You aren’t taking the time to imitate X artists style, an AI is scraping that artist’s work so it can be black box photoshopped into a new form. Artists are the reason that the ai has anything to produce but they don’t get credit, they didn’t give consent, and they don’t get any money for it. AI art would be great, if…

Artists are horrified because in some cases AI art is actually generating appealing visual compositions. So it’s more than just a tech grift as far as consumers are concerned. It’s the early stages of an industrialized exploitation of artists, ala Spotify. Consumer gets what they want, and the artist doesn’t get paid.

Decent doesn’t bring in venture capital.

this is my view, this feels like overblowing the issue to me

honestly the sprites look FINE to me, I would have never been able to tell anything had even changed if I hadn’t seen this article.

These are basically the same sprites as the original, so it definitely isn’t FFVI Pixel Remaster level of badness. However, it does still slap the same weird blurry filter on top, which like.... why? That article about “HD-2D” being popular was right on target, so why do developers keep... just not doing that, with…

The appetite for hype is so fucking toxic.

If they live in Japan, they have universal healthcare. Questions like “do you pay for your healthcare or does your employer” only really make sense in the US.

Typical people who tie too much of their identity to media.  You tell them you don’t like that media, and they hear “I don’t like your identity.”

The GOP has switched from an appeal to more voters strategy, to a turn out the vote strategy. Their plan is to turn out 100% of their voters while doing everything possible to reduce votes on the other side by making it harder to vote, and just making people not want to vote by making the entire thing beyond toxic.…

Just having Riccitiello on board as CEO shouldve been the iceberg off the bow for employees who know their history of the industry.....

If FTC and DOJ were remotely serious about doing their jobs, most of the mergers in the news over the last couple decades would have never been permitted. Market consolidation, despite being spun as ‘good’ for consumers, has, in fact, *NEVER* been good for consumers. That’s why anti-trust laws were enacted in the…

The Ready Player One movie made me officially sick of pop-culture references

the fact that Ernest Cline predicted our most likely future is lame. Lame, I say.

Yeah, I backed a board game on Kickstarter, and its production is being done in China, where the factory was shut down for a while due to continued issues with COVID. They’ve been keeping a steady trickle of information and updated release estimates, including pictures of prototypes as they come in.

I think it would be more appropriate to despise publishers/developers that throw out ridiculous “release dates/windows” that will inevitably get pushed back.

One of the points of the paper is that the indigenous people used MORE oysters than subsequent colonists and did so sustainably through ecosystem management, while europeans, using fewer oysters had those same systems crash because of poor management. 

One of the points of the paper is that the indigenous people used MORE oysters than subsequent colonists and did so sustainably through ecosystem management, while europeans, using fewer oysters had those same systems crash because of poor management. 

One of the points of the paper is that the indigenous people used MORE oysters than subsequent colonists and did so sustainably through ecosystem management, while europeans, using fewer oysters had those same systems crash because of poor management. 

It’s definitely a plus. “Switch + TV” is leagues ahead of any other gaming arrangement when it comes to keeping things cool. My HDMI amp alone produces an absurd amount of heat on its own when not doing anything.