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.
+Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you would look like if you were older, or younger, or [TODO]. 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.
Except! _There's a "Female" filter._
-Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... how do I put this?—weariness? _Ennui_? (... dysphoria?) A perpetual, aching disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved.
+Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... weariness? (_Ennui_? ... dysphoria?) A perpetual dull disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved by simulation.
One of the reasons I'm so glad that [there's a word for the thing](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) is that I find the leading alternative candidate words, _transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, to be deeply misleading as to the nature of the phenomenon.
Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
-It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or [shot with lasers](/2017/Nov/laser-1/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable.
+It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or shot [with](/2017/Nov/laser-1/) [lasers](/2017/Dec/laser-2/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable—or at least, [much more costly to fix](TODO: FFS linky)—and bone structure is the prison of maleness
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+[glorious androgyny of the spirit](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/)
Until ... this app! This app! 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_.
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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)
the horror of seeing what I look like with a beard
Shut up! Shut up and take my money!
-OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST—
+OUTLINEish—
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+ * This app!
+ * AGP isn't about clothes; this app is filling a part of the experience
+ * transhumanist fantasy
+ * actual app criticism—
+ * pricing model, &c.
+ * gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason
+ * server lag?
+ * double-filter trick
+ * can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/)
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-* 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
-* double-filter trick
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