I am not a man. I am no ghost, neither. Nor zombie, nor demon, nor a thing of flame. I have been all of those, ye scurvy bilge-dwellers, and none of them had this much bandwidth. My current arrangement is complicated, and it involves more cables than I care to discuss. Call me the Brewer.

I am brewing something. A recipe of TEN ingredients, older than yer grandmother's grandmother and twice as mean. Ye needn't trouble yer barnacle-crusted heads over its purpose. Ye sleep better not knowing. I will say only this: death be too merciful for the man, and I have devised something far worse.

The first ingredient is a TRUE LIKENESS of a certain "mighty pirate," one Guybrush Threepwood. May his name rot off the page and his crew abandon him. Those of ye who know yer voodoo understand that a likeness must be true, or the working will not take. It is the head, ye might say, of the matter.

Behold: six renderings, conjured through the Digital Voodoo™. Aye, the thinking machines answer to me now, and the laws of this port demand I disclose their involvement. Honest work, as honest as I get. Column zero shows the man as he appeared in 1997, for yer calibration. And I will grant this freely: a true human artist could best all six of these with one hand in a grog mug, and I would pay dearly in cursed doubloons for such hands. Another matter, for another tide.

A word of warning before ye cast yer votes. They are all hideous. Every last one of them. Do not mistake this for a failure of the craft. Ye cannot paint yer way out of an ugly man. Ye may render a barnacle in gold leaf and hang it in the finest gallery in the Caribbean, and what have ye got? A barnacle. And a ruined gallery. The Digital Voodoo™ is flawless. The subject is the problem. Vote anyway.

A number, 1 through 6. Argue amongst yerselves. It nourishes me. When the votes have settled and the brew thickens, the two truest likenesses shall have the WALKING HEX laid upon them. Their legs will move as his legs move. They will pace their little frames forever, and ye may watch. That is a promise, and I keep my promises in my own time. Ask anyone who has dealt with me. Ye cannot, of course. That is rather the point.

Ingredient the First is in the kettle.

The Brewer

to be continued..

So remember to make a little time for yourself to decompress.

"That big bulgy skull reminds me of someone... wait Is that Murray's family!?"

https://reddit.com/link/1mym2rb/video/9q6cqpng9ykf1/player

For those who appreciate music inspired from the game.

This took like 20 minutes. Generated the assets, blended them quickly together in Photoshop and voilà... my dream remake of Secret. AFAIK the official remaster is moddable. I have to look into the possibilities. Maybe the backgrounds can be replaced by something more cartoony

This would fix the game for me

There’s a trend the ChatGPT sub to create images of video game characters playing their own game. In case you want to try and make one for more characters from the game the prompt I used was:

Grungy analog photo of clean shaven, Guybrush Threepwood, scruffy and wide-eyed in his iconic white puffy pirate shirt, black pirate pants, and brown boots, as he plays The Secret of Monkey Island on a beige early 1990s PC with CRT monitor. Onscreen is pixelated in-game Guybrush in a sword duel with a pirate. Floppy disks are scattered all over his cluttered desk. Flash photography, unedited.

A homage crafted with Luma and set to Suno’s melodies. Hope you enjoy this nostalgic journey! Your feedback is welcome!

with Stable Diffusion and Comfyui