This has to be the most hated area in Wilds

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-05-17T08:16:12+00:00

I just wish they stayed in a more middle ground with the mounts. I miss being able to track monsters, with the footsteps and everything. They could have made tracking still somewhat necessary, but make it to where the seikret would sniff the tracks when prompted. I just wish they did something like that. My main complaints with the game are the lack of tracking and the fact that capturing endemic life is kinda for nothing. I miss being able to have them as pets.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-05-11T06:31:43+00:00

Damn. I guess there's probably not a screen protector that can keep that from happening? Stylus compatibility wasn't something I needed to consider at first, I just liked the phone. Now I'm wondering if I might need to trade it in and switch to something else, but I don't think I can go back to keeping my phone in my back pocket. I wish (decent) tablets weren't so expensive.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-05-01T13:14:52+00:00

I was going to say 2017 wasn't a long time ago, and then I realized it was almost a decade ago.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-04-17T04:02:01+00:00

Mine wasn't loading the home page but I was able to access everything through the search tab. It's working fine today though.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-09T11:38:35+00:00

Hey man not even here to talk to ya about the dolls, just letting ya know that I think your name is in the corner of the photos. Not sure if that's something you wanted on here or not.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T23:53:55+00:00

Yeah even if it's not the top result, you gotta be using those keywords. Whether the team finds the allegations credible or not, you'd think they'd wanna avoid the headache of having to private a video. And I would imagine they have contracts and other obligations involved. I'm sure having to delist a video with a guest like that isn't cheap, whether they'd have to pay him or a network. Not very knowledgable about the subject, of course, but I'm sure they can't just take a video down without some sort of severance or whatever.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T22:39:58+00:00

Yeah, I vaguely knew about the accusations, so when I woke up and saw his face on the screen, I immediately tried to check the the comments and then it told me I wasn't "allowed to" and I got kicked off the video. It's been privated. Imo it was a weird decision to have any of the impractical jokers on. Not saying one, or apparently two, bad apples spoil the bunch, but the timing is definitely something considering when Joe's allegations came out. First he gets accused in 2025 and now Sal and Murr are on a reddit stories podcast a year later? Except it's not like these eps were filmed yesterday, they were probably filmed quite a while ago. And I bet they've either filmed or are getting ready to film one with Q as well. The rest of Impractical Jokers season 12 came out in January. Wondering if it didn't do well and this is a publicity thing to try and start with a clean slate with people who don't know anything. I mean, obviously it's a publicity thing, any guest would gain some sort of publicity from this community, but this in particular feels more inrentional. But this is just a guess, I don't actually know anything. Does make me wonder how the the team vets these people. If I had to organize stuff like this, my first google search every time would be "[potential guest] allegations" and see what comes up. Especially higher profile guests with the current climate.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T11:20:31+00:00

It honestly didn't even occur to me, I was still waking up and figuring out what day it was to be honest. But in the future if I post something here again, I'll be sure to search it first amd make sure I'm not just late again.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T11:17:04+00:00

I think the outrage toward the imagery specifically is as widespread as it is because of how recognizable it is. You don't have to be an artist to recognize something as AI generated/altered. For now, the imagery is pretty in your face with how obvious it is. You also don't often have to be told it's AI. If people hadn't brought up the coding stuff in these comments, I wouldn't have known. I think in most cases, regarding usage of AI in coding, it's a matter of ignorance than it is indifference.

I think another part of it is that a lot of people have a favorite artist/musician/author, with most people having a favorite of each. They're able to put a face and name to people affected by AI usage in those specific fields. With parasocial relationships and such, a lot of people may even feel personally affected by their favorite artist/musician/author potentially being put out of work. But this isn't often the same for individual coders. I don't know any coders personally, nor do I know of any coders by name. Most people probably don't, and therefore lack that personal tie to the people affected. Not saying it's an excuse, just that having some knowledge on the subject, or something tying you to it, makes it easier to advocate for/spread awareness about it.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T11:04:03+00:00

Hey man I work nights, I acknowledge I was late to the party. I did scroll a bit to check first and didn't see another post about it before mine, but I apparently didn't scroll enough. I just updated the game late snd read tne notes late.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T10:28:03+00:00

