Ok if you want to learn but not study intense like and read the books and stuff, at least not at first, there is a longer but more fun route.

Listen to an actual play podcast. I suggest the first season of the Adventure Zone since the hosts are learning the game as well. They even kinda explain how the game works.

But also tldr for the rules: it’s play pretend but sometimes the person describing the scene makes you roll a dice and the number says if you did the thing or not.

Funnily enough that’s not how that actually works with AI. The two are not the same.

And where do computers take the pictures they mash together for your convenience?

Elaborate

That would be a good thing? You don’t want a challenge or to grow? Develop a skill? You don’t get a sense of accomplishment if you just have a computer steal other people’s effort for you.

If that were true, there would be people saying they are engineers for doing this.

There aren’t.

But there’s people saying they’re artists and musicians for making slop…

If people got a proper art education they would know drawing is more fun.

C’est la vie

I feel that the idea that only certain magically wired people can be artists is a myth. I also think that our idea that only good artists are valid is some capitalistic nonsense. “Bad” artists are also valid artists, and our attitude around people creating things should change.

I don’t think that stage ever stops for anyone

I genuinely disagree.

Making something, regardless of skill level or whether you achieve what idea you had in making it, is what makes an artist. A poor artist or one that’s not the best ever is still a valid artist, right? Then that should apply to you as well.

Anyone, despite disposition, can learn to paint an apple. The idea that art is exclusive to those who can think a certain way is a myth.

I don’t think that it fills a creativity gap. It circumvents it. It’s a parasite. It gets in the way of you actually being creative and gives you a cheap dopamine hit instead of anything of substance. People learning how to do the things they want to do is what actually bridges that gap.

But you know how to play dodgeball. Do you know what composition is?

If not, or even the fact that question is tricky for people, is to illustrate my point. People want to be able to draw, and we aren’t being taught how.

If you had the education, you’d know how to do all the things you say you want to do.

Here’s how to draw in two point perspective kids!

Sit fuming in the back fucking capitalist pigs trying to shove America down my throat fuck you Mrs. Dotterson I’m too woke to learn how to draw

Yeah that’s kinda fucking wack. I guess if you want cold food that’s the fastest way or something but still, unhinged

“my brother in Christ” is a meme phrase. Also it’s not saying you’re literally Jesus’s brother.

I’m just saying you’re criticizing someone for doing the point of the community, that’s kinda dumb.

There is one

This is like the inverse of Hot Grapes