#ASCII Corporation

[the2dvgstages]

"Mining Town" (on fire) - Ardy Lightfoot

#ascii corporation #SNES

[superfamiblog]

Dark Law: Meaning of Death (1997, ASCII Corporation). English translation patch by Aeon Genesis.

#Dark Law Meaning of Death #JRPG #SNES #Super Nintendo #Super Famicom #ASCII Corporation #pixel graphics #pixel aesthetic #screenshot #gif #screencaps #Fami's junk

[the-monkey-ruler]

Professional Mahjongg Gokuu (1986) プロフェッショナル麻雀悟空

Date: December 25, 1986

Platform: MSX  / Famicom Disk System / Sharp X68000 / FM Towns / NEC PC-8801 / NEC PC-9801 / FM-7

Developer: Chat Noir

Publisher: ASCII Corporation

Genre: Trivia / Board Game Franchises: Mahjong Gokū

Type: Crossover

Summary:

Play riichi mahjong against characters from the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West in this game for the Famicom Disk System and Japanese computers.

Source: https://www.giantbomb.com/professional-mahjongg-gokuu/3030-33870/

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfnZtJEhXEU&ab_channel=TheVideoGamesMuseum

#Professional Mahjongg Gokuu #プロフェッショナル麻雀悟空 #jttw media #jttw #xiyouji media #video game #game #Chat Noir #ASCII Corporation #crossover

[smbhax]

Dungeon Master (MSX)

#dungeon master #msx #fantasy #video game #video games #box art #ascii corp #ascii corporation #dungeon crawler #illustration

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Fighting Games of 1998 Fighter Maker

Fighter Maker is a 3D Fighting Game developed by ASCII Corporation for the PlayStation and released in Japan on the 30th of July 1998, with a US release the following year. 

Fighter Maker as you would expect by its name has an extensive array of options for creating your own fighters with martial art style, changing the frames of animation and editing your fighter's arsenal of moves with over 800 available to choose from.

In addition to the fighter creator mode, Fighter Maker has an exhibition mode for fights against AI-controlled opponents and a VS mode for two-player fights.

Fighter Maker is the first 3D version of Fighter Maker having previously been 2D games with 2D Fighter Maker 95 and 2D Fighter Maker 2nd. A 3D sequel to Fighter Maker was released in 2002 on the PlayStation 2 releasing in Japan and North America. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Games Intro 00:10 

3. Gameplay 02:05 

4. Outro 08:56 

 Twitter (Gaming & AI Art) 

https://twitter.com/zero2zedGaming 

Instagram (AI Art) 

https://www.instagram.com/random_art_ai/ 

For more fighting game videos check out the playlists below. 

Console Fighting Games of 1993 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFcKSo9Eglrv2NFDHAqNDRi 

Console Fighting Games of 1994 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF-R5w4NujQcYo8cCcOMHYv 

Console Fighting Games of 1995 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CEUiZn8FlwHoMcwoOzUqchX 

Console Fighting Games of 1996 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF0j9K_v7UqS3dxjwh6XIIM 

Console Fighting Games of 1997 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFm1r27Q5PvbO_4CjYYsj4- 

Console Fighting Games of 1998 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CHG7kROLoO-HAXmmzib8cd4

#playstation #90s gaming #fighter maker #90s games #video games #fighting games #ascii corporation #3d art #youtube #3d fighting games #1998

[tangibletechnomancy]

But really the thing that gets me about the "AI art isn't REAL art" argument-

More than the fact that this is a complete subjective non-argument, more than the fact that attempts to MAKE it objective inevitably lead to...dark places-

Is the fact that, fine, even if we agree that AI generation isn't INHERENTLY art, that's not going to take away the fact that humans fucking love taking "non-artistic" things and MAKING art out of them.

Look at ASCII art - that's "just" typing characters. Fractal art is a modern iteration of a long, LONG tradition of coloring math to make art. People ascribe meaning to found items and call them art - to broad agreement - all the time. Hell, this website itself has a whole subculture of shitposting artistic presentation into anything from candy wrappers to dog pee, or finding the value in art someone dreamed up and dismissed as nonsense upon waking.

So, sure, by one of my two own personal definitions of Art (1. Something someone creates or presents to project an idea; 2. Something someone finds Meaning in; i.e., potentially anything), yeah, I agree that, say, a generic portrait generated with no real intent beyond "look good on a shelf", because a Midjourney credit cuts into profits less than actually hiring an artist, to fill out a cover for Nepo Baby Cash Grab YA Book Of The Week isn't really Art. But what of when someone gives it an abstract prompt for the sake of seeing what the math engine produces in trying to make sense of it? What of when they find a result and spend 5 hours running it through multiple models, creating meaning in the chaos with every step? What of when someone shitposts up a storm, prints it out, and builds on top of it in the physical world? What of when someone uses it as a meditation on what latent space "looks" and "feels" like? What of when the flaws of the medium are the point? What of when the point is found in the fact that the computer doesn't know how absurd any given prompt is and just creates it anyway?

