MMD Animatrix

@dawkskint @ImKisukeThough

@ImKisukeThough What are the parameters of soul crushing. How does it work…how do other people not get soul crushed

Madara and Hashirama would simply get soul crushed before the battle even starts

@rythalia12 @elvenmaidinn

@elvenmaidinn Genuine question though for all the pro-AI and anti-AI crowd, could you guys still truly discern if the art is AI or not? Because nowadays, people see a mistake in drawing, people automatically accuse the artist of using AI lately.

As I reflect on the NTE AI Drama that swept through the gaming community, I find myself shaking my head at how quickly things spiraled out of control. I am passionate about my hobbies, you all know that, but I usually try to stay level-headed in these debates. I can say this with confidence: the AI used in NTE was minimal and was not affecting gameplay in any meaningful way. In fact, there were only two questionable uses of AI that sparked this entire huge drama, and that realization hits me hard because it shows just how disproportionate the backlash was. Looking at the Billboard piece, there was literally no other proof presented other than vague claims that it looks like AI. People kept pointing to the elbow of the male character as some smoking gun evidence of AI generation. But by doing my own digging, I discovered that the original art piece which served as the inspiration for it had the exact same elbow position. When the anti-AI crowd was confronted with that clear proof, I watched them either block you outright or pivot the narrative to accuse it of being a trace of the original art. This just exposed the bad faith arguments for what they were. In my honest opinion, it was nothing more than a quick look-alike homage in a game that is absolutely brimming with easter eggs from anime and video games. A simple tribute to the artist’s favorite movie turned into a source of unnecessary grief and division, and that makes me genuinely sad for the state of our community. Then came the Heist video, which got dissected frame by frame by multiple people. The majority zeroed in obsessively on supposed AI aspects, while only a handful of voices clearly pointed out the reality. It was an artist’s hand-drawn work, animated with the help of AI. They pointed out how the crisp, detailed frames contrasted with the smudged transitions. Those same people even recreated the process themselves to prove the point, leaving me with a question that still lingers in my mind. What truly makes something generative AI if the artist meticulously handcrafted the core art and only used AI for the transitions between their own creations? A hand-made picture to AI transition to hand-made picture. Does that even qualify as generative AI in the way the critics claim? This whole thing makes me question where we draw the line and why the goalposts keep moving. The morality debate around all this is another layer that weighs heavily on me. Famous V-Tuber Ironmouse publicly denounced NTE and claimed the devs had lied to her, even though those same devs had participated in public interviews openly admitting their use of AI. Seeing her fans aggressively attack anyone who dared question her stance on this, especially when we know she has accepted multiple sponsorships from Hoyoverse, a company caught using AI in both Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, and from Capcom for playing Resident Evil, where they admitted to using generative AI for background elements. The stark difference between those situations and NTE boils down to one simple conclusion: performative behavior. That selective application of standards really makes me pause and reflect on the hypocrisy that seems to fuel so much of this discourse. And then there were the social media trolls, often tied to rival gacha games, who jumped in by posting clips from NTE showing billboards using AI videos. Just a day later the guides on how to replace videos in billboards surfaced. After testing this myself the very next day, I quickly realized it was all a bait. You can actually put any MP4 video on those billboard surfaces. I had the Star Wars: A New Hope trailer playing perfectly on the cinema billboard, and others discovered you could replace TV videos and cinema videos too. This trap worked flawlessly, with people sharing those videos as evidence without bothering to test it themselves. It leaves me concerned about how misinformation spreads like wildfire in these spaces. Finally, the part that troubles me the most is watching the NTE devs bend the knee. They removed those two items that caused the outrage. This makes me wonder if we are witnessing a new form of censorship creeping into our games. If you use tools that I personally do not like, even if I do not even play your game, delete them or face my internet rage. They gave in to the pressure, and now I have to ask myself the hard questions. What comes next? Will the miniskirt skins get censored because certain people hate seeing sexy women in games? Will the devs be forced to alter character poses that someone finds offensive, all under threat of boycott? Are we truly okay supporting this kind of behavior? Because once you open that door to hell, as the saying goes, you will not be able to close it again. This scares me for the future of creative freedom in gaming, and it makes me determined to speak up more thoughtfully moving forward. What is worse, even when the devs removed the questionable pieces, was the anti-AI crowd happy. No, they were not. This simply shows that the outrage was never really about AI in the first place. In closing, processing all of this has taught me a lot about the dangers of mob mentality, selective outage, and rushed judgments. Let us all learn from this drama and gatekeep our hobbies harder than ever before.

