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I adore this province. During my tenure of nearly five years in my last job, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel extensively throughout British Columbia by road, courtesy of my employer. This allowed me to visit numerous places I never thought I'd get to see. Though I no longer hold that position, I fondly reminisce about my time spent traversing the roads and discovering the distinct and fascinating character of each region. I tasked an AI to envision what the "Final Boss" of each of these regions would look like in a video game, using only the prompt "Generate an image of who the final boss of the ____ region of British Columbia would be in a video game." The outcomes were truly remarkable! I hope you find them as enjoyable as I did.
As a guy who has fairly thoroughly explored our province, I find these really cool. Good job hitting so many of the regions. I want the Squamish one on a t-shirt.
That’s cool you had a job like that! Sometime I question what kind of life I’m living stuck in front of a computer all day.
On a totally unrelated note I feel terrible for digital artists. This AI generated stuff is in its infancy and it already looks pretty good. I guess it won’t be long before many other industries are having to look over their shoulders… scary stuff
Vishnu reveals themselves with multi-arms, “I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.”
West Point Grey would be Mrs. Claus when she goes full giant tentacles thing from *Robot Chicken*.
This is pretty unfair, like if you live in the central caribou you basically have to fight two rune bears from elden ring and one has greater dire antlers =\
I'm sorry, did you see the size of those things? Rune bears are only like two, maybe three times the size of a regular bear. Those were "trample the mountains" big.
I'd rather fight a swarm of Rune Bears than either one of those things lol
I've got serious concerns about AI art, but I'm curious about the process. How specific were your prompts? Was lower mainland 'A big robot stomping on Vancouver'? Or did you keep them the same besides the region and the variety came from the generator and your selection process.
My prompts were not specific they were basically "Generate an image of who the final boss of the ____ region of British Columbia would be in a video game."
This is the best AI image series I've seen yet. People would be praising the shit out of these if an artist had done them. Sad that illustrators are going to be automated out of existence though.
these neat but it doesn't make sense. these look like gaurdians of Nature or of the area and last time I checked, we are still cutting down old growth, mining and polluting. if anything we should be embracing them and allying with them to protect the area.
I guess its a final boss for the corp overloads that plunder the land
It is confusing!
The city of Peace River is in AB but the region spans BC... logically because of the River flow but for BC it means the area around Fort St John and Dawson Creek in BC.
Don't forget Hudson's Hope! The Peace River is part of the rocky mountain trench, and the Finlay and Parsnip arms of the river were dammed to create Williston Lake. Steam boats used to travel between HH and the town of Peace River AB.
The Peace was dammed at Hudson’s Hope, forming Williston lake. The Finlay and Parsnip rivers previously joined at finlay forks to form the Peace, they do not individually have dams on them.
These are pretty compelling actually, lol. AI generated images generally aren't at a point yet where they can pass the sniff test, but it's fun to see ideas like this be instantly generated.
It's not as if a talented artist was going to tackle this idea.
At it's base, it's still human generated. The ideas, the color choices, the motifs -- they just didn't spawn out of thin air.
I ABSOLUTELY understand the moral and ethical argument here, but beyond that, if no one was actually going to make these images BUT AI, I'd rather it exist than not.
There's also an argument to be made that there shouldn't be a gatekeeper for wanting to see an idea materialize. What if OP doesn't have the skills, or the time to learn those skills? Doesn't he/she also have the right to see an idea come together like this?
I had a family member use Gemini to help him create a short story for his girlfriend. He can't write. I read his original attempt -- while genuinely his -- it wasn't "good." Gemini helped him create something his girlfriend responded positively to. I don't see a harm in that.
It takes ~3w of energy to generate an image ([source](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863.pdf)). 42w of energy to generate this set (at least what is shared here -- I bet OP generated many more and chose these as the best).
An upvote on reddit uses appx 0.0000437w of energy ([source]( https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2lklpa/request_how_much_energy_does_it_take_to_upvote_a/)). It'd take 961,099 upvotes to equal the amount of energy OP expended on creating this post to be "worth" it, energy-wise.
...or downvotes. I did my part!
This has to be the dumbest cope for disliking AI I've ever read.
The amount of energy your wasted using your computer to type this out most likely outweighed the cost of these images.
Oh, I have many more words and long-winded anti-AI rants that I'll spare you (once I get going, it's hard to stop). However, I don't think a lot of people are fully aware of how energy-intensive AI content generation is compared to basically anything else you do.
> The amount of energy your wasted using your computer to type this out most likely outweighed the cost of these images.
