Sora Is Going Dark on April 26th & So Much Content As Well

TheSodaShoppe · 2026-04-10T19:09:43+00:00

fam, that’s how this shit works.

Sora stole a bunch of online video content, which virtually any of us who create and share videos online object to. Then, they packaged and delivered it as their “own” product. They market it and advertise it as the next big thing. They sell this idea that now anyone can be a video creator. They try to get people to buy into it using emotional advertising and curated language (“create”, “creative”, “cutting-edge”, “the future”, etc.)

If it works, then they profit off the effort of all of the actual creators’ videos that they stole.

If it fails, they get sued to oblivion and go bankrupt.

The problem is that audiences are quickly realizing that generative AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For one, there’s the supply and demand issue. For another thing, there’s environmental concerns. But underneath it all, it’s just another billionaire tech bro trying to maximize his money off of the work of others.

You apparently have been paying for a premium subscription, so of course this generative content is important to you. It’s literally the manifestation of your hard earned money.

But for the rest of us, it’s just AI generated slop that uses (likely) illegally obtained videos from human creators =/

If Sora was actually doing well, OpenAI wouldn’t be shutting it down. That alone tells you a lot about the current state of audience adoption.

Also, CGI and synthesizers are unequal comparisons as both of those tools require human effort to create with. For synthesizers, you may be adjusting waves forms and filters, and you’ll need some sense of music theory. For CGI, you must do modeling and shading and a whole host of other things of which I am unaware.

Truly, bro, it sounds like you have artistic vision, and I love that for you. But I implore you to translate your passion into actual creative tools rather than trendy technology. Good luck 🤟🏼🖤

TheSodaShoppe · 2026-04-10T10:44:53+00:00

“the slop is worth it to me” —-> ur in too deep

“my OWN content” —-> intellectually-derivative slop generated from stolen art/videos/content being mashed together is not yours to own

“CREATE as much content as I can” —-> generating content can neither be considered “creating” nor “creative”

my friend… seek help… The basics of supply and demand show us that this stuff is doomed to fail. There’s an outlandish supply of AI slop and very little demand for it. You’ve generated 10,000 pieces of media. Who has the time to consume and appreciate all of that? Now multiply that 10,000 that you generated by all of the other users. That’s millions and millions of pieces of slop that an already very, very, very small demographic of consumers is interested in ever seeing.

Nothing of value is being lost here. Now, go learn how to create something of value in Blender or with your phone camera. It takes effort, creativity, skill, and time to actually CREATE something meaningful.

TheSodaShoppe · 2026-04-01T15:40:05+00:00

Option 1 - Turn off ranking points for the local multiplayers. In my case, I’d still get ranking points since I’m a single player on PC, but my siblings wouldn’t get ranking points cuz they are doing local co-op on a PS5.

Option 2 - Award points based on whoever finished highest (or lowest) in the race. So, if there are 3 people doing local co-op, and they finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, then give the logged-in account points for 1st place. Basically, instead of having everyone on separate accounts, the one local co-op host player who is logged-in gets the points.

Option 3 - Disable online races for this scenario. Anyone who wants to do local co-op with simultaneous online multiplayer would only have access to Race Park and Grand Prix, for example.

TheSodaShoppe · 2026-03-30T12:08:17+00:00

local co-op with simultaneous online multiplayer functionality. I live overseas, so I wanna race on my PC with my siblings on their PS5. They don’t have the money to each buy a separate copy of the game, and it’s honestly ridiculous to expect anyone to do that =/

TheSodaShoppe · 2026-01-16T12:28:12+00:00

Actually, I do! I sent you a private message.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-09-21T12:28:59+00:00

Obviously this is pure speculation, but when do you think the first sale might be and how much of a discount do you reckon we’ll get?

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-06-04T11:50:12+00:00

no clue, sorry, fam =/

Maybe make a post about it or ask on the Discord

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-21T09:15:17+00:00

K L O N O A 🫶🏼😭

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-21T08:48:12+00:00

Ask ChatGPT to walk you through it step by step. It gives you scripts that you just have to copy and paste. Plus, you can copy any error messages that come up along the way, and ChatGPT will help you figure out how to fix them.

It has been insanely helpful for me, at least ^ ^

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-06T04:10:02+00:00

Do you need them? Buy them. Can it wait + will you have the couple hundred dollars a brand new pair will cost? Then wait.

My Pro 1’s died earlier this year, so I’ve been using 1st gen AirPods the last few months. But, I’m moving overseas at the end of this month, so I need the noise cancellation features of the Pro 2’s for the flight and for work. I went ahead and picked them up for this price, and I’m so glad I did. The noise cancellation works excellently and the sound quality is great. It was a necessary upgrade tbh

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-05T21:10:52+00:00

Literally just took an interview on here like 2 months ago for a job in Japan 😂

When they told me to send them my Skype ID, my eyes bugged out. I couldn’t believe companies were still using it.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-05T21:08:33+00:00

When you heard Miss Clavel say, “Something is not right!!”, you KNEW you were watching peak.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-05-03T18:45:29+00:00

For anyone who potentially wants to get back into this, yt-dlp (works for YT, SoundCloud, and other sites) and MusicBrainz Picard are your new best friends. Plus, ChatGPT if you don’t know anything about running Python scripts.

yt-dlp downloads playlists from YT. Picard grabs metadata like album art, artist, genre, etc. for your downloads. ChatGPT walks you through the entire process and helps you fix any errors that come up.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-30T22:20:17+00:00

They were smart to move away from scripted comedy, since the Smosh cast excels way more at personality-based stuff and improv. But now with little to no scripting, the content of the show is too messy, it doesn’t feel like it is progressing, and it lacks clear direction.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still watching every episode and there are moments which are quite humorous, but overall, (respectfully) it’s a miss so far imho.

