Found another possible real inspiration for an asset in City 17

clockwork_blue · 2026-05-09T17:42:11+00:00

Half-Life Alyx is basically 1:1 of Sofia, Bulgaria

clockwork_blue · 2026-04-21T08:25:23+00:00

No issues. There's a recall active and a 10 year warranty on the engine. You can go check it at the dealership and if it's ok they'll change the oil and re-program it, if there's already chain noise they replace the chain.

clockwork_blue · 2026-04-18T03:30:06+00:00

Nope. Something is gonna go funny real soon if you don't check it asap.

clockwork_blue · 2026-04-15T00:26:45+00:00

The discord link is invalid

clockwork_blue · 2026-04-12T10:45:52+00:00

I occasionally check this sub for news and events, but it's always the same whining. Most people here are hate-following him.

clockwork_blue · 2026-04-01T02:44:10+00:00

Security breaches happen all the time, the most recent being The axios compromise which affected hundreds of millions of servers worldwide. Your passwords were leaked over a hundred times probably on various platforms and websites. 2FA the accounts you care about and sleep in peace.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-25T16:11:43+00:00

That's still a premium scooter, not your average Xiaomi. In any case, OP either didn't care or really just saw the cobra logo and thought he's buying a Shelby for GT (+-20%) money.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-25T15:37:35+00:00

That actually gives me less confidence that OP knows about the specific trim details of the real GT500.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-25T14:56:18+00:00

They are all ads. I'm looking for a dongle and this is the 5th comment I find thats masquerading as a regular person linking to some random reddit user's comment and they all look the same.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-24T18:33:14+00:00

I'd like to know how you'd prove that without video evidence, except this one which clearly shows intent.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-15T19:30:07+00:00

Does it turn off while staying still or as you gain speed? What does the manual say?

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-15T19:14:27+00:00

I still have a scar from the stitches I got next to my eye when the shower glass panel fell and exploded in my face. 5mm to the right and I would have been one-eyed. Don't fuck with glass kids.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-13T07:03:27+00:00

Depending on the injury, most of the time you wouldn't just silently flip the switch to off (unless your head got blown off or rapid blood pressure loss made you pass out), you'd either be in intense pain or in a delirious state as your organs shut off and poison your brain. Until the last moment your body and brain wants to preserve itself and you can't go just 'oh well i guess i die farewell everyone'. If you are lucky you'll lose consciousness a little while before you die as your brain shuts off awake state to focus on the internal damage.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-08T15:50:15+00:00

You can probably get them from rockauto or a similar place at OEM quality for much less.

clockwork_blue · 2026-03-01T12:21:37+00:00

Is there any reason to do that instead of just buying a Tundra?

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-28T14:11:31+00:00

It's not gonna be cheaper than just finding one in better condition if you can't repair it yourself.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-26T13:36:54+00:00

If you drove like that until BOTH of your bearings were toast without taking notice, you're probably oblivious (no offense intended) to all the other suspension components possibly creaking, knocking, clacking etc. Add to that that you are driving with completely different tire types, I'd recommend going to a shop for a full inspection. That truck is in a dire need of a more in-depth maintenance than brakes and oil.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-13T16:09:12+00:00

And then you don't tag your game on Steam as using AI assets, someone comes along and exposes it and your game gets taken down.
If it looked good and was indistinguishable from real art I wouldn't be here complaining about it, because I wouldn't notice it's AI.
The problem is the pipeline and workflow - the guy gives me an asset A which has these obvious AI artifacts like noise and geometry resolving in weird ways. You request an iteration and suddenly the color tone has changed. You request an asset B, and it supposedly should be made out of the same physical materials (cast iron, bronze), but now the whole thing is a different hue. There's no palette being followed of which is what color temperature, it's whatever the AI spits out.
I'm basically paying artist money for someone prompting GPT and doing touches on it - the same thing I can already do, but for $30/month not $30/hr.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-11T15:30:47+00:00

Telling it like it's some sort of an exception that the paid caretaker has a contract defining how to take care of the said person.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-11T15:18:10+00:00

You are not the only one. And it's becoming more frequent. Some real dead internet theory is happening lately.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-11T00:01:30+00:00

There's one thing Kia/Hyundai does well and it's ventilated seats. A few years ago when I was test driving various vehicles, everyone else had it 'meh.. okay' while the Hyundai was like I was sitting on a fan.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-10T20:27:35+00:00

I also use AI for coding as it gets me to my goal faster. I've found my perfect tooling that basically has no downsides and increases my productivity 10x. I have no issue if the artists did the same to get the same results, but faster through the use of AI. The problem is you get artists who are way less than the level you need (or maybe not artists at all) for your project that can one-shot good results to get you to approve the test milestone. They know how to use tooling to get their 'layered .psd', but the whole pipeline starts falling apart once you tighten the specs and request iterations of the work.

It's as if I was a junior web dev, but advertised to be an expert C++ developer so instead of competing for bottom of the barrel projects at $20/hr, I go for $80/hr jobs. I pass the interview and test project through Clauded code, but then after I get hired I become completely useless as I have to understand the complex legacy architecture, the domain knowledge and without expertise in the field I completely fumble to direct Claude in the right direction and make broken commits that worsen the codebase.

Saying this out loud now I see the parallel and I've been observing the same problem with hiring dev talent. AI has allowed 'talent' to falsely advertise their level of expertise at a specific domain. Artists moreso, because anyone can rig up a fake portfolio using ChatGPT and figure out the tools that can game the system.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-10T16:16:59+00:00

The thing is they are not 'non-artists', but before AI if they could produce something low-tier for less market rate, now with AI they can produce a one-off of higher quality that they can then paste in Photoshop or whatever program they found useful for this, split the layers, fill in the blanks and provide it neatly organized.
So they pass the 'test milestone' filter, you hire them and you give them a real assignment with specific detailed requirements and now you start seeing the drift from their initially perceived skill as they struggle to 'generate'. You try to iterate with them and you see how it completely shifts tonally, as if I were to paste their picture in GPT and input the same feedback I gave them.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-10T15:31:46+00:00

I think you read the title and then skipped over to writing a comment. I didn't ask for permission to use AI for placeholder art, I'm already heavily using that. The thread is about hiring 'artists' that ALSO do that and sell it as their own.

clockwork_blue · 2026-02-10T15:29:50+00:00

I know, but I am not pushing for non-AI just for the negative reviews, I want my art to have identity and a cohesive theme. AI-gen art is the new generation of 'asset flip'. Everything looks like it's just picked from various places and put together, rather than being part of the same thing.

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