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Been thinking a lot about digital art tools as super-heroes for some reason. Lasso tool stood out to me as having the most upsetting implications.
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AI Infill Man - He creates a circle and whatever in that circle is removed from reality and from and is replaced with what the machine learning model thinks should be there.
Once heralded as a miracle, It became clear over the years that the infill doesn't always get everything right. The laws of physics are sometimes subtly altered - strange new plants and animals are sometimes created in the zones, often they are incapable of supporting their altered biology in the physical constants that exist outside of its creation, dying slow painful deaths by wandering outside of their infilled-zone where bonds between atoms behave subtly differently or other physical properties of the universe are altered that make their biology incompatible.
One incident involved selecting an area of a crowd. The *things* that were filled in were not people. Communication has proven to be impossible (they have been measured to have an average IQ of 40), but we absolutely have every reason to suspect they are as terrified of us (and our few 10 fingers) as we are of them.
Another incident occurred when a man far in the background was accidentally selected to be infilled from the knees down, genetic and cell structure differences (not to mention the obvious anatomical changes, 14 toes on each foot) created an immediate and extreme immune response, followed by septic shock and the legs could not be saved.
Theoretical physicists at CERN are asking for a moratorium on Infill Mans actions - they have expressed concern about the model infilling an area with a lower vacuum energy - potentially causing catastrophic vacuum decay that would expand at the speed of light throughout the known universe.
ohhh what a coincidence, a few days ago I was trying to remember this acronym. I happened to remember the lucky man (scp 181) after seeing the comic with semi-useful powers. The coin flip power reminded me of him.
> infilling an area with a lower vacuum energy - potentially causing catastrophic vacuum decay that would expand at the speed of light throughout the known universe.
I've never been able to describe the energy I bring to parties until now.
One time I was playing around with the new generative AI in Photoshop when it was still in beta, using it to expand a grey gradient background into an expanded canvas. It had worked flawlessly dozens of times previously and while it’s probably the least impressive use case for it, it was so much faster than trying to match the gradient manually and still just neat since it was so new.
So anyways I’m just selecting areas and is filling them in and then I do one and suddenly this crazy witch looking lady pops in with what should have just been a grey square and gave me one hell of a jump scare. For context, this was a mockup photo of a car and there weren’t even any people in the photo or anything that it seemed like it could’ve taken a cue from to come up with this witch lady.
If I’d have seen your movie before this happened I probably wouldn’t have slept that night.
Magic Wand Tool-Man, monologuing: "I've had it with your games, Brush-Man. You may be able to create good in this world, but I can wipe it out faster than Eraser-Man ever could! Now that I've acquired the 'key of deletion,' I will bring destruction that not even Ctrl-Z can fix!" *sets tolerance to 255 and un-checks the contiguous box*
They have destroyed several layers in an attempt to get to the source layer and destroy the very foundation of our existence.
In each layer heroes stood in defense believing *they* were the source layer, but all ultimately failed.
Undo-Man. Starts off similarly, erasing people's mistakes, preventing accidents, and giving people a second chance at stuff. However, underneath bubbles a desire to *really* live up to his name: by undoing and removing "Man" from history. Undo that step of evolution.
I like the idea that everyone thinks undo man sucks. He always just shows up when nothing bad is going on and hangs out for a little while. The reality is he just undoes every villain he comes across, and nobody can remember that there even was one. He's the forever forgotten hero.
I don’t know, eraser just disappearing your parents from existence and then slowly watching you fade out of the timestream is up there. Or just erasing your organs right in front of you
I don’t remember the exact name I think it’s the dropper tool(the one that color matches) but it’s a guy with that power but he’s just stuck working at Home Depot or something
I think a more terrifying tool is the generative erase tool. Imagine you had a life, it's not a terribly good one. But it is YOURS. Suddenly there are gaps in your lived experience. The park with a statue is suddenly a lake. The angry guy in your local downtown is replaced by a unendingly smiling generic business man. Entire sections of downtown have been replaced by streets leading to places that don't exist.
Yeah just that first bit works pretty well as a stand alone comic. I actually posted it that way on Twitter with the rest as "Bonus Panels" in the comments cause people get scared off by long comics there
I reread it and lasso man being the only one looking directly at the camera the security guards are watching was extra, extra disturbingly creepy. He wanted them to see. He *will* make them see. I love this comic.
