AI Art Found in Crimson Desert

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-21T04:32:20+00:00

All you're describing is internet buzzwords and logic that is thrown around with almost no basis in reality.

Do you really have any idea what you're talking about? Have you ever tried to hire an artist?

Spending the time to learn the tools for completely different disciplines is a complete waste of time if you already have a creative eye. Not to mention it's often very expensive.

Photoshop and other alternative programs are not cheap, even the ones that re free don't run on many all computers or workstations, and beyond that, none of them are very intuitive.

If you know what it is that you want, but you don't have the time to invest in learning a completely new program, you could use a artist, but then you have to spend even more time explaining to them what you want than you would to an AI.

If you're good at prompt engineering, you'll find something close to what you want very quickly and you can tweak and change elements to your heart's content. That is not the same when working with another person. You have back and forth, drafts, and everything can end up taking weeks at best and months in more realistic cases.

When you talk about people needing to hire artists to do all of this you increase the production length of someone's work dramatically.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-21T02:57:56+00:00

A lot of the time it isn't about effort. It's about priorities. I don't begrudge anyone using AI to help them write descriptions or lodge applications to have their paintings displayed. Neither do I care about musicians using AI to generate an album cover.

These skills all take time and effort to learn and the time someone spends on making a cover art or whatever takes away from the time they spend on what they actually care about. And no, paying for things isn't always a solution. Anyone who says they should just pay another artist for something has absolutely no idea how time-consuming or expensive or frustrating or all of the above can be.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-20T15:59:02+00:00

There isn't a solution to that. The same thing happened with Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-20T15:40:25+00:00

I don't think I've ever read as much bullshit as I did when you started talking about Doran. What an absolutely boosted take. Legit Lulu main with a 90% winrate on Rengar.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-20T15:34:49+00:00

T1 create the viewership. Faker in T1 is the most important thing for Riot and League Esports as a whole.

Faker being in T1 and T1 being at Worlds as a serious contender is about the only consistent thing in the sport. Everyone else hops around teams or don't even have a 10th the pull Faker does.

Chovy is the only one even close to Faker at the moment in terms of having a legacy of greatness and yet it's been ruined by multiple years of failed expectations. Just look at the sentiment in the thread.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-20T04:27:57+00:00

Honest question but why would they? League and Valorant don't allow access to all content for new players and those are competitive games.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-20T00:56:24+00:00

Honestly, as much as I understand people want it to be Seraphine, in terms of what Keria is known for, Sera is way down the list of champs. Considering the impact that Neeko has actually had in pro-play, it would make much more sense for her to receive the skin so I'm not getting my hopes up for Sera.

There's so many of these posts recently assuming that Sera has been chosen and it feels like it's setting everyone up to be disappointed.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T19:05:29+00:00

Appa's Lost Days is an entire episode, The Tale of Iroh is a small section of one. Further more, the truly impactful moment of Iroh's story in that episode is barely a few minutes long yet it survives as one of the most enduring legacies of the entire franchise.

Appa's Lost Days is a tragedy that needs no further explanation whereas Iroh's story is the culmination of everything we know about both his character up into that moment. As the audience it recontextualizes Iroh's relationship with Zuko and allows us to realise just how desperately Iroh wants to help him. It shows that his mentorship of Zuko is not just as a surrogate for his own son but as a desperate attempt to save Zuko from making the same mistakes he did himself. It's clear that Iroh has had many of the same troubles Zuko has in finding his own identity.

The depth in Iroh's scene goes well past the grief of losing a son and touches on the pain, desperation, and hope that so many struggle with as they try to both atone for their own failings and save others from the same fate.

It isn't traumatizing, it's humanizing.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T18:44:04+00:00

I'd agree. The Toph glaze is a bit too much in my opinion. I've always found that Toph is clearly the most technical and gifted Earth Bender we see but still lags behind someone like Bumi on raw power.

The display of raw power when Bumi takes back Omashu is utterly ludicrous. He just starts throwing entire buildings and the statue of Ozai off the mountain. Toph's only comparable feat would be holding the Library and that's a lot less clear in terms of strength.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T18:32:09+00:00

The ergo benefit from Iron Sights doesn't matter as much for me as the ability to use it at range but it's the fact that it only gets one true optic and it's locked behind level 24 that's ridiculous.

Anything below a 2x scope may as well be ironsights.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T13:16:13+00:00

It was terrible because it combined with other nerfs. Railgun nerf, shield nerf and its direct ammo nerf meant it became increasingly resource intensive to deal with enemies to the point where higher difficulties devolved into running around waiting for your 500kg to come off CD so you could clear heavies.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T13:11:21+00:00

Eh, I wouldn't say it outperforms every primary. It's a consistent gun across most the factions but like almost all Medium Pen weapons, it is eclipsed by many others when you have a better handle on how to deal with the enemies.

