Alright sorry for the delay I had a (insert excuse here) come up, but anyway, lets get into this.

#Theme: A Dystopian slice of life, a view into lives of a dystopian society on an average day where nothing explosive is happening, imagine a busy market place on a Sunday morning, shop keeps selling futuristic food to the local citizens, but its Total Recall.

#My Prompt: a 80s style futuristic dystopian alien market place, alien butchers and market stalls full of aliens stock, mixture of alien and human customers shopping, humans shopping, realistic photo --ar 2:1 --stylize 131 --v 6.0

#Rules:

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)

  5. Posts that are tied will both get the points

  6. The challenge runs for 7 days from now on

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

#Prize | Points

• Most upvoted | +3 points

• Second most upvoted | +2 point

• Third most upvoted | +1 point

• OP’s favorite | +1 point

• Most original | +1 point

• Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point

• Prompt and workflow included | +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! Best inspirations for everyone and have fun!

#Past entries

Dieselpunk

Goosebump Book

Deep Space Wonders

Fairy Tales

A New Sport

Monsters are Back to School

War and Peace

Distant lands

Unreal Cartoons

Sustainable Ecumenopolis

Masks

Mascots

Old Gods, New Jobs

Winter Festivities

High Tech, Low Life

Character Limit

Gatsby’s Jazz Hands

Reel to Canvas

Cruelly Cute Characters

Retro Sci-Fi

Get Your Bard On!

Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs

Mad Royalty

Reimagined Historical Moments with Mythical Creatures

Secret life of the Forest

Sci-fi/Fantasy Extreme Sports

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    Prompt: In the lush embrace of nature-reclaimed ruins, where towering buildings are now mere skeletons draped in a verdant shroud, a family gathers as twilight breathes life into flickering flames. Amidst the broken echoes of a bygone civilization, the elders speak of ancient times, their voices weaving tales into the tapestry of the night. Children huddle close, their eyes wide with wonder as they listen to legends of the “doom scrollers”—mysterious talismans said to have once connected minds across vast distances but ultimately led humanity astray. The elders recount how these “doom scrollers,” with their enchanting glow, cast a spell of discord and distraction, drawing people into a web of “instant whispers” and “ghostly gatherings” until they forgot the world around them, bringing about their downfall. As the fire crackles, the cautionary tale of lost connections to the earth and each other becomes a shared memory, a history passed down through spoken word in this new Stone Age of man.

    • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksM
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      Just adding a comment here as well, in case you missed the announcement on top.
      This challenge is over and you’ve won! I’m sorry it’s a bit anticlimactic, but our challenge’s host seems to have disappeared. You won by having the most upvotes.
      Feel free to start a new challenge whenever you’re ready. I know a lot of us are looking forward to it :)

      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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        As a suggestion, can we get a sticky post with all the past entries so we don’t have to add them here and then we can just link to that post? I have tried to copy/paste and I end up having to re-link them all manually and it’s a real pain. Plus the top post is getting pretty long now. Thoughts?

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    Just the usual walk to school

    My Wacky Prompt nonsense

    Midjourney: Dystopian suburbia 8k photorealistic, 16:9 aspect ratio, iMax film style, highly detailed, people, and mutants, going about their lives in the street, just another day under tyrannical robot rule

    EDIT: Who is downvoting every post?

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Others are being down voted too, maybe someone who hates AIart? I dunno.

      The image is fantastic, midjourney is getting so good and you use the tool well. I want to see this movie!

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      Only upvotes are counted for the scoring

      if they’re using a bot, they’re wasting energy. if they’re a “who”, they’re wasting their time.

      • p.s.
      • dear downVoter, my dear trolling unfriendly idiot, (nudge, nudge)
      • if you really want to mess with this challenge, you have to send arbitrary upvotes ;)
  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
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    Just another day in the office.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/53795b35-1e53-4076-bd40-355ce359c8d9.jpeg

    Prompt: Create a masterpiece with a dark, mysterious overhead view of a Vast room of uninteresting, unkept, people sitting at desks staring blankly a computer monitor with their hands on keyboards, the desks are arranged like large armies. All the people have large cables coming from behind their backs connecting them to a graphical representation of sentient AI that is being powered by the humans typing.

  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Prompt: aerial view of a dystopian city with streets, highways, parking lots filled with cars and traffic jams, with a woman flying in an orange-grey wingsuit in the foreground

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        Yes, also the arms are somewhat overlong. That’s a wingsuit specialist for sure 😊 Must know the area very well to land somewhere, too.