What if someone with hallucinations decides to take photos and img2img them into a deliberately imperfect approximation of what they see?

What if someone takes photos of their childhood play spots and img2img's them into what they imagined?

What if someone just challenges themself to take this "unartistic" medium and run wild with it for a full 24 hours to create one piece and a full meaning they can ascribe to it?

What if someone makes a whole series of art about jailbreaking the walled gardens of corporate AI?

This isn't a theoretical thing someone COULD do but no one IS - none of this is uncommon in the hobbyist space, because again, human beings will make art out of anything. ANYTHING. It's just what people do!

The Great Cosmic Tomato, created using img2img on a public domain photo of the planet Pluto from NASA's New Horizon's mission Generated under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?

#ai art #essays

[donotdestroy]

“We now call it the community industry. The history of the web went as follows: at first it was military, then education and now commerce oriented. What are the possibilities of artists in the confrontation with these three systems? All of the time you can notice the anti-authoritarian spirit that changes flavour. At one stage it is simply pacifist. At another time, when it comes to education, it deals with intellectual independence. As Twain once said: “I’ve never let my school interfere with my education”.

Right now, we live in a corporate atmosphere. The dominant frame in the artistic field is decorative art, but I cannot waste my time discussing it. In new media art, the radical and experimental artists always confront the dominant frame. And right now, it is the community industry that provides the most useful grip that the corporate world can possibly have on the online population. You have all these various dimensions of self-‐disclosure, and when you disclose things about yourself you share parts of your privacy that feed the system. And I think this is a good topic for artists. I am currently working on a project with Heath Bunting. I think this is a good topic because people are blind, they behave as sheep.” — Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić Deep ASCII​ 2021 Token ID: 0 Contract Address: 0x2C3c…dfFc Non-Fungible Token: ERC-1155 MP4: 46.1 MB (48,440,942 bytes), 742x1034px, 00:01:19 From the 1998 full length video Deep ASCII, running time 59 minutes Estimate £40,000 - 50,000

#artist #art quotes #nft #nft art #painting #drawing #Internet art #computer art #digital artist #figurative #figurative art #portrait #anatomy #figure drawing #portrait painting #figurative painting #contemporary painting #contemporary art #netart #ศิลปิน #ศิลปะ #inspiration #art of the day #Art #Slovenian #digital art #Vuk Ćosić #chick of the day #quote of the day

[creepingmonsterism]

However much he wants to, Elon can never compare to Kazuhiko Nishi loading down ASCII Corporation with debt and destroying its relationship with Microsoft by spending 150 million yen (750.000 US dollars at the time) on a life size brontosaurus statue which actually roared.

#elon musk #kazuhiko nishi #dinosaurs #msx

[moseni-lotus]

welcome, welcome ☆ !

rooks - noize - graffiti - ascii, 15, adhdtistic, she/they/it/he + more unlisted

toontown corporate clash, pizza tower, sonic, regretevator, and splatoon lover!

felinekin, alienkin, pokekin, n fictionkin. highest fict-kintypes are rookie (club penguin) and the noise (pizza tower), doubles are cool though!

other socials are babylonrogues on toyhouse, boxdimension on spacehey, rooksdotxml on discord (let me know who you are first!), brubotblast on that one bird app, and rookzter on blusky. there's a few more unlisted that i didnt feel like putting down, but you'd probably find them if ya looked closely.

dont interact with my blog if you (are): fall under basic dni criteria (homophobe, racist, ableist), nsfw / 18+ only account (im fine with people over 18 following though. just dont be weird), proship, or a TERF

i run @regrestimvator (my stimboard acc), @clubpenguincoins (my gender coining acc), only actual side blogs as of right now are @iaintgotnotimetodance (my art blog) and @robotviscera (vent + drawn gore warning for that one)

#tag list : #rook's random reblogss #rook's rambling #rook's art corner #rooks got too silly #fav-furr-ets #rookiecore

[dramamelon]

That’s a huge relief, thanks. I definitely just use it as a tool. I actually don’t even post the art—I’m just so happy to finally be able to make stuff for myself again that I don’t really feel the need. It’s a joy of creating thing. (If I do post, I’ll make it super clear I used AI in the process lol)

I also have issues with the training, which is why I settled on Midjourney in the end… My research says that they would be happy to remove any copyrighted data from their original training set, but they’ve only used generated images to train each iteration since gen 1, so the current generation (5) was trained on images that were trained on AI, and that AI was trained on AI, and THAT AI was trained on AI, which was ALSO trained on AI, and then that AI (if I counted correctly) was trained on a proprietary data set (not the same one as Stable Diffusion—that was released over a year later). Since even in the initial data set each image was reduced down to four bytes (5% of a pixel or four ASCII symbols) of data, my hope is that’s…basically as un-steal-y as AI gets right now? I mean, if there’s better, I haven’t heard about it… and it’s not like I profit off even the edited stuff.

