Oh boy. Yeah I definitely recommend therapy because you obviously have a lot to work through.

Well by making the game enjoyable to play instead of a miserable experience that decided being able to have fun was a design flaw that needed to be eliminated.

Sure, you could play those games with 200% health and 50% more defense, but then the game will be boring. (especially because the story of those games is not important)

I’m not saying the guys views on trans is right or wrong.

Oh absolutely that can still be a thing if you don’t figure out that whole balance thing.  On the other hand, Pokimane and others like Pestily have the resources to also hire editors to take some of that workload off their specific hands which I imagine helps with some of that.

It’s like they’re trying to make it sound that they’re cutting back because of burnout but it instead seems like it’ll be the same level of public-facing work but across more platforms.

I think the core problem is that its just more Saints Row (and you know the issues and all).

So you’re back to arguing semantics. Great. Moving past that...

I’m not going to belabor the many falsehoods you’ve stated. I’ll just jump down to the following.

Those are the things you argued.

I must say your reply is enlightening.

I am not witholding “basic respect to another human being” by acknowledging the complexity of the issue.

I mean, you read what you wanna read, but I spent a good chunk of this thread talking about how our laws to regulate copyright are broken, how big platform owners share many of the challenges of this new application and how the whole thing needs to be regulated again from the ground up for the new realities.

For the record, no, I’m not setting the line at legality

You are not paying attention to what I’m saying.

For instance, we can’t guarantee how much of the underlying process of creating the images the AI is utilizing because a lot of the black boxed categorization is parsing those elements.

Nnnnope, that’s not what is happening here. That’s... a bit of a common misconception, I’m finding out, but it’s not accurate.

And regardless of whether you draw manga, cartoons or realistic paintings you still do construction and you still apply lighting techniques, perspective, color theory. Yeah, sure, you can choose to ignore them, but you probably have to know them if you’re a professional artist, which is what is being discussed here.

I am gonna guess you’re neither a coder nor an illustrator, because assuming there is not learned technique in art is... actually quite insulting and assuming there’s no creativity to coding (or that it’s adding a number to another number) is also pretty bad.

They are, in fact, identical tech. You are arguing that text autocorrect is fundamentally fine while content-aware fill tools in photoshop are fundamentally wrong, which is a tough argument to make.