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People go to school and spend their lives training to become artists. With digital art it was still humans creating it. Having their work replaced by generative garbage like this is an insult. This will only lead to more people struggling to find work and make a living.

Recycling the exact same argument you clowns used for NFT’s two years ago, I see. Well, I guess if you guys were capable of coming up with new ideas, you wouldn’t need AI.

I just typed my little rant about the difficulty of Evil West. I played on normal and it felt like a real struggle sometimes. Game seems unbalanced. Like, make the abilities a bit stronger or tone down some of the battles/enemies? I dunno. It was fun, but rough.

They make too much money with the Online modes for a fraction of the costs. As a person that only plays single player on these types of games, I would have gladly paid for DLC content for both 5 and RDR2, but I knew it wasn’t happening once GTA Online took off the way it did.

Bandwidth my ass. All that cash money made from shark cards because everything is price-gated unless you have hours and hours of time to grind or you happened to have modded money back from the old PS3/Xbox days. And yet, all that money goes towards the shareholders and the CEO. There's nothing of value in GTA online…

That bit where he said they have a product for customers without reliable internet: the Xbox 360, bowls me over to this day xD

Yeah, my Xbox Series X is currently a pretty pricey paper weight (Games Pass only theoretically works if your day-and-date exclusives are worth playing...)

100%. I don’t know what was worse, Microsoft’s terrible explanation or their poor response to the criticism. It’s one thing to attempt something new and have confusing messaging as to how it all works and why it’s necessary, it’s another issue to tell critics and potential customers to “deal with it” if they don’t…

Exactly. I don’t care that how ubiquitous our internet connection is, the inability to play an offline game without the internet is unacceptable.

Agreed about that online check bullshit. I don’t buy stuff digitally because in the end it’s an expensive rental. But I had Xbox gift cards and Alan Wake 2 is annoyingly only available digitally. So I “bought” it. One night when I was playing the Comcast internet went out and I got a pop-up saying I can’t play without…

And let’s not forget that the mandatory Kinect, coupled with a mandatory always-on internet, was a major privacy issue.

The people who will run in with attempts at “told you so”s will ignore two major elements:

1) Even if it was the best thing ever, Microsoft did such an ATROCIOUS job explaining/marketing it, it never would have mattered. The case study of just how you could botch a console launch from every conceivable angle is…

because it has produced something where otherwise there would be nothing.

I always say that “talent” shouldn’t be a dirty word. I’ve seen artists get angry when someone compliments them by saying they’re talented because they feel that it devalues all the hard work they’ve put in.

I mean, I sorta feel like something you plan on doing professionally should be difficult and take a significant amount of work to get good at. I also wish I could draw far better than I can. But whoever made that image prompt wasn’t doing it as a hobby, they were being paid while working for a company producing a…

This isn’t democratization — it is wholesale destructiin of the the craftsman ecosyatem that develops artists, provides income for artist, and is the very well that these automated machines pull from to use as grist.

How is “not everyone having enough money” for creating art a problem? Why should we be devaluing art?

One of my personal pet peeves about the AI “prompt-gineers” (aside from, you know, the theft of art and labour etc etc all that) is that they will “produce” a piece of work with shockingly obvious issues that wouldn’t fly past the eye of even an armature artist....and just say “fuck it, good enough. Post”

Eight…

Where were they supposed to find artists who know Fallout?