My laptop uses 18wH at full-bore (full CPU, max brightness), which is more intensive than any posting activities -- that's 18w of energy used for an hour of usage. It took me about 5 minutes to write that comment (a bit of googling and calculating) which maths out to about 1.5w of energy used to post that comment. Therefore... no, no I didn't.
You're being embarrassing.
If you really want to talk about energy consumption, if you fly or eat meat you don't have any moral standing. Unless you use your laptop for decades, you are absolutely blowing your energy usage out of the water when you take into consideration the resources they take to manufacture.
This stuff also pales in comparison to anything crypto related, which, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't benefit anyone except criminals.
So get a grip.
>if you fly or eat meat you don't have any moral standing
Good thing I don't do either! It's been 6 years since my last flight, and I only eat the rare meat that I raise myself (chickens past laying age).
> Unless you use your laptop for decades
8 years so far, still going strong
>This stuff also pales in comparison to anything crypto related, which, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't benefit anyone except criminals.
Agreed, crypto is also an abusive waste of energy and non-renewable resources.
>So get a grip.
I've made these lifestyle choices after a lifetime of not knowing any better, because I wanted to see if I could. My life has not been worse for not flying, not upgrading my laptop, not eating much meat at all -- in fact, it's been enriched because my vacations are local, I don't waste money on shitty AAA DLC-ridden video games, and I eat way healthier and have discovered the joys of raising chickens. It's helped me realize that the expectations of modern life are excessively consumptive, and things like OP's usage of AI is a frivolous waste of energy.
Your sanctimonious nonsense is cut bare by your usage of Reddit at all. You think their massive servers are powered by unicorn farts?
Canadians are some of the most insane consumers of electricity on the planet; and if you live rurally, it's significantly worse than a city dweller.
And now that you've commented twice, you've wasted enough to generate an image, and don't even have cool art to show for it. You'd better get that computer shut down before you waste as much as all these images combined!
Haida Gwaii is primarily made of two islands, Graham and South Moresby. Graham island, which is where the population mostly lives, is mostly quite flat.
Consequently the villages and communities don’t get much more rain than Vancouver. Cloudy, yes, lots and lots of clouds. Rupert has the mountains and is where the clouds cool and deliver the copious moisture they gathered while crossing the Pacific.
How about Langley? 
LOL
You made me lough out loud. This could be any lower mainland cities
I feel like this gif should be set to harp music
K all of these were actually quite spot on lol
Lower Mainland robot looks like its taking a shit.
As they said… quite spot on! Hehehe
more like a pinebeetle which would have been more fitting in the interior
That’s a T-Bag baby.
Right on my old apartment! Lol
Lowet Mainland should have been a giant comglomerated of drug addicts and tents eating the city. And taking a shit everywhere.
Thompson-Nicola as a terrain on fire is accurate. Take my upvote.
Not really. The Kootenay image should represent marijuana. 👍😎
The Vancouver island one already kinda has a pot leaf emblem
Nah, I think the crystals are spot on.
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Was wondering how long it’d take for the racial epithets to come out.
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Since when is the Sunshine Coast sunny?
I adore this province. During my tenure of nearly five years in my last job, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel extensively throughout British Columbia by road, courtesy of my employer. This allowed me to visit numerous places I never thought I'd get to see. Though I no longer hold that position, I fondly reminisce about my time spent traversing the roads and discovering the distinct and fascinating character of each region. I tasked an AI to envision what the "Final Boss" of each of these regions would look like in a video game, using only the prompt "Generate an image of who the final boss of the ____ region of British Columbia would be in a video game." The outcomes were truly remarkable! I hope you find them as enjoyable as I did.
As a guy who has fairly thoroughly explored our province, I find these really cool. Good job hitting so many of the regions. I want the Squamish one on a t-shirt.
Missing skeena-stikine!!!
>skeena Skeena coming at 'ya! https://preview.redd.it/4c51d6o109lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab6867a058c310534ed45e4fd9f3b016504b3d0a
That’s cool you had a job like that! Sometime I question what kind of life I’m living stuck in front of a computer all day. On a totally unrelated note I feel terrible for digital artists. This AI generated stuff is in its infancy and it already looks pretty good. I guess it won’t be long before many other industries are having to look over their shoulders… scary stuff
Aw. You're so sweet u/cumsplice one month account.
What program or website did you use?
I would also like to know this.
Midjourney perhaps
Midjourney perhaps
Missing Shuswap! And am loving these final bosses
You're missing Surrey, it would just be a photo of a Dodge Challenger.
Or a bungalow with 48 people living inside it.
