I haven't been to the Avenues mall in a year since it's pretty far out of my way so when they opened a new Arcade in it, I didn't immediately go check it out but I wish I had sooner because it's a genuinely nice Arcade!

Ignore the tall grass, it's been raining here for a week straight and it will be mowed when the sun comes back out.

The top 100 finalists for this years Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest have been posted and I am not among them.

They caught and disqualified the cheaters who used ai for their entries and I THOUGHT that meant that they were going to go back and edit the top 300 list to remove the ai cheats and give those slots to actual Artists instead but they didn't bother and I'm not gonna lie, that kinda hurts.

I can live with the fact that I didn't make the top 300 if I truly didn't make it, I didn't make it last year either(and it hurt then too) but there was a chance that I could have at least gotten top 300(probably not but the possibility is there) and I'll never know because a bunch of cheaters made the ranks and that's what they are, fuckin cheaters.

I'm a digital Artist, I often sketch out my ideas on paper and then I'll draw over my Sketches and Doodles on my computer and I use the various tools available in Gimp to do my art but I will never use ai to do the work for me, that's disgusting.

I don't use DeviantArt for my Art as much anymore since I didn't like the site's redesign but I still use the scraps folder to archive most of my Sketches and Doodles and I post some of my bigger pieces over there after I upload them here but I've noticed a bigger problem than their redesign and that just how relaxed they are about people posting and selling ai art.

Every time I load up DA the first thing I see is people selling adoptables made with ai yesterday is was an anthro Fluttershy. It was not over stylised or a parody of Fluttershy just a straight up anthro Fluttershy that the user had up for sale as an adoptable and today when I signed in the first thing I saw was an ai made fox adoptable and the ironic thing was that the user had a watermark on it to prevent people from stealing it.....

He lost his TRAIN of thought!

Back in my day that was a rotten wood fence....then I got tired of looking at that warped wood and upgraded to a nice vinyl that won't warp in the rain.