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@Waspy69 @CameronCorduroy The real bigger problem was the whole "tanking the global economy for no reason other than being inexplicably on the leash of Bibi" thing. Even if america had somehow won the months of supply interruptions would still end up having a years long effect on the economy.

@CameronCorduroy Inheriting a country addicted to smart munitions and discovering too late how few you have & how few get made is a funny (if tragic) thing. I don't blame Pete. I blame those who knowingly allowed a situation in which America can't sustain a 6 months war without ground invasion.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

@legistrada @nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi I'm saying that by the nature of how LLMs work they quite literally produce the most average output, the average being based on their training data and how it's weighted. The average is unfortunately generally kinda uninteresting to look at.

@VMajik @nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi So you are saying that AI art is worse than non-AI just for being AI? And what is above average to you?

Believe in yourself

@legistrada @nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi It objectively does not, it cannot "learn" anything from your prompts that it doesn't already have training on. Each model is static until the data is updated manually by a person. And as a result of LLMs essentially averaging out everything their art will never be above average.

@VMajik @nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi Technically it is because you are using something that isn't your in your work... And AI does learn similar to humans, see images, learn concepts and creates new things according to your prompt. But of course AI art is more complex than that and fortunately will get only better.

@ShadowN71820463 @primusibi Also FYI Clip Studio goes pretty significantly on sale for about 70% off twice a year.

@ShadowN71820463 @primusibi Procreate is very good if you have an ipad and want to get started, Krita is completely free and great if complex-ish, Clip Studio Paint is very good if you have a bit more cash to spare or are fine with subscriptions, though its got a ton of features and a more intimidating UI.

@legistrada @nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi Fanart isn't plagarism, it's Copyright infringement. AI Doesn't learn like humans, it literally just grabs tagged images it's fed and uses them to generate the rough average of what it's asked for. It will never improve at this, as it's entirely reliant on tags and tag weighting.

@nekotyko @MetalLionKnight @primusibi Every fanart is plagiarism, especially who made it for money. And also, AI training is like how humans takes inspiration from others, so actually it can create unique art. Besides, Sora wasn't taken down, just discontinued due to competition on a capitalistic world we live in.

@WazrobeW @withpyro Farming user data, predatory micro transactions, and it's extremely opaque about what it actually does in the background as it installs and runs a bunch of stuff in the background on launch. Its not provably malicious, but it gives me bad vibes. Tl;dr use E4MC instead.

@withpyro Can someone explain what's actually wrong with Essential mod? Obviously the mod-only cosmetics are kinda cringe and predatory but besides that and the banners on the title screen it works perfectly fine.

Was the money we made you not enough? Seriously? 🧵

@FridayNightRTer @theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire Dawg even assuming I'm not joking which itself takes some real stupidity, why would they emulate any of the systems that GenU/XX came out for instead of the PSP which can be emulated on near and about anything available on the market? Also no, I started with 3U.

@VMajik @theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire Why would they emulate the PSP when Generations Ultimate is right there and has Lao in it? Did you not know that Lao was in the most recent entry before World because you started with World perhaps?

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@FridayNightRTer @theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire Why would they emulate the PS2 original when Freedom Unite is right there and has Lao in it?

@VMajik @theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire It's going to be Lao with cutscenes, and your Seikret will do cinematic auto-pathed running across falling rocks and the Dragonator will be replaced by a Wyveria railgun. Monster Hunter is a PS2 game btw, but I'm sure you knew that because you totes played a game before World.

@FridayNightRTer @theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire Yes you're right once you start the new fight it boots up a psp emulator after the cutscene and makes you fight it the exact same way, as god intended.

@theLitchy @Jun_on_Fire I don't care if a guy who started with World (or later!) and pretends to have played old gen games calls me a LARPer. Blatant projection on the part of a person who thinks that all the changes being made to the game are "QoL" when they're clearly something else.

@Zael_Myzra @Marklord117 @_Owlbyte_

@VMajik @Marklord117 @_Owlbyte_ Uh huh

Adding the Lebron James of rape to your gacha game is like putting a new born calf in a lion enclosure, what the fuck are they planning

@Zael_Myzra @Marklord117 @_Owlbyte_ A decent chunk of the following also comes from the fact that Sengoku Rance is inexplicable a pretty good strategy RPG in spite of being a porn game, enough so that it essentially keeps Rance relevant, arguably. If there's any game in the series to play it'd be that one.

@Marklord117 @_Owlbyte_ Just the art of the characters ive seen on Twitter whenever my tl shows me someone talking about Rance. Nothing pornographic

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ I'm not particularly outraged, I just think it's poor form on the part of PC Gamer and I think I said enough on the subject to elaborate on why including direct screenshots I took. If you don't want to accept my POV then knock yourself out I guess, not like it matters either way.

