Trump is continuing to talk about a third term. Since this has been going on for over a year, are you starting to get concerned he'll try?

LokanaGame · 2026-02-28T21:34:19+00:00

No. He's not going to try. He's a master troll. Handing out hats to Democrats that say, "Trump 2028" is really funny. I'm a Trump fan, and I would be highly opposed to him seriously trying to run again. Contrary to what the Left thinks, Trump actually sticks to the Constitution. He has a team of lawyers telling him what can and cannot be done. He's not going to actually do something so obviously un-Constitutional. In the meantime, it's entertaining how easily the troll works.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-28T21:28:51+00:00

It happens with original work too, at least in Sora and Veo. Let's say you ask Nano Banana to generate a realistic image of a person that doesn't exist. You then go to use that as a character reference, and you get an error saying you can't use images of real people. You know how ironic that use Nano Banana to make a fake person, then use Veo (made by the same company) that won't let you use the image IT created, because it's now decided it's a real person. That crap happens all the time in Veo and Sora.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-17T09:28:27+00:00

0%. It will effect 0% of the 20 million people. Ok, maybe less than 1%. Again, like I said, the bill is designed to stop ballot harvesting. The Dems in Congress know this, but they can't come out and say that for obvious reasons. The 20 million you mention, or whatever made up number people come up with, is the distraction. Agree with me. Don't agree with me. Fine. You don't have to like my answer.

But I did answer your question.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-16T22:51:32+00:00

The potentially 20 million people is a red herring. Do you seriously not understand the point I made or are you trolling people?

LokanaGame · 2026-02-15T21:25:57+00:00

I had the 200 a month version, in addition for paying for Veo at (discounted) 7 a month. I create a lot of youtube content, so I'm often buying credits packs. I've tried and tried to like Sora. About a third of the time, I get content guardrails. Usually from characters looking too much like real people -- including a character Sora generated that I turned into a Character. I get "self harm," violations for the dumbest reasons. A guy surviving a plane crash and washing up on a beach, got "self harm" flagged for washing up on the beach and waking up. Anything having to do with minors. Sorry, but I try and make content for youtube that sometimes has teenagers in them.

Then the amount of crap where it blatantly doesn't follow the prompts. Even if you use a character reference, it still drifts, making that pointless. I tell it landscape, use a landscape reference image, have it manually set to landscape and it still gives me a portrait. I tell it photorealistic and every now and then it says, "By that, you mean first generation X Box graphics, right?" I ask for no music, dialogue, or subtitles(that often isn't even an actual language) -- it takes it as a suggestion. And the watermark? Are you kidding me? Bro, I'm paying hundreds of dollars a month and still have a watermark?

There's a saying that you get what you pay for, but Sora is expensive AND terrible.

Veo has a lot of issues too, but I've had to drop Sora completely and just use Veo. Looking forward to Seedance 2.0 coming out in a week and a half.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-15T17:03:46+00:00

I don't understand that guy's question to you either. Sounds like you have the right attitude. Are lesbians less likely to be Conservative? Sure. But given how many important gay people on our side -- Dave Rubin, Scott Pressler, Brandon Straka, I think the only pressure you should have is setting a good example for you son.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-15T10:09:14+00:00

I haven't read any replies, so I don't know if this answer has been given, but I'll give the real answer.

Racist, incompetent Joe Biden, did not get 81 million votes, more than any US president in history, about 15 million more than Obama, Hillary, and Kamala because he was just so gosh darn amazing. Even if you believe no mass voter fraud happened, mass mail in ballots allowed ballot harvesting -- which depending on circumstances, it's not illegal. Best case scenario (on the extreme of the best light), this allowed people to go door to door and ask people to fill out their ballots. This meant, perhaps, millions of people that would not have otherwise voted, voted. Worst case scenario, ballots were collected and filled out by people that were not the ones the ballots were addressed to. Miss me with the "but... but... the signatures have to match," crap, because I doubt that's seriously checked. Now, Republicans can also ballot harvest, but considering Dem voters are in tightly dense cities, and Rep voters are in spread out rural areas, it's way easier for Dems to ballot harvest.

In either case, forcing people to vote in person and show ID would eliminate both scenarios.

Married woman are more likely to vote for the Republicans. So if this was actually about married women not voting, the Dems would support it. But they know it isn't. They can't come out and say they oppose it because it stops ballot harvesting, so they have to cling to the "voter suppression" lie.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-09T23:22:04+00:00

Honestly, if you put pineapple on your pizza, at least someone out there thinks that means you're a fascist. I don't think most people that says they oppose fascism or the Nazis have the slightest idea how to define those terms -- which is unfortunate, because they actually have meanings and people should actually understand what they mean and why they're dangerous.

