Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[nachobro]

Okay, but the whole point of AI art is that you don't actually need any knowledge of any of that to produce content. That's the whole damn selling point. It's "democratized:" That means anyone, no matter how ignorant they are of art theory, can theoretically produce the same quality of work as an actually talented individual.

hell yeah dude

[DocWager]

Lennon only a white belt at that point, wow.

He could’ve played guitar with his feet.

[Boredfrom]

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also pissed if three generations of your family were coal mine operators and technicians and really good at it too, then some asshole invents wind/solar/nuclear and the government says you have to stop

Well until Santa starts distributing lithium batteries I think the coal industry is fine

Uncle really loves AI, sometimes makes weird comparisons. 

He is still way more informed about it than most of us or RE.

[Alpacx]

Won't someone think of the monks lovingly crafting illuminated manuscripts put out of business by the printing press. Now any peasant can buy a basic book.

[NekoFever]

Lennon only a white belt at that point, wow.

He could’ve played guitar with his feet.

Not with that ninja turtle foot.

[Boredfrom]

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Won't someone think of the monks lovingly crafting illuminated manuscripts put out of business by the printing press. Now any peasant can buy a basic book.

That is better.

[Uncle]

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also pissed if three generations of your family were coal mine operators and technicians and really good at it too, then some asshole invents wind/solar/nuclear and the government says you have to stop

Well until Santa starts distributing lithium batteries I think the coal industry is fine

Uncle really loves AI, sometimes makes weird comparisons. 

He is still way more informed about it than most of us or RE.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-2-tapping-the-sign.768689/page-197?post=116970888#post-116970888

I will never pass judgement on anyone who doesn't vote Biden because of this Israel shit. That country isn't in danger, and the fact we're funding them (and bypassing Congress) is embarrassing.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rebel-moon-debuts-lower-than-many-recent-big-netflix-original-movies-at-23-9-million-views.799203/page-5?post=116958051#post-116958051

Ended up being number 1 movie in the world

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

My wife has informed me that this is terrible, and I shouldn't laugh.

[Potato]

Won't someone think of the monks lovingly crafting illuminated manuscripts put out of business by the printing press. Now any peasant can buy a basic book.

Who taught those peasants to read? Won't someone think of all those town criers?

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rebel-moon-debuts-lower-than-many-recent-big-netflix-original-movies-at-23-9-million-views.799203/page-5?post=116958051#post-116958051

[twe et]https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1740768362211450890[/tweet]
Ended up being number 1 movie in the world

 

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How do I make the picture smaller?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[railGUN]

I have to wonder... if Nep needed a legally binding contract for something, given the choice between paying a lawyer a hefty sum of money, or having an "AI" generate one that is effectively exactly the same, for free, would she opt to pay the lawyer?

She seems most disgruntled at the fact that her skills are no longer valuable -- no one is taking away her ability to draw. What is happening, is that a free tool is allowing many people to create what they need without having to pay someone to do it. It sucks for the artist but it's great for the general public, who don't want to pay someone every time they need an art asset for something.

Think of how many menial jobs have been accomplished without having to pay someone to do said job, because you can look it up on Google or YouTube, and just do it yourself. You don't need to be a journeyman plumber to replace a sink faucet, and I'm sure lots of people have avoided paying good money to replace a sink faucet by simply using a free tool that shows them how to do so. But, lots of people can't be bothered, and will still opt to pay the plumber, too.

And there's a certain irony on REE, where they blubber on about how "artists" aren't getting paid because of AI art generators, while simultaneously discussing how to circumvent YouTube ads. You can't have it both ways. Either you support people who create content, or you don't. Half of REE is copied and pasted large chunks of articles into the site, basically rendering the link to the article pointless, and profiting off super intrusive ads that litter REE, completely cutting out the journalist and company that produced the content. It's a fucking joke how these points are totally lost on dipshits like Nep and crew.

Perfect example: This article is copied and pasted onto REE -- 9 full paragraphs. Click the link, and can't read the article on New York Times because it's behind a paywall. REE (MOBA) will directly profit off of this content theft, without having done a lick of work.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-after-rise-in-murders-during-the-pandemic-a-sharp-decline-in-2023.800280/

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gaming-era-december-2023-time-to-party-like-its-2023.790503/page-41?post=116974593#post-116974593

I played 5e a lot and honestly the big thing is just that I don't find Larian's combat encounter design of choice - "here's six hundred enemies who will ventilate you with ranged attacks before you can even get close, better figure out a way to split aggro and pray they miss more often than they hit" - super fun when it's 7-10 enemies against four party members and each enemy takes several rounds of combat to kill. So if I can even the playing field with a party that kind of equals the amount of numbers the game throws at you, it might make the game more enjoyable for me overall.

Or maybe it'll make it too chaotic to keep track of spell slots/long rest ability uses, who knows.

It's just personally not how I like to play D&D as a player OR as a DM - as an encounter designer myself, my combat sequences are always designed to be beaten, rather than designed to kill the party unless they figure out a really epic strategy to take them down. And that's the central disconnect I have with Larian as a developer - I always feel like the game is trying really hard to just instantly wipe my whole party in every encounter unless I figure out some sneaky trick.

