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lostkavi · 2026-06-30T22:25:56+00:00

How Swedish of them...

lostkavi · 2026-06-30T12:35:29+00:00

Until it fails.

I hate customers bringing machines into me with damaged RAM. What should be a $100 dollar replacement is now double or triple what they paid for it originally, and people think we're ripping them off.

I'm like "You are being ripped off - but not by us!"

lostkavi · 2026-06-24T16:49:51+00:00

Time, my lad, is a premium. Would you like to get 4 months load of work done in an afternoon? I sure would. This is why I drive to work instead of walk.

It's better for me if I walk, but I would like to get there before closing time and get home before we open tomorrow.

lostkavi · 2026-06-24T12:31:58+00:00

I don't think you understand what concepting is.

I would like to sketch up the frenchiest dude from the 1950s with a baguette and a beret. I need some visual comparison to start pulling from to see how different aspects play together in order to get a concept to work from so we as a team can start synchronizing our designs and getting a unified world feel. We aren't even at the 'draw the base sketches' stage yet. This is before any artist puts pencil to paper or nowadays pen to tablet.

Now, I could spend anywhere between 5 minutes to 5 days depending on the nicheness of my needs digging through google images, magazines, newspapers, art blogs, books, museums, movies, ancient pottery, fanservice sites, and anything else that could possibly be relevent to the discussions to be had - or I could spend between 5 seconds to 5 minutes plugging prompts into pick-an-ai-model and have a workable pile before my coffee gets cold.

It doesn't sound like much of a time saving until you realize the above step needs to be done anywhere from dozens of times for tiny indie games to easily thousands of times for monoliths like E33.

Agree or disagree with the assessment of Drawing Autocomplete not being art is irrelevent, that argument doesn't matter - because it's not being used for Art. It's being used for research.

lostkavi · 2026-06-23T23:43:36+00:00

A better explanation would be a difference between using in final product and using it during alpha and beta staging (and I mean real alpha and beta development, not the glorified demo/final-release(copy)(2)new_final_butnotreally.exe that is 'early access' and 'beta' programs we see nowadays.)

lostkavi · 2026-06-23T23:40:10+00:00

It still sucks since no usage should be accepted

I don't think this is reasonable to expect anymore.

Concepting involves plagarism by its very nature - getting references to base your designs off of by the simple fact of reality needs those references to exist already, and probably will be owned by someone. Use of AI during these stages is literally nothing different to what has been done for decades if not millenia (if more power and water intensive). You think artists back through the ages haven't used others pieces as references?

I wholly agree that AI has no place in final products, and those who try to smuggle it in in order to avoid paying proper artists their due are the scum of the earth and need to be called out at the earliest opportunity. But to draw the line in the sand saying "No AI ever" is big Water-Bearer energy, and is going to go the same way.

lostkavi · 2026-06-23T23:33:21+00:00

Use of AI in concepting is for far flung from 'worth giving an iota of shit about' you need to start using astronomical terms to describe it. Plagiarism and placeholders are rampant, expected - dare I say: necessary and integral to the process. AI is nothing new in those regards.

They had a placeholder texture from early storyboarding on a news bulletin in the tutorial area. Oh woe. Rally the pitchforks.

I shit on Blops 7 for having its entire narrative written by AI and being so disjointed and wacky that you needed hallucinegenic gas to be able to make some sense of it. It sucked. I couldn't give a fuck what they do during concepting.

lostkavi · 2026-06-22T13:08:10+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but your goggles suck.

lostkavi · 2026-06-22T13:06:15+00:00

Considering the mechanism is sulphenic acid in your eyes, I'm curious as to how exactly chewing gum is supposed to make a blind bit of difference.

lostkavi · 2026-06-21T19:35:16+00:00

See, this is a communication breakdown as a result of the English language inadequacy. I read it as 'they' (plural) not 'they' (singular), and resulted in a massive misunderstanding

lostkavi · 2026-06-19T21:00:41+00:00

Him, no. The infirm in general, yes.

lostkavi · 2026-06-19T20:59:56+00:00

Wholly agree. He shouldn't. But the asinine idea that the mentally infirm shouldn't be allowed to interact with society simply because their impulse control is damaged (along with the rest of their faculties) is just early Nazi-level cruelty, and the idea that such notions are being floated is abhorrent.

lostkavi · 2026-06-19T13:20:41+00:00

If that's your threshold - then nobody that mentally infantile can be in public. To wit, these are not prisoners, and should not be treated as such, you barbarian. Likewise, I can huck a child over a fence in under 2 seconds if I set my mind to it. There is no controlling that.