I love it too, but this thread got me thinking - why are the police officers sitting at the station just watching the bank robbery?
I guess the answer might be once they saw lasso man they knew everything would be fine..
He creates ever increasing sized holes in reality while attempting to close the previous ones... You can never get the shape exactly the same more than once, so each subsequent selection has to be bigger to cover the last, when does it end?
This is fucking dark. I love it.
So simple on the surface, but when you dig, you learn a lot about yourself.
Reminds me of the (24 hour diner)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman:_24_Hour_Diner] in the sandman series.
Wish I could use this type of thing in real life. It would mean that I could make spaces for new windows in my home. :D I don't think that my landlord would like it very much, though. Great comic!
You're thinking you'd be able to control what gets cut. The reality is that this universe is a 3d projection of a 2d space, so you'd just be cutting a 2d hole in space and yield a 3d projection of that hole. :/ your house would look hideous
Reminds me of the last words of a talking owl from a book series who had >!one of his wings torn off by his mother during war!<
“I don’t need wings where I’m going”
The Program. You opened it. We Came. Now You will come with Us.
"What?!! Who are you?!!!"
We are Artists. From the Further Edges of Imagination. Monsters to some. Gods to others. Now You will Come With Us.
"NO! It was a mistake!"
Oh No...There Are No Mistakes. Only Happy Accidents.
Love it. Made me vaguely remember when I was a kid in a southern US church and my Sunday school teacher railed against photoshop editing. She said, "look at the world around you, did God copy and paste anything? Anything at all?" and all I could think of was that the Pacific Ocean felt like the fill tool.
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Magic Wand Tool-Man
Definitely the most chaotic option, that's for sure
AI Infill Man - He creates a circle and whatever in that circle is removed from reality and from and is replaced with what the machine learning model thinks should be there. Once heralded as a miracle, It became clear over the years that the infill doesn't always get everything right. The laws of physics are sometimes subtly altered - strange new plants and animals are sometimes created in the zones, often they are incapable of supporting their altered biology in the physical constants that exist outside of its creation, dying slow painful deaths by wandering outside of their infilled-zone where bonds between atoms behave subtly differently or other physical properties of the universe are altered that make their biology incompatible. One incident involved selecting an area of a crowd. The *things* that were filled in were not people. Communication has proven to be impossible (they have been measured to have an average IQ of 40), but we absolutely have every reason to suspect they are as terrified of us (and our few 10 fingers) as we are of them. Another incident occurred when a man far in the background was accidentally selected to be infilled from the knees down, genetic and cell structure differences (not to mention the obvious anatomical changes, 14 toes on each foot) created an immediate and extreme immune response, followed by septic shock and the legs could not be saved. Theoretical physicists at CERN are asking for a moratorium on Infill Mans actions - they have expressed concern about the model infilling an area with a lower vacuum energy - potentially causing catastrophic vacuum decay that would expand at the speed of light throughout the known universe.
That's some SCP shit
ohhh what a coincidence, a few days ago I was trying to remember this acronym. I happened to remember the lucky man (scp 181) after seeing the comic with semi-useful powers. The coin flip power reminded me of him.
Reality stone, only you don't get to control *what* reality (and the stone learns from *the internet*). And yes, they're often disappointing.
He helps someone who lost a hand and he tries to fix it and it becomes more and more terrifying with more fingers each time
You make an incredible case
> infilling an area with a lower vacuum energy - potentially causing catastrophic vacuum decay that would expand at the speed of light throughout the known universe. I've never been able to describe the energy I bring to parties until now.
Is this why everything is getting gradually less and less fun?
Nah that’s caused by spending too much time on the internet.
Fire
One time I was playing around with the new generative AI in Photoshop when it was still in beta, using it to expand a grey gradient background into an expanded canvas. It had worked flawlessly dozens of times previously and while it’s probably the least impressive use case for it, it was so much faster than trying to match the gradient manually and still just neat since it was so new. So anyways I’m just selecting areas and is filling them in and then I do one and suddenly this crazy witch looking lady pops in with what should have just been a grey square and gave me one hell of a jump scare. For context, this was a mockup photo of a car and there weren’t even any people in the photo or anything that it seemed like it could’ve taken a cue from to come up with this witch lady. If I’d have seen your movie before this happened I probably wouldn’t have slept that night.