This retard manages to find a way to lie about every single game he plays. BG3 has a balanced mix of battles that range in enemy quantity. And if you can’t handle that on easy mode (which I believe he has said he plays most games on), then you should probably put it down. 

Also, “as an encounter designer myself, my combat sequences are always designed to be beaten, rather than designed to kill the party unless they figure out a really epic strategy to take them down.”

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/being-jobless-has-made-me-so-bored.800349/?post=116974281#post-116974281

Unemployed for 15+ years, I still love every second of it.

[DSC]

recall that encountersmasher swore that bg3 was gonna suck because the combat larian's games boil down to "throw barrels" or reload for "a good random seed" every time, while complaining about how hard everything was

then it came out that they had somehow managed to miss all of the recruitable party members, so they were playing with 2 characters instead of 4

then they never returned to the thread

ppl aren't engaging with them as much this time, thank god, but think about it for 5 minutes. do they think that thousands of players and every reviewer that gave bg3 a perfect score just dealt with the "awful" encounter design? that they all hit their heads against the wall over and over, or just didn't notice?

but no, it can't be that ps just fundamentally doesn't "get" how to play these games, which is fine. if you threw me into football manager, i'd flail around and be utterly confused. it has to be a launching pad for them to rant about how awful it all is, how it's an indictment of modern game design, and so on. someone will counter it with actual examples, and ps will say something like "well i didn't notice because the dialogue was so terrible," and the cycle continues

[BIONIC]

For a loser who wasted his 40 years on this planet playing kideo games, he is disturbingly shit at them.

Remember when he was using one of the cheat rings in FF16 and bragging like he discovered some sick build?

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-help-me-determine-if-any-of-this-stuff-is-worth-anything.800370/



An actual mod

[Uncle]

do they think that thousands of players and every reviewer that gave bg3 a perfect score just dealt with the "awful" encounter design? that they all hit their heads against the wall over and over, or just didn't notice?

counterpoint

[DocWager]

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An actual mod

Never heard of this person.

[Snoopy]

I guess they’ve just hatched. I wonder how many headmates they have

[benji]

Although I think this AI art stuff is probably a very bad thing for ordinary artists it's still hilarious to see Nep Nep's rank hypocrisy on full display.

Okay, but the whole point of AI art is that you don't actually need any knowledge of any of that to produce content. That's the whole damn selling point. It's "democratized:" That means anyone, no matter how ignorant they are of art theory, can theoretically produce the same quality of work as an actually talented individual.

"haha get fucked every artist in history who didn't get specialized secondary education in the last five decades" - Vanguard of The People setting up a hierarchy in justification of establishing state-provided fiat monopoly property rights.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-people-spend-new-year’s-eve-with-their-friends-or-their-family.800361/

I'm spending it alone in a hotel room

With my cat, so family.

I've never really had friends, so I never spent New Years with them.

I used to spend it with my mom, but since she passed I spend it alone.

So I guess Neither will be my answer

[benji]

FUUUUCCKKKK OOOOOFFFOOOFFFFFFF I AM DOING MORE THAN ANYONE NO ONE PERSON CAN END CAPITALISM

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The Stancil replies are pretty good, I liked the replies to this one:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-the-first-song-that-comes-to-mind-when-you-hear-punk-rock-anthem.800385/?post=116979477#post-116979477

Not sure what I'd consider a (or the) punk rock anthem, but Johnny Rotten grew into a Brexit supporter and "Britain first" knobhead and Johnny Ramone was a die-hard conservative who thought Reagan was the greatest president ever and that people only had "liberal" views because they were young and hadn't seen "how the world really is", so definitely not anything from the Ramones or Sex Pistols.

I also just really fucking hate Blitzkrieg Bop.

God save the queen, Sex Pistols.

Punk is considerably older than Green Day or Pennywise!

Yeah, but it wasn't good until Green Day.

[Snoopy]

Boring fact. The Exploited’s frontman tried to kick my head in when I was 13 because I laughed at his shite band, but the fat bastard couldn’t catch me.

[BIONIC]

Boring fact. The Exploited’s frontman tried to kick my head in when I was 13 because I laughed at his shite band, but the fat bastard couldn’t catch me.

Finally found PlanetSmashers alt account

[Snoopy]

I’ve changed the ram on my pc without my dad having to step in

 

Oh aye, and another time me and my mates were sitting in The Venue which was a local dive for punks and metal heads. Watty came in and told us to move from the table we were sitting at cos apparently it belonged to him. We told him to fuck off. So he grassed us to security for being underage and we got kicked out. Cunt. He was hard as fuck when I was a little kid on my own, but shit himself when he was outnumbered by a bunch of teenagers.

Oh and then there was that time his shite band ran and begged the pigs to save them from the Livi punks who turned up to the punk’s picnic and were going to kick the fuck out of them. Why am I mentioning this? I don’t know. The Exploited were literally the Nep Nep’s of punk I guess.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/saints-row-2022-is-free-on-the-epic-games-store.800325/

Game is dumb fun people and it's free. Give it a go.

It isn’t.