This is always going to be a super problematic argument because what critics of AI art don’t want to admit is that human artists train themselves on vast amounts of copyrighted work with “no consent, no credit, and no compensation”. There are thousands of artists who have learned to ape other artists styles, and based…

I had a lot more of a problem with the brothers fight than nipulon, once I figured out which color was the real one he was toast. I dont think I died once.

Being as there is already more pornography on the internet than any human could ever consume in a lifetime, I can only assume the point of training computers to make more on demand is to produce material so depraved and evil no person will, or can, produce it on commission.

To be honest, I think that Paizo’s breaking “Race” into “Ancestry” and “Heritage” is better than “Species”. Both because there’s both a cultural and a biological thing that are not necessarily tied together (e.g. you’re are the kind of dwarf that resists poison because of your genes from your parents, but you learned…

Fully transparent communism is a winning strategy. the problem is that all of our real world communism examples are not transparent. This tends to breed corruption. We are not super transparent in the US either but since we have 4 year elections with proper safeguards to insure each state gets a fair shake it means…

A take I heard a long time ago in a forum discussion about Transformers Gender was that it probably wasn’t a thing when they lived on Cybertron, but that when they came to earth & learned our language & changed their bodies so they could change into earth vehicles they were also learning our culture & figuring out how…

I swear, I’m just going to start treating AAA multiplayer games as launching in alpha and needing 1-2 years of work before they’re actually ready to launch. That sure seems to be the bloody trend lately.

I hate “crafting” in video games so fucking much. It’s painfully arbitrary and tedious.

I think what it comes down to is that most people have realized that what actually stands in the way of any kind of reform is an overly-complicated, corrupt, self-perpetuating bureaucracy, and it’s going to take a cataclysmic level event to tear down that edifice. The apocalypse is seen as necessary because there’s no…

The problem with art and the free exchange of ideas is that it’s all fun and games (or, rather, communal suffering) until big money gets involved, and the people tend to scramble towards their own best interests, and when things weren’t clearly defined in the first place with legal documents, this is a messy,…

Is there something about running a company that turns people into complete monsters or are complete monsters just naturally drawn to run companies?

Read about this over the weekend. It all seems tragically ironic but also, exactly the sort of thing Disco Elysium talked about, Capital absorbing it’s critiques. The bottling and selling of rebellion against itself. The anarchic-communist revolution sponsored by Pepsi.

I want this movie to be so good. I loved the first one. That said...

Wrecking Ball is my biggest question mark. The single tank thing doesn’t fit his playstyle at all. Unless they make him an absolute cannon that the enemy team has to deal with immediately, it’s going to leave DPS and healers hanging. Wrecking Ball is kind of built to go into business for himself and he’s basically the…

They shipped a product they KNEW didn’t work. They purposely prevented reviewers from seeing X1/ps4 footage despite those being the consoles it was announced for. They also said the last gen versions ran ‘surprisingly well’.

This isn’t releasing a game in a new genre and botching launch like a looter shooter. They knew…

It’s nice to know that a corporation can lie to consumers for years, abuse their employees, allow bigotry to run unchecked, make attacking other companies into their advertising strategy, promise entire game modes that will instead be carved out and sold separately, release a knowingly broken product a good 2 years…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

So I was one of the like...six people on the planet who didn’t hype themselves to Mars prior to the release of this game, never pre-ordered it and got to watch the *WILD* fuckin’ fallout of the game. And I have to say after watching the Anime I did kinda feel myself going “you know, what if I bought the game now?”

And…

It’s truly hard for me to imagine looking at a world full of busy people going about their lives and think that something’s wrong with them because they’re not paying more attention to me.

Sure Moore’s Law is dead. Does that mean that it’s impossible to engineer a better card that costs the same as the previous generation did a couple of years ago? Hell no it doesn’t.