Man, I was really hoping that this was just shade at Ubisoft...

“i am a rich white man who has never had to suffer real consequences for anything”

I guess. I actually don’t really feel like I’ve played any games that have felt hamstrung by the old hardware. Sure, the frame rate might not be where you always want it and the loading time on the older hardware wasn’t great, but honestly I can’t remember the last time I played a AAA game and said “boy I wish this…

There are a few PS5 games I quite like, but the vast majority would have still been fine on PS4. In fact I probably would have bought a PS4 last year instead if they hadn’t been completely sold out new and way overpriced. On Black Friday 2019 you could get a new PS4 with 3 games for $200; since March 2020 a PS4 has…

I understand that these comments are intended for people whose main focus is ROI re: their investment into a particular company but it’s always gross to hear CEOs give voice to the idea that the only way for any company to move forward is unsustainable quarter after quarter growth and the path there requires resorting…

Also, a point no one seems bring up is that AI art requires large quantities of references pulled from other sources. But if you are building a new IP for instance, the AI has nothing to pull from. Sure you can make lots of pop-culture mashups, but building new creative works is much harder.

Poems, haikus, and Dril tweets ARE the final art though. They’re not inputs. If Dril could just type in “weird tweet, punctuation at 0.75, scatological at 1.2" and pressed a button, and a Dril tweet came out, no one would give a shit about Dril.

“Amplifying human creativity”...is it me or with corporations, their word is often the opposite when it comes to the true intent? With corporations embracing AI art, they are pushing to void any creative labor, and thus, hurt actual artists just making this a paying hobby. Remember, the bigger the industry, the more…

It’s wild how people don’t consider AI art theft when some of the output still has the original artist’s signatures in the image. Like...you’re not even cribbing your friend’s homework, you’re just making a photocopy of it and turning it in as your own.

What the techno-utopians who comment on articles like this fail to realize is that they’re considering AI art generators as a neutral tool that has somehow materialized out of thin air. Considered in isolation, it is a promising instrument - but the reality is that such technology is developed and wielded by…

There’s a lot of space between “renting art” and “purchasing art”. A successful artist will usually negotiate keeping the rights of the piece, but the contract will include the rights for the original purpose of the art being transferred to the purchaser. I.e. if an artist creates a piece for use as Fortnite splash…

“ That’s more than I make in a month working 40+ hours a week doing a “real” job.”

Haha, no. They spend outrageous amounts on tacky and meaningless nothings. The real reason they stay rich is because they weaken labor organizing. 

Monster Hunter Rise ran at a solid 30 fps with no frame drops on the RE engine

Xenoblade 3 runs pretty decently for the hardware, but yea it’s no mystery it’s a GameFreak issue.

It’s 100% a GameFreak issue. They should know by now the limitations of the Switch and create a game that can run without grinding to a halt.

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.

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.