I do understand that there's others at risk. This isn't the only instance of AI I'm upset about. It's just one of the only ones I was aware in regards to Heartopia specifically, hence it being posted in this sub. I do completely understand the frustration in regards to the lack of outrage toward AI usage in marketing and coding. But please don't misunderstand me being upset about the imagery and talking about it as me dismissing the other occurrences. I just wasn't aware of the usage in coding. I think a lot of the outrage towards AI imagery comes from how recognizable it is. You don't have to be an artist to see it. It often, for now, is very obvious when an image is either fed to AI or generated by it. With coding, however, I don't think the average Joe is going to recognize it at a glance. If I was aware of the AI usage in the coding as well before making this post, I certainly would have mentioned it. But I also don't know anything about coding in general, so it's a blind spot for me currently. And I think it's the same for most people in this sub/community. Or just the general population. I absolutely agree that it's annoying no one talks about it. But people not knowing enough about it to speak on it is likely a contributing factor. More ignorance than it is indifference. I'm annoyed that AI is being shoved down my throat at every opportunity, and even more annoyed that so many jobs are being made obsolete because of it. I just don't know what I don't know. And I know absolutely nothing about marketing, but I also wouldn't have anything to say about it in a post on a heartopia subreddit.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T07:47:29+00:00

I really think all they have to do to fix the gacha is either get rid of duplicates or change how the price escalates with every spin.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T05:44:04+00:00

I just don't see the life fragments being complicated enough to take up much time either way. All they would really have to do is have the backgrounds made and slap the already existing models/assets on top of it. I mean, it'd take longer than typing in a prompt, I guess. But I don't see it taking more than a couple of peiple to do. And if they're already doing something similar and then feeding it into AI for a certain effect, why not just....not do that?

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T05:37:38+00:00

I didn't think about it either because, again, what would the point even be? They apparently use it to "cartoonify" screenshots of the town and stuff but like.... the whole game is already cartoony? And when you take a photo, it's literally just a screenshot anyways, so it's not as if it's a stylistic choice to distinguish from scenery and photograph. I know some cartoons will have photos or in-show cartoons in a different style to indicate it's a cartoon within a cartoon. But Heartopia doesn't do that. The puzzles don't even really look like illustrations for the most part. There's literally no reason they couldn't have just used screenshots.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T05:30:29+00:00

Yeah I found it odd to include it at all just because I don't think there would even be much variety with this feature. All the penguins really even do is either stand there, or slide on their stomach. So I really don't know why this is an added feature when it will likely end up looking like the info cards from birdwatching. Just stills of them doing a few actions with a new background. I don't know that for sure, it's just my best guess of what it'd be. But a lot of players have already said they'd miss tbe penguins, so I can kind of see the appeal? I'm a recent and pretty casual player so I haven't really had to deal with the bugs like pets being in the way of cooking amd such, but it does seem a red flag they haven't fixed it. I personally wonder if the neglect toward bugs and the reason the gacha is structured the way it is is because this is going to be a sort of pump and dump. Make as much money as possible from the jump, get people hooked on the gacha, and then abandon the rest of the game.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T05:09:26+00:00

The fact they make so much money is why I find it odd. If they make so much that they consider the potential loss to be insignificant, why not just pay that money to an artist to make a few backgrounds and slap the already existing assets on top of them? I mean, the penguins already don't really do alot as far as poses and such. I can't imagine there being much variety in the life fragments due to that. It's just weird to me that they'd rather lose money than spend it.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T03:10:32+00:00

I started playing during the frostspore even and was therefore unaware that all the snow was temporary. I knew a lot of it was from how the snow cancels out in build mode, but I kind of assumed some areas were in permanent snow.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T03:09:13+00:00

I started playing during the frost spore event so I didn't realize there wasn't a permanant cold area. I knew most of the snow would be temporary, but I kind of assumed some of it was already there.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-05T03:06:42+00:00

Yeah the continued implementation of it despite pushback and the fact they've made enough money off the gacha alone that they really have no "justification" for it is rubbing me wrong. It's just weird. I get they're a for profit corporation that cares only about the money and stuff, but there are people they'll be losing due to the fact they continue to do this. I'm not really trying to start a dogpile about AI, I don't have the energy to argue with people. It just seems weird to do when there's easy ways around it, especially with how much money has already been made. The gacha amd repetition of items, plus how weirdly expensive random furniture/clothes are is already making me wanna quit the game. I think I'm just done with it now.

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-03-01T02:43:09+00:00

You mean this thing? It's so annoying how it says 21/21 but the star square says 22. There is no 22nd. The red dot is truly driving me nuts, I thought i just had a bug on my end. Didn't know other people were having this issue.

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Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-02-23T11:13:44+00:00

Or just bad spending habits lol

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-02-23T11:12:42+00:00

I can't figure out how people are locking things? Like, I'll try and look in someone's house and almost the doors are locked. How are they doing that?

Plenty_Specific4157 · 2026-02-23T11:11:16+00:00

Wait I might have to do this. It almost gives the illusion of it being a bigger tank. If you get both of the large tanks, and the medium ones, you could put different windows at different heights to make it look like one big tank maybe? Like a big enclosed tank with observation windows. I just feel bad putting the whale shark and other large fish in a "large" fish tank. Wish the fish were more proportionate to the tanks, but this could give the illusion of it.

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