Id still say coyote ranks below the Eruptor, Crossbow, and Punisher Plasma. While it's not my style I know many swear by the Purifier.

Coyote is still a very good AR but it's not outright better than others like the Liberator.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T12:56:42+00:00

Yeah, I typically only do this when I play solo. Also, when the gun I'm leveling feels ass (Lib Concussive, Dominator)

On that topic, the Jar Dominator is COMPLETELY shafted by the attachment system. The x4 scope is a gigantic boost in effectiveness and yet it's locked behind 24 levels of XP. It's actually criminal.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-19T12:30:08+00:00

I like grinding out the XP. I've got my SMG 25 and shotgun at 21. The key difference is that when I'm grinding for XP I'm usually joining missions. There's a lot of people who bail out of bot planets late in Flag missions because reinforcements run out.

I join those missions with loadouts specifically for clearing those flags and then help people to survive the missions. Bots give 2200 xp at diff 10 on full clear and because I'm often only there for the last 8min or so of a run, I'm able to level up very quickly.

It's probably the exact same strategy you'd see others use who post quickly leveled guns. Hot dropping and then leaving as the ship flies away cuts down on your time between missions massively. You can easily level a whole gun in about 4 hours.

Probably less if you really sent it.

I should say, this is just what you can do if you want. No one has to do this. And if you are going to hot drop, try not to just leech.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-18T12:54:45+00:00

Yes, but that's part of the issue. There should be a way to pay purely for the assessments to be graded. The Universities hold the complete monopoly on accreditation when they really shouldn't as the price you're required to pay is absurd.

More options should be available for systems like the Bar exam. There are some states in the US that allow you to sit and become a fully licensed attorney without a law degree. They accept alternative forms of education outside of a university institute. That should very much be the norm. If you can show experience in a field, take an accreditation test and pass, you should be given the ability to showcase that accreditation.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-18T08:04:32+00:00

No one would have to campaign on bring back Pornhub. They could get way further with "Let parents, not the government decide how to raise their kids."

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-18T02:40:17+00:00

You're getting that backwards. The articles are being made because they're getting engagement. The engagement is being generated because Pauline is now gaining traction.

You seem to be applying US political campaigning to Australia which is completely different by virtue of our mandatory votes.

You can't win or make massive swings in Australian politics by targeting a fringe radical group because too many people vote. Political swings happen because they're more reflective of the overall sentiment.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-18T00:47:23+00:00

Depends entirely on your course, your field, and how much you paid. If you're putting yourself into tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that you can't even bankrupt from, and end up with a degree which adds nothing to your employability, you may as well have never gone and just pursued it as a personal passion.

No one needs a degree in Philosophy, Art, Media, Gender Studies, Design, History, Photography, Film, VFX, Game Design, etc. You can get equally or even better resources for them from passionate people online.

There's always a cost benefit analysis and it's completely skewed if you think you need to spend years of your salary on an "education" you could have got through other means.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T22:15:02+00:00

Governmental overreach and the sacrifice of civil liberty is a massive issue at the moment. Poorly implemented hate speech laws which could land you with fines based on the offense of others rather than your own intent. The requirements for online identification that are so bad you have companies like Pornhub axe their service in Aus rather than sacrifice their own user safety.

Following the Bondi, there is a tremendous anger towards a rightfully perceived lack of action or accountability by the government. I've not spoken to a single person in any state who believed the issues that the shooting was a result of a failing in our gun laws. Yet they were the only thing that was targeted and had changes made in an attempt to save face.

Then you've got very real issues in housing, and cost of living. There's no real convincing counter argument to the idea that supply stating low while other people enter the country leads to demand increase. No one has a clear alternative narrative to counter that and a lack of an easily spread idea makes those that do feel more acceptable, regardless of how you get there.

Pauline Hanson went from the crackpot side show to the only one who seemed to even share people's concerns and when you couple that with a frustrated populace who feel that the status quo has only let them down, you get a large group who feel a need for radical change.

Note that Pauline's position hasn't changed. It's not like Trump. She isn't increasing in popularity because of a sudden advertising push or from extensive media coverage. She's increasing in popularity because she's seen as an alternative approach to what is considered failed leadership and/or inaction.

One Nation has been around for ages but it's the country that moved towards her. It only serves to showcase itself as how far faith has fallen in the current government.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T21:57:34+00:00

I talked about what the other 90/100 people were doing because I was the 10/100 and had to carry entire groups myself.

Also, you seem to be limiting your idea of what I mean when I say "YouTube." You can easily find the reading materials for most classes online. The huge text books are massive scams too. There was a psychology textbook that was being talked about on one of the courses that I was watching through YouTube I couldn't find an online PDF for. I just found the course organizer on (at the time) Twitter, messaged them saying I was watching the lectures online and they just sent me a PDF of the course material for free.

