Here’s my regular reminder that you people have a problem with capitalism, not a problem with technology. All this pearl clutching over displaced artists completely misses the point that in a just world, the artists could continue to make their art without the threat of poverty and new technology like this wouldn’t…

This article is unbearable, and might finally be the tipping point for me to leave this site. AI art is a tool. Saying it spits on “real animators” is short-sighted, and reeks of people that refuse to adapt to the times, like anyone saying that Photoshop, filters, or digital animation weren’t doing “real art.”

The article is just drenched in outrage. This is on par with the kind of burn-it-all-down writing you find in response to a tweet about how maybe a 25% tip for take-out is a bit much.

This. We (collectively) seem to have gone from bemoaning the heavy crunch in art and animation to clutching our pearls at the idea of it being less labour-intensive.

How dare people want to make labour obsolete, obviously work is the only worthwhile endeavour.

“I see potential for tools like these to let an animator let this process propagate their ink and color easily across [an] entire shot, for example. It’s potential like that that gets me excited about this tech, and why we do these experiments in the first place,”
This is the real take here. No one is going to replace…

I’ve been a plumber for 30 years and you wouldn’t believe the amount of turtles I had to stomp daily. 

Sorry, that’s crap. A Honda Fit can cross the country just as easily as a 21' truck. We have paved interstates. We aren’t driving across a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Very few of the people with giant SUVs and trucks actually need giant SUVs and trucks. Even in Manhattan, Kansas.

“We have space, long distances between towns, big roads, weather extremes, and big parking spaces in the vast majority of the U.S. that just don’t compute from an E.U. perspective.”

Weather extremes? Nordic countries get along quite well with tons of snow and smaller vehicles. Rain and heat don’t matter for trucks vs. cars.

We have space, long distances between towns, big roads, weather extremes, and big parking spaces in the vast majority of the U.S. that just don’t compute from an E.U. perspective

Full size trucks and SUVs make perfect sense in much of the country.

Obviously I respect the legacy of the original, I know none of the games would be there without it, but I honestly think the game is bad and not fun, the series didn’t get good for me until 64 (I think of SMK as the “beta version” of MK64, which was the first real Mario Kart, though obviously I know that’s not how it…

Super Circuit was one of the best-selling GBA games (the best-selling one ever without the word “Pokemon” in the title, in fact) and the GBA was a system often given to kids. So there are probably a ton of people who have strong nostalgia for this game, even if it is one of the weakest Mario Karts.

It was also just released on NSO a couple of weeks ago. I imagine more people are playing it right now than in decades.

Into Darkness tried to leach off the work that The Wrath of Khan did while doing none of it itself (the reveal of Khan depended totally on knowing the first film). JJ’s attempts at lying about Cumberbatch not being Khan were so terrible no one believed him.

It feels like Quantumania was reverse engineered to introduce Kang as the next big bad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This is silly. The entire point of Phase 4 was to cast around and figure out what and who sticks for the next coherent plotline...people say they want standalone movies and then they complain. There’s plenty to complain about (ahemloveandthunderwasterrible) and I’m not saying Phase 5 or 6 will be Phase 3 but they have…

The sky is falling! Again! (or still, depending on who you ask).

I don’t get it. I thought I was going to hate this movie based on all the middling reviews, but I loved it.