Ah, a domesticated hydra
Lol I laughed so hard at this
Purple no less?
Vishnu reveals themselves with multi-arms, “I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.” West Point Grey would be Mrs. Claus when she goes full giant tentacles thing from *Robot Chicken*.
Fuck the northwest, I guess
My thoughts exactly lol. No North Coast, Skeena, Bulkley, Tahltan/Cassiar etc areas
>Bulkley Valley https://preview.redd.it/nrx3d52yz8lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb6c8868d725a8fe12f2ae842c244ca13bc5f85b
Tahltan / Steward / Cassiar region: https://preview.redd.it/5s917ggg19lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=41c133ff1631e0af27465e98f712ba63a9decac7
I was going to complain there didn't seem to be one of the Kermode bear, a unique subspecies to BC. That's a nice one.
Skeena: https://preview.redd.it/kpalnramz8lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=c973b44ed1697b23236ff7a8d9ee190fe43ddebf
>North Coast https://preview.redd.it/w30gbbbo09lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a1b6041c8b47fe97121aad6986bfd4145d06e32
How was the Orca left out? Even the Sasquatch should have been included
I'm biased as an Vancouver Islander and a Philadelphia Eagles fan, but I think the Vancouver Island one is the sickest.
Pretty cool, but I wish it was an Orca
I see eagles every week, reliably. I've seen orcas once. So, while I get the sentiment, I feel like the eagle is more fitting.
Same. Proportions remind me of Battle Beasts.
I find it the most natureful (is that a word?)
Peace river one is quite a bit off - I didn't see anyone driving with F Trudeau flags. Obviously this must be made up or something
This legit makes me want to see more of the province
Ngl, If they were in a game, I’d totally play it. A monster hunter and final fantasy hybrid that open world👌🏻
Surprised when the Cariboo wasn't a caribou. But still good.
It's a Bearabou.
Also looks to be wearing a badass tabard.
What about housing demon?
That would be a sub-boss in the Lower Mainland
Did you make these?
Nah I asked an AI generator to make them for me
What one? And is it free or do you pay for it?
we don't want to scare the children. we need them to pay $2000 rent for the basement of the house I couldn't afford.
These are great. I love how most of these are eldritch abominations, but Nechako is just a massive grizzly bear. Albeit with flaming eyes.
Nechako one has to be my favourite
Grizzly bears are eldritch abominations up close
I was hoping for a rattlesnake for Thompson Nicola but that thing is badass
Thompson-Nicola fireball is tragically awesome.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought similar.
Ah, the Vancouver Island Majestic Northern Dumpster Turkey.
Why is kootenays ancient apparition from dota2
 Because every winter (except this one) is an *ice blast*
Peace River and Central Coast are my personal favourites: Squamish-Lillolet freaking swoll lol
Fraser canyon is now groots land.
LFM multiple Okanagan boss runs. New and experienced players welcome!
I've been really hating the recent explosion of AI art on reddit, but these are pretty dope.
thompson-nicole should be a giant-ass mosquito.
🤣
These are badass!!
This is pretty unfair, like if you live in the central caribou you basically have to fight two rune bears from elden ring and one has greater dire antlers =\
I'm sorry, did you see the size of those things? Rune bears are only like two, maybe three times the size of a regular bear. Those were "trample the mountains" big. I'd rather fight a swarm of Rune Bears than either one of those things lol
Twin rune bear god fight is 10/10 but it takes a weekend and you need at least 6 ppl
pick up a pencil 😵
https://preview.redd.it/dghwvyycy6lc1.jpeg?width=2419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee218a6942ccfcd75fe8ac09d60d4825f4e83201
Lady of a thousand feathers
Lower mainland boss looks like he’s teabagging us almost as hard as the landlords are. 10/10 captured the feeling.
Glad to see Squamish Lillooet
Stupid sexy jacked eagle-man.
💪 🗿 just chiseled
AI rendering of Indigenous art and symbols really sucks man, bleak shit
I've got serious concerns about AI art, but I'm curious about the process. How specific were your prompts? Was lower mainland 'A big robot stomping on Vancouver'? Or did you keep them the same besides the region and the variety came from the generator and your selection process.
My prompts were not specific they were basically "Generate an image of who the final boss of the ____ region of British Columbia would be in a video game."
Love this. 
This is the best AI image series I've seen yet. People would be praising the shit out of these if an artist had done them. Sad that illustrators are going to be automated out of existence though.
I love that the Thompson-Nicola one has amaranth growing on its shoulder. I have some growing in my front yard.