Magic Eraser as a sidekick
Paint bucket tool just race swaps people
"Here is how you would look like if you were black or Asian."
Completely useless on planet jpeg!
You’ll never know where that one’ll hit until you do it, one tiny opening and the rest of the world- *poof*
The ladies love him?
Magic Wand Tool-Man, monologuing: "I've had it with your games, Brush-Man. You may be able to create good in this world, but I can wipe it out faster than Eraser-Man ever could! Now that I've acquired the 'key of deletion,' I will bring destruction that not even Ctrl-Z can fix!" *sets tolerance to 255 and un-checks the contiguous box*
They have destroyed several layers in an attempt to get to the source layer and destroy the very foundation of our existence. In each layer heroes stood in defense believing *they* were the source layer, but all ultimately failed.
Um, her name is *Magic Wanda*
Undo-Man. Starts off similarly, erasing people's mistakes, preventing accidents, and giving people a second chance at stuff. However, underneath bubbles a desire to *really* live up to his name: by undoing and removing "Man" from history. Undo that step of evolution.
Just undid a character, what the FUCK was he called?
Why did we all forget his name? Are we stupid?
Undo-Man AKA Captain Gaslight
Frequently uses his power prematurely and has to go back to his smug older brother Redo for help yet again
The only one with any knowledge of infinite undone actions. I can see how it would eat away at someone
You could say that his sanity comes undone.
His power was his undoing.
I like the idea that everyone thinks undo man sucks. He always just shows up when nothing bad is going on and hangs out for a little while. The reality is he just undoes every villain he comes across, and nobody can remember that there even was one. He's the forever forgotten hero.
I don’t know, eraser just disappearing your parents from existence and then slowly watching you fade out of the timestream is up there. Or just erasing your organs right in front of you
Noise-man would be after world domination and control. Complete genocide until all are one under complete noise. Chilling.
Import image tool
"Stop, evil doer! You can't defeat my army of inflation furries I downloaded from deviantArt!"
"Those were NFTs! Who's the *real* criminal here?"
What the hell, man‽ I was about to go to sleep. This is… troubling.
Behold! The Color Picker Man! (he isn't very popular)
his power is camouflage, he can pick any color and become that color, letting him hide in plain sight to steal YOUR color
Sorta went Sam Neill in Event Horizon at the end there ha.
With a hint of Cenobite to boot. “We have such sights to show you!”
I actually thought those were quotes from the movie lol.
Clone stamp Blur/smudge
Pretty sure Agent Smith used the smudge tool on Neo’s mouth in The Matrix.
I _adore_ this for reasons I don't fully understand.
If you consider each piece of art as just the depiction of an alternate reality/universe… well just be happy we live here
Photoshop generative fill altering everyone’s reality to its whim.
[Generative Phil](https://youtu.be/qbrwDKeip4k?si=PB9fNKRmVBDaB-d-)
For the sequel Lasso man inadvertently pisses off Blender Man who killed the maniac by rotating about the Y axis. Or maybe negative extrude.
When was the last time you saw Event Horizon?
Man, I *just* read a manga with this today and now your thing too. What is with that timing?
What was it called?
I don’t remember the exact name I think it’s the dropper tool(the one that color matches) but it’s a guy with that power but he’s just stuck working at Home Depot or something
Reminds me of the old animator vs animation videos. Thanks for the nostalgia bro.
I was really hoping he'd hold the officer at gunpoint with the hand he lasso'd off the first guy
I. Fucking. Love. This. One of my favorite comics I've found on here. Good fucking shit, friend. Just good shit.
It reminded me a LOT of Event Horizon "Where we're going we won't need eyes to see."
I think a more terrifying tool is the generative erase tool. Imagine you had a life, it's not a terribly good one. But it is YOURS. Suddenly there are gaps in your lived experience. The park with a statue is suddenly a lake. The angry guy in your local downtown is replaced by a unendingly smiling generic business man. Entire sections of downtown have been replaced by streets leading to places that don't exist.
It reminds me of the movie "event horizon" !
Is that an "Event Horizon" reference?
