Reading all of the hate online about this episode really makes me cringe. I thought it was the best one of the series so far, and I’m a 49-year-old white married cis male that thinks the relationship between Bill and Frank over this “long long time” absolutely brought the story even further. The performances were…

People have devalued artists since the dawn of time. When NFT’s came out, I almost thought artists had the upper hand for once, only to find out it was a pyramid scheme that also contributes to climate change.

Do AI art without stealing existing art.

Ahh yes, it’s the artists whose works are being stolen that are to blame for being upset.

I don’t mind the technology so much as all the chodes who insist they’re real artists because they spent two hours typing different variations of “catgirl with enormous breasts, baroque, visible cleavage, girl I liked in high school” into the Midjourney discord.

The best part of these articles are the people who see this as people having an issue with this as a “fear of ai” issue and not a “this will be abused by our overlords to harm people, because look at everything that has ever happened in time until this point“ issue.

Dangerous is putting it lightly. A lot of society have been conditioned to not recognize or respect what is art, and instead pay more attention to branding. This has been a 60 year conversion that benefits corporations and capitalistic greed in the end.

“We should not be angry at unethical things happening. Thats just the way of things and we should absolutely do nothing to change that.”

All the examples that you gave are either free according to the license, have to give credits to the creator or you have to pay for them in order to use it. All of those things have not been taken into consideration with AI and just been scraped from the internet without any consideration.  Iray is just a renderer and…

I dont care if you use it, do whatever you want (except for selling the pure output, deceive) But what I do care about is the AI getting trained with datasets scraped from artists and companies. Its not like automation in the olden days, since its entirely generated off the work of other people and couldnt live…

I don’t have a “hate-boner” for Chris Pratt, his shitty politics notwithstanding. I just wish they ignored that temptation to cast big name stars, and left it to proper voice actors who let the characters stand out more than their star power, pardon the pun.

Wild guess: This game will take place right around the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. That era offers a lot of political intrigue as well as pitched battles, gunpowder weaponry is available, and Japan was still open to European nations, so the backdrop still allows for Templers and the like to be present in such a…

“D&D is hot right now, largely because queer roleplayers have made it shine”

Look I’d love if we queers could take credit for this but dude that’s an interesting choice for planting a flag. That you skip over Stranger Things is weird, which (along with Critical Role, which you mention) I feel did a LOT more to bring it…

Uh, I’ve played in more D&D campaigns than I could count and “Hope you like classic rock, because it’ll likely be another skin-deep thrill ride more suitable for a theme park” pretty much sums up Dungeons and Dragons. Most D&D games aren’t deep, introspective, philosophical, high-brow literature and this movie (if the…

“Arguably, we’ve already had the “perfect” D&D movie thanks to Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord Of The Rings in the 2000s—which, if I’m being honest, do chart a bit too close to “action movie” for my taste”

Weird how cops are so good at bringing in these heavily armed and outfitted white supremacist killers alive but can’t seem to get George Floyd or Eric Garner in the back of a squad car without oopsie doopsie murdering them

Did the cops hug him and give him some warm milk and cookies afterwards like they do with all the other white supremacist mass murderers?

Absolutely disgraceful. If someone is Anti Choice now is the time to hound them, question them publically, humiliate them. Do anything necessary to save your rights.

I’ve never been a fan of lumping TFA and TRoS in the same boat. Sure, TFA is too beholden to the series’ past to really be its own thing, but at least it’s a well-told story that’s competently made. TRoS doesn’t feel like it was directed by the same person; it’s a nigh-incoherent slog that doesn’t even attain a basic…

I went from 0-100-0 so fast im taking the day off tomorrow with neck pain