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I know Twitter is not the place for nuance, but that's because we haven't made a place for nuance in modern life. So I fight for it here, and elsewhere, as an important part of the truth.

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

@bigdoglarry762 @pagb666 The race for AI has increased RAM prices.

@pagb666 they actually sell GPUs not RAM also, the less expensive GPUs will do more work for less money but lets not expect anti-AI gamers to think without their chatgpt free tier account

This one goes hard

@clamatoes "Stop thinking about yourself. It's all about buying tokens."

Coordinated attack on introspection by the tech oligarchs is pretty interesting

Socrates in 460 BC: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Marcus Aurelius in 150 CE: “You have power over your mind—not outside events.” Augustine of Hippo in 400 CE: “Do not go outside; return into yourself. In the inward man dwells the truth.” Marc Andreessen in 2026:

@calvinfroedge Well, we've never sucked so much before.

I think the United States has never looked more diplomatically isolated in my lifetime

@Nate_Rgrs @ejproductions

@ejproductions Yeah getting a billion in equity versus cash really makes a difference to these people and totally changes things, you’re right

It sounds like an exaggeration but you really do regularly come across people in LA over the last few years who will straight up tell you that it’s no longer viable to work in film/tv and they’re looking for a new career. $900 million against that backdrop is unconscionable

@NVIDIAGeForce I just want to see the game the way the art director intended. Not how it would look if it had been a porno.

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

@MikeMeltzGG @NVIDIAGeForce This video took 2 GeForce RTX 5090s, which sell for around $2000 each. Pretty easy for me to just not buy an extra graphics card just to make games shiny.

@NVIDIAGeForce The people complained about AI like they can do anything about it. It's already here and you're too late. You can complain about it until your blue in the face, it's not changing anything.

@TweeetsOfDogs Heya

15 YEARS OF BAD LUCK FOR THOSE WHO DON'T SAY HI TO LUCA🧡🥰

@VraserX I imagine water wars.

I’m genuinely curious. If AI and robotics eliminate most human labor and scarcity… what does daily life actually look like? What do people do with their time? What gives life meaning? How do you imagine a post-labor world?

@TheMG3D Another "amazing" clip that doesn't say anything. Are these the heroes? Is it good to blow up the Earth? No idea. But the camera likes to zoom in and pan, so it must be impressive.

Looks like every other AI video on this app, soulless and unoriginal

@CultureCrave To be clear, the reason you say this is so that you are not sued when your company goes into bankruptcy.

BuzzFeed says there is 'substantial doubt' about its ability to stay in business • Comes a few years after shuttering its news division and pivoting into more AI-generated content and quizzes • Company had a net loss of $57.3M in 2025 • One of their plans for 2026 is to release new AI apps (via @CNN)

@FruitCrunchi She'd "been" with humans before. I think the groundwork was already done.

I really wanna know what the conversation leading up to both her and Greg having sex looked like, like do you think she read a bunch of human anatomy books to perfectly mimic the female reproductive organs? Also poor Greg the whole think must’ve been so awkward😭

How is this even legal?

Momma cat is blind, her only kitten never leaves her side 🥺❤️

@OwenShroyer1776 I refuse to believe the North Koreans are this stupid.

This is North Korea level propaganda.

@TheMG3D It's not funny; it's odd. The brain has trouble processing it.

Who actually thinks this is funny?

@TheGreeneBJ Hey, let me pretend for a little while that they might do something, while I'm pretending that we might have midterms.

Excited for all of the hearings, investigations, oversight and impeachments that they won't even pretend to try to do

@InkSilvery Oh, now I want a comic with Cass and Emma.

Let’s make a deal - if this caught your attention, you press follow

@neatoshin I think we're relating to Pearl because life has disappointed us. Our old dreams died, and new dreams seem pointless.

People doing a 180 on Pearl because they’re getting older and starting to understand this weirdly complex character is all i coulda hoped for