• @zeppo
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    331 year ago

    What in the AI fuck is that tiger in the center?

    • Khrux
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      571 year ago

      It’s an old picture, before AI image generation. It’s a tiger teddy with some stuffing removed.

      • @zeppo
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        61 year ago

        Ha, I see that now. I hope AI models aren’t trained on this photo as if it’s a normal tiger…

          • Khrux
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            31 year ago

            I’m excited for the pipeline of AI art to ai 3D models to AI generic recreation of extinct animals, and distant humans having pet tigers who looked like this.

            Imagine blade runner but the replicant animals look like something between medieval art and poor AI image generation, because those are the only surviving reference images.

    • @takeda
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      81 year ago

      Turning into roulade.

  • crawley
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    231 year ago

    I really dislike the caltrop d4s. Numbering styles aside, they just roll so poorly compared to all other polyhedral dice. I really wish that either “crystal” style or “wormhole” style d4s become more commonplace.

      • crawley
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        81 year ago

        Fuck d10s then, amirite?

      • crawley
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant by “wormhole” style! Those, or the crystal style, are significantly better d4s IMO

      • @Nelots@lemm.ee
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        81 year ago

        I had never heard of one either, so I looked it up and found nothing by the name. The closest thing I could find to the description is these, and I’ve got to say, I like how they look. I’m curious if this is actually the type they were talking about though.

      • crawley
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        I guess they’re usually called “rounded d4s” but I think they look like two of those classic spacetime wormhole depictions put together.

        Edit:
        These dice (top left):

        Looks to me like two of these wormholes, one rotated 90 deg, and smooshed together:

  • @cpw@lemmy.ca
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    131 year ago

    You could make the bottom one work quite easily by just choosing the number that’s NOT visible on an upward face.

    • @explodicle@local106.com
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      151 year ago

      This “quite easily” is >3 times as much work as reading one number on top, because 1-2 faces will be pointed away from you.

      What matters is effort per roll compared to the top image, not effort per roll compared to making a sushi roll.

      • oo1
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        101 year ago

        do you not play in a hall of mirrors?

    • @eleefeceOP
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      101 year ago

      WHAT IF I SAY I’M NOT JUST ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR PLAYS?

  • @PunnyName
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    41 year ago

    Yeah, WTF is with the die in the right middle, and right bottom? Garbage plastic for landfills.

    • @Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net
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      right middlel: you determine the value rolled based on the number on the bottom.

      right bottom: you determine the value rolled by deciding which number you like best.

    • Decoy321
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      61 year ago

      If the middle one’s numbers all match for their adjacent face, it’s still usable. You can designate the bottom number to be the selected number, since there’s only one side facing down (just as there’s only one point facing up).

      The bottom one sucks because you’d need to arbitrarily deciding which upward side to choose from.

      • @Carnelian
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        181 year ago

        Bottom pic is the same as the middle ones, you use the bottom surface. It’s just meant to be viewed from the bottom through a transparent surface. Similar to a magic 8 ball

        • @GildorInglorion
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          51 year ago

          Simple, just look for the number not visible and that’s the number on the bottom

          • @Carnelian
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            31 year ago

            Technically since the numbers have an orientation, in this case you could know the bottom face only by looking at a single visible surface!

            • BarqsHasBite
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              11 year ago

              You’re expected to crawl under the transparent table to see what you rolled?

              • @Carnelian
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                21 year ago

                Well, you could, but most people just use their pocket mirror

                • BarqsHasBite
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                  21 year ago

                  You’re expected to have a pocket mirror? WTF is a pocket mirror?

    • I really like the middle one better. I find it easier to read the numbers when they’re printed on the edge rather than the border of the triangle and find it easier to read the bottom side rather than the top corner. I’m pretty sure that’s the only kind of d4 I’ve ever owned.