OZZYTHEONE'S PROFILE

This thread is a riot. As for my personal final opinion on the matter of whether AI is ethical or not? I hate to say it, but it depends! As with so many things in life, it's how a tool is used that tells you if it's unethical or not. A knife is not inherently unethical, but boy can you do unethical things with it, and I feel the same applies to AI "art".

Having said that, enjoy the rest of the thread y'all! I'm peacing out.







And just to be an ass, because why not, Gourd, Hitler was a big animal friend and was against smoking. Bad people can share the same values with good people, doesn't mean you now have to stop having those values.

I wouldn't say vampires are overdone at all, I'd say the "Beautiful romantic vampire" trope is overdone to hell though. Proper scary vampires that are decrepit cold creatures of the night with hypnotic powers have been missing from modern media for a while imo. Modern media has become way too focused with the romantic beautiful vampire idea, even though vampires are anything but that. They are creepy, eery beings, devoid of any compassion or love, mere mockeries of humanity.

Regardless, vampires are still incredibly varied in media, anywhere from the original from Bram Stoker, to Castlevania to Twilight. You can take the core idea and base it more on it's origins within folklore like Darken said, or try and come up with your own little twist. Heck, look at JoJo's bizarre adventure, it has it's own version of vampires that are completely different than what we are used to.

Now, how to come up with an original idea? I wouldn't know really. You could perhaps focus on a specific aspect of vampires that you find specifically cool. Maybe their aversion to flowing water? Maybe UV light doesn't work and only actual rays from the sun work because they are just that supernatural? Going back to what Darken said, you could also look for the vampire equivalent of different cultures and mix and match what you like.

In my country for example, we have a very unique take of the werewolf. Our werewolf, called Luisõ, only appears on nights on Tuesdays and Fridays, where it'll shed its human form and turns into a monstruos looking dog. He goes to cementaries where he digs up corpses and feeds on them, at midnight, he'll try and scare unsuspecting men that walk about and run under their legs, cursing them to turn into Luisõ as well. Luisõ is also seen as a tormentor that torments souls in the afterlife and is seen as the most evil of creatures. We have a very unique take on the werewolf idea in my country, now imagine what other countries have for vampire equivalents. Do some research, or just apply ideas you'd really like to see in a monster and go from there.

Never has a more badass title screen graced this site.

I liked the part where Esper said "It's unleashing time" and Unleashed all over the enemies. It was grand.

yay, congrats!

Jokes aside, really happy for you that you managed to finally finish this! Once I get the time to play this I might give you some more feedback on it.