Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Both Dead End and DeadEndia are very much outside the Animation Age Ghetto despite their visuals, the former having flat out sex jokes and the latter having guest comics by gay porn artists. This series by contrast was largely marketed for kids by Netflix, and admittedly it lacks the raunchier elements of previous adaptations

We could have a Gorillaz film, but Netflix decided to greenlight this instead.  

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/DeadEndParanormalPark

At least Hazbin Hotel doesn’t promote itself as being for kids.

[BIONIC]

I don't think grandpa and little billy should die for trans joy. 

Let's see their Twitter likes first

You haven’t been able to see Twitter likes for like 2 years at this point

Why do you think Nexon’s amount of threads is down by 90%?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

did we sacrifice everything for trans folx yet?

[Boredfrom]

That's because they will be. Lol. GOP are the mainstream media now.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senate-fails-to-pass-funding-bill-55-45-2-democrats-and-1-independent-yes-1-republican-no-shutting-down-the-government-at-midnight-est.1313062/page-3#post-145864810

As dumb as loco and bombastico.

[benji]

GAMEGIRL:

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

ILL BE YOUR IDOL

[Uncle]

That's what pisses me off about Valve. It's one thing if they're hardly ever compelled to do something, but by allowing someone to break ToS on one thing and not another makes you question why they even have the AI rules. If they're going to keep it, then they need to do something.

But they're patching it out... does he think Valve should take down the entire game forever?

I'm glad they're patching it out, but it shouldn't have been there in the first place. And it's worth noting that because the game launched without this disclosure, they breached Steam's Terms of Service.

technically yes, but how is anyone going to credibly prove anything about any AI use in games?

maybe they outsourced the assets, bought them from someone who didn't disclose, or bought it as some asset pack on a random site

what if you just use AI to upscale completely human made assets, adding some minor detail to them but leaving them mostly pure and holy? what if you just add a little outpainting to expand a human-made drawing to better fill a canvas? what if you generate with AI and then trace over it, so technically it's all been human-penned at least? what if you use AI for inspiration in designing something, but none of the final product is literally AI output?

it's an endless spiral of a purity test that's just not worth policing

imagine if you had to label your game on the basis of whether you used photoshop at all, because some faction online was mad that adobe supports israel or something

[KillRideMedley]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hornets-are-insert-worse-insult-you-can-think-of-or-are-comfortable-using.1313116/


no replies from the wlw  guy yet 

[Taco Bell Tower]

I love Jeff so much:

I thought Ree said Netflix is bad 

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-have-a-comfort-game.1310373/page-5#post-145832071

 User banned (permanent): self-promotion, account in junior phase

Yes, definitely! My comfort game would have to be a fun, casual browser game. It's easy to jump into and doesn't require too much focus, so it helps me relax. If you're looking for one to try, I recommend you play Soccer Random. It's a quick and exciting game that's perfect for unwinding.

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Yet Jawmuncher constantly making PR threads about new Limited Run Games announcements is fine

[jorma]

I love Jeff so much:

why is jeff subbing to netflix after they famously gave a platform to transphobe extraordinaire dave chappelle? in progressive circles we call that what it is: performative nonsense!

[Uncle]

I hadn't seen this thread, these people are so retarded

https://www.resetera.com/threads/signs-that-the-ai-bubble-is-popping.1276671/



 

the "AI bubble" is speculative investment in growth, programming, LLM training, research, and implementation

the people working at these places are in high-end tech development and marketing, not the consumers who are typing prompts

there isn't some massive bubble of employees out there who have been hired to type prompts

when it pops there will be a lot of researchers and marketers out of jobs, but they can make lateral moves to other industries...the tech and the prompters will remain (like how the dot com bubble bursting didn't suddenly destroy all websites)

[Straight Edge]

I have a strong feeling that mass civil unrest is coming soon.

which would mean that currently, there must be mass civil rest

Cerium (Phub) predicted this.

[kaleidoscopium]

Did Fetterman say why he voted yes?

He said months ago that on principle he never wants to vote to shut down the government.

Ugh what a waste. I hope he hits his big dumb head on every door way he walks through

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senate-fails-to-pass-funding-bill-55-45-2-democrats-and-1-independent-yes-1-republican-no-shutting-down-the-government-at-midnight-est.1313062/page-7#post-145878412

What a stupid series of posts, 

“Ugh, morals and principals!? Hope That idiot hits his head!”

