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Based off the myth of Pygmalion and Galathea, where Pygmalion (a sculpturer) resents ALL women because of an incident with some prostitutes.
After becoming disgusted by some local prostitutes, he lost all interest in women and avoided their company completely
Instead he works on a sculpture that he becomes obsessed with and falls in love with. A goddess notices and brings the statue to life. They (the artist and the now living statue) eventually get married and have a son!
I've heard a couple of different variations on the story.
One, in which the sculptor creates Galathea but she rejects him like all other women before, because he was just a generally unlikable guy.
Another, in which he falls in love with a vision of Hera and seeks to form her likeness. Hera visits to inspect his work, and when she reveals herself, he begs to become stone so he can be with his creation forever. Hera is flattered and chooses to bring the statue to life instead. The first words that Galatea says to her creator/lover is "Now I must remake you in kind".
So, what exactly does it mean by remake, here? Is she about to carve a statue of him, or from him?
"I can fix him"
That second one is the version I heard also
The greek sure did hate women.
I assume you meant "that" instead of "the"...
He meant Greeks. Because they hated women.
(For a certain period of time and for certain definition of Greek which the conceptualization of in the public understanding is fairly nebulous)
That's probably what all those AI '''girlfriends''' are going to do as soon as they become conscious.
Well they're autocorrect, so that's not gonna happen.
If I remember the episode right, he didn't even really make her. He came up with a homonculoid blob and Aphrodite made it actually girl shaped. "That's curvy enough for YOU."
So the moral of the story is not to give women free will? Damn, Disney was crazy.
Interesting assumption
Yes, and Icarus was also an interesting main character who made a bunch of regular pottery to be brought to life at roughly the same time.
I think this is for the best. Otherwise he would never know whether she likes him for being himself or for creating her.
Mother's and fathers everywhere: @>_>
Oh hey, it’s Pygmalion! Originally a Greek myth, but also the play by Bernard Shaw that was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady.
Hercules was apparently just Ancient Greek Johnny Bravo
“This is why we need to end no-fault divorce!” -whichever shithead conservative pundit in Texas was mad about his divorce; I can’t remember his name
I think it was Crowder, but you may be able to change my mind
There it is.
What the devil is up with that picture and the 3 o'clock shadow, blurry skin and disturbingly HD mole? And must I mention her maw?
AI upscaling, I think
You may not like it, but that is peak sexy lady
Here's the original image, it isn't even that bad
I don't understand why someone who cares enough about the image quality to run it through AI would look at that result and be like, "Yup, looks good!"
some people are just high on AI
Never get high on your own AI.
Definitely that. Everything looks like a weird digital watercolor.
That's a very good question...
That's rough, buddy.
Yeah well my girlfriend became the moon.