Triangulum - Chapter Index

Triangulum - Chapter Index

A mysterious game with an even more mysterious game-master pulls Bill from the edge of death and back to Gravity Falls for the summer, where he seeks to win the valuable prize he was promised upon achieving victory; the destruction of the weirdness barrier around the town. Naturally, such a tempting deal comes with a few...surprises, mainly in the form of a teenage, human vessel he's now forced to call home. And as the summer continues, only more surprises, twists and ghosts of triangle's past will reveal themselves—no matter how hard Bill tries to turn his usual blind eye to them. It's a brand new summer with brand new mysteries, ones that might be more than Bill, or even the Pines family, are prepared to handle.

A 'Bill Cipher Turns Human and Shenanigans Ensue' fanfiction. Content warnings will be added as needed, but the overall fic will be rated for a Teen and Up Audience. As the poster says, this fic will not be canon-compliant to the upcoming book 'The Book of Bill'.

(Cipher font by @/ashyslashyy)

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Prologue - The Shelduck's Game [Ao3] Art - Dipper Journal Pages (1) [Ao3] Chapter 1 - Return to the Falls [Ao3] Art - Mystery Shack Pamphlet Chapter 2 - Unsettling In [Ao3] Art - Stanford's Long Evening Chapter 3 - A Unwelcomed Guest [Ao3] Art - Stanford Journal Pages (1) Chapter 4 - The Morning After Bill [Ao3] Art - Stanford's Study Desk Chapter 5 - Fake Fights and Failed Flights [Ao3] Art - Dipper Journal Pages (2) Chapter 6 - Strife of the Party

based on vine from that vid

I’ve been seeing some people claim that the new summer Luigi render looks AI-generated. Even though, IIRC, Nintendo is against AI. Like…wtf.

Even if you don't trust Nintendo to keep their promise, I can say with confidence that the Luigi image definitely isn't A.I generated. Here's of an example of something generated using a fairly high quality AI program:

Often AI pictures will involve lots of motion (sometimes needless motion) to cover up the tell-tale signs of being computer generated. If the hands and the face show no direct signs of AI (let's pretend that the difference in the way Samurai-Mario's eyes are shaded is a stylistic choice), it helps to look at the clothes to see if they are coherent. Look at that armor. Yikes. The shoulder pads are built completely differently. The chest plate has a vague and unintelligible pattern. There are three swords for some reason, and if you look closely at the cloth around his hips he has three thigh guards as well. Everything arranged in a way that you can't tell how the armor is layered. There's patterns of water and air and fire all smashed together in a nonsensical way, completely void of care and intention. It's meant to look cool for a half-second of internet scrolling, but if you look any longer than that the image completely falls apart.

Now let's look at the Nintendo cover:

Though it has the glossy smoothness you often see in AI, everything else holds up. The background and the foreground don't ever accidentally blend together. The textures of Luigi's drink, shirt, hat, skin, and mustache are distinct and make sense. You can see care put into the details: the way the ice cream changes color as it sinks into the drink, the vague impression of Luigi's thumb visible through the cup, the tiny water droplets of condensation outside the cup that stand out from the soda bubbles inside the cup, the way the stitching of the L on Luigi's cap is made of a different material than the green felt of the rest of his cap... Not only are there are a lot of details, but every detail makes sense! Luigi's eyes and ears look normal, his clothing pattern is simple, comprehensive, and consistent, but the thing that makes me most certain that the cover is artist-made is Luigi's hands:

AI art of The Mario Brothers will usually put them in gloves, since almost all existing images fed into the algorithm shows Mario and Luigi wearing gloves. But the magazine cover not only shows Luigi without gloves, not only do his hands look good and match the lighting, casting a shadow on his shirt and reflecting a slight hint of red onto the drink in his hand, but the artist added very very vague impressions of fingernails for those who care enough to look extra closely!

So while I will never fault anyone for being suspicious of the promises of a big company, I don't see any signs Nintendo hasn't held to its word regarding AI.

There's something really important I lost a year ago and I'm starting to get desperate. Let's hope this helps

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

"nobody is judging you" wrong, my mother is seemingly always judging every single stranger she sees