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/updates-to-xbox-game-pass-introducing-essential-premium-and-ultimate-plans-ultimate-29-99-mo.1313542/

Boycotts work

[kaleidoscopium]

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Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)

[Boredfrom]

Did Fetterman say why he voted yes?

He said months ago that on principle he never wants to vote to shut down the government.

Ugh what a waste. I hope he hits his big dumb head on every door way he walks through

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senate-fails-to-pass-funding-bill-55-45-2-democrats-and-1-independent-yes-1-republican-no-shutting-down-the-government-at-midnight-est.1313062/page-7#post-145878412

What a stupid series of posts, 

“Ugh, morals and principals!? Hope That idiot hits his head!”

[Propagandhim]

I hadn't seen this thread, these people are so retarded

https://www.resetera.com/threads/signs-that-the-ai-bubble-is-popping.1276671/



 

the "AI bubble" is speculative investment in growth, programming, LLM training, research, and implementation

the people working at these places are in high-end tech development and marketing, not the consumers who are typing prompts

there isn't some massive bubble of employees out there who have been hired to type prompts

when it pops there will be a lot of researchers and marketers out of jobs, but they can make lateral moves to other industries...the tech and the prompters will remain (like how the dot com bubble bursting didn't suddenly destroy all websites)

The entire thread is "AI is useless" then all this fearmongering about AI taking over and destroying the world.  Where's that Umberto Eco quote when you need it

[JoeBoy101]

I hadn't seen this thread, these people are so retarded

https://www.resetera.com/threads/signs-that-the-ai-bubble-is-popping.1276671/



 

the "AI bubble" is speculative investment in growth, programming, LLM training, research, and implementation

the people working at these places are in high-end tech development and marketing, not the consumers who are typing prompts

there isn't some massive bubble of employees out there who have been hired to type prompts

when it pops there will be a lot of researchers and marketers out of jobs, but they can make lateral moves to other industries...the tech and the prompters will remain (like how the dot com bubble bursting didn't suddenly destroy all websites)

Can someone explain to me what the AI bubble even is? I lived through the Dot-Com bubble burst after 2000 and banking crisis in 2008 driven by home loans. Both of them are fairly straightforward to grasp.

In the Dot-Com bubble, companies were being market capitalized far outside their assets and balance sheet. Everyone was joining tech firms then, and all it took to get investors throwing a couple of million in your direction was to have a ponytail and say ‘e-commerce’ (with respects to Scott Adams). And when the market corrected, it corrected 90% of them right in the nuts.

For the Banking Crash in 2008, you had banks giving out subprime mortgages to any kind of buyer, regardless of credit, and their eyes glazed over if you said ‘flip’. The math on mortgage-backed securities didn’t line up when owners started defaulting when they overspent on their houses and the banks started eating those defaults. That all caused brokerages to dump MBS’s, tanking the market and sending banks crawling to the government, i.e. too big to fail.

(Benji, feel free to correct me on any of this.)

What exactly is the AI bubble here, aside from ERA not liking it? Plus, ERA please note on the previous bubbles that it did not end e-commerce or tech companies and it didn’t eliminate private ownership of homes.

[Uncle]

The entire thread is "AI is useless" then all this fearmongering about AI taking over and destroying the world.  Where's that Umberto Eco quote when you need it

I'm ok with AI being "strong and weak" in the sense of it being sometimes poor quality, but also incredibly efficient in time and money so "good enough" for most people

the thing is though it's often not just "good enough" anymore, you can get results that are really high quality and truly unrecognizable as AI, or at least easily obscured as having originated with AI, and it's funny to watch the sour grapes from people who decided in advance that they were going to hate anything you showed them

*posts amazing video, highlighting how futuristic it feels that you can make this million dollar effects shot yourself on your own computer for zero dollars*

"that looks like shit"

[Uncle]

Can someone explain to me what the AI bubble even is? I lived through the Dot-Com bubble burst after 2000 and banking crisis in 2008 driven by home loans. Both of them are fairly straightforward to grasp.

In the Dot-Com bubble, companies were being market capitalized far outside their assets and balance sheet. Everyone was joining tech firms then, and all it took to get investors throwing a couple of million in your direction was to have a ponytail and say ‘e-commerce’ (with respects to Scott Adams). And when the market corrected, it corrected 90% of them right in the nuts.

