That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.

…but yea that still applies

Sadly yup. Not quite everyone the same way, but psychology is still pretty scary. Thankfully the manosphere mostly isn’t anywhere neae what actually works with their bs

It’s just her character design, she’s a genshin character (yoimiya).

I doubt she hates the gay people, tbh. Her whole trans hatred feela very rooted in self hate and it’s kinda sad how she chose the path of being an insufferable piece of shit. There was an interview where she said she should’ve been born a boy. She probably hates being a woman and instead of realizing that that’s how transwomen feel about being amab, she thinks it means no one can possibly want to be a woman unless they want to creep on women or whatever the terf narrative is.

Old movies feel much worse for me, voices barely audible but sfx blow my ears out. But I also have sound from headphones, maybe that just works better with the newer mixes.

It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it’s just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I’m still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn’t even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.

I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.

Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.

Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).

You… heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.

It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn’t get scared seeing a terminal.

I wonder if this might not be exactly the correct approach to teach them, though. When there’s actually someone to tell them “sorry that AI answer is bullshit”, so they can learn how to use it as a ressource rather than an answer provider. Adults fail at it, but they also don’t have a teacher (and kids aren’t stupid, just inexperienced).

The comic is more what happened with brexit as well. 2 options, so we should have one person from each side represent them in discussions, right? Except this misrepresented the balance of expert opinions which was very heavily skewed towards remain, instead implying it’s about even.

It’s a hard topic to solve, but much like compromise doesn’t mean “just take the middle of the most extreme opinions”, fair news coverage doesn’t mean “present every extreme viewpoint as equally valid when the actual sentiment is clearly biased to one side”. In this case maybe limit it to “the israeli government denied it being a genocide” once or sth.

Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?

I think it’s relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.

Cheat codes and difficulty settings have existed for forever. Dynamic difficulty is common, and used to great success in beloved games like left 4 dead. Just a different option to get past the part you’re stuck in is really nothing bad.

The same ones that, under threat of violence and arrest, still went to vote against hitler being given unlimited power?

Idk what ur smoking tbh