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

[benji]

NEVER BELIEVE IN HEROES PART 35,718:

Yeah, never liked him anyway, always thought his being a straight white male was sus.

[Lonewulfeus]

Still an hero 

[benji]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

[carlyspam]

LiarSmasher just actively ignoring all the people in that game journalism thread calling him out on his bullshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-556#post-159093928


Literally just posting fetishes in guise of progressivism

Like I said a few pages ago, someone called out Echoes on this shit. Can't be arsed finding it but it was funny as fuck, just straight up said all their weird, detailed, imaginary WLW games threads were just clearly fetish gooning fantasies and got permabanned (they were a cis male). I remember they also got called out by a female member as well (they obviously weren't banned). Of course after that they did their usual crying in the Burka thread with a hidden content post.

I think the person who called Echoes out might've been The Bire's Very Own Carlyspam.

i fucking wish

[Uncle]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

ok, then it's not my job to stop doing whatever upset you, if you can't be arsed to explain it

the beatings will continue until you articulate the reason they should stop

[benji]

ok, then it's not my job to stop doing whatever upset you, if you can't be arsed to explain it

the beatings will continue until you articulate the reason they should stop

Well, look who decided to just go mask off and show their whole ass.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Jeff's posting about women again:

You are so lost in your own head that you don't realize everyone is laughing at you and your obsession over this man.

Lil bro here seriously thinking this is a pwnage when he's literally describing himself    We're all laughing at you, Jeff over your obsession with Hasan since you mimic him so much 

[benji]

You'll be sorry when women avoid you and you die alone after President Hasan makes Jeff his Secretary of Sick Burns on Social Media.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Stella Sack'o what exactly

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

ok, then it's not my job to stop doing whatever upset you, if you can't be arsed to explain it

the beatings will continue until you articulate the reason they should stop

Well, look who decided to just go mask off and show their whole ass.

That's the thing about posting on the internet - you can have your whole ass out the entire time and no one will ever know.

Personally, I've always assumed Uncle only posts when he's sitting on the toilet.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-amd-radeon-rx-9000-gpus-see-official-price-increase-of-up-to-20-as-memory-shortage-continues.1603786/#post-159111292
Transistor

Say it with me folks

Fuck AI

Does he spam this all the time?

[benji]

Does he spam this all the time?

Factually correct:

[benji]

Do you think this "simulator" slop publisher is aware that they're publishing two Propagandhim Simulators one day apart?


And after they already published one earlier this year?

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

[filler]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/several-dead-after-flesh-eating-bacteria-found-on-beach.1602694/

I like how some of era's response to this is "ha, I never liked the beach anyway!" 

“During the same period over the previous 10 years, Louisiana reported an average of seven cases and one death. All nine cases reported this year were associated with wounds exposed to seawater, and all patients had underlying health conditions,”

It is a higher number of cases than normal (likely due to the warmer water), but it's hitting people with underlying health conditions. Probably people with diabetes and/or autoimmune disorders with slow healing, open sores going into the water. 

The actual lesson here is to take care of yourself so that you're not obese and battling type 2 diabetes with open wounds on your feet. Not "I'll never leave the basement again"

This stuff is nasty. I Just lost my foot to it

benji annihilated 

[Uncle]

ok, then it's not my job to stop doing whatever upset you, if you can't be arsed to explain it

the beatings will continue until you articulate the reason they should stop

Well, look who decided to just go mask off and show their whole ass.

I cannot always be expected to have to put in the work to explain this to you, but for the record, I went ass off and showed my whole mask

[benji]

Don't fall for the Yakubian "science" nonsense. So-called "diabetes" is a right-wing myth for excusing the toxic effects of capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy on Black and brown bodies.

[Uncle]

as a member of the body positivity movement, I have re-christened this supposed "condition" to live-abetes, as simply living with it is a reality for so many around the globe, such that it can be considered normal and healthy; its original framing was relentlessly negative and frankly insulting

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/several-dead-after-flesh-eating-bacteria-found-on-beach.1602694/

Hmm high numbers in warm water you say. Things are going great!

This is near the top of my list of fears anytime I ever have to go to a hospital.

This piece of shit bacteria ruined the concept of lakes for me. I used to think they were the coziest outdoor thing ever, but now all I see is giant petri dishes of standing water and disease.

Yup, same.

Once you "see it", you legitimately can't unsee it.

Linked article also cites eating raw shellfish such as oysters as a risk factor in getting infected.

It's another byproduct of warming seas thanks to climate change.

can't go in the waterways of my state, worst water equivalent to India. Can't go hiking, ticks everywhere will give me allergy to meat products in everything. Flesh eating bacteria? Sure, why not.

Can't walk cause it's so insanely humid and hot now all summer in the Midwest? Love this wonderful box prison.

It's as if our planet wants to get rid of us, I wonder why? 🤔

America really is like Fallout.

