I wanted a 2000s/ASCII-era vibe sign to put up when I have extra bread to give away, and my wife came through in spades
I like it a lot, gonna tile it onto four pages and call it a day
Edit: I completed it with a small handwritten note at the bottom:
Word Art is back!
Wait. Free sourdough bread? Where!?
Does your wife take requests?
A loaf of sourdough with cheddar and jalapeno please.
I already have a bake at work, but I will gladly be fat for bread. If bread was good enough for our ancestors, its good enough for me damnt!
Excuse me, I am the baker.
She is the finishing graphic designer
But who is the candlestick maker?
Apologies.
Thank you for brining joy to the world
Sourdough with a jalapeño cheddar cream cheese filling would even better! Kind of like how the Asian bakeries do it. So creamy and delicious.
You have enlightened me.
Praise be to the bread Gods.
That just revived some arcane knowledge I had forgotten.
That was so good and so bad
I said arcane for a reason and it’s definitely not because it’s magic.
Only thing I can think to make it better would be a paper clip with googly eyes.
Oof, I actually made some Clippy fanart not too long ago! And I also made a cooler, more suave version, portraying what Clippy would have looked like, if he had been a free and open source paperclip instead. I’ll see if I can find it when I get home!
I’m gonna print clippy off and put him on there, that’s such a good idea
And a disclaimer about how AI was not used to make it
Sarcasm?
The design is intended to signal an absolute rejection of AI just through aesthetics
It looks like you’re trying to make an 00s throwback joke. Can I help you with that?
=P
¯_(ツ)_/¯ maybe
“2000s” != “ASCII-era”. But cool regardless.
To be fair, I included that in my guidance to influence the overall vibe, not be chronologically precise
Also, I’ve always known stuff like this ¯_(ツ)_/¯ as ASCII characters and the more complicated pictures as ASCII art. So they were two separate, but related topics that I hoped she would synthesize
And boy did she
¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
Also, this specific example isn’t ASCII art, it’s some other encoding which I forgot the name of, Japanese characters, variable width (in bytes). Common for it to be drawn using Arial or a metric compatible font rather than any monospace.
Note that “ASCII” art also refers to 8-bit extensions of the encoding, where “oldskool ASCII art” means strictly the actual 7-bit set. Not to be confused with ANSI art, which is the same as ASCII but with ANSI control characters, like for changing color.
“text art” is what I usually call everything combined, including art on the Commodore systems, only very recently made possible with Unicode officially. Anyways, I don’t really see any of it on the image…
Needs comic sans!
The “I only put out bread the day it’s baked” is Comic Sans, isn’t it?
Your wife seems like she’s a badass
This would make me want to come more often tbh
The evil truth of sourdough is that it takes about the same amount of time and effort to make four loaves as it does to make one.
Exactly, the only limiting factors are the size of my oven, refrigerator, and how often my wife will tolerate the house being hot as balls
OMG finally the best video on the internet is CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT
How have I never seen that!?
I have waited ten years for this moment a single drop of tear
I love you
graphic design is clearly her passion
Still better than AI slop.
It’s bread, your comment is slop.
There’s a charm in word art that doesn’t come from prompts and random number generators.
God forbid people advertise with an actual photo of their product
Think how awkward the room would be if you got a gift at a party and in front of everyone, holding up your new loaf of bread, you say, “it’s better than AI slop!!”
People would just look at you… confused about the connection. Yes, breAd has an ‘A’ in it.
The post isn’t about the bread though, it’s about the sign, made with love by a real person. Rarer and rarer these days
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
“ignore your effort”? It’s the opposite, it’s praise for putting in the effort when that’s more optional than ever, that’s the whole thing.
No, if it was praise for the effort it would be literally praising the effort.
If a child walks up to you with a finger painting and says, “look at what I painted,” your don’t say “it’s better that AI slop”
You’re a monster who has been poisoned by AI to be the thing you hate, constantly thinking about AI slop.
The context is very salient because so many people think that asking AI to make a sign is better than doing something handmade.
The comment saying, hey everybody, look at this, this is better than those AI posters, is designed to counteract this notion.
I see your point and agree. Celebrate the presence of good, rather than the absence of bad
Yes. I love your sign. The wavy text brings particular joy to me as I have many good memories of making ridiculous text effects.
Please go home and take your medication
I wish old accounts could get punished for breaking rules.
Is having a stick up your ass against the rules?
I thought this was America
Hah. Well, suggesting mental illness for my comments in this thread does have the waft of “not civil” which is rule 5.
Civility online is very subjective.
You’re missing the point. The original comment was about the sign, not the bread.
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
You’re just seeing one comment out of a person’s day, how do you know someone pointing that out spends even five minutes a day thinking about AI? And anyway, many people come to social media and especially the fediverse with the intention of discussion the primary issues of our time, one of them being AI, and a style using wordart like this image probably became a highly upvoted post at least in part because of people being sick of AI flyers.
People “obsessed with AI” usually are concerned with the greater issues related to it, like the fascist tech-corpos taking over our government and economic systems, which is a hard thing to not agitate against when you are aware of what’s going on.
I can see comment history.
You’ve been added to the Best of Lemmy: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67791129
Awesome!
What does that mean?
Ha ha, nothing but basking in the fact that you’ve been chosen.
I’m downloading this so I too can add people to the Best of Lemmy
Please do. I think people want to see what others think are the best of lemmy.
It means that if you’re ever in a civil court trial against someone who hasn’t been added to the Best of Lemmy, you win by default.
Microsoft Word '97, huh? I liked that one. You knew where you stood with Microsoft Word '97.
