From d4386168c0083bc28c25c4ebe82245fe4d263e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:39:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] drafting "Product Review: FaceApp" --- content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md | 26 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md index 3d85004..e5cebef 100644 --- a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md +++ b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md @@ -1,10 +1,23 @@ Title: Product Review: FaceApp Date: 2020-01-01 05:00 Category: other -Tags: product review +Tags: review (product) Status: draft -This app! This app is _the uniquely best piece of software in our world_. +[This app!](https://www.faceapp.com/) This app is _the uniquely best piece of software in the world_. + +Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces. + +Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you (or a friend, celebrity, _&c._) would look like if you (respectively they) were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material. + +But! _There's a "Female" filter._ + +Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. + + + +When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is there to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_. + this is plausibly the best photo of me ever (I won't say the best crossdressing photo, because obviously all photographs of men are bad; only photographs of women or women-adj have the potential to be good) @@ -15,10 +28,13 @@ I paid ten dollars for the yearly subscription In the tiny fraction of decoherent futures in which in the glorious transhumanist future, there's also BrainApp that can do reversible mental transitions -(I mean, BodyApp is the fun part, but BrainApp is educational) +(I mean, BodyApp is the fun part, but BrainApp is _educational_.) Shut up! Shut up and take my money! -When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), +POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST— -the girl in the phone you can _believe in_. +* server lag? +* can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/) +* gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason +* transhumanist fantasy -- 2.17.1