"Rare bacteria"

They've already overtaken shark deaths

Wtf is going on in the US

This is a global threat. Warming sea water is creating conditions for this kind of bacteria to grow. It's an issue with beaches everywhere.

There is research being done into antibiotic alternatives like artificial macrophages. But it's still early.

The reality is global warming may make oceans very dangerous to contact unless treatment improves or a way to counter the spread of the bacteria is found.

Nature wants us out.

Wtf is going on in the US

Looks almost like divine retribution, in old times stuff like this would be alluded to the supernatural.

I used to love beaches. Now I just think of all the sewage people are wading in.

[Polident]

Jeff's posting about women again:

Not to disrupt my status as a misogynist for not watching supergirl, but I think she looks normal her age.

[benji]

Coward ass losers still won't give her a girlfriend.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supergirl-accidentally-revealed-it-used-a-i-in-behind-the-scenes-clip.1603264/

Thread is good, lots of disagreement on what AI can or can not do, what AI does or does not do, whether or not this is even AI, someone from here using the riotous account to dismiss concerns, etc.

I don't really use AI, I'm not sure what I'm looking at here?

Art that is generated like that has that melty look to it or it's tinted really brown for some reason.

The video shows the director taking an AI image of Lobo and then clicking buttons to change his appearance to show Momoa. Effectively, they're just taking jobs from artists for shit like this.

This movie had a budget of $175m

and probably 1m litres of water

How else could one possibly imagine Jason Momoa as Lobo without this technology? Ones mind can't simply... imagine such things.

Like aside from paying artists...if only there were tens of thousands of images of Lobo to pull from...a real shame he was an entirely new character.

It's such a long shot that the only way any department on the film could wrap their brains around it was to consult the visionary mind of midjourney. The makeup department, for example, was probably relieved to have detailed guidance for such an intricate design.

EDIT: If this was not in fact AI, I apologize for the snark. It's been an era of shitty news and I'm on a hair trigger.

That explain why the art direction was BY FAR the worst part of the movie

Like AI explains how you can get such a BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFULL comic and end up with the washed monotone grey mess of an art direction that it was that movie

Imagine being in a creative industry and avoiding creative work. Maybe some directors are slumming it making movies as they try to advance into an accounting position.

Man...Gunn's big talk is just crumbling in real time

Feels like a microcosm of AI's pointlessness that this is what they had it do. The pictures don't even look particularly different.

Huh...the movie totally misreading its source material suddenly make sense.

Alright so I'm out on their new films.

Want me to watch? Hire and pay the artists. Not replace with AI.

Did Gunn say he was anti-AI/prohibiting it?

He's been all about quality and artistry, even if he didn't publicly condem it, its a terrible look

Unimaginative concept art team uses the bullshit machine and turns a renowned colorful comic book into a dreary sea of brown and grey.

Nothing will be learned.

AI image generation works on a formula, basically the mathematical large language model, then you plug in a model, which is a single file that is basically a huge amount of images all smashed together ('training data'), then a prompt which is words in a sentence to get a result. Normally the result is just one image, but you can change that to output as many images you want, like if you up it to 12, the output will be 12 very similar but slightly different images like you see there in the original post. That's how you can tell it was made with generative AI and not a concept artist.

Weird to have this in an officially released clip at all. Why put that out there?

This movie deserved to bomb then

Bomba deserved then I'm afraid.

Unimaginative concept art team uses the bullshit machine and turns a renowned colorful comic book into a dreary sea of brown and grey.

Nothing will be learned.

Plesae, AI won't wouldn't stray too far from the colorful look of the comic. It lacks the "creativity" to do that.

It might be concept art, but it's hard not to think that this plays a part in why every bit of footage I see of this film looks like it was smeared in dogshit.

Nah. You're giving too much credit to humans if you think they couldn't create something like that on their own.

In itself, AI wouldn't stray away from the colorful look of the comic unless someone ask for it.

Nah, it's the types of changes between each frame that's a dead giveaway. If this was done by an actual artist, things like those balls of light would be identical between frames. The artist is going to be reusing those layers between each piece of art, because the goal is to iterate on the character, not incidental background details. Changing those both distracts from the meaningful changes between iterations, and is the kind of excess work no human is going to do, because it would be so pointless it wouldn't even occur to them. Meanwhile, that is precisely the kind of thing AI does constantly, because by its very nature it's incapable of keeping that kind of thing consistent between iterations. Shy of garbled text, it is perhaps the single best possible indicator of AI use in this kind of context.

At some point i'm gonna believe the theories Gunn was planted by Marvel

James Gunn should probably be less online replyin to every fan comment and get the DC house in order

I don't feel bad about not having the time to go see this now. Shame for all the people who put in actual work to have to put up with these types on the crew.