@VMajik @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ Look, you clearly got your faux outrage from the faux outrage machine. You can either decide to learn from this or double down because I right now am being a prick. It's your choice. All I'm saying is give it a Google next time

PC Gamer gave 007 First Light a 65/100, its lowest score. Unfortunately a scathing review was a foregone conclusion as the journalist they picked for the review; Joshua Wolens, has publicly revealed his contempt for James Bond and notion he shouldn't even be in games. In an article titled "Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?" Joshua refers to Bond as a "smug tool" that "doesn't quite fit into games", in part due to being "an insufferable public school dickhead...a rowing club Tory boy through and through", who "comports himself like a man who has a right to the Earth and everybody on it." And later that "part of his charismatic arrogance is that he is suave and unflappable. Well, great. Good for him. I am not suave, and I flap at the slightest inconvenience. I simply don't fit into him?" Which could almost be mistaken for jealousy, but also begs the question, why the need to completely relate to or embody a character in order to enjoy the media? Some of my fave games and media in history follow characters who are nothing like me, often times murdering psychopaths or mix of some other morally repugnant or deeply damaged concoction. Call it emotional maturity being able to engage and really enjoy media and characters beyond having to feel wholly self reflected or personally pandered to. It's no wonder in the review Joshua writes "you still have to endure him [Bond] for the length of the game", like it was some torturous ordeal for him. Compounded by him admitting he "was ravenous to play anything with the IO badge on it after the masterpiece of Hitman: World of Assassination", but clearly disappointed the next game was Bond IP. Presumably desperately wanting them to go back to working on a chatacter/IP he doesn't have contempt for, that or for IO to re-work Bond into being something he was never intended to be. All leading to the main question; why give the review to someone who clearly despises Bond, didn't enjoy the preview and who's conclusion from it was implying Bond shouldn't be in games? For clicks, exposure or drama? Because to me it's somewhat unprofessional. Akin to giving someone who hates racing games and Gran Turismo in particular, GT7 to review. Or someone whe hates Mario, a Mario game to review. Reviews are to inform potential buyers, and buyers don't tend to buy or want to buy things they already hate or dislike. This doesn't feel that different from these grifting social media hate merchants who hate play games in a bitch eating crackers way, to either look for faults or through a lens of premeditated confirmation bias. Is this what PC Gamer or parts of gaming media are devolving into now? Find the journalists with the most contempt for a particular IP, character or genre to review them, in order for the highest chance of dunking on the work of hundreds or thousands of people, but getting extra edgy exposure? Disappointing. #007FirstLight

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ I dunno man I don't think he likes James Bond as a concept.

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ Sorry, I should be more specific: the editorial written by the same reviewer.

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ More specifically, you can't really separate presentation and theming from gameplay, because they're all inextricably linked when it comes to enjoyment.

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ When the review has multiple paragraphs about how insufferable the author finds bond I rather doubt that. Its kind of like a food reviewer spending the first half of his review of a texmex restaraunt talking about how he hates texmex as a culinary concept.

@Kaijuwonk @CoolsomeXD @nib95_ I do think giving someone with an explicit dislike of a franchise as a whole the main role in reviewing something from that franchise is kind of poor form, since it becomes more about the reviewers biases than the game itself. Not that reviews can be unbiased, but they should try

@CoolsomeXD @nib95_ Of course it is. Reviews aren't there to give you affirmation and if you don't like them, you can simply ignore them

@ozymandiasJH @mimiwhisperer @MaryMargOlohan Funny update: most of the artists have canceled. The booking was probably done through the standard "State Fair" channels so they weren't aware of its political nature until later.

@VMajik @mimiwhisperer @MaryMargOlohan I’m a UK person who has literally never heard of Flo Rida so they obviously passed me by 😆

Freedom 250 announces the music icons who will be performing at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall June 25 through July 10: - Martina McBride | June 25 - C+C Music Factory | June 26 - Vanilla Ice | June 26 - Milli Vanilli | June 26 -Young MC | June 26 - The Commodores | June 27 - Morris Day and The Time | June 27 - Flo Rida | July 2 - Bret Michaels | July 3

@mimiwhisperer @ozymandiasJH @MaryMargOlohan With the exception of Flo Rida he's right. None of these acts have been relevant since the 90's ended, and even Flo Rida hasn't released a album in the past decade. Its just a smorgasbord of the most washed musicians you can book.

@ozymandiasJH @MaryMargOlohan Loser...what does an account based in the UK know about the US. Fake.