No it isn’t what these systems do, they do not cut up and rearrange other pieces of art. It’s what people who want to rage against them try to convince you how they work because they’re incapable of objective reasoning.

“If a human made an exact copy of another human’s drawing”

this is where you are wrong, artist do studies for a reason to study not sell in mass production. You know the problem for an artist is if they straight up plagiarize? they get blacklisted if they want to work in the animation/film/video game industries. And they can be sued for copyright infringement which happened…

The way that human artists learn to draw and the way that the Stable Diffusion algorithm generates images are fundamentally different. Modern “AI” is still incomparable to actual human intelligence; that’s just a label that researchers put on it to make it seem more advanced than it is, and you’re buying it.

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

Yeah, I had to preface my reply with my distaste of Roland, too, lest I get called a pedo defender, or something weird. Don’t know why folks need to defend Kotaku, a Gawker website, so profusely. Roland can be a groomer, and Kotaku can lack journalistic integrity unless it means clicks. Both can be true.

Weird leap. For the record, I’m fully behind whatever Roiland has coming to him. But Kotaku did platform this guy and his game a ton over the last few weeks for them to be like “by the way, his company was bad since 2018.”

Why is this the first we’re hearing of this from Kotaku? This is from 2018, and y’all wrote several articles on this studio and its games, many of them positive. Then Roland’s accusation came out, and suddenly he’s been shitty for years? (EDIT: yes, he’s been shitty for years; apparently, it’s been an open secret so…

Yeah I know people are going to call me a corporate shill or a Nintendo simp for pointing this out but… Nintendo were well within their rights to shut this down and try again if they desire.

It isn't a revenue split, it's an upfront fee that the publisher clearly feels is the better deal.

This is the storefront wars we’re living through, after all.

Counter-point: nah.

Totally! I really agree with everything you said. Gameplay will always take precedence over graphics for me...I find a lot of it exaggerated these days in my experience, maybe I’m just lucky.

I had similarly positive experiences in Arceus and Scarlet. I’ve played a ton of both and haven’t had issues, particularly in Scarlet. Sure, they’re not lookers by any stretch but a medium-sized dev put out two AAA games in a calendar year that prioritized innovating gameplay in a very conservative old series. I still…

And it’s still pretty much the only system I played games on this year.

This. Pretty sure wwe know why Nintendo no longer gives Kotaku screener copies of any of their games if this is the criticism they recieve. 

“At times Arceus gives off the vibe of a Nintendo 64 game in HD.”

Same here. It’s a particularly stupid device to rely on battery for.

What normie plebs fail to understand is the potential optimization for the upscaling in career goals shared across an evolving dynamic and life affirming user generated multiplatform brain fuckhole

I just don’t get The Last of Us. When the first game came out and was blowing away all the reviewers and award shows, I was just sitting there like, “Um... It’s okay, I guess? I’m not really that into it, but it’s okay. It looks pretty good, and the voice acting is good. The first 10 minutes were thrilling.”