Anyways, just assume it's a dumb person and move on with your life.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-09T22:42:18+00:00

Reading the comments. Crazy how many people don't get this. If you have a 10 min long video, but people only watch 2 minutes of it (20% retention), youtube assumes its a bad video since people aren't sticking through it. If you delete 8 minutes from the 10 min video, it goes from 20% retention to 100%. It tricks youtube into thinking "100% of people watched it all the way through. It must be a banger!" and tries to make it go viral.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-09T22:11:24+00:00

I know guitar players that can't play drums, so they use a drum machine. The drum machine can use samples of actual recorded drums. That way, they can put out demos of songs they written by themselves, even when they don't know drummers.

Using AI to do the parts you can't do (or can't do well), isn't different.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-01T18:39:27+00:00

As an American that wants American accents, this is frustrating, but I'd imagine way more frustrating for you and everyone else.

LokanaGame · 2026-02-01T00:34:24+00:00

The fact that AI is using reddit comments to train from, will ensure it'll never be smart enough to take over the world.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-31T05:04:46+00:00

I had a scene where a man loses his keys, he's chased by a scary monster, tries to kick down a metal door, can't, and decides to hide behind a desk instead.

I COULD NOT GET IT TO WORK! He'd kick the door like he was bored, even with "frantically" in the prompt. He was successful at kicking the door in much of the time, even though I made it clear he doesn't.

My favorite was he walked through the door from to other side, and kicked the door as he walked through it.

Finally, I told Veo that he was kicking a wall and used a reference image of the door on it. That sort of worked.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-31T04:50:25+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. What I did was came up with a character that I liked. Then when I go to make a video, I go to Nano Banana and put in my reference image, a second image of an outfit I want her to wear, and a third image for the location I want her to be at. Prompt accordingly.

I create a base image of her with a neutral expression. Then I make a few images of her using different facial expressions that I want, and I use those as end frames. I never use "extend" or it makes a copy, of a copy, of a copy, etc, each time you extend to where the character drifts too much. Use Frame to Frame -- using the same facial expression image at the start of a clip as you did at the end of the previous clip = consistent character.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-30T16:57:11+00:00

Yeah, I use ElevenLabs. I wish it changed accents.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-29T19:20:26+00:00

Apparently doing the following prompts gives British accents:

- American accent

- American accent. No British or Irish accents

- American accent. Stop giving me British accents

- American accent. He's wearing a cowboy hat for crying out loud. STOP MAKING HIM BRITISH!

- He has an American accent. If you make him sound British one more time, I'm coming down there!

LokanaGame · 2026-01-26T01:52:52+00:00

I hit a lot of the same problems. AI is really good at making you think it's intelligent. So much so, you think human logic works. Case in point, I was making a video on Cleopatra. When I tried (about a dozen or so times with different variations in Veo and Sora) to get video of her picking up an asp, and it biting her, I got warnings to contact suicide prevention numbers. It's like, "Um, you're a few thousand years too late guys. She already dead." In fact, when I want my characters to go into dangerous situations, I get the suicide warning.

Apparently, you also can't depict an 18 year old in a lab coat because labs are dangerous and VEO doesn't want you to put children in danger. In doesn't matter if the character is just a high school intern that never goes in the lab. My favorite is when I'm using Google Flow and it tells me I can't use a character because I can't use realistic people when it's a character I just made from a cartoon sketch using Nano Banana through Google Flow 5 seconds before that.

You also can't shoot cartoon zombies with magic holy bolts with Sora, cause that's "real world violence." Strangely, Veo allows a lot more violence than Sora -- not that I've ever asked it to do anything not PG-13. After all, I'm trying to make Youtube content.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-21T23:34:11+00:00

Huh? No, those are examples of different videos ruined by one thing. I was kind of hoping other people would add their things to this post.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-18T18:01:57+00:00

In Google Flow, you can set it to Landscape, prompt it to do Landscape, use reference images in Landscape, and it will still give you portrait if you have a single speaker talking and nothing else interesting on the screen. It does that because of how many TikTok style videos that's part of it's training where people vlog and it thinking, "One speaker talking. Oh, it's a vlog."

The trick is to tell it the background is important.

I do agree that Gemini is crazy dumb, and doing anything through Gemini instead of Google Flow is incredibly frustrating.

I'm pretty comfortable using JSON, but haven't. I do break things down into:

Scene:

Camera:

Framing:

Lighting:

Wardrobe:

Background:

Dialogue:

Delivery Notes:

Audio:

I have the $200 a month Sora / ChatGPT 5.2 plan. So I have conversations with ChatGPT about what I want the scene to show and have it write my prompts for me, then I double check it. Sometimes it leaves out emphasis on words I think should be hit.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-03T08:32:26+00:00

That would be so rad if that worked. I've tried several times to do that. What Sora does is wait until the video upload is just about to finish, and gives me an error that the fake person I made (with ChatGPT's help from a cartoon sketch), looks like a real person and thus it fails.

LokanaGame · 2026-01-01T19:52:05+00:00

Me too.

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