Third most upvoted: +1 point
- OP’s favorite: +1 point
- Most original: +1 point
- Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
- Prompt and workflow included: +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!
Theme
Cozy Catastrophy. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
- No memes
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
- Most upvoted: +3 points
- Second most upvoted: +2 point
- Third most upvoted: +1 point
- OP’s favorite: +1 point
- Most original: +1 point
- Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
- Prompt and workflow included: +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!
It's bullshit that the opposite of "impeachable" is "unimpeachable" instead of "peachable"
Here is my attempt:
> cover art for a young adult urban fantasy romance novel, called “moon slime”
Now that isekai has firmly established itself as a subgenre in western storytelling (although it has always been there in some form), it got me thinking about what to call the subgenres of isekai itself.
If isekai itself is being transported to another world/universe, and reverse isekai is someone from another world being transported to ours... Then what do we call someone from another world being transported to another other wold? Or someone from our world being transported to another time in our world? Do these have names already?
Setting aside if we like or appreciate isekai, if they don't have genres names yet I thought it'd be funny to come up with our own. What do you think we should call all the sub-subgenres?
Scientists couldn't find the head of the starfish. Turns out, the entire thing is head, it's the body that is missing.
I had an idea for an offensive consumable item, and I figured I’d share it and get some feedback. Its power scales with the user, so it should presumably be pretty rare. on consuming, it casts a spell, but I didn’t want to make the spell separately so I’m just describing the item as though it was a spell too. it perhaps tries to do a bit too much, but I thought it wouldn’t be the same if I took away any particular aspect.
#The Martyr’s Evil Eye
- range/area: self / sphere 5ft + 5ft for every level of exhaustion sacrificed
- duration: instantaneous
- damage: necrotic / remaining caster HP + 1/3 max HP for every death save sacrificed
- save: CHA save for half-damage
A black marble with faint green swirls, that seem to move when seen out the corner of the eye. With a willing sacrifice of life force and stamina, the marble cracks open and a necrotic aura radiates out, quickly obscuring those within the sphere. Flashes of green light from within briefly silhouette nightmarish creatures. The aura expands out, reaching its maximum size, before popping like a bubble and exposing the haggard survivors and withered bodies of the dead. The fragments of the marble turn to dust.
Item must be in contact with the caster. All creatures within the radius of the sphere, including the caster, take damage equivalent to the caster’s remaining HP. The caster may increase the damage by 1/3 of their max HP for every death saving throw they sacrifice. All creatures, except the caster, take half-damage on a successful CHA saving throw. Radius of the sphere is 5ft plus an additional 5ft for every level of exhaustion sacrificed.
The item is for self-sacrifice in a moment of desperation. The more you sacrifice, the more damage is dealt, but the lower your chances of escape and survival. Sacrifice more of your own life force to deal more damage to each enemy, sacrifice your exhaustion to deal damage to more enemies. If you sacrifice all 3 death throws, or all 6 levels of exhaustion, then you’re instantly dead, but you deal the maximum damage to maximum enemies.
I thought that an item that always killed the user was kind of boring, so i included the part about death saves. I included the part about exhaustion so that even if the unconscious character is immediately healed back to consciousness, there are still lasting repercussions that make rejoining the fight or even fleeing difficult. Plus it fit thematically - health for health, and effort/exhaustion to cover area.
I also imagined the exhaustion bit as a ring, where you could increase range/area of a spell by spending levels of exhaustion.
What are your thoughts? Its kind of mechanically complicated, but I didn’t know how to simplify it without losing something too much character.
To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.
What's the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that's the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
- Adding a line: ✅
- Removing a line: ✅
- Modifying a line: ✅
- Moving a codeblock: ❌ i see you've rewritten everything, let me just highlight it all.
RIP reviewers on my PR.
(Meme created by my coworker)
Everyone knows that sailor moon would kick Goku's ass in a fight anyway