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

  • ThelsimMEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Ok, it’s been 11 days now and @[email protected]’s account seems to have disappeared.

    I’m ending this challenge and just base it on most upvotes. It doesn’t feel right to be the one to judge on most original or favorite, though I really wish all of you had a proper score. If it’s any consolation, I really loved all of your contributions and appreciate you for participating :)

    @[email protected] It looks like you win this one with 13 votes, congratulations! It really is a nice image and a well deserved win :) You can think up the next challenge.

    In the future I’ll step in if a challenge runs longer than 9 days, if no one has any objections to this.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • ThelsimMEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        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?

        • ThelsimMEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Sure, I can imagine it being a drag having to reformat and repost all those links. Just leave them out and I’ll write a sticky post with all the previous entries.
          It should be fun to win, not an admin chore :)

  • DominusOfMegadeusEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 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!

    • merde alorsEnglish
      74·
      9 months ago

      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 ;)
    • ZigguratEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      There is definitely some tales from the loop vibes

  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    9 months ago

    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.deEnglish
    101·
    9 months ago

    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

      • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

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

  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • ✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧English
    81·
    9 months ago

    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

  • ThelsimMEnglish
    92·
    9 months ago

    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

  • ZigguratEnglish
    81·
    9 months ago

    Just something simple this time

  • DeceptichumEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      It is actually quite cool to be able to travel virtually when my body is no longer capable. The technology will have advanced dramatically in 2 decades.

      • DeceptichumEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Oh it’s certainly cool, but only as an accessory to a meaningful reality not as a substitute for one.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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:

  • bobEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • SomeAmateurEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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

  • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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