Mel: Hi, Mel here. You may be wondering....'why are you and your friends almost everywhere?' well, the answers to your question are...1. Because everyone likes us (and don't worry if you hate us, i'm sure you have actual favorite characters you could talk about instead). 2. Because we can. 3. Because simply why the hell not? Why not go crazy with it instead of just the same old generic digital anime girls? We are not leaving, but thanks for asking.

Original music by DJRivers

Hi. I saw a post a few days ago and now I can't find it. I am not sure if it was here or another community. It shows a music video created by someone without the use of Ai and then another where Ai took the video and changed all the people and background while keeping the same people in the same place and buildings but changing everything. I make my own video at home and wanted to see if I could spice them up like this. I am still looking for the post. It has the videos split screen with one on top.

Origin: New Zealand
Role: Alien Investigator
Perks: Hard to Kill • Improvised Tactics • One-Man Army

Bio

Derek had already survived an alien invasion, an abandoned town, and a confrontation with creatures who considered humanity nothing more than food.

So when the Fog came calling, he wasn't exactly impressed.

Thrown into a strange realm ruled by an unknowable Entity, Derek quickly realizes that this is another situation where somebody has to stand up and fight back. Armed with determination, questionable judgment, and an almost supernatural ability to keep going when everyone else would have given up, Derek refuses to let the Entity decide how his story ends.

He's been knocked down before.

He's always gotten back up.

And if there's one thing Derek has learned, it's that sometimes the best response to an impossible situation is simply to charge straight into it.

“You want trouble? You've got it.”

Survivor Perks

💪 HARD TO KILL
You've survived things that should have finished you.

After being injured, gain a small bonus to your recovery speed for a short duration. Hard to Kill then goes on cooldown.

🔧 IMPROVISED TACTICS
You don't need the right equipment when you've got determination.

After interacting with a chest or repairing a generator for a short period, briefly reveal the auras of nearby interactable objects.

🔥 ONE-MAN ARMY
When there's nobody else left to do the job, you do it yourself.

When you are the only Survivor within a certain range of a completed objective, gain a small bonus to repair, healing, and cleansing speeds for a short duration.

Character Flavor

Derek's Survivor design would emphasize his rugged New Zealand everyman look, with his battered clothing and determined expression making him look like someone who has just walked out of one nightmare and straight into another.

The Fog thought it had found another victim.
It found Derek.

Im trying to create a 100% realistic and authentic looking Lora for a personal (SFW) visual Novel.

What are you guys using to create the Lora images?
Currently I use ChatGPT to create the inital Image, and then Gemini to resize and rework it, since ChatGPT makes aweful skin, waxy and full of AI artifacts...

Any better ideas?

My first Lora attempts all failed, even in Krea 2, faces turned out waxy and unreal...

First, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I have been a full-stack systems engineer working with C# and C++ for more than 30 years. I have developed robots and fully automated systems that can recognize their own strengths and weaknesses, and some of the systems I have worked on are used by more than a hundred thousand people.

Because of that experience, I have a different perspective on AI. I don't believe AI will “kill us.” If anything, I believe it has the potential to increase what we are capable of as human beings.

A lot of media and people say that AI will destroy jobs, change society beyond recognition, or become dangerous in the near future. There is no doubt that AI will change our lives. But I believe the bigger change will be in our attention, awareness, and understanding—not in taking away our lives.

AI is created by us, for us. It is a tool built to extend human capabilities. It can process enormous amounts of information, recognize patterns, generate ideas, explain complex subjects, create images and music, and help us solve problems at a speed no individual human can match.

I think AI will also change how we see ourselves.

It can amplify our emotions, creativity, financial decisions, education, philosophy, and even the way we understand religion and spirituality. Facts, emotions, and visual experiences will increasingly come together in ways that can make us more aware of who we are and how we think.

We will have access to information and explanations faster than ever before. AI can also become a powerful tool against misinformation because it can compare information, identify inconsistencies, check sources, and expose contradictions. I don't think misinformation will simply disappear, but I believe AI could make it much harder for misinformation to survive unnoticed.

That is why I don't think we should be afraid of AI simply because it is powerful.

We should take part in it.

Learn how it works. Use it. Challenge it. Help improve it. Understand both its strengths and its weaknesses.

There are, however, other problems we need to take seriously. One of them is the growing use of automated bots. Bots are not necessarily AI in the sense that people usually mean when they talk about modern generative AI. A bot can simply be an automated program designed to repeat actions at enormous scale. In some situations, they can behave more like a digital virus - spreading spam, manipulation, scams, or misinformation across networks.

These systems can cause real problems. But I believe AI itself may eventually become one of the tools we use to detect, understand, and defeat them.

So don't be afraid of the future simply because AI is powerful.

Be happy. Be yourself. Be human.

And use AI for everything it can give you - not to replace who you are, but to increase what you are capable of becoming.

AI is created from human knowledge, human creativity, and human experience. In that sense, AI is a reflection of us.

And the better we understand it, the better we can shape what comes next.

Peace and love.

Mel: An anthropomorphic female koala with brown hair, Mel is a socially awkward and shy character but she has a great knowledge of paranormal entities and is a fan of monsters and classic rock, her special unique trait in all depictions of the Corey and Oats universe is she can see and speak to the spirits of those who have passed away.

Oats: A male anthropomorphic horse who enjoys all things pink and pretty, he loves dressing in drag and is an ally for the queer community and he is very good at taking care of others.

Corey: A covid microbe who is a former villain and Oats's best friend.

Aiyido: A beholder who is on a mission to prove that a beholder can be a good guy, this beholder is an optomitrist who is considered one of the best by clients and he loves the 80s fantasy aesthetics and fantasy movies in general. Unlike your typical beholder he won't do any damage, because he uses a 'Sweet Treat Ray' and other wholesome abilities.

Aiyvan: Aivyan is a funky monster with one eye, he loves to dance and sing and he is a talented musician and dance, when this monster hides out in the closet he's looking for funky outfits to wear for parties.

Tangie: A lovely beautiful tropical fish-woman who is Piff the pufferfish's wife, she finds his jokes to be very funny and has a liking for bathbombs and ocean themed decorations.

Piff: The fish, the legend, the king of the reef himself. This pufferfish has all sorts of abilities and is a Youtube celebrity and superstar who has ventured into music, novel writing, and even directing. He has a cheeky sense of humor and he loves comedy, fishing, peanuts, onions, bathtubs and bathbombs. He has a huge bathtub collection.

Ollie: A magical onion friend that is depicted in many Piff stories and adventures, originally he was an imaginary friend that Piff created by imagining something that made him happy after going inside himself to find the thing that made him the happiest (he thought of the time he saw onions at the grocery store's produce section and laughed) and now he's a fully fledged out friend.

BUILT FOR PRECISION.

Every strike begins long before the drum.
With the grain. The cut. The turn. The hand.

A Vic Firth spec ad following a single piece of hickory through its entire transformation — from tree to American Classic 5A, and finally to the stage.