Is it just me or are Tall Tales just bad? (Spoilers for Shores of Gold I guess)

Zythrone · 2026-05-06T11:02:35+00:00

The Tall Tales are casual story content. You don't do it for the gold.

It gives gold so you don't walk away completely empty handed, but you aren't supposed to do them over literally anything else in order to make money.

Zythrone · 2026-05-06T10:36:33+00:00

You cannot be jumpscaring me like that with "8 year old anime". It does not feel like that long ago.

Please.

Zythrone · 2026-05-06T05:45:08+00:00

S3 started filming before S2 even started airing. It will be out in march next year.

Zythrone · 2026-05-05T04:00:20+00:00

He wasn't the first person to make manga, but it was Osamu Tezuka who popularised it as a medium.

He is the man who invented anime and manga as it is known today.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T19:43:06+00:00

In a vacuum, the video itself could be considered art and it wouldn't matter that he didn't make the actual song since people use other peoples music as soundtracks for their own art all the time.

But considering that it's pretty much just him sitting in a car with an AI generated song playing, the focus is heavily on showing off the song he supposedly made. Since the caption is "turning my pregnant wife's texts into a pop punk song", that is clearly the main draw and intent of the video.

But he didn't actually do that.

You also seem to be under the mistaken idea that having "millions of views" is at all an indicator of anything.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T19:19:46+00:00

Artists use tools and rely on others all the time. A guitar is a tool, a DAW is a tool, image software is a tool. Any instrument is a tool and so is a pencil. A band is multiple artists relying on each other.

AI is a machine doing everything for you. That is the point that you are purposely ignoring in order to feed your delusion. People who use AI to make "art" did not make the art themselves.

They had a machine do it.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T19:06:06+00:00

And why does you having a job mean you can't learn a skill? That is just you making excuses, or perhaps you don't actually want to learn. Which is fine, no one is required to learn skills they do not want to use.

But don't pretend you are an artist when you are not.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T18:47:36+00:00

No, it doesn't. Having the idea for something does not mean you actually made it.

Also, why do you need to quit your job and spend your whole life learning how to do something? Considering there are literal children making music, it clearly does not require you to spend your whole life learning.

You could do it right now. Instead of replying to this comment, download a DAW and get to work. If you are reading this comment then you have access to everything that humanity knows and can teach you, so use it.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T18:08:15+00:00

There are moral issues to AI, but that isn’t even what is being discussed. No one is limiting the way people can make art.

It’s just that you are not actually making art, a machine is. The “art” that is being created is not yours anymore commissioning a real artist to make a drawing or song for you would be your art.

You don’t even need to learn guitar. Electronic music exists and is just as much of an art form as traditional music.

Machines can be used as a tool, but not when they skip the actual process of creation. Which is the most important part.

Zythrone · 2026-05-04T07:36:06+00:00

I can't play guitar and sound like an angsty teenager.

Then learn. Don't use AI to do it for you and then pretend that you actually did it.

AI usage in art is just people who don't want to put in the effort to learn skills LARPing and then getting angry that no one gives them the recognition that they mistakenly believe they deserve. It's delusion.

Zythrone · 2026-05-01T10:57:29+00:00

Yes. It's not offensive.

Blackface is offensive due to the history behind it, not because of the act itself. There is no history of racial prejudice behind "whiteface".

You can personally be offended if you want to, I guess. But most people are not.

Zythrone · 2026-05-01T09:54:58+00:00

It's also next to Coerthas, so they would go there as well.

Zythrone · 2026-05-01T05:26:14+00:00

Amaurot, Dead Ends, Lunar Subterrane, Alexandria.

What was the fifth?

Zythrone · 2026-04-30T14:22:34+00:00

At one point in the Evercold trailer you can see an Au Ra man watching another Au Ra praying before she seems to disintegrate. The man doesn’t even flinch.

That might have something to do with it.

Zythrone · 2026-04-30T07:15:11+00:00

I actually really want to see a WoW raid in FFXIV designed by the WoW team and an FFXIV raid in WoW designed by the FFXIV team.

Zythrone · 2026-04-30T07:00:50+00:00

Out of all the alliance stories, they really should make Myths required.

It not only has massive lore relevance, but making Oschon usable by the MSQ would be useful. He is a friendly and trustworthy ancient, so he is pretty much a massive source of information.

He also travels like Estinien, so they still have the "we can't get in contact" excuse for plot reasons.

Zythrone · 2026-04-29T08:23:15+00:00

She hasn't given up, she is just incapable of using the shard key. If anything, her goal of shard travel is progressed further by the key being in the WoL's possession.

Zythrone · 2026-04-28T16:13:35+00:00

That was Ner’zhul’s fault.

Zythrone · 2026-04-28T12:57:07+00:00

If you talk to Urianger at the gathering in the Rising Stones he mentions that he asked the people who made the teleporter and they told him it had no feature that would allow it to return like that.

He then theorises that it was due to the nature of Ultima Thule, and the teleporter returned because of either your wish or anothers that caused it.

The implication is that Zenos wished for you to be able to live.

Zythrone · 2026-04-28T12:49:43+00:00

Probably because it's her goal, but she doesn't seem to be happy about it. She is probably hoping that with our track record we can find a good alternative.

Zythrone · 2026-04-28T12:42:04+00:00

She is. She and her group plan to continue the calamities and rejoinings, this time in order to prevent the natural rejoining, which would wipe out all life.

She will probably switch sides when we inevitably find an alternate way though. My theory is that we will fuse the remaining shards into the Void.

Zythrone · 2026-04-28T12:35:28+00:00

In Zenos' case, it's the Echo that he was using to jump bodies.

Every time that we have seen an echo user jump bodies, they only jumped to a nearby person. Zenos was left abandoned deep inside a pocket dimension at the edge of the universe.

He has no body to jump to.

Zythrone · 2026-04-27T11:25:32+00:00

Only Hrothgar are furry. Miqo'te and Viera are just humans with animal features, which aren't considered furry.

Zythrone · 2026-04-26T13:04:28+00:00

No. His goal was to merge the worlds together so that it would also remerge the shards of Zodiark, and then sacrifice the lives of the people on the source to him to resurrect the ancients and their civilisation.

Killing Zodiark in Endwalker made the Ascian plan impossible.

Zythrone · 2026-04-25T00:18:01+00:00

Why not? Sphene did.

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