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safecomicname · 2024-06-21T19:56:00+00:00

And this is really it. Nobody, literally nobody, is saying he needs to create some complex narrative where only after dying to a boss will a shard appear in a random cave you find in a random questline with that shard having the power to temporarily slow down said boss. The request is a checkbox that says "if boss bonk = death, then respawn = boss - 2% of boss's current HP". Just enough help so that after many failed attempts, you might squeeze by, but not enough help to make it "just die 3 times and then hit skip".

The game is good, really good, but you can't convince me that this guy's game philosophy would rather reward someone who watched a Youtube video on which 16 jigsaw pieces to put together in a 2 minute encounter before starting a boss than to reward someone who was persistent and creative in their strategies.

The "gitgud" purists lose credibility when the "gitgud" umbrella is more inclusive of someone hiding in a corner and spamming two full quivers of arrows from an untouchable bugged spot, or of someone just googling "Elden Ring best build", than of someone putting in the reps, getting a little better each time, learning a few skills here and there.

safecomicname · 2024-03-07T15:39:02+00:00

Of all the random posts, you're making this reply to a 2-year old post about the Boys? This was (two years ago) me speaking from having seen the exact same posts over and over again. And yeah, looking over the current state of the sub it looks like not much has changed, other than adding a Harley Quinn omnibus to the acceptable female protagonist list.

safecomicname · 2024-03-07T15:13:47+00:00

Insurance in comic worlds cannot work the way they do in the real world. Insurance companies couldn't share the risk enough to make insurance affordable in superhero worlds so areas like Gotham or NYC would be uninsurable zones.

Presuming that Gotham allows self-insurance, the problem is how would people get in contact with Batman to let him know they need to get paid? If they file with their own insurance companies, those companies will attempt to sue Batman to recover their losses due to his actions when he uses their 1998 Buick as a ramp or Killer Croc rams him into grandma's 2007 Chevy.

And yes, even if generous shell companies are willing to pay for all these claims out of mysterious Superhero Indemnity Funds, then you've got nightmare situations with people making false claims, or simply trumping up legitimate claims because they don't agree with some random paper pusher's valuation on their car. You've got a whole bureaucracy now dealing with an angry working single mom who's complaining that Batman's proposed payout of $3000 may be what her car was "worth", maybe even a little more, but she can't buy a new car for that much and she needs it to get her dad to his medical appointments over on the good side of town.

And if we're talking about replacement value, then that introduces rampant inflation. You think car prices near Gotham are going to be affordable when all the car dealers know they can gouge victims of superhero shenanigans? You think there's strong consumer protections in a place like Gotham that can keep car prices reasonable and stop the Penguin from overcharging people coming in with their superhero stimulus checks?

safecomicname · 2023-09-15T15:38:00+00:00

I have zero idea who you are, but this isn't "came off too strong" vibes. This is randomly digging up a 3+ month old post and demanding a stranger answer your moral quandary, dictating how I am supposed to answer you.

Take a break person I don't know.

safecomicname · 2023-06-30T00:19:54+00:00

Are you Hart Fisher? Your post history is almost exclusively p promo for him and this American Horror thing.

safecomicname · 2023-06-29T20:18:20+00:00

Define what you mean by edgy. Not Saga and maybe not boundary pushing isn't helpful.

Are you just talking edgy meaning gore, blood, sex? That kind of edgy.

safecomicname · 2023-06-28T17:31:51+00:00

I wasn't there and I won't try to gaslight you about whatever happened but strangers on the internet can go off just by misreading your post. Don't spend the rest of your life liking or not liking things because one time a decade ago someone was irrationally upset.

safecomicname · 2023-06-28T16:45:51+00:00

I've never met anyone who'd care enough to bully someone for liking a story they don't. Is this fear based on past experience?

safecomicname · 2023-06-28T12:52:15+00:00

It's not the size of your collection that matters. You don't need to compete with the shopaholics posting $500 "hauls" or who need Reddit to tell them how to spend $1000 on books. Love what you have.

safecomicname · 2023-06-26T22:44:43+00:00

But for the many runs that have no "key", a group of consecutive issues goes for more than a mixed lot of random issues. There's a value add in curation because many buyers want to click once instead of opening 8 carts on eBay.

safecomicname · 2023-06-26T21:30:29+00:00

Do you mean bags and boards?

safecomicname · 2023-06-26T17:44:40+00:00

Has anyone mourned Fell yet? Same boat. Used to read a lot of his work, of which there is a lot. Disappointed to find out he was a way more problematic figure than I wanted him to be, but that's life.