@xLament69 @kanibonara So you used AI to generate a new image? Or are you saying you used an AI filter? As for them removing it, that doesn't actually prove anything aside from the controversy getting out of control so they removed it to get people to stop arguing over it.

@MMD_Animatrix @kanibonara literally just tried it myself moron 🤣🤣and it still looks less similar than the original frame 🤣 besides, they already removed the image practically admitting it was AI. You are so dumb

これが一度でも反AIに譲歩してしまった企業の末路

@xLament69 @kanibonara If it was literally just a frame run through an AI filter, the shading, eye direction, background, lighting, and clothing folds would all line up way more closely. The pose is similar, but the actual scene and details are pretty different.

@MMD_Animatrix @kanibonara Bro, be fr. You're telling me these 2 "original" characters just so happen to have the EXACT same hairstyle and pose?? Just look at the guy's shirt, it has shading in the exact same places, and besides, his eyes are looking the wrong direction and his sleeve is miscolored

@xLament69 @kanibonara Except that's not even what happened. The billboard image in NTE wasn't some AI filter over the original frame. It's way too distinct from the movie shot. The only real similarity is the pose, which makes it more of a reference than anything.

@MMD_Animatrix @kanibonara That would be the case if they used their own art to train it, but the old image was clearly a frame from an anime ran through an ai filter. Bro, if someone commissions an artist someone can't just yoink the image, AI it, and sell it someone else 🤣 moron

@xLament69 @kanibonara ... no artwork is stolen in the process if teaching AI

@kanibonara Yes blatantly stealing artwork is very ethical, its so crazy coming from a Japanese person. Do you have no respect for the artists that work on anime meant for your country? Wild

@gacha_tourist @kohakudoori Dude, wuwa is not different at all. It took the same gacha strategy of hoyo games. I miss the days when gacha games didn't copy this stupid weapon gacha system. You just had character gacha and that's it. And you had a solid pity mark. No 50/50. Luckly some games are doing that.

@kohakudoori ??? tell me u never played a good gacha without telling me, lmao. I imagine u just havent played Wuthering Waves yet, the only one thats game first, gacha second. If you've been deceived by hoyo "gachas" i can understand the frustration. But Wuwa is different. Ur missing out 😂

seriously do not understand the appeal of playing gacha games when they all have the same designs, same mechanics, same resource systems, same gameplay/grinding "style", and visually are just The Same like what's the point

@elvenmaidinn Seriously, I still haven't found the AI billboard stuff myself and I've legit tried searching just to see if it's true. Also don't know where the movie theater is in the game yet.

Oh, no wonder there is so many "NTE has Ai Animation" videos roaming around, but when you try to find them in game there are not there. You can replace files in game folders and put on billboard whatever you like. This one is actually hilarious.

@TheXanaGuy This is super common with MMD models. Nothing really wrong with it

oh my god bro this game is held together with hopes and dreams 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@xanas3712 @Cretzu19 @kokolemonsk @lanxre Endfield is open world and has far less instanced moments then wuwa does.

@Cretzu19 @kokolemonsk @lanxre It's not open world is his point. It feels much more confining in the world design. You feel this in the gameplay constantly. It's one reason I will never find AKE as engaging as Wuwa. And I like AKE. I play it daily. I have subs on it. It is not Wuwa.

Might be crazy to say, but I’m glad kuro isn’t prioritizing lower end devices just to reach a wider audience. It helps them avoid compromising and putting out mediocre content. How do you even explain to someone that a gacha game delivered this?

@SoniMari7270 @XliceTV The board is just presentation. Dice rolls are automatic. So there isn't anything you actually control there. Just hit 10 pull and watch it all play out

@XliceTV So is there some sort of “skill” to try to get what you want? Or is it just presentation?

just spent $1000 on NTE's gacha system results / reviews / thoughts - 12 s-rank chars, 1 s rank weapon about 625 pulls - average of 50-55 pulls per s rank char which is pretty solid - normal rates are 90 hard pity, 70 soft pity, average soft pity to get your s rank is 76-82 - no 50/50 for limited characters, which makes it zero friction for pulling and building pity actually exists for this game as long as you want the limited character - the gacha "monopoly" board will look confusing at first, but it's actually well designed, it heavily caters towards gambling/casino but it gives a lot of opportunities for early wins - it is currently the best gacha system once you actually dip your feet into it among all that has been released, just confusing at first because its presented as a board game - WUWA's is better for vertical investment (since you can buy 1/2 copies of the limited character) but for collectors and people pulling for horizontal investment i think NTE's takes the cake - weapon gacha is very similar to endfield small image of the board below, tldr of the stuff: - purple chest is 0.2% s rank, 99.8% other stuff - gold chest is 3% s rank - the nanally icon on the island to the right is guaranteed, but to hit it you need to hit exactly the purple chest next to the right arrow, and then roll a "1" on the dice (so 1/6 chance) - purple cards = guaranteed a rank - other spots are extra niche mechanics that can give u more stuff