For the Banking Crash in 2008, you had banks giving out subprime mortgages to any kind of buyer, regardless of credit, and their eyes glazed over if you said ‘flip’. The math on mortgage-backed securities didn’t line up when owners started defaulting when they overspent on their houses and the banks started eating those defaults. That all caused brokerages to dump MBS’s, tanking the market and sending banks crawling to the government, i.e. too big to fail.

(Benji, feel free to correct me on any of this.)

What exactly is the AI bubble here, aside from ERA not liking it? Plus, ERA please note on the previous bubbles that it did not end e-commerce or tech companies and it didn’t eliminate private ownership of homes.

it does seem like shenanigans are happening with money moving in a circle and desperately hoping for things to take off in a way that they aren't yet

https://www.resetera.com/threads/signs-that-the-ai-bubble-is-popping.1276671/page-16#post-145503192

[Taco Bell Tower]

Ultimate – Available Today

Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)

Microsoft with the double genocide now thanks to that TERF BITCH JOANNE 

[Propagandhim]

I hadn't seen this thread, these people are so retarded

https://www.resetera.com/threads/signs-that-the-ai-bubble-is-popping.1276671/



 

the "AI bubble" is speculative investment in growth, programming, LLM training, research, and implementation

the people working at these places are in high-end tech development and marketing, not the consumers who are typing prompts

there isn't some massive bubble of employees out there who have been hired to type prompts

when it pops there will be a lot of researchers and marketers out of jobs, but they can make lateral moves to other industries...the tech and the prompters will remain (like how the dot com bubble bursting didn't suddenly destroy all websites)

Can someone explain to me what the AI bubble even is? I lived through the Dot-Com bubble burst after 2000 and banking crisis in 2008 driven by home loans. Both of them are fairly straightforward to grasp.

In the Dot-Com bubble, companies were being market capitalized far outside their assets and balance sheet. And when the market corrected, it corrected 90% of them right in the nuts. Everyone was joining tech firms then, and all it took to get investors throwing a couple of million in your direction was to have a ponytail and say ‘e-commerce’ (with respects to Scott Adams).

For the Banking Crash in 2008, you had banks giving out subprime mortgages to any kind of buyer, regardless of credit, and their eyes glazed over if you said ‘flip’. The math on mortgage-backed securities didn’t line up when owners started defaulting when they overspent on their houses and the banks started eating those defaults. That all caused brokerages to dump MBS’s, tanking the market and banks crawling to the government, i.e. too big to fail.

(Benji, feel free to correct me on any of this.)

What exactly is the AI bubble here, aside from ERA not liking it? Plus, ERA please note on the previous bubbles that it did not end e-commerce or tech companies and it didn’t eliminate private ownership of homes.

They're referring to the spending/revenue mismatch but arent' taking into account how fast and transformational the tech has been for operations at scale. There are demonstrable productivity and revenue gains - it's not the same as a bunch of exuberant, ignorant investors throwing money at every internet company under the sun that had no path to profitability.  It's very tangible and close to home - if you have a job that requires any problem solving at all, you can just see and feel how valuable these tools are and looking back in hindsight seeing how far they've come in the short period of time they've been out.  The growth potential is there, but it's only a little ways away.  However, Era, being the rapacious and exploitative capitalists that they are, have the greediest, shortest time horizons for investments.   They clearly would rather chase quarterly profits than invest in infrastructure that will fundamentally reshape the economy and make labor better over the next decade.  Era are just min-maxing profiteers that can't see past their next earnings call.  Sad to see capitalistic greed take over this forum....*big ass sigh*

[Propagandhim]

The entire thread is "AI is useless" then all this fearmongering about AI taking over and destroying the world.  Where's that Umberto Eco quote when you need it

I'm ok with AI being "strong and weak" in the sense of it being sometimes poor quality, but also incredibly efficient in time and money so "good enough" for most people

the thing is though it's often not just "good enough" anymore, you can get results that are really high quality and truly unrecognizable as AI, or at least easily obscured as having originated with AI, and it's funny to watch the sour grapes from people who decided in advance that they were going to hate anything you showed them

*posts amazing video, highlighting how futuristic it feels that you can make this million dollar effects shot yourself on your own computer for zero dollars*

"that looks like shit"

