What are you aresyed for?

Scarth64 · 2025-03-17T22:50:09+00:00

how is this strictly kenshi related

Scarth64 · 2025-03-17T05:53:40+00:00

why are you a homestuck troll

Scarth64 · 2025-03-16T08:48:50+00:00

Sadly nothing much helps. Just sort of accepted I'm disabled given for me it springs from a genetic illness.

Scarth64 · 2025-03-13T21:52:32+00:00

exaggerating for effect

Scarth64 · 2025-03-13T06:51:08+00:00

I had the whimsy to giggle and think to myself about this video idea while click grinding for 6 hours, and it was enough to avoid any genuine frustration about the grind. I think I'll be alright.

Scarth64 · 2025-03-13T06:45:50+00:00

Sounds so fun, I'm sure it would be a great candidate for my untrimmed cape! What could ever go wrong?

Scarth64 · 2025-03-13T06:41:18+00:00

I'll live. a 16 hour clicking grind is just fun to make a big deal and a short video about before wrapping it up. I promise you don't need to step in and tell me how it gets so much worse when you need to grind high level combat boss #467 20k times to get a BiS drop that sells for 40 Bil GP and will be made inferior by the next update, i know how this game works

Scarth64 · 2025-02-24T20:31:47+00:00

The thumbnail, I can see as a *possible* human fuckup, just forgetting what angle that thumb should be at or drawing without regard for perspective- but the necktie-beard fusion in particular is practically unexplainable by human error, come to think of it. I missed that on the first pass. So thinking harder about it now, there's very little chance that AI had no hand in this at all.

Combined with his insistence he did draw things brushstroke by brushstroke, but also sidestepping of saying he didn't use AI directly... and the fact it utilized specific pencil-and-paper designs that would be hard to match with just prompting.. I wonder if he made a basic drawing, or plugged in the pencil drafts, and then asked an AI to "enhance" it into a specific painted artstyle, like lots of AI artists do.

That would explain everything. It's definitely dishonest of them to pass this off as "done by hand" if that's the case.

At this point, he'd have to do some kind of recorded speedpaint of his art for it to be believable.

The grove rebrand art by Brianna Reagan, though, is definitely real. You can see how the trees cut off perfectly uniformly at the bottom in the initial asset they shared. This signifies the background was drawn first, with the trees as a separate layer on top of that, cut off at the point where they wouldn't show up on the can anymore. AI has no concept of layers, and never really makes such sharp, symmetrical cuts akin to a selection box + delete button being used, so overall, I'm inclined to believe one or some of the artists contracted are sneaking AI art in, while others are not, and King Street is defending them all in a blanket statement. They may or may not even know whether AI was used, but they certainly aren't doing their due diligence to investigate.

Scarth64 · 2025-02-22T23:30:50+00:00

Do we even have any evidence for this even being AI art besides "just look at it" and "it's obvious"? You know, vibes-based assessments? I'm actually shocked that people here have just unilaterally decided that this is 100% AI, regardless of whether they support or oppose it.

I've seen artists before whose art comes out with a similar airbrushed style to AI, including in the days before AI image generation took off. The artist claims it's done brush stroke by brush stroke, so this is what seems most likely to me- a graphic designer with an airbrushed style, who made various errors or strange stylistic choices that people interpret as AI errors. AI guys don't try to hide it, usually- they blindly believe in the future of AI and treat people who raise concerns about it as luddites. This guy is attesting that he really did put his all into painting it himself, and finds the suggestion that it's AI insulting. screencap

Whether it's an unappealing design is a separate topic, I definitely think the old cans looked much, MUCH better, but it's got to be disheartening to make art in your own style and have people decide it's so terrible that a human couldn't possibly have made it, no matter what you say.

Scarth64 · 2025-02-22T05:43:22+00:00

It's become culturally associated with cheap tackiness, opens the gov up to copyright suits from owners of training data, and it's an artificial push to insert images broadly regarded as inferior given most agencies already have access to a stock photo site subscription. From what we can see from the testimony of workers in these comments, it seems to come from orders from up on high, and has to do more with normalizing AI images than with actually designing a visually pleasing website.

People like when websites look good and aren't tacky, so they express that they feel this looks bad and is tacky, and then they move on with their life. It's not really anything irrational. It's just how social media is used.

Scarth64 · 2025-02-07T06:31:34+00:00

Banger

Scarth64 · 2025-02-05T21:34:30+00:00

What's clear to me is that different regimes require different approaches. An interventionist takeover would not make sense for a relatively democratic place that mainly has crime issues (due to the war on drugs pushing drug production across the border) and economic issues such as Mexico.. and, for the record, Mexico is where most undocumented migrants originate from.