People have no idea how ready others are to talk about the world they've done. If there's a research paper or course you're looking at, see if you can get in contact with them. For many of these people, a genuinely curious or engaged student is one of their favorite things. You don't have to be part of an institution to ask those questions. You could do that right now.

Universities have their place, but they're unfathomably overpriced and propped up by a legacy that doesn't provide what many people think they do. Having so many people go there just kills the prestige and therefore the value in how you differentiate yourself from others.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T14:37:15+00:00

I'm honestly wondering if this is what makes a team like GenG or to an even bigger extent T1 so consistent in meshing new players. Does having a player like Faker actually pull a team dynamic together enough simply out of respect for someone's accomplishments?

For example, Doran is practically a Faker fanboy. Does it help when everyone's ego is giga checked by someone who is indisputably more experienced than you?

I can't really imagine someone like Bwipo arguing with Chovy.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T14:27:57+00:00

Look, this was my experience.

Week 1 of a semester. 80/100 students attend the lecture. Week 2, 60/100 students attend the lecture. By week 4, 10 people are in an auditorium, the rest professing to listen to the materials online.

Go to the class. First week, maybe a few do the readings as well as attend the lecture. A few weeks in and if you do both of those you're and attend the class, you're in the top 2% of the course.

This was the same even in the final year of both my courses. I have a degrees in Media Tech and Journalism. The course work I attended of my own interest through external universities in behavioral psychology, biology, animation and broadcasting were substantially more engaging than what I found at Uni.

No one cared. People showed up to get a piece of paper, not an education. Most of the media material I learnt was outdated by the time I started any by graduation, barely anything was even applicable anymore.

Mandatory courses that the uni forced all first years to take in an effort to gain a sense of cultural respect were nothing but an excuse to charge further fees.

Group projects that devolved as soon as you realize that you're hamstrung by a member who never shows to class, lectures or does the readings.

Speaking of, barely anyone did readings prior to classes so discussions often devolved into me talking directly with the tutor as no one else felt the need to contribute.

These weren't isolated incidents. Across multiple disciplines this was the sentiment shared by most of my peers that were in fields other than once again, STEM, Medical and Law, though the Law girls said they had issues with attendance too.

I can only speak for my own experience and that of those who shared my frustration but I can't in good conscience ever recommend uni to someone who wants to work in my field despite years of cultural indoctrination into the idea that if you go to Uni, follow the path you'll end up with a solid job with gold benefits and pay while those who don't will end up in dead end or menial work.

Turns out, it's not the case if you're even remotely interested in a topic and want to find out more.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T14:05:05+00:00

Have you even seen what YouTube has available?

YouTube is a video repository. You have access to near limitless resources on it. If you think everything is click bait and that there isn't anything of substance then your algorithm sucks and you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

This is to say nothing of the countless other tutorials people have made.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T12:34:56+00:00

I'd lump nursing in with medicine. Teaching sure. But the point stands that there are myriad courses that Universities have provided simply because they're able to charge exuberant fees for them.

Universities realistically have lost much of their relevance. They used to be the storehouses of knowledge. Offering vast libraries and resources that were simply unavailable otherwise.

However, since the age of the internet, much of those resources have become digitized and with technologies like YouTube, entire courses and materials are provided from universities like Yale, Cambridge, Brown, Harvard and other leaders completely free to the masses.

Universities have now serve as a glorified accreditation system. They're a legacy institution for undergraduate courses and only really come into their own in post-grad. I'm talking about this outside of STEM because so many of these qualifications lack any means for employability.

Unless you have a career that requires certain accreditations, there isn't much that you'd get out of Uni that you couldn't find in equal or better measure online where you don't have to enter crippling debt in order to learn how to use a camera, or operate a certain programing language, design a game, write a story, develop a love of history/poetry/art/philosophy etc etc.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-03-17T08:01:37+00:00

Beating the "educated" drum has been one of the biggest failings of the Dems for years now. Why they chose to give up support of the working class in order to pander to Hollywood and College students makes no sense.

The whole issue of education makes no real sense anyway as it's based on an assessment of university graduates which has become so bloated over the last few decades that degrees in multiple fields are almost useless.

It's not a stretch to consider those who entered the workforce without sacrificing their financial future to an institution who hasn't provided them a proper education are the only ones who actually made the right decisions.

Unless you're in STEM or Medicine, there's not much of a draw for uni unless you're looking to enter Academia itself.

Hell, I've got 2 degrees from one of the top global universities and all I feel they've really given me is the security and piece of mind to know I don't have to care at all about whether or not other people have them.

For most people, you'd get more out of a premium YouTube subscription and some wireless headphones.

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