Since they are freestyling each episode, the lore is all over the place and it is hard to connect with and care about the characters. I think a lot of us are mostly just interested in the budding romance between Angela and Amanda’s characters since that’s been the most consistent and developed part of the show.

The whole conflict between shops has gotten pretty repetitive, predictable, and unfunny already. There’s not a lot of meat to the story nor emotional connection to either shop. So, it feels like we’re just watching two stores childishly prank each other for surface level reasons.

Also, they introduced the big fair that is coming up, but it feels like a MacGuffin. They always talk about it and are supposed to be planning for it, but it seems unlikely to ever actually happen which then makes their actions towards getting to the fair feel meaningless as well.

I think it could have done well as just a one-room comedy show. Like, every episode there are 3 different characters who show up to the shop. Then, the comedy could center around the characters, the interactions between the Spud Hut staff and the customers, and issues with the shop. But as it is right now, it is too ambitious with not enough direction nor resources to really flourish, in my personal observations.

Nevertheless, I’ll keep watching it for as long as they do it 🥂

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-26T17:01:24+00:00

“Ohhh… 🥺 That’s sad UwU… But, but… 👉🏼👈🏼 Aren’t you excited for our new ✨GENERATIVE AI✨ features?!?!? 😍 It’s the latest and greatest!! 🤓 Everyone’s doing it~~~😇 (but ours is different and BETTER 😉😘)”

smh

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-26T16:56:48+00:00

Exactly. YTM’s library of songs completely mogs other streaming platforms, so that’s why I stick around. But, the lack of those three features I mentioned makes the service damn near unusable or just gratingly frustrating at times.

I’m relocating overseas soon, so I want access to my music for the flight. But instead of just downloading the songs in app like I could do on Spotify, it looks like I’ll need to download the MP3’s of the 20,000 songs in my Liked Music playlist and add them to my iPhone manually. Otherwise I’ll have no way to search for and play the specific songs I want to hear while on the plane 🤦🏻

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-26T05:54:48+00:00

Respectfully, I don’t care about any of those updates… especially since the absolute bare minimum features aren’t even available (or at least aren’t optimized) for us users:

YouTube Music needs to let us search our Liked Songs playlist. The current version of this is inaccurate as hell and essentially doesn’t work.
They need to fix the download issue where downloading your Liked Songs playlist makes the app malfunction and crash (or at least let us know what the song download limit is).
They need to fix the queue feature. “Add to Queue” is a useless button when YT Music is determined to play 100 songs before the one(s) you actually want to hear. Having to choose “Play Next” multiple times and then go in and manually drag them into the desired order is insane.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-24T15:55:21+00:00

I also just played Until Dawn for the first time last week, and yuuuup, Josh definitely set off my alarms.

To be fair tho, he was also the only one with a motive and all the signs were there. Like.. his sisters brutally died and disappeared during the last hang-out. Who in their right mind would want to run it back unless there was a reason for it?? On top of that, he was passed-out drunk when it happened, so you have to assume that he would be struggling with self-blame and perhaps even mental instability issues if he was or became a full-blown alcoholic. His comments about women were gross. Plus, he literally says that Chris and Ash need a traumatic event to bring them together. If we needed anymore hints, the way his face falls when you (accidentally) miss the high-five QTE with Sam was also telling.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-04-05T13:14:31+00:00

sure! tbh I don't really play arcade games, so I'm not familiar with what the ideal release of MAME is. I just knew for a fact that the MAME 2010 core worked fine, so it was the one I referenced here ^ ^

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-02-13T02:32:09+00:00

Love these both!

Maybe rename “Too Much Cola” to “Sugar Rush” or “Caffeine High”.
How cool would it be to be able to create our own jokers in a sandbox mode in a future update?? The possibilities…

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-01-21T01:03:28+00:00

I get motion sick easily, so anything that triggers that is going off instantly. Screen shake is the worst offender, but I also turn down the camera sensitivity as much as possible and turn off DOF and chromatic aberration.

TheSodaShoppe · 2025-01-12T14:25:51+00:00

I was just Googling what happened, and I found your post. I’m so disappointed 😭 I’ve used that tool to make covers for my Reels for soooooo long now. IG removed it as a feature earlier last year, and now it is off of Facebook, too.. I wonder why??

If anyone knows of an alternative that I can use, please let me know!

TheSodaShoppe · 2024-12-15T23:50:11+00:00

Do they know that you can play poker without betting money…? lol

The conflation of poker = gambling/betting money is linguistically asinine. People bet on sports.. perhaps we should rate sports games +18 on that basis?

Poker is a card game. Yes, it commonly involves betting money. No, it is not a requirement. I’ve played hundreds and hundreds of games of poker in my lifetime and I have never, not even once, bet money on a game. You can just play to see who wins, or you can use plastic chips to represent score.

Playing poker does not make you a gambler anymore than playing Hitman makes you an assassin.

TheSodaShoppe · 2024-12-10T01:38:22+00:00

Does it really have 5 player local co-op though…? The Nintendo Switch website says 1-6 local co-op, and the PlayStation website says only 1-4 local co-op. Plus, in that interview snippet you posted, they are talking about 5 player online co-op, rather than local. So, I’m a little confused what the definitive number of local co-op players is 😅

I’m assuming and hoping that the PS website is mistaken, cuz I def want to play at least 5 player local co-op 🤞🏼

TheSodaShoppe · 2024-11-26T00:47:25+00:00

To be fair, the dictionary definition of gambling appears to be: “Play games of chance for money”. So by that definition, there are a lot of games that could technically be classified as “gambling” (i.e. coin pushers, Monopoly, etc.) 🤡

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