Superman must've used it too, they were just careful about not disclosing it. It would explain why pretty much everything about it looks like what you'd get from prompting "make silver age superman but sorta modern and slap the Kingdom Come shield for no reason".

LLM upscaled images have that kind of melty look to them where the computer can't fill in the detail because the original resolution is too low. Repeating patterns are also common in generated images. I think the brown is from the training data containing tons of filtered images.

No human would ever think to change the background of an image? This is just kind of nonsense. Maybe they were asked to do so, because as you are pointing out here, the purpose of the images are mainly about the character and those lights are rather distracting.

No human would think to change the background like this in this particular and specific context, no. It's not something someone would do, because it wouldn't even come up in the workflow. 90% of the layer data would be kept identical between each iteration, stuff like the background layer would have been drawn once*, and only the layers pertaining to the changes to Lobo would be altered.

The results we have here imply someone redrew extremely similar but slightly different meaningless background information over and over and over again, which would be a genuinely insane thing to do for these kind of iterative work. But that's literally how AI works, it redraws everything from scratch each time, but the differences requested in each iteration will have a cascading effect within the algorithm that'll slightly change the surrounding details, due to the changes in statistical weights for each pixel drawn.

*(If it was even drawn at all, rather than just being a reference photo of the actor with details drawn over it, which is exactly how these images *look*, but aren't actually what they are, which is another weird AI tell.)

The hunting for ai in everything is growing really fucking tedious.

it's a testament to how toxic the use of the technology is for people to want to work this hard to find it, especially when companies will absolutely not disclose its use.

And yet as far as I can tell these images are generally consistent in their backgrounds, outside of one apparently with the lights removed, which I don't actually see in the OP.

We don't have anywhere near enough info to declare any of this is AI usage. It very well may be, sure, but none of this is anywhere near anything conclusive.

0 times ever has anyone modified a background layer for concept photos is basically what you are suggesting here.

What I'm saying here is that an actual concept artist wouldn't generate iterative outputs with that kind of extraneous but also meaningless work.

I don't know why there's always someone who has to do this absurd dance every single time. Where you have to blatantly ignore all context and start blabbering out "ah, so no human in history has ever made a different background ever, INTERESTING."

Easiest explanation for why the movie looked like brown sludge then, they fired all the concept artists

Imagine needing a tool to envision how to make Jason Momoa, the most Lobo-looking mf ever, look like Lobo. What's next, feeding ChatGPT a picture of David Corenswet to make him look like Superman and being amazed that he looks like Superman?

Yeah fuck this, I though the movie was pretty meh but now I see the creatives on this are pretty limp

After the movie came out there were some Reddit sleuths that picked a few scenes apart that were supposedly using AI in Super Girls hair. Not sure if it was legit or not

[Greatness Gone]

ummm zeo....wlw posting only works if you're trans sweetie. 

[NekoFever]

Coward ass losers still won't give her a girlfriend.

wait i thought olaf died

No, just the actor who played him.

Oh my god what happened to Josh Gad?

Actor Josh Gad, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, has family in Israel and faced intense online backlash, death threats, and antisemitism after voicing sympathy for Israeli victims and condemning the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.

Of fucking course

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-power-rangers-series-not-moving-forward-at-disney-plus.1603801/

I've said this before but there are people who, like many of us, watched Power Rangers for a couple of years either side of their ninth birthday, but then not only didn’t grow out of it but proceeded to watch it for the next 30 years.

[Besticus Maximus]

One can never have been an uwu hun, if one has only lived as a lil bro 

[HardcoreRetro]

Refunded South of Midnight right after the first combat sequence. It is horrid, like student project tier combat design. Do not even bother.

They should've gone with a honest title for the game and dropped the "night". 

South of Mid.

[Snoopy]

What? I've only had two glasses. You can't do this to me. I want your name and badge number. Oh buddy you are so fucked. My lawyers are going to tear you apart. So unfair. Do you know who I am I pay your wages you bitch ass nigga.

[Nintex]

The golden age of 28 year old mids

[jooseloose]

LiarSmasher just actively ignoring all the people in that game journalism thread calling him out on his bullshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-556#post-159093928


Literally just posting fetishes in guise of progressivism

Like I said a few pages ago, someone called out Echoes on this shit. Can't be arsed finding it but it was funny as fuck, just straight up said all their weird, detailed, imaginary WLW games threads were just clearly fetish gooning fantasies and got permabanned (they were a cis male). I remember they also got called out by a female member as well (they obviously weren't banned). Of course after that they did their usual crying in the Burka thread with a hidden content post.

Embiid?

Nah Embiid got got for ""transphobia"" in one of the many "trans women in women's sports" thread (he'd butted heads with Nep too many times and got perm'd)

[Snoopy]

The golden age of 28 year old mids

She might have made it to mid tier at 15 before the rot set in. I’d bet every waiter in town breathes a sigh of relief when she sits in someone else’s section