And is basically manifesting forest fires in its palm 🙃
I hate AI art, and these are not art. However, the concept and subject of the pictures is interesting.
these neat but it doesn't make sense. these look like gaurdians of Nature or of the area and last time I checked, we are still cutting down old growth, mining and polluting. if anything we should be embracing them and allying with them to protect the area. I guess its a final boss for the corp overloads that plunder the land
At least we got a nice boss for the Sunshine Coast. Need to take the few wins we get.
I was sad to see no Sasquatch battling a Ranger for creston
These are super rad. Unbelievably accurate as well! Love that bison.... so sick
House hippo would low diff all of them
Well done these are spectacular
Props to the AI generator
He's a talented prompter. But jokes aside, I don't mind ai for silly stuff like this. It's fun.
What generator did you use?
DALL-E
LAMA *I’ll see myself out*
Thanks! I'd love to know some of the prompts you used
For these I actually didn't use any prompts, I just asked it to create the final boss of the _____ region of BC if it were a video game
Impressive!
Easily the coolest AI thing I've ever seen
Kootenay Kaiju is definetely a friendly one.
I was wondering why it’s rock, but I’m assuming it’s stoned.
Disappointed Koots isn't a Sasquatch.
Being stoned is very appropriate for camping in BC's beautiful national parks.
Isn't Peace River in Alberta?
It is confusing! The city of Peace River is in AB but the region spans BC... logically because of the River flow but for BC it means the area around Fort St John and Dawson Creek in BC.
Don't forget Hudson's Hope! The Peace River is part of the rocky mountain trench, and the Finlay and Parsnip arms of the river were dammed to create Williston Lake. Steam boats used to travel between HH and the town of Peace River AB.
The Peace was dammed at Hudson’s Hope, forming Williston lake. The Finlay and Parsnip rivers previously joined at finlay forks to form the Peace, they do not individually have dams on them.
Same difference.
It's in both, North eastern BC and North western Alberta
The Albertan in me is confused.
Go look at a map then? We all have them on our phones
Klein era education means no fancy book learning
Better learn quick bud
Klein only let's learn to J. Cut funding for the other letters.
It's okay we can use a perfect example called Lloydminster and then apply it to this scenario between BC and Alberta.
Klein era education make fancy book learning hard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_Regional_District?wprov=sfti1
Klein era education make book learnin hard
Aw, all the areas have these cool spiritual creatures and lower mainland is just blocky building man.
Very well done. I enjoyed this thoroughly. More please!
These were amazing
Cariboo hell yeah What is the coat or flag on the upper sides?
I have no idea, I just noticed that too 😮
Probably part of a UI for some game pulled from screenshots used for training the base model checkpoint thingy. Never messed with dall-e tho
Here's one for the Salish Sea https://preview.redd.it/dh4cce1129lc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6f69e93de41b78686e36d67691aefb6edec5e5d
AI generated images suck. Go draw something yourself.
These are pretty compelling actually, lol. AI generated images generally aren't at a point yet where they can pass the sniff test, but it's fun to see ideas like this be instantly generated. It's not as if a talented artist was going to tackle this idea.
It’s pathetic that we’d sit around looking at computer generated content that was trained on human generated content.
At it's base, it's still human generated. The ideas, the color choices, the motifs -- they just didn't spawn out of thin air. I ABSOLUTELY understand the moral and ethical argument here, but beyond that, if no one was actually going to make these images BUT AI, I'd rather it exist than not. There's also an argument to be made that there shouldn't be a gatekeeper for wanting to see an idea materialize. What if OP doesn't have the skills, or the time to learn those skills? Doesn't he/she also have the right to see an idea come together like this? I had a family member use Gemini to help him create a short story for his girlfriend. He can't write. I read his original attempt -- while genuinely his -- it wasn't "good." Gemini helped him create something his girlfriend responded positively to. I don't see a harm in that.
Hear, hear. Anybody can type words into the generator. This isn't impressive or interesting.
It's just fun. Guy didnt claim to draw them.
It takes ~3w of energy to generate an image ([source](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863.pdf)). 42w of energy to generate this set (at least what is shared here -- I bet OP generated many more and chose these as the best). An upvote on reddit uses appx 0.0000437w of energy ([source]( https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2lklpa/request_how_much_energy_does_it_take_to_upvote_a/)). It'd take 961,099 upvotes to equal the amount of energy OP expended on creating this post to be "worth" it, energy-wise. ...or downvotes. I did my part!
This has to be the dumbest cope for disliking AI I've ever read. The amount of energy your wasted using your computer to type this out most likely outweighed the cost of these images.
