X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fproduct-review-faceapp.md;h=628bbbf3db1b5204223d895b9344a415ef1eca46;hp=1ed7171c00d4fff6d8c798ef8934089649a9922f;hb=5f843b7430a0a463ec6aeb37523f47e882cba47d;hpb=36ede382ed8b190680496b217f01a400833f1171 diff --git a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md index 1ed7171..628bbbf 100644 --- a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md +++ b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Status: draft 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. @@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Namely: it's not about the clothes. Why would it be? Women with short hair, wome Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work. -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 + +[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_. +----------- + 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 @@ -39,10 +43,17 @@ in the glorious transhumanist future, there's also BrainApp that can do reversib Shut up! Shut up and take my money! -OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST— +OUTLINEish— + + * 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/) + + -* 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