DOA beach volleyball was basically made for wanking. the game itself was… barely a game

meh. artists grow over time. and studios grow in the flexibility they have to message. support another studio that gives you what you want.

support artists that make the art you want. don’t shit on the stuff others enjoy.

can you imagine fallout new vegas without the politics? og deus ex?

they want something that won’t challenge their preconceptions one iota. they don’t care about artists crafting a story, they want slop that confirms their biases.

Jack Parsons

man that is a wild fuck wiki to read. someone needs to make his story a movie.

great bacon requires time and 400+ f temps, and a watchful eye - flipping helps too.

then you can refrigerate it and use it for a week on baked potatoes, pigs in blankets, bacon bits for salad, bacon chunks for soups like potato soup and chowders.

it’s gonna kill me, but goddamn is good bacon worth it.

edit: found it sorry

Kaczynski’s lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray’s study.[25] Kaczynski stated he resented Murray and his co-workers, primarily because of the invasion of his privacy he perceived as a result of their experiments. Nevertheless, he said he was “quite confident that [his] experiences with Professor Murray had no significant effect on the course of [his] life”.[28]

I dunno, I’m inclined to believe someone with that kind of intelligence to be able to evaluate his own motivations. YMMV

we used to do pigs wrapped in bacon in a blanket. pretty freaking good but you have to precook the bacon.

shampoo also implies the (much more likely imho) existence of shamshart

yeah I hate gatekeeping but the trolls are real

which article is it that pissed you off this much? because you obviously have some kind of axe to grind. “has enough” oh, you manage nonprofits do you?

you manage nonprofits being attacked by billionaires? why are you bootlicking the assholes attacking a nonprofit?

sus as fuck

and also, who’s OP? brand new account.

their infrastructure is getting hammered by ai scraping too. “don’t defend wikipedia, they have enough” get fucked

I look at the people and orgs who dislike wikipedia, and then contrast that with the people and orgs that support wikipedia.

Trump, for example, and Musk hate wikipedia.

I think their funding is inline with their needs, and it’s free so getting yourself upset about how much money they bring in while doing great work seems… either petty or sus.

they also want skilled labor; they are happy to have it scrape from authors and artists - primarily the same groups who the ruling class despise.

china had the privilege of watching the USSR stumble and fall while they built an industrial powerhouse.

i simply wish they could see the advantage of going north instead of trying to fight the entire south pacific for some 9-dash bullshit and taiwan.

Also artists have long not liked OpenAI.

gamedevs too. I know hundreds, and the only ones trying to push AI are the no talent fuckwits who have always circled the industry looking for the next buzzword they can parrot.

they don’t make good games. they don’t make good art. they don’t make good songs. and the morons are trying to get it writing police reports for fucks sake.

and it’s not going away any time soon.

fuck all the wasps I killed in life, I’ll kill 'em again

Guarantee the person who responded has zero appreciation for art and gave zero fucks about anything beyond a braindead surface level.

I have a hypothesis: it’s not just the image generation endorphin loop (ooh look I’m ‘creating’!) but also the opposite of the tabula rasa situation that happens when you sit down to draw. LLM image generation shits out a full image, now with perspective and a generally human set of fingers, and then they prompt and prompt and prompt. and they don’t see how strange it all looks because they’re focused on parts, and not the composition, why this character is HERE and why this shadow lays there isn’t just recreating styles but should be choices driven by someone creating. And they aren’t really being creative, it’s just…

so in the 90s and 00s there was this terrain generator called Bryce. And it was nifty! But a whole slew of would-be cg artists kept slamming that generate random button until it produced something they liked, and they thought it was ‘art’ too. now, you could totally use bryce to create art, but you wouldn’t really get it by clicking the random generation buttons. and the type of person who gets lost in llm image generation reminds me of that so much, but it costs gazillions more to pull off and is enabling utter fucking madness (llm ‘ai’ crazy is an everyday thing so I’ll skip pasting a dozen links).

don’t you know these things give you warts? See you in the funny pages, boys.

The only humane choice is total disarmament and deterrence with an empty gun, which will never happen of course.

unfortunately I think the only way we’ll regress to sticks and stones is long after just such an apocalypse and all the leftovers get used up. because we’re certainly not intelligent enough to recognize the danger.

just the US alone… the idea that Trump’s insanity is next to the football 24/7 should make anyone sick if they can read and have half a brain.

ironically climate change will take a few decades to really start slaughtering people and we see it coming, but are ignoring the problem, just like nuclear weapons.

fuck my species, they’re too clever and too fucking dumb all at the same time.