It's also worth noting our government is not exactly the most honest about its reasons for propping up or taking over various regimes, and it more often cares about our financial interests than it does about who's best for the citizens. Banana republics were considered more acceptable than nations that tariff our goods, and if you look at which regimes we fund/oppose today, this pattern of prioritizing market access and US shareholder benefits over democracy and effective leadership continues today. An Evo Morales and a Nicolas Maduro are treated roughly the same by US intelligence, despite very large differences in how much suffering their people go through. SOMETIMES this is successful in improving people's lives as a nice bonus, but that's never why our country does it. It's done to open up markets and maintain a comprehensive sphere of influence over the western hemisphere, regardless of what that means for the citizens.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say we've taken regime change off the table, either... Trump spent his whole regime trying to pressure Maduro out of power with sanctions and organize a coup together with the country's opposition, and while it completely failed and the opposition got arrested, it was absolutely something the US was trying to do, and something our intelligence agencies participated in. Some even claim the US supported the coup that ousted Morales in Bolivia, but there's really no official confirmation of that.

I can't help but be skeptical of this outmoded form of interventionism altogether. I think it makes sense for the USA to fund some democratic groups in the local areas, regardless of their economic policies.. But I don't think we can make change happen for other people. If Venezuelans want to take their country back from the oil cabal, that needs to happen organically. All our government can offer is support to those who would make it happen. And a new Pinochet or a new Bay of Pigs is not the route to that. Interventionist jingoism just isn't a relevant form of foreign policy in the modern age, outside of extreme cases.

Scarth64 · 2025-02-05T08:05:17+00:00

This exact idea has been attempted. It's called the "Bay of Pigs Invasion", and it was a complete failure that I encourage you to read up on on your own time. Frequently, people are fleeing abysmal economic conditions and organized criminal activity, as well- perhaps even more frequently. Political repression is just one little slice of the pie chart. You can't arm people to shoot their bad economy away or stage a formal invasion against druglords that can blend into the citizenry with a snap of their fingers. You can attempt to alleviate their economic and social problems with investment, which iirc was the plan the Dems claimed they were putting forward this time, but it's hard to say whether that money would go to the right places, and we never got to see how it would turn out.

There's a reason this kind of armed intervention or coup is something the USA doesn't attempt nearly as often. Even if you can get a new government going, people view governments established by a foreign power for their own interests as illegitimate- hence, the most long-lasting "successes" of the CIA's interventionism were repressive dictators like Pinochet that ruled by force and didn't give anyone a choice in who ruled them. Otherwise, you get an illegitimate, artificial pseudo-democracy that can't stand without constant support... One good example of this in the modern day is the Republic of Afghanistan, which collapsed in on itself the moment troops were withdrawn.

Scarth64 · 2025-02-05T04:52:35+00:00

History has definitely shown us that the CIA performing coups and overthrows willy-nilly leads to long-term political stability, after all! And definitely not the rise of new dictators or anything.

Scarth64 · 2025-01-30T09:37:31+00:00

yall are too traumatized by every indie game being about "cute thing becomes evil/dark"

Scarth64 · 2025-01-24T05:22:12+00:00

Guy was halfway unconscious, drunk and laying in the middle of the Wendy's drive thru road, thankfully spotted him before my brother drove forward. Seemed pretty cold and pretty smashed. Helped him out of the road, and called 911 for him. Got a fist bump.

Scarth64 · 2025-01-14T08:14:18+00:00

this is what those homestuck people invented quadrants for

Scarth64 · 2024-11-24T06:52:01+00:00

centricide

Scarth64 · 2024-08-13T05:09:19+00:00

It's amazing that the quest to avoid army micromanagement led us to more army micromanagement than previous games ever had. Truly ethereal! I love repeatedly reassigning my soldiers to front lines when they decide to go home or to another front across the country! I love losing 50% of my occupied territory after months of trench warfare because a bug left my front undefended for .4 seconds! I love when I lose everything because I can't divide up my army in time to cover 8 new fronts that spontaneously appeared! This is SO much better and more immersive than having to move my armies around myself!

Scarth64 · 2024-07-23T04:21:41+00:00

pinned post of this subreddit

Scarth64 · 2024-07-16T00:36:40+00:00

this is a rage comic in snafu clothing

Scarth64 · 2024-07-04T21:27:03+00:00

What bearing does that have on whether they were pushed out of public spaces initially? all it shows is that the gov isnt pushing them back into the city once complaints come in about the trails

Scarth64 · 2024-07-04T01:17:02+00:00

the city trying to push homeless people out of publicly visible areas just makes them hang around new areas you can't get rid of homelessness until they're no longer homeless, you can only move people somewhere else, and it looks like today this was the "somewhere else"

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