Except game streaming in the U.S. sucks and isn’t going to be viable for years to come.

Thank you Ken for not making this a slideshow.

Yeah, it definitely seems weird. These changes don’t really enhance anything or give enough of a difference to make any sort of meaningful play on the multiverse concept. They’re just sorta mildly different, and not big enough to be excited to go back and try to catch a different one.

That all sounds a lot more like some theaters were shipped an incomplete version of the film, and now that people have noticed they’re trying to spin it as something deliberate.

A half-assed LEGO set following in the success of a similar Nintendo product is absolutely on brand for SEGA.

AHAHAHAAHAH

Smashing!

I didn’t say perfect. Plus, subjective opinions and all.

Theyre coming to my area (SF) on January 6. Hopefully that’s a much less interesting day than past January 6ths!

Is it?

Similar to how Clue’s alternate endings accentuated the 1949 card game

Clue, now that’s a good movie.

It’s not even the fact that leveling is slow: it’s that they’ve really made a point of going out of their way to nerf efficient XP grinds. And not even exploits: just nerfing mob density in dungeons that people were running over and over again simply because most dungeons are stingy with stuff for you to kill.

The ethics debate aside (which is a huge one) is that it instantly looks like AI. It has that flat, cheap feel with selective levels of detail because current image AI is really just approximating some mishmash from training data. It’s kind like any of those meal delivery/prep services—at first you might think “wow…

Everything is just a tool. That doesn’t mean it won’t be misused.

Friendly reminder that every “It’s just a tool, bro” defender was, is, and always will be gaslighting you.

They know it’s going to be used to side-step paying artists. As evidenced above, that has always been the goal. They know. They just don’t care.

Contrary to what the article says, the video itself explicitly says that the “Resurrected Old Smosh” content will be on the Main Channel, while Pit and Games will be continuing unchanged with their current casts, shows, etc.

prompts were “raised by wolves intro” “green” and “looks like dogshit”

If I found out that my art had been used to train the program that made this stuff, I’d sure as fuck be looking for a payday from Disney (I mean, their lawyers would laugh in my face, but I’d still want one).