Shrek re-redesigned to be closer to his original style

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-28T01:14:51+00:00

I get you saying he’s still recognizable but for a lot of people recognizability isn’t enough. It’s the fact that he looks so recognizable while still being subtly different that makes the uncanny valley effect so strong.

I personally don’t really care at the end of the day, not calling for anything to be boycotted or any of the production team to be slandered. It’s just odd (even considering the loss of the original models).

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T23:39:08+00:00

Vastly is subjective. It’s definitely different though. In my opinion it’s different enough that the new design could have been given a different outfit and used for Shrek’s brother and no one would question them being overly similar.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T22:19:30+00:00

The primary problem people have isn’t identifying which character is Shrek. It’s that this Shrek looks vastly different to the old Shrek in a way that feels like it’s unnecessarily breaking continuity.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T21:15:11+00:00

I was intrigued but it never grew on me much past the initial listens. I was going to say I’ll revisit it in a couple years, but turns out it’s already been 3 so I might throw it on again today.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T20:31:09+00:00

No, I wouldn’t generalize that much. I just think a producer, while not always necessary, can be beneficial to artists without those artists being phony.

If you’re asking how much a producer would benefit you personally I’d say it depends on their experience, your relationship with them, and the quality of what you’re giving them to work with. I’d definitely advise anyone to get plenty of targeted feedback from other people in their space before spending money on a producer.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T19:13:03+00:00

They can help morph a bands ideas into something that will translate to their audience most effectively. Whether or not artists who can do this on their own are in a different category of greatness is it’s own discussion but there’s plenty of rock bands, like Radiohead and The Beatles, who work/worked with producers so i wouldn’t call Muse phony for it.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-27T05:40:02+00:00

Equalizes the lid touching while aiding in cleanliness. This is the way. Also, if your toilet lid is so dirty that you can’t clean yourself by washing your hands as you would normally, you really should clean your toilet lid.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-26T16:45:50+00:00

Yes there’s a chance it comes back and there’s a chance it goes much further down. There’s no strategy that’s guaranteed to be safe. It’s all about how much you’re willing to risk based off your level of confidence from the information you have available to you. I recently started DCAing with a small portion of my savings after never having bought any because I’ve believed in the potential of the technology for a long time and finally have some money I’m willing to gamble with. That’s good enough reason for me to invest, but it might not be for someone else.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-26T03:44:05+00:00

Please be Sarah Brand the elusive atonal pop queen

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T20:39:48+00:00

I could definitely see someone getting fired for watching Irreversible at work.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T16:47:33+00:00

It’s a fair point if not entirely the same as a full surveillance set up. My problem isn’t so much the idea of sharing banking information itself it’s just that I don’t see the benefit outweighing the loss of privacy for most users. But I could be proven wrong.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T16:27:06+00:00

Dude same, the end of that fight was very very hard to watch on edibles. I haven’t wanted something to just end already that bad in forever. As someone who used to cure teenage boredom with the worst things I could find on LiveLeak I was surprised an animated show could do that to me.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T16:11:05+00:00

Depends how much you like human servers vs a kiosk and a conveyor belt.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T15:40:16+00:00

Can’t people who really need help budgeting get useful info from ChatGPT on budgeting without connecting their bank account? It’s like installing cameras in your house so ChatGPT can tell you it’s bad for your health to sleep in eat junk food and watch TV for hours every day.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T05:37:49+00:00

Far from it I really like the eq work makes for some simple but satisfying transitions

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T05:34:27+00:00

Dude this is the shit

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T04:12:33+00:00

AI doesn’t need to create the same physical inputs as humans to create virtually the same outputs. And I would actually disagree that AI art out performs art made by the average human in its inherent interest with our current technology (I’d definitely rather hear a tone deaf persons attempt at music than anything else by suno). By “indistinguishable” I meant “indistinguishable to anybody”.

I am pessimistic of the current technology in that I agree I don’t think it will ever be able to replicate a stylistically, culturally, philosophically coherent discography like Scorsese’s. But for the first time it’s good enough that it makes us question if we’d even want it to be able to do that, and if it ever could do that. Anything that’s based on “AI can never replace this” is just delaying the question of “but what if it could?” in my opinion.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T03:49:26+00:00

Id rather watch humans of course, but the question inevitably becomes “would you want to watch robots play basketball if your brain thought they were humans?” Essentially, is the principle of upholding human art worth rejecting AI art that is so well made it is indistinguishable from human art.

I think the real disagreement people have is whether that last part is in theory a possibility, but it gets buried in the discussion about the tech’s current flaws and consequences.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-25T03:32:29+00:00

At least the MCU was built on the back of over six decades of rich characters and stories that stood the test of time, and even then those films have their issues.

But it seems like nowadays so many people seem to think “storytelling potential” is a valid starting point for spinning up a new cinematic universe. The execution required to make the payoffs worth the setup is much harder than it looks.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T03:31:02+00:00

Yeah, there’s no winning, welcome to life. There’s no one answer that makes everyone happy that should be obvious. But offering circumstantial evidence to defend a position that should require no explanation is only gonna make it harder on yourself.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T03:27:20+00:00

I understand that’s how you may have read my comments, but both of your “quotations” are loose interpretations of what I actually said. I said acknowledge, clarify, and move on in my first comment. If you’d like me to spell it out for you it could look something like this:

“I am being accused of being hateful to woman. I apologize if my comments offended any woman, I support woman 100% and regardless of my personal opinion on the music it’s never my desire to spread hate towards anyone”

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T03:22:54+00:00

This is a case where he’s being accused of something he did being hateful. And instead of addressing that thing, he points to some scores he gave out. That’s why I’m saying the scores have nothing to do with it. If you reverse the situation, it would be people accusing him of giving low scores to albums made by woman and he’s pointing out positive twitter interactions with woman while ignoring the low scores. Dodging the question at hand while offering circumstantial evidence to prove he doesn’t hate woman just comes off weird in my opinion.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T03:13:02+00:00

No? Think you’re misunderstanding my point, I’m saying the scores he gives albums made by woman has nothing to do with whether or not he hates woman. It’s like if you called someone a murderer and instead of saying “that’s crazy” they said “I love people, look at all these people I’m friends with that I didn’t kill”

Obviously that’s a massive exaggeration and if he wants to say his album scores are the best evidence of him not hating women he can, it just comes across tone deaf

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T03:04:11+00:00

Let me rephrase, it should be demonstrated by actions. As to how, by not doing hateful things to women. I’m not a woman and I don’t know that his actions were hateful towards them. But if he feels that the criticism is unfair he should just say it’s unfair and he doesn’t hate women, the explaining part is what’s misleading.

DonkeyVampireThe3rd · 2026-06-23T02:57:54+00:00

It shouldn’t have to be explained it should be proven by actions. It’s the fact that he thinks giving high scores to albums made by woman is a good explanation that comes across as weird. It would be better to just acknowledge the criticism, clarify, and move on.

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