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    Cyborg Repair Shop

    <prompt>

    A photorealistic image of a cyborg repair shop. With parts hanginh on the wall. The shop is in a dark alley of a dystopian city.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksM
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    Smiling is mandatory for all citizens

    Prompt: sci-fi movie still of a grocery store checkout clerk with a forced grin and wide open eyes, the clerk looks scared and tired, metal hooks keep the smile in place, a sign in the background reads "Smile Citizen" --ar 3:4

  • ✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧@sh.itjust.works
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    prompt

    spoiler

    (((in the style of luis royo)))(((deep underground))) (((slavic undercity))) a distant glowing kitten playing in a vast underground gothic ancient megacity of darkness (((in the style of Luis Royo))), other kittens far below, vast undercity, infinite abyss, very shadowy, strange contrast, masterpiece, best quality,

    getting used to XL

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    God in the GPUs

    From now on, they are continuing to build up their God

    parameters

    Prompt: the full body portrait of the (ancient ascetics:1.5), standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up reverently at the (huge motherboard:4) city in the distance background, otherworldly, high detailed, film still, cinematic lighting, low angle, snowy, HDR, <lora:xl_more_art-full_v1:1> <lora:add-detail-xl:1.5>

    Negative prompt: (2D:4), (painting:4), (miniature:2), CG, 3D rendering, macro, tilt shift, skyscraper, (copper pipe:2), camera, (aerial:4), ugly, bad quality, low rated, phone, frame, watermark, signature, border, (text:2), solar panel, balloon, game, realistic, robot, mecha, head out of frame, feet of frame, (eyeglasses:2), tombstone, wall, motherboard in hand, (circuit board on cloth:2), statue, sculpture, figurine, hand

    Steps: 60, Sampler: DPM++ 3M SDE Exponential, CFG scale: 7, Denoising strength: 0.75, Hypertile VAE: True, Size: 704x384, Hires resize: 1920x1080, Hires upscaler: 4x-UltraSharp, Pad conds: True, Postprocess upscaler: 4x-UltraSharp, Postprocess upscale by: 2, Seed: 990003463, Model: a private XL model

    others

  • Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world
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    Prompt

    Prompt:

    horror-themed barefooted young Girl sitting in an dirty and filthy alley, on the side begging, looking desperate in style of ‘Dark City’ directed by Alex Proyas, surreal cityscape, dimly lit streets, spiraling architecture, highlighted pale faces, dark clothes, bald heads, noir-inspired lighting, mysterious strangers, perpetual nighttime, shadowy figures, clockwork aesthetics, dystopian urban landscape, haunting atmosphere, eerie cityscape

    Made with Comfyui. the workflow should be embedded in the image.

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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    Bing/Dalle

    Prompt: A man in a run down apartment distills cola into water, filling bottles of clear fluid. Outside the dirty apartment window thousands of futuristic neon cola ads light up the city. Wanted posters line the walls

  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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    Make sure you logon and visit grandma tonight at the Gen-Y-atrics centre.

    prompt

    award winning, highly detailed, DSLR,

    An elderly care home where the patients are all sitting in rocking chairs with VR goggles on, depressing, dark atmosphere, dystopic, sterile concrete walls and floors, hands in lap, sci-fi

  • M0oP0oM
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    Nice challenge topic.

    Prompt in the bingilator: “A homeless sailor moon living her best life under a thriving market.” 7 tries, 4 sad dogs.

    bonus not in the running:

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    Who can frown like that while playing putt putt?

    Generation info

    Prompt: Dredd1024, judge dredd in uniform, looking at viewer, dystopian mini golf course with neon lights, futuristic cityscape backdrop, golf club resembling a weapon, glowing golf ball, decaying ruins, ominous clouds, scattered neon signs, reflective water hazards; style of Simon Stålenhag. <lora:Dredd1024:0.7>

    Negative prompt: negativeXL_D, text, watermark

    Steps: 8, Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras, CFG scale: 2, Seed: 3536038300, Size: 1216x832, Model hash: 676f0d60c8, Model: dreamshaperXL_turboDpmppSDE

    Hires fix 1.5x 0.5 denoising and various inpainting

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksM
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    It’s been 9 days since the challenge has opened. I think it’s about time to wrap it up and start giving everyone their points?

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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      we may need a clear guide to define deadlines (Saturday to Saturday?)

      downvotes don’t count, so don’t bother

      and no sailorMoon 😉

      • M0oP0oM
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        Hey, not cool.

        But I think since there is often time between one ending and the next starting it becomes fuzzy.

      • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksM
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        The rules are clearly stated in the post. A challenge runs for seven days. I can imagine some of us have busy lives, so it’s ok if it runs a bit late. But it’s weekend now, and I figure a little public reminder might speed things up :)

        The rules also say that the most upvoted image gets points, but it is a bit childish to downvote everyone. Whoever you are, you don’t need to be here. Go out and enjoy some fresh air :)

        And I don’t know what poor @M0oP0o@mander.xyz would do if Sailor Moon is banned :) I will say though that the rules clearly say one image per post. So maybe next time stick to one and put the rest in a reply?

        I tend to rely on the winner to organize and run the challenge. But I could take a more active hand in this if need be.