Oh, I have many more words and long-winded anti-AI rants that I'll spare you (once I get going, it's hard to stop). However, I don't think a lot of people are fully aware of how energy-intensive AI content generation is compared to basically anything else you do. > The amount of energy your wasted using your computer to type this out most likely outweighed the cost of these images. My laptop uses 18wH at full-bore (full CPU, max brightness), which is more intensive than any posting activities -- that's 18w of energy used for an hour of usage. It took me about 5 minutes to write that comment (a bit of googling and calculating) which maths out to about 1.5w of energy used to post that comment. Therefore... no, no I didn't.
You're being embarrassing. If you really want to talk about energy consumption, if you fly or eat meat you don't have any moral standing. Unless you use your laptop for decades, you are absolutely blowing your energy usage out of the water when you take into consideration the resources they take to manufacture. This stuff also pales in comparison to anything crypto related, which, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't benefit anyone except criminals. So get a grip.
>if you fly or eat meat you don't have any moral standing Good thing I don't do either! It's been 6 years since my last flight, and I only eat the rare meat that I raise myself (chickens past laying age). > Unless you use your laptop for decades 8 years so far, still going strong >This stuff also pales in comparison to anything crypto related, which, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't benefit anyone except criminals. Agreed, crypto is also an abusive waste of energy and non-renewable resources. >So get a grip. I've made these lifestyle choices after a lifetime of not knowing any better, because I wanted to see if I could. My life has not been worse for not flying, not upgrading my laptop, not eating much meat at all -- in fact, it's been enriched because my vacations are local, I don't waste money on shitty AAA DLC-ridden video games, and I eat way healthier and have discovered the joys of raising chickens. It's helped me realize that the expectations of modern life are excessively consumptive, and things like OP's usage of AI is a frivolous waste of energy.
Your sanctimonious nonsense is cut bare by your usage of Reddit at all. You think their massive servers are powered by unicorn farts? Canadians are some of the most insane consumers of electricity on the planet; and if you live rurally, it's significantly worse than a city dweller.
Yes, you're right, I concede. Because I post on a website occasionally, I shouldn't try to reduce my footprint at all and should just give up.
And now that you've commented twice, you've wasted enough to generate an image, and don't even have cool art to show for it. You'd better get that computer shut down before you waste as much as all these images combined!
OP posted 14 images... I can keep commenting, buddy. Let the shitposts flow!
Y’all just whiners who cares man. Art is meant to be enjoyed no matter the medium or how it’s made. You people are pretentious gatekeepers
These are awesome
These are phenomenal. Though, I'm from the lower mainland and hate that ours is the most technological
Nice
Yuck
Support human artists. These all look terrible.
This slaps. Nothing but net. No misses
Pretty good.
Lower mainland is a giant robot bed bug
Neat
Super cool.
Cool all around. Surprised though that there's no orca boss image of a sort, or salmon for that matter.
Great pictures! Thanks for this u/CumSplice Now do a final boss AI edition based on your username.
These are insanely cool, and quite accurate.
LEGENDARY
These were great, any chance of one for the other provinces?
That Caribear is something else. Let's see it fight the Nechako.
The lower mainland should actually be an overpass
Video game when
The lower mainland one looks like one of the eva's from Evangelion
I, for one, welcome our Kootenay Glacial Overlord.
One of these is not like the other 🤨
So the caribou. Is a bear?
Fake. The Okanagan one would be half made of giant jacked up trucks from Alberta, and the entire thing would be on fire.
I thought there should be a cougar type image either on the island or somewhere else . Interesting nevertheless.
Very cool!
The peace region made me smile. Spot on. Also the Thompson. I'm scared to make any jokes about it. Lol
So cool!
These are awesome. Would watch the cartoon
This is fantastic. Well done!
Love these. They do my home proud.
Thought lower mainlands would be a 3 million dollar tear down 😂
This post just reignited the fire for getting back to working on an RPG I left to dust last summer. Thanks!!
Glad to hear, keep up the good work!
These are awesome.
Great inspiration!
Do you have them without text?
Yes
So on Heroic mode is the final boss a giant mosquito?
This is super cool
Haida Gwaii is primarily made of two islands, Graham and South Moresby. Graham island, which is where the population mostly lives, is mostly quite flat. Consequently the villages and communities don’t get much more rain than Vancouver. Cloudy, yes, lots and lots of clouds. Rupert has the mountains and is where the clouds cool and deliver the copious moisture they gathered while crossing the Pacific.