What have you purchased recently?

[Dirty Hipsters]

So...there have been a lot more purchases made with regards to my PC upgrade, which turned into more of a PC complete rebuild. I will detail this in the "complain train" thread, as I basically have a novel.

Edit: The updated build is

CPU: 7600x3D
GPU: 7800xt
RAM: DDR5 6000mhz
SSD: Samsung 990
EVO 2TB
MOBO: ASUS TUF B650
CPU Cooler: Thermal Right Peerless Assassin

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Bought a lot more stuff to hang on the wall; bought 7 more Displates, bought 3 movie canvases from Scene Haus, and bought a canvas from Canvas Cultures. I bought a dresser for my bedroom finally, I was just using the massive closet for that (which was only meant to be temporary but it's been like 2 years of that).

Displates


Scene Haus



Canvas Cultures



Dresser

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Bought a lot more stuff to hang on the wall; bought 7 more Displates, bought 3 movie canvases from Scene Haus, and bought a canvas from Canvas Cultures. I bought a dresser for my bedroom finally, I was just using the massive closet for that (which was only meant to be temporary but it's been like 2 years of that).

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AI art has really ruined a lot of the "original art" displates for me. I just don't want to pay $70 for something that was probably made by chatgpt where all the "artist" did was make up a prompt and made sure the art didn't have any visible hands. Unfortunately this also ruins the livelihoods of some real artists whose art looks like AI art because the AI was trained on their art.

Unfortunate because some of those look really cool.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

AI art has really ruined a lot of the "original art" displates for me. I just don't want to pay $70 for something that was probably made by chatgpt where all the "artist" did was make up a prompt and made sure the art didn't have any visible hands. Unfortunately this also ruins the livelihoods of some real artists whose art looks like AI art because the AI was trained on their art.

Unfortunate because some of those look really cool.

A lot of the animal ones have that really hyper-realistic CGI look that just makes me think of AI art now regardless of whether they are AI art or not (as obviously the AI has to pull the content from somewhere). Outside of that look, I don't think I'm too good at identifying it though because I don't really know much of the telltale signs; though like any food I see on Facebook, I assume it's AI generated now. With the sales they were having all holiday season it seems, they probably came out to like $35/per with tax and shipping added in.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Debating purchasing a new watch. All of my watches are kind of bulky automatic pilot style watches,, and I'd like something that fits a little better under a button up shirt to wear with suits, or to wear more comfortably with other closer fitting long sleeve jackets.

Saw a watch that I think looks pretty cool and interesting.



It's a 1980s soviet era watch from a company called "Raketa" (Rocket). They have a connection to the Russian space program, and I think this particular one is cool because the hour and minute "hands" are meant to represent celestial bodies.

It's not very expensive (as far as vintage watches go), and Raketa watches have a pretty decent reputation (though not on par with anything Swiss), however I'm still a little distrustful of Soviet era quality control.

 

[BrawlMan]

Rage of Honor (Blu-Ray) came in today. Glad they did a re-release of this that is not overpriced and I got it on sale. I got all of the leading Sho Kusogi films I want now.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Instead of buying a new watch I decided to build my own custom watch. It seemed like fun, and it'll be cool to tell people I built my own unique 1 of 1 watch.

Will I actually be able to do it though? We'll see if it works out. Just picked out and ordered all the necessary parts and tools.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Finally got up all the Displates