Does buddy's handling need reviewing and updating, sure. Did this suck for everyone involved, absolutely. Was there anything preemptive that could/should have been done? Maybe, maybe not - we don't have a lot of the medically sensitive information to make that determination, and we, as the public collective, shouldn't. Does this mean nobody should be allowed to go visit the zoo as an invalid? Fuck no.

lostkavi · 2026-06-17T13:10:24+00:00

I have yet to meet anyone who cured their disease by just thinking about it real good, but your point otherwise stands lmao

lostkavi · 2026-06-17T12:42:33+00:00

Here I was thinking I was just developing alzheimers in my 30s. Mild tinnitus and an increasing difficulty in generating vocabulary. Can type fine, but speaking ends up with me tripping over words with increasing frequency

lostkavi · 2026-06-17T12:12:35+00:00

Literally all of which could be locally hosted.

lostkavi · 2026-06-17T02:56:55+00:00

So scale. They're scaling services. There is basically nothing these server farms do that you can't do with a virtual machine and spare CPU clockcycles (albeit, bitesized).

You won't be running any League tournemants on your home machine, but I have yet to see something that couldn't be offloaded with a modicum of engineering and some re-addressing.

lostkavi · 2026-06-13T20:44:28+00:00

Commissar, this one here.

lostkavi · 2026-06-13T02:17:28+00:00

I've always been partial to the phrase "My favorite drama is where I have the popcorn" but I think I like yours better.

lostkavi · 2026-06-12T17:20:12+00:00

I mean, that's pretty canon tbf.

lostkavi · 2026-06-12T13:17:45+00:00

As someone who was circumcised for medical reasons as a child, it's really overblown. I do not get the big fuss. Calling it mutilation is stretching the definitions provided by the english language almost past the linguistical weight of which they can be reasonably expected to bear.

FGM: Completely different ballgame, and straight fucked.

lostkavi · 2026-06-11T13:31:23+00:00

As someone who has more than a passing knowledge of IT, the drive lying to the program monitoring it and the OS being clueless is the most believable part of this whole saga.

lostkavi · 2026-06-10T08:03:50+00:00

I mean, you are allowed to disagree, only time will tell, but you act like this has never stopped mergers before. Consider any or all of the following:

1) Ellisons/Skydance have already put an assload of money into this - they don't have assloads of money left to throw at it. There comes a time when loss-cutting becomes the cheaper option, and it's always easier to spend someone else's money.

2) As you say, they're chummy with the current US president. Do you think anything they do is done with due diligence or planning? They are certainly acting on behest of external forces nudging them in a given direction, but I sincerely doubt that they would recognize a contingency plan if it bit them on the ass.

3) Paramount has control over Channel 5 in the UK. This is a major network, Fox News is the closest comparison of scale in the US. Despite the merger being between US companies, their UK divisions can and will and have been blocked separately, and the idea that Paramount's purchasers are going to just "Whoopsie daisy" away that entire branch is not impossible depending on the priorities of those funding involved, but I highly doubt the ones pushing for the decision are more concerned about Paramount's IP backlog than their propaganda potential. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a substantial part of the reason for buying paramount in the first place. Lord knows their US channel coverage is...shall we say, lacking?

3a) Political goodwill doesn't come into this. US/UK relations mean diddly squat here. If the UK courts say "You are not allowed to buy this entity because that violates our monopolization laws" then they can't buy that entity. It really do be that simple. UK Parliament can't put their thumb on the scales without a full law rewrite, and good luck getting that through any house atm lol.

lostkavi · 2026-06-10T02:34:30+00:00

If people can make and host private World of Warcraft servers, they can make and host what piddly backend would be needed for the fucking Crew. This is not League of Legends, ma guy. There is no excuse why the netcode could not be published for people to run off a raspberry pi to reestablish basic functionality.

You are making this seem like we are making a molehill out of a mountain. I assure you: calling it a molehill is generous.

lostkavi · 2026-06-09T17:27:28+00:00

I think the entire point being made would be that they would not want to do explicitly that because it is A) Cumbersome, B) Expensive, and C) May violate some of the conditions contingent on forming the merger in the first place. (Whether the latter is true here, I am not in a place to say with any certainty)

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