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January 2, 2023

A Lean End to the Year

The end of the year’s been a trying time here around the ol’ goblin burrow, so I only have ONE Midnight Pals thread for you all this week. Please divide it up carefully cuz it has to last… until next week, I guess? Anyway, going into 2023 with high hopes. Fingers crossed. Maybe it won’t be all bad, huh? Anyway, midnight pals…

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Christopher Paolini: look at you suckers
Paolini: still drawing with your hands?
Paolini: think fast, grandpa, the future is now!
Paolini: check out my new book, the cover is all AI generated
King: why doesn’t the astronaut have arms?
Paolini:
Paolini: oh I uh meant to do that

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Paolini: see, with AI you can just make any cover you want
King: wow!
Poe: what does this mean for human artists tho
Paolini: uhhhh
Paolini: what’s that? Sorry I can’t hear you, I must be going under an overpass

Paolini: this is going to revolutionize the fantasy art landscape
Paolini: where we’re going, we won’t NEED artists
Paolini: get outta here, ya losers!
Paolini: we don’t need boris Vallejo when the AI can draw sweaty barbarians
Paolini: we don’t need frank frazetta when the AI can draw chunky amazons
Paolini: we don’t need the brothers Hildebrandt when the AI can draw a wizard! Beard and all!

Edward Lee: but bro
Lee: that’s all well and good
Lee: but could the AI draw a girl with big titties?
Paolini: oh you’d be surprised
Hearn: step aside, let me give the AI a REAL challenge
Lafcadio Hearn: could it draw an ANIME girl with big titties?

Paolini: it’s been a long battle but finally we’re free from the tyranny of paying artists for their work
Paolini: but I’m sure they’ll keep paying writers for our hard work
Paolini: no way this could bite me in the ass

King: but Christopher aren’t you afraid that AI will eventually replace writers too?
Paolini: haha replace writers? Haha what a concept!
Paolini: please edgar I’m Christopher paolini
Paolini: author of the inheritance cycle!
Paolini: an epic fantasy about elves and dragons!
Paolini: I’d like to see the AI that can think of that

Paolini: please people I wrote eragon!
Paolini: a fantasy story about a guy spiritually bonded with a dragon
Paolini: an idea totally original to me
Anne McCaffrey:
Gordon R. Dickson:

Laurel Hightower: so for the cover of this book, I’d like to see a mothman
Slimyswampghost: you got it
Hightower: can you give him a caked up ass like the statue
Slimyswampghost:
Slimyswampghost: ok
Hightower: see this is why you use a real artist
Hightower:
Hightower: no
Hightower: more caked up

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