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Aug. 2nd, 2022 01:42 pmI'm currently reading the first book of Brian McClellan's second powdermage trilogy. Haven't read the first trilogy yet because I wasn't grabbed by the Amazon sample, but I might go back to it.
Anyway, the MacGuffin in this book resembles the MacGuffin in mine fairly closely in form and effects, although not in its use in the plot except for one scene. Which is totally fine, because these things happen. But if mine gets published I can tell that I'm going to have people saying "Did you steal that from McClellan?" and I'm going to have to explain that no, I stole it from Glen Cook and gave it a faint whitewashing of Skyrim.
BTW, the Midjourney AI bot can now be invited to Discord servers with less than 1000 members. Caveats: you'd need a free trial account to use it with the 25-image limit, or a paid account to do more, the images are still subject to their content restrictions*, and the images would also be visible over on the Midjourney Discord (hence the content restrictions). But given how busy the server is, I'd be very surprised if anyone even saw it.
So: given those caveats, is there any interest in me spinning up a Discord and inviting y'all along with the bot?
It would allow someone with a free account a chance to mess with the AI without having to dive into the main Midjourney Discord, and look on and talk about it without a bunch of randos.
As these things go, I'd expect engagement in the near future, then we'd all forget about it and go elsewhere, but that's how they do.
* I've had prompts that generated results that looked vaguely like artistic nudity that haven't been removed. OTOH when I was rating images and came across one that I'm 99.999% sure someone used a copy of goatse to generate, you can bet I reported that puppy at the speed of light.
Anyway, the MacGuffin in this book resembles the MacGuffin in mine fairly closely in form and effects, although not in its use in the plot except for one scene. Which is totally fine, because these things happen. But if mine gets published I can tell that I'm going to have people saying "Did you steal that from McClellan?" and I'm going to have to explain that no, I stole it from Glen Cook and gave it a faint whitewashing of Skyrim.
BTW, the Midjourney AI bot can now be invited to Discord servers with less than 1000 members. Caveats: you'd need a free trial account to use it with the 25-image limit, or a paid account to do more, the images are still subject to their content restrictions*, and the images would also be visible over on the Midjourney Discord (hence the content restrictions). But given how busy the server is, I'd be very surprised if anyone even saw it.
So: given those caveats, is there any interest in me spinning up a Discord and inviting y'all along with the bot?
It would allow someone with a free account a chance to mess with the AI without having to dive into the main Midjourney Discord, and look on and talk about it without a bunch of randos.
As these things go, I'd expect engagement in the near future, then we'd all forget about it and go elsewhere, but that's how they do.
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Would you appreciate an invite to a not-exactly-private Discord server for Midjourney stuff?
Sure, I'd love to play about with Midjourney in a less chaotic environment
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Sure, though I'd probably just spectate
1 (11.1%)
Snazo
2 (22.2%)
Mello's fabulous ass
2 (22.2%)
You really need to get some more in-jokes as those previous two are over a decade old and counting
2 (22.2%)
* I've had prompts that generated results that looked vaguely like artistic nudity that haven't been removed. OTOH when I was rating images and came across one that I'm 99.999% sure someone used a copy of goatse to generate, you can bet I reported that puppy at the speed of light.
