Is anyone actually excited about a Kelvin timeline movie at this point? I thought Beyond was fine, and I liked certain things about the other two, but those movies feel like this sort of weird offshoot of the franchise than anything you could build a future on.

I’ve been a LastPass defender through their earlier hacks since, for the most part, nothing was taken which could severely compromise passwords. Getting a bunch of encrypted data won’t do you a lot of good without the encryption key. This is such staggering incompetence, however, that I simply can’t do it anymore. The…

Wonder if we’ll ever get a Bloodborne remake. The fps is abysmal. I was hoping that with the success of Elden Ring, they might fork over for a Bloodborne touch-up.

It’s just bad storytelling structure to do what they did. Continuity between different works in a shared universe should be an optional bonus for those who are interested in following more than one of its installments, not an obstacle to understanding any single installment. The ideal should always be to make each…

“While the AI may use source material to generate new artwork....”
And this is one of the problems, particularly since most of the artists of said source material never gave their permission for the AI to use their art in this manner.

Good

Copyrighted content is used all the time to train and inspire human artists, and yet nobody is concerned about art students using tracing paper and photographs to learn and copy the styles and techniques of famous artists of yore.

Just a slight subtlety here: Kashtanova didn’t just claim it was the editing that she deserved art credit for, but also the “prompt engineering” that led her to those images. The US Copyright Office specifically rejected this argument and I think their point of view is interesting. They consider Stable Diffusion to be…

Something about the eyes just prevents me from taking smoky goth Megamind seriously.

This was my thought exactly. Like why is Captain Boomerang using a gun? Instead of…boomerangs?

What actually bothers me more about it than it being a looter-shooter (albeit I AM bothered by that because of the history these types of games has) is that it looks like all four characters practically play the same.

They tried to state how they were different but in the end all it looked like was watching four…

Plus, look at that neck. Come on.

To me the closest equivalent of this in the copyright space offhand is sampling in music. And, largely, the response to that has been just to credit (and compensate) the artists who are being sampled in the new work. That gets into a whole other level of copyrighting versus art, but that’s the “norm”.

I love the advancements in AI art generation and find  the images fascinating. I like playing around with it myself. But none of the images generated through these programs should be used commercially until actual artists have the appropriate protections in place. 

Good.

I’ll be the only one here who agrees with you, I’m sure. But man, I have never bought into this show. Shallow can be fun, no immediate examples come to mind but there are multitudes, but I found this laughably bare of anything resembling story, character arc, or fun. Cartoons have more weight (Filoni’s in particular)…

Still waiting for Mando to be “good stuff” 

Beyond the first three movies, I was most fascinated with the Old Republic, which essentially is just alt-universe Star Wars without the movies hanging over your head. Mando has been great but they need somewhere to go in the future. 

I never intended to suggest it was anything other than a fan theory. I don’t have any insider information beyond what everyone else sees. On the other hand, the shows do seem to represent an attempt to “Marvelize” Star Wars, which was not the case with the movies circa 2015-19. Not so much the individual plots, which…

All of this seems to be a conscious realization of the fact that the ST has no legacy to speak of. They were a mostly dull rehash of the OT that failed to expand the universe or move the overall story forward, and ultimately provided no foundation for any kind of future stories set in the Star Wars universe. (Yep,…