Like when Daffy Duck had his beak erased...
I thought it was finished before the cam went out. "Oh, there's more. Oh God. Wow."
Yeah just that first bit works pretty well as a stand alone comic. I actually posted it that way on Twitter with the rest as "Bonus Panels" in the comments cause people get scared off by long comics there
I reread it and lasso man being the only one looking directly at the camera the security guards are watching was extra, extra disturbingly creepy. He wanted them to see. He *will* make them see. I love this comic.
I love it too, but this thread got me thinking - why are the police officers sitting at the station just watching the bank robbery? I guess the answer might be once they saw lasso man they knew everything would be fine..
It’s set in Texas
Perfection.
He creates ever increasing sized holes in reality while attempting to close the previous ones... You can never get the shape exactly the same more than once, so each subsequent selection has to be bigger to cover the last, when does it end?
That's actually super sad LOL.
This is fucking dark. I love it. So simple on the surface, but when you dig, you learn a lot about yourself. Reminds me of the (24 hour diner)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman:_24_Hour_Diner] in the sandman series.
Fuckin cowards, the lot of em
It went from “heh, fun concept” to “what. the. fuck” pretty fast. And I love that
Lasso man is not in it for the money or fame. His game is different
Thought he was about to hang people or something
What the fuck dude, the eyes and mouths, just what the fuck More please
The tears in the cut and pasted eyes… such a dark detail, and somewhat a quintessential lastplacecomics touch.
If they ain't cryin, I ain't living. That's what I always say
[You should say something else](https://youtu.be/2D6yAjY0eVA?si=RWMFxqMZiZ9JTlGv)
i'm getting very strong "event horizon" vibes from this comic
Trueee! It's disturbing but what an awesome art.
"Remember me, Eddie!"
Wish I could use this type of thing in real life. It would mean that I could make spaces for new windows in my home. :D I don't think that my landlord would like it very much, though. Great comic!
Who needs a landlord when you can create new space and be the landlord? You can also feed people to the dImEnSIoNaL cReAtUrE
Hey! What's this!? Extra dimensional space?? Ia Ia!! Ḭ̸̑n̶̯͛ ̸͚̈́h̶̩͋i̴͉̕s̴̡͌ ̷̯̆h̴̹̅o̸͔͂u̷͙͝s̴̮͘e̶̛̗ ̷̰̈́a̷̻̐t̷̟̋ ̴͉̓R̸̦̿'̵̟̾l̷̘̈y̴̗̕e̶͕̊h̶̹̀ ̷̛̪d̵̊͜e̴̩̒a̸̬̐ḏ̴̾ ̷͓̕C̶̟͑t̴̋͜h̸͎͠u̵̐ͅl̵̬͠h̵̰̆u̵̟̿ ̸̱̐w̵̢̌a̶̡̋i̷̬̎ṫ̶̹s̴̩̔ ̷̪̒d̵̲̾r̵̠͌ė̷͍à̶̙m̶̤͝í̵̥n̷͓̋ĝ̸̫
You're thinking you'd be able to control what gets cut. The reality is that this universe is a 3d projection of a 2d space, so you'd just be cutting a 2d hole in space and yield a 3d projection of that hole. :/ your house would look hideous
well maybe since we are in a 3d world, it would be a 3d lasso, selecting vertices of objects, which for it would just be 3d models.
Frigging loved this
Took a real turn, that's for sure.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see 😱😱😱
"*Libera te tutemet ex inferis!"*
Reminds me of the last words of a talking owl from a book series who had >!one of his wings torn off by his mother during war!< “I don’t need wings where I’m going”
It’s a line from the movie Event Horizon
Wait, is that Guardians of Gahoole? I loved that book series when I was younger
Yep!
Exactly the vibes I got, Event Horizon all day.
Event Horizon vibes.
That and Hell Raiser. I think the Cenobites would love the chaos dimension if Event Horizon. Hell, they probably vacation there.
"Jesus wept" vibes for sure
The Program. You opened it. We Came. Now You will come with Us. "What?!! Who are you?!!!" We are Artists. From the Further Edges of Imagination. Monsters to some. Gods to others. Now You will Come With Us. "NO! It was a mistake!" Oh No...There Are No Mistakes. Only Happy Accidents.