@Franix97Twitch @HowlyW81746 @darlingstrawbie Bro, I simply corrected you. Though another correction I might as well give is that adoption exists. So if the parents aren't ready or whatever, they can give the child up for adoption to a loving family that can give the kid a good life.

@MMD_Animatrix @HowlyW81746 @darlingstrawbie Yeah yeah keep demanding that people keep something they don't want giving them a shitty life, nobody gives a fuck about your opinion anyways. You want babies to suffer because their parents got forced to keep them and you think you're morally superior Adolf 👍

@Franix97Twitch @HowlyW81746 @darlingstrawbie The baby is human from conception. So saying that abortion kills a human is correct. Sentience has nothing to do with whatever your trying to argue cause it's already a human and alive from conception.

@HowlyW81746 @darlingstrawbie Yeah people that hate abortion really think a kid should be raised unloved and undesired by asshole parents that don't want them and will remind the kid every day until they grow up fucked in their brain 😂 "You murder a human" no 'cause is not sentient yet retards.

@karasunodark @schizohealer Tower of Fantasy doesn’t even have romance relationships with the MC in the first place. The story is basically about you being an Executor and going around handling missions and world problems.

Sorry to be the one to break the bad news, but the game is a massive yuri-code disaster because, as I read, Hotta himself has said that the game will prioritise the female protagonist over the male protagonist, You can already see from the facial animations that the female character’s are sooo much more polished than the male character’s, and they’re going to do the same as in Tower of Fantasy, their previous game, prioritising canonical lesbian relationships within the game, just as happens in TOF. Another thing is that they are now giving the male MC a bit of promotion, but we all know the female lead is the priority, so forget about him featuring much in version previews or patches – just like in TOF, they gradually phased the male MC out of the cutscenes and so on XDDDD. It pisses me off because it looks brilliant, but let’s face it, this is going to be swamped with yuritards to catastrophic levels

"this game will flop, it's catered to men" 44 million views and 1 million likes on their livestream in China. Try activism elsewhere 🤭

@KidayaG @marcusx191 @Pirat_Nation Pretty sure the model was made from the ground up. No real child was scanned for it.

@marcusx191 @Pirat_Nation Who's model was scanned off a real child.

Pragmata is already one of Capcom’s all-time top-rated games on Steam, It launched on Steam 2 days ago and has earned an Overwhelmingly Positive >English reviews: 97% positive >All languages: Overwhelmingly Positive For context, it sits just a few % points behind Capcom’s long-time Steam king, Resident Evil 4 Other Capcom heavyweights like Monster Hunter: World, Resident Evil 2 Remake, and Monster Hunter Rise also sit in the high 80s to low 90s. Pragmata’s score is impressive for a brand-new release with relatively few reviews so far.

@REBHFun 😍 to cute. This is one of those rare games that has me wanting to just buy it straight away instead of waiting for a sale on steam.

@inkfycreates Except there are lots of gachas that don’t use 50/50 and are still really good. CounterSide, Outerplane, Blue Archive just to name a few. Endfield even improves on it by separating weapons from character banners. And kits don't get locked behind needing dupes.

I've yet to see any gacha stay on the market that isn't established that hasn't kept this system. If you don't want 50/50 be prepared for a terrible dupe system to make up for people not spending as much or play non-gacha games.

Anyone who says 50/50 sucks wasn't here for a time where Gachas had no pity. Genshin popularized the system and it worked because it was actually fair. Back then, you could top up and spend thousands of dollars to not get ANYTHING.

@eltipodelbar @oniichanph @animeupdates I still can't tell which is the AI and which isn't. Both honestly look good. Unless the bottom is the AI. Even still, it's hard for me to tell.

@oniichanph @animeupdates Only that, contrary to what ppl think, now it looks totally soulless and simplistic. A lot of us didn't even notice it was AI until the news dropped, which proves that at first glance AI can totally beautify an image, tho the AI errors arr rlly questionable.

WIT Studio has Officially removed the AI backgrounds from the 'Ascendance of a Bookworm' Season 4 Anime OP

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