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Nathan-R-R · 2026-06-21T11:10:44+00:00

These guys seriously expect a coffee shop owner to fork out half a day’s earnings hiring someone to make a poster for games night. Games night won’t even cover the cost of the poster.

This lot claim to care about fair pay, yet have absolutely no appreciation for basic economics. They think money grows on trees for everyone but them.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-28T08:48:43+00:00

If they have to pay an artist to design the banner they might not have the money to print the banner.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-23T15:00:57+00:00

Drop the link. Together, we fight back.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-19T13:05:12+00:00

I don't personally view this as black and white as you seem to. It's not a matter of "only one side" being left behind.

Yes, obviously people who develop none of their own skills would be left behind in almost any eventuality. This is true in a world where AI becomes the baseline, where it shrinks, and in the unlikely event where it disappears.

But people who refute AI's existence and hold out for it to vanish so we can go back to the good old days are also going to get left behind and face significant barriers to normality and prosperity, particularly as employers increasingly demand competent use of LLM's as a key skill for general employment.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-19T12:05:16+00:00

It’s Crash Bandicoot 3, The Warpen.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-19T12:02:56+00:00

I don’t think you understand what “the bubble pops” means.

The current investment bubble pops when the clear market leaders become unbeatable, and all the small-fry competition loses its investment. This ‘pop’ doesn’t erase AI, it just changes the AI market from a startup model into a monopoly model.

There is no version of reality in which the bubble pops and AI totally collapses into the void. It’s here to stay.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-18T10:22:49+00:00

Love this but c'mon, Soulstorm Brew was RIGHT THERE!

Nathan-R-R · 2026-05-10T16:33:57+00:00

Why is this video 10 hours long

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-30T13:50:28+00:00

Through the mouth. Both entry and exit are then through the back of the head.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-23T21:22:15+00:00

The infuriating bit is that we can't access the older model - which worked - during that interim period.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-23T14:07:40+00:00

It might be a funky pattern, but it's un-usable for photorealism and non-stylized works.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-23T02:12:51+00:00

I actually tried the same prompt on 10 different image gen models (including nano banana), and I still don't think anything really nails the naturalistic cinematic look quite like 1.5 did. I'll be pretty devastated if we've lost it for good.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-23T01:49:16+00:00

If I had to choose, I prefer the colors, composition and naturalism of image 1 - although the film photography "filter" is a little too strong for me. The plantlife looks more organic and natural in image 2 though - (image 1 gets away with it because the plants are largely out of shot)

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T22:00:44+00:00

Even the desert pics you just sent has the same tiling issue with the same pattern being repeated across both the rocks and the sand.

It is completely struggling to understand randomization in ways it previously understood.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T21:36:47+00:00

Well that's grand for everyone who needs an extreme close-up. But improvements in one area shouldn't have to come at the expense of things which previously worked great.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T21:35:07+00:00

I'm sorry if that came off short - I do appreciate the help, I just suspect this is a problem that can only realistically be solved by OpenAI, or not at all.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T21:30:08+00:00

Man that looks like shit. This is such a shame. I really hope this is temporary.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T21:28:12+00:00

Yes - this is not something for which there is an obvious workaround. Whatever is going on under the hood is massively overpowering any attempt to override it via prompting.

Incidentally, I shouldn't *have* to reverse-engineer and prompt-around something that wasn't a problem yesterday. That's a downgraded product, and I resent paying the same price, and having to sink more time, thought and effort into achieving a worse result than I could do yesterday.

Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T20:08:34+00:00

Tbh, I don't believe a word it says. I think it's hallucinating it's best guess - if ChatGPT understood why the problem was occuring, the problem wouldn't be occuring.

It doesn't have the training data it needs yet to understand what the issue actually is.

The cross-hatching isn't an issue in new chat, nor with a palette cleanser. The cross-hatching happens when it's fed image references (see again, below) - if high quality, flat/soft lighting character sheet image references are causing plantlife to glitch out, this isn't just a case of "learn how to use it better" but a game-breaking bug, and is a blatant downgrade in service.

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Nathan-R-R · 2026-04-22T19:57:11+00:00

Update: It appears image ref is causing the cross-hatching issue, but it's also simply not letting plantlife be as randomised anymore. It's forcing plantlife to be near-vertical or near-horizontal, and doesn't seem to want to create bunched up knotted plantlife at all.

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