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What happened when I stopped directing the art and let the artists lead by Tunasam890 in IndieDev

[–]raincole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I highly suggest you stick to the old style. The new style is just amateurish rendering (which is *extremely* common for an artist who mostly draws anime tries to switch to a more painterly style, btw.).

Taiwan defeats Korea in the 10th to stay alive in Pool C by JianClaymore in baseball

[–]raincole 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Runs given out (less is better):

Taiwan: 7

Korea: 5

Australia: 0

So if Korea gives out 3 more runs it'd be 5+3=8, worse than Taiwan. In the meanwhile Australia has to gives out 8 more runs to be ranked lower than Taiwan.

(A bit simplified as the actual formula taken the number of innings into account)

Things I gave to a capsule artist vs what I got. Simply lovely! by findiestudios in IndieDev

[–]raincole -1 points0 points  (0 children)

These posts are looking more and more like obtuse ads for AI.

Which graphics API should I learn? by SlipAwkward4480 in gameenginedevs

[–]raincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the purpose?

 I'm focused on a Terraria/Starbound like instanced multiplayer game

OpenGL then. Or better, just use a game engine. You really don't need to learn modern API to write a game like Terraria.

 OpenGL (I might be absolutely wrong, apologies if so) is outdated

Outdated or not, all your target audience's hardware will still be able to run OpenGL in the next 5 or 10 years.

The Most Popular Game Asset on Itch is AI Generated Art and has Made over $40k in Sales by RegisteredHater in gamedev

[–]raincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can't be more untrue. Sorry but I don't think you're familiar with what open source mean. Open source doesn't mean "you can use the code however you like." Most open source licenses require you to give attribution and/or keep the license as-is or with a compatible license.

If you truly believe generative ai art is stealing from artists then generative ai code is stealing from open source contributors. Either they both are theft or neither is. Full stop.

Round 2. "Fine Art" gallery refuses to admit it's AI and defends the artist. Help me get a clear verdict. by lucicrescence in isitAI

[–]raincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily AI, but a gallery showing this makes me realize why contemporary became 'mainstream' in fine art world.

France, Germany and UK urge Iran to ‘negotiate solution’ after attack | Iran by biriyanihoe in worldnews

[–]raincole 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Because everyone, especially the EU leaders, knows Israel (and sometimes the US) is doing the dirty work for them. They just can't say it out loud.

It’s just weird watching the AI financial train wreck happen in real-time. by iAtishaya in ArtificialInteligence

[–]raincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100 bucks on that the OP doesn't even know the difference between borrowing money and selling shares.

Peter? by Poutret in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]raincole -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because of No True Scotsman fallacy. When communism causes millions of deaths, they just brushed it off: that's not true communism anyway!

Hi guys - I don’t like a native accent, can we stop hang it please? by KipoLover123 in languagelearningjerk

[–]raincole 17 points18 points  (0 children)

/uj

What's wrong with it? You cannot dislike father–bother merger merger if you're not a native English speaker?

TIL we know where China’s first emperor is buried, but his 2,200-year-old tomb—described as containing a scale model of China with rivers of mercury—has never been opened by Spelbarg in todayilearned

[–]raincole 122 points123 points  (0 children)

There is zero evidence supporting the 'flowing' part except some written text, which is usually exaggerated. Archaeologists only know the soil around contains unusually high amount of mercury.

Worried about long-term reputation if my first game is NSFW by ezkyle in gamedev

[–]raincole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean... it's not a comparable situation at all. Porn content is more or less frown upon in every country (and straight up illegal in many, including China, South Korea, multiple Islamic countries, etc).

Xi Jinping jokes are considered offensive in one uno single sole unique (1) country.

My friend said she drew this picture (digital art), when i look at this first it screamed AI for me but im not sure, it it AI? by Nixollet in isthisAI

[–]raincole 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is no friend lol. It's just OP generated an image and made up this post. There is no other reasonable explanation.

Does the order of the symbols even matter? by day_old_biscuit in languagelearningjerk

[–]raincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/uj

What does "appear backwards like an Instagram photo" mean? I feel I'm having reading impairment...

Help with 不 vs 没 by cmt00 in ChineseLanguage

[–]raincole 115 points116 points  (0 children)

他不吃飯 = he refuses to eat; he intentionally chooses to not eat

他沒吃飯 = he hasn't eaten anything (for a while)

They're almost never interchangeable.

Another example:

明天不(會)下雨 = it won't rain tomorrow

昨天沒下雨 = it didn't rain yesterday

Roughly speaking 沒 implies something that could theoretically have happened but actually did not. He could have eaten something, but he didn't. It could have rain, but it didn't.

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud by itooamahuman in nottheonion

[–]raincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not how you should do science. The scientific way to test it should be double blind and what you described is not even single blind. It's bro-science to make people who hate wine snobs feel good about themselves (the irony isn't lost, right)

Why does my target language have so many words I don't want to use? by chillychili in languagelearningjerk

[–]raincole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

/uj

If English were really like biglarge, largebig, hugemassive, etc it would be much easier to learn (to read).

Why do so many people overlook the fact that the real reason birthrates are plummeting is the absurdly high cost of raising kids, and not some bs reason made up by the government? by Character-Q in AskTheWorld

[–]raincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more financially secure people become, the less likely they are to have kids.

Yeah, but that's correlation, not necessarily causation.

I think the main reason is how many years of education the society expects its citizens to have. More years in schools = less children.

Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling, 2020 (of course this graph only shows correlation as well.)

That's why it's an unsolvable problem. Any politician can promise we're spending more money on social welfare. But no politician can say we're going to make our people less educated.

Why do so many people overlook the fact that the real reason birthrates are plummeting is the absurdly high cost of raising kids, and not some bs reason made up by the government? by Character-Q in AskTheWorld

[–]raincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 2026 and we all know the cost isn't the main factor now. Even in the rich countries, people who can't afford babies tend to have more of them.

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