It’s gotten so bad that folks are bullying vtubers (big and small) into not playing the game, for their own moral cause. Like wtf.

Policing who is and isn’t playing it and why is really a losing game. 

They bullied noncontroversial streamers like Girlfriend Reviews and Pikamee for playing or wanting to play the game. This is going very bad, very fast. There’s nothing activist about what they’re doing. This is 100% ‘I want to hurt you because I hate JK Rowling’s political stance’, and its starting to turn people…

The devs are pro-trans. The game lets you make a trans character. The game has a trans character in it. I know trans people that are playing this game. Stop with the ignorance, and especially the moral highground moralizing while likely wearing shoes and shirts made by sweatshop children in cambodia and electronics…

If people want to selectively buy or boycott things, thats fine I have no problem with it, more power to them. When they’re aggressively going after individuals who use that product or service they can fuck right off.

It’s performative. All the hand ringing over this game is performative.

Do you apply this reasoning to companies too? Keep buying from Nike despite the child labour because you can “separate their shoes from their business practices”? What about Nestle’s colossal rainforest damage and water theft? Or Activision Blizzard’s sexual abuses?

Some people have made it their entire identity to attack people who are planning to play this game as bigots or bigot enabling and I just can’t with these people. I’ve donated a not-insignificant amount of my time and money to progressive candidates but im going to enjoy creative mediums and I separate art from…

I swear to god, it’s the fucking whining that gets me, ever time.

So... how in the world is this a story?

I just love how it’s a bog standard CSV.

Alright but you can’t include the picture but leave out the phrase “holy fucking bingle” which is now going to be in my vocabulary

I feel like Drake should gift it to Donald Glover, as he is the head celebrity Blerd, and would likely appreciate it way more. 

He’s right that I want to play games that inspire and invite joy... which is why I mostly just play Nintendo games nowadays. Everything else is too depressing.

Robot: “Huh?” ❓ ... “Just a box.”

Depends if you view a company as a vehicle for employment, or as a vehicle for production and profit. Do companies exist to employ people, and only make products so they can afford to employ them; or do companies exist to make products and profit, and only employ people to get those products made?

Here’s a perspective to better understand. AI art is not art in itself. It’s more akin to manufacturing. In the same way that if you gave the designs of the Statue of David for a factory to reproduce, you are a manufacturer, but not an artist. AI art adds a few levels of obscurity to this because it’s using more than…

Spoken like someone who has never attempted to learn any skill or craft in his lifetime.

Yeah, except it’s not creating unique stuff, because AI “art” is completely dependent on having pre-existing art in its database to copy from. It can’t make new ideas, it just reinterprets old ones (and the result is usually worse than the original.)