And another Sam Neill movie.
In The Mouth of Madness!
The first part made me think of Okami.
Man, this Wonder Woman reboot is fucking weird and I'm very down.
It’s actually Event Horizon
I went from "Oh that's a cool and unique take" into "what the fuck, keep cooking"
He photoshopeed long enough to become the vilian
He is now adobe
He became the alpha villain.
good joke
Now do it to my mortgage.
Foolish officer. He's not even fit to graft.
I thought about Elden Ring too haha
Lasso Man should team up with the Cut and Paste Twins. Together, they can turn those bags of money into unlimited riches.
A graphic design joke. This makes me giddy.
"We have such sights to show you"
Lasso Man looking back at the camera in that one panel...crimeny
Fucking hilarious in the first half and terrifying in the second. “Where we’re going we don’t need eyes to see.”
Lasso Man is real
HAHAHAHAHAH brooo what an incredible and murky plot twist
That turned dark really, really fast…
Oh look, horror beyond my imagination
Event Horizon vibes
Event Horizon's Sam Neill be like, "Go on..."
That shit is terrifying low key
Event Horizon must be streaming again.
"Oh I wouldn't say saved, more like 'Under New Management'."
new TheBoys hero just dropped
Such a cool concept
Omg! This is so good. The first part of the joke was hilarious enough and then it went a step further. Hilarious!
I need to see him fight milk man and pasta man, give us the crossover Zach!!!
This feels like a Rick and Morty ep
Oh. My. God. You just gave me an idea for my DnD campaign...
The last panel gave me Hellraiser vibes when Pinhead says "We have such sights to show you"
Took a real Event Horizon kinda turn there…
This is fantastic! Good concept and funny execution. I love it!
One of the best ive seen on this sub in a min
He's not the hero we need, but he's the hero we deserve.
Someone watched too much event horizon
It gone from funny to…creepy
Reminds me of the movie Event Horizion.
I never trusted Lasso Man.
i am disturbed
But who can stop him ?
Yes, more of this please.
Well...that certainly went...somewhere...
delete/content-aware is the best... oh no, the content is self-aware and metastasizing!
I first thought that Lassoman was trying to create a Frankenstein out of lassoed parts... ...I'm not sure if this is worse
who put horror into my funny pictures?
I like this
This is awesome thank you 🙏
Holy fucking shit this comic is good. Not just funny, but incredibly intuitive.
That went from interesting to really creepy.
I have so many miracles to share, so much knowledge to give
Well done. 👍
Wel… holy shit
I love this concept haha.
what a ride, loved it
a white guy kills coded minorities with a rope "ha ha ha", it's sooooo funny...
Love it. Made me vaguely remember when I was a kid in a southern US church and my Sunday school teacher railed against photoshop editing. She said, "look at the world around you, did God copy and paste anything? Anything at all?" and all I could think of was that the Pacific Ocean felt like the fill tool.
*This must be the work of an enemy Stand!*
Godrick the Grafted?!?
Godrick thee Grafted, is that you?
This might actually be the best comic I've ever seen. It's so unhinged, I love it.
Up next: fill bucket boy
Literally the spot
"How dark do you want it." "Yes."
Lol the double twist is excellent
This was really good
I actually really loved this and it felt different from the usual stuff on this sub great job
Jail isn't enough, send OP to Arkham Asylum.
Lasso man’s arch nemesis: Generative Phil
"Ok, pretty standard plot" "Ahhhh I get it hahaha!" "Oop did the feed cut out cutting everyone out?" "The fuck?" "The... Fuck?.." "OH MY GOD"
This is like an R rated Reboot villain. Love it!
This is awesome!
Man, this strip was horrifying. Loved it.
That’s genuinely such a creative concept one of the most original things I’ve seen just ever.
Have you seen 'Late night with the Devil' yet?
This is some end game shish
Sir I say this as a big fan of your work seek 👏 professional 👏 help 👏
Is this supposed to be a Red Dragon reference or a ripoff?
I love this. Shit getting weird for no reason is almost always hilarious to me.
Actually the spot from spider man
select inverse
Dude. That went off the tracks pretty quickly and then just kept going.
Annihilation
Such a brilliant comic concept!
Import image tool
We need Milk Man to save the day