Luckily, you can’t copyright AI generated stuff, and it sounds like the WGA got some good AI protections in place with this contract (thank fuck), so hopefully it won’t be abused by corporations.

Anyway. Yes. That’s a big relief that we’re on the same page. You’re good people. Thank you. The last time I sent a message like this, the poster said I was morally reprehensible and if I couldn’t make art without stealing, I should just not make art, which really hurt. I stopped for a few months after that, but it just…was too hard not making art at all. But that’s why I check when I see posts. I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.

There's a long way to go yet before AI generated images (and writing) are in a place they can be considered "ethically sourced," no doubt, but some steps are being taken in the right direction finally.

I'm glad you got back on the boat and didn't let someone else's angry inability to see shades of gray stop you from creating again. That's a good way to be absolutely miserable! Also happy I could ease your mind. :D

[gmlocg]

799.) Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

Release: October 16th, 1997 | GGF: Adventure, Exploration, RPG, Story Rich, Creature Collector | Developer(s): Love-de-Lic | Publisher(s): ASCII Corporation, Onion Games K.K. | Platform(s): PlayStation (1997), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2021), Windows (2021), Macintosh (2022)

[the2dvgstages]

"Tablet Cave" - Ardy Lightfoot

#ASCII corporation #SNES

[superfamiblog]

Dark Law: Meaning of Death (1997, ASCII Corporation). English translation patch by Aeon Genesis.

#Dark Law Meaning of Death #JRPG #SNES #Super Famicom #pixel aesthetic #pixel graphics #16 bit #retro gaming #screenshot #gif #screencaps #Fami's junk

[tron20emails]

Note: This email has been corrupted in TRON 2.0's lore. Within emails and text strings, Corruption appears as random ASCII characters inserted into the text in between words and sentences. For readers who struggle with parsing random characters, such as screen reader users, a "clean" version of this email can be accessed here.

Subject: Digi%tizing is Possiblle

To: [email protected]

From: Cr*[email protected]

Date: N()*@&ov-02

Accor$&ding to Th*orne, Bradley has done the impossible. Thorne saw Bradley shoot a laser beam at an orange. The orange disap$&peared under the beam, and th*&#*@en reappeared intact a few sec)($onds later. He's posting the su*9rveillance video to my private ftp site - I'll let you know when to dow)$*nload it.

Seth Crown III, Atto)),rney

Corporate Attorney

Future C&ontrol Industries, Inc.

#digitizing is possible #[email protected] #[email protected] #nov 02 #thorne's internal partition #alliance #fcon ceo #seth crown #thorne #alan bradley #corrupted

[smbhax]

Capcom vs. SNK ASCII Stick FT (DC)

#dreamcast #arcade stick #capcom vs snk #ascii stick ft #ascii corporation #asc-1302s #made in japan #game controller #game controllers #arcade sticks #joystick #fight stick #fight sticks #video games #gaming #gaming peripheral #game peripheral

[twocubes]

Unless I'm wildly misinterpeting you, Evernote + Pinboard should get you 95% of the way there, and you can probably cook up something completely self-hosted and open source too. That said, just start putting shit in a plain text file. Verbal brain noise -> ASCII is the most critical and ultimately most useful aspect, get that down first.

on some cloud services??? so i can't work at all if the network goes down or i'm outside??? gross and bad. seriously, i've been burned by those enough back when i used google reader. i'd rather not have the functioning of my tools dependent on either some corporation somewhere continuing to prioritize the maintenance of some service or the presumed longevity of individual tech startups.

and it's 75% at best; including pdfs or djvus or epubs of entire books in any of these either (for pinboard) is probably impossible without like, setting up a secret server or something (for money), or (for evernote) seems to require me to pay them money once i get past a fairly low size, which i'd rather not. also running a booru locally gets me a different 75% there, tbh, with the advantage that it's open source so getting a bit further is more possible, and there's a significantly more direct connection between the tagging system and the wiki system rather than having to use two entirely separate services.

(well, strictly, it'd require me to learn ruby, which i don't want to, so i'm sticking to my own plan)

anyways. sorry, i'm feeling a bit cranky. i'm sticking to paper/text files/org mode/latex/whatever for now.