Yeah, and beyond generative AI for creative work, it has fundamentally transformed how people in certain fields approach certain problem solving tasks.  Like, with economic modeling, you can rapidly test multiple scenarios with complex mathematical models that would have previously taken days or weeks to compute.  You can run simulations more efficiently with smarter elasticity functions, regression analyses with dozens of variables, with different policy conditions - when you have a tool that is capable of inferential analysis you can change and develop ideas and modify them on the fly and then add other complexities on top of those conditions while maintaining the equilibrium of the whole thing..across thousands of permutations...then you can go back and isolate those variables and conditions. This sort of analysis takes a long fucking time and these tools are indespensible now.  It maintains mathematical rigor - you can test to see how effective it is, and the value is there.   I have friends who are vets at coding that use AI every day, all day now in some capacity - at the very least to check their work.  This is a stepchange akin to the consumer internet burgeoning in the mid/late 90s.  Yes the internet existed before then, but it wasn't until the mid to late 90s where things rocketed off and people peered into the future every single day.  Things were exciting and changing so fast. 

Also, and this is what the most important thing about AI is:  I want Street Fighter 3/KOF-13 level sprite animation to be financially viable in games again.   Eventually these tools will become so good that artists will be able to offload an enormous amount of work while they pour all their efforts into other parts of the art development.  Then they'll be doin thangs.   With they whole ass.

[Ethan]

Did Fetterman say why he voted yes?

He said months ago that on principle he never wants to vote to shut down the government.

Ugh what a waste. I hope he hits his big dumb head on every door way he walks through

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senate-fails-to-pass-funding-bill-55-45-2-democrats-and-1-independent-yes-1-republican-no-shutting-down-the-government-at-midnight-est.1313062/page-7#post-145878412

What a stupid series of posts, 

“Ugh, morals and principals!? Hope That idiot hits his head!”

is it really morals and principals though? I think there might be some merit to the theory that the stroke broke/changed his brain.
We have a local politician here who suffered a stroke about 18 months ago and his personality and politics also changed overnight. He went from a pragmatic center-left guy to a populist right-winger. He no longer has any filter and pretty much makes a fool of himself every time he opens his mouth. It's like his IQ suddenly dropped 30 points.

The parallels with Fetterman are quite striking.

I thought it might have been frontotemporal dementia, which causes disinhibition and behavioural changes in old people, but apparently, it's not linked to strokes.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21075-frontotemporal-dementia

[Uncle]

Also, and this is what the most important thing about AI is:  I want Street Fighter 3/KOF-13 level sprite animation to be financially viable in games again.   Eventually these tools will become so good that artists will be able to offload an enormous amount of work while they pour all their efforts into other parts of the art development.  Then they'll be doin thangs.   With they whole ass.

I wouldn't pay for this but I like how it seems specialized for sprite animation: https://www.godmodeai.co/ (keep scrolling)

I think some of the video base models are supposed to already be capable of this, or there are loras, or someone will make one (these people probably made one and aren't sharing it and found optimal settings to use with it)

[Propagandhim]

Also, and this is what the most important thing about AI is:  I want Street Fighter 3/KOF-13 level sprite animation to be financially viable in games again.   Eventually these tools will become so good that artists will be able to offload an enormous amount of work while they pour all their efforts into other parts of the art development.  Then they'll be doin thangs.   With they whole ass.

I wouldn't pay for this but I like how it seems specialized for sprite animation: https://www.godmodeai.co/ (keep scrolling)

I think some of the video base models are supposed to already be capable of this, or there are loras, or someone will make one (these people probably made one and aren't sharing it and found optimal settings to use with it)

Yeah, that looks cool!  I'd love to play around with it as a hobbyist.  The tools for sprite art and game dev assets are in an early phase right now, but I do know a few indie game devs that use things like Midjourney and trained loras on Flux, and then clean and touch it up afterwards.  There's been progress.  I'm not an artist and don't work in that field but I imagine they're doing it because it does increase productivity and saves time.  Character consistency and inference between key frames is only going to get better.

[HaughtyFrank]

Resetera: "Hegseth is calling all the generals to a summit. He's going to start a civil war!"

Hegseth:

  

[D3RANG3D]

Resetera: "Hegseth is calling all the generals to a summit. He's going to start a civil war!"

Hegseth:

  

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[JoeBoy101]

Resetera: "Hegseth is calling all the generals to a summit. He's going to start a civil war!"

Hegseth:

  

If Trump wants a Civil War, he kinda needs a … cooperative army to work with him. He doesn’t really, and Hegseth is providing a prime example why he doesn’t. Despite ERA’s ‘they always fall in line’ bullshit.