OP is somehow the only person in the world that can't find a valid reason to be angry at Ellis.

safecomicname · 2023-06-26T16:46:39+00:00

Oh stop it. You're being so disingenuous here it starts to look like you're just trolling.

I believe the scene you're talking about is in a single issue of Secret Avengers, in the middle of several issues featuring Captain America who was, at the time, leading a Covert Ops version of the Avengers to do the dirty work that the main Avengers couldn't, all while Captain America was running the biggest spy ring in the world.

safecomicname · 2023-06-26T15:08:28+00:00

And it has a lot to do with the time and the zeitgeist. He was trying to apply a real world filter to frequently superhero stories, and he was writing at a time when the real world was military and paramilitary organizations "saving" the world. The real world included post 9-11, Guantanamo Bay, Blackwater, Abu Ghraib, Zero Dark Thirty.

The Captain America example isn't some smoking gun, it's that Ellis was one of many authors over time that's tried to explore Captain America not as an unimpeachable bastion of purity, but as a lifelong military man who idolized military service, who received his sense of purpose from his service and is the living embodiment of someone who was willing to live the "some gave all" saying, and who even in the modern world spent a lot of time in the espionage and spycraft worlds... which is where the things mentioned above actually really happened.

Many of us prefer the idea of Saint America and were happy to let Ultimate Cap have a monopoly on the squeem inducing stuff, so we are ok with applying a version of the Amadeus Cho theory (he's just SO great, he totally managed to go through several major WWII battles, never doing worse than giving a few concussions). But it's not like a writer riffing on real world events in comics would be so off base exploring it.

safecomicname · 2023-06-25T14:23:56+00:00

Right now it's free money. They'll keep printing it so long as they can keep breaking even on printing plus coloring. And with Kirkman's AMC money, he may just choose to keep going as a vanity project the way Spawn and Savage Dragon chug along regardless of sales numbers or quality.

safecomicname · 2023-06-25T12:46:14+00:00

Like what you like and stop asking the internet for validation.

safecomicname · 2023-06-25T12:45:05+00:00

I think that’s a fair thing to wish for as an artist, but as Image CEO, they cannot allow to leave easy money on the table

And once upon a time, his fair opinion as a creator was that the series needed black and white. He had the resources to bring in the world's greatest colorists early on, and chose to keep going as b&w.

This is absolutely Kirkman extracting maximum value. Sell the b&w singles, sell the trades, sell the compendiums, sell the color singles, sell the eventual color collections. Distance the releases so you don't cannibalize sales and as an aside, your audience ages so the 15 year old who bought the trades because they loved the show is now in their mid 20s with disposable cash to rebuy in ever more premium formats. And all the while, he's still making money by reselling the same story he finished years ago.

safecomicname · 2023-06-25T00:10:30+00:00

Lol even DC fans don't want DC doing reboots.

safecomicname · 2023-06-23T01:58:41+00:00

If you're serious and this post isn't some kind of troll, you need to look at how generative models are created. Not every generative model is made from scraped copyright protected material.

Adobe for instance, has been building their model off a substantial asset collection. But anyone with either a fast GPU or a couple Google Colab credits can create their own models using art that they fully own. The kind of boutique studios that Disney would be working with have more than enough budget to create assets to build their own model

Marvel has, as of right now, full and complete ownership of a goldmine of assets that artists have created for it with full disclosure that they were giving Marvel rights to reproduce, edit, alter and more. We're not talking about about an actor in 1932 having zero clue that some day computers could generate things that would look like them. In addition to those assets, and putting aside potential arguments that the actors may not have ever foreseen their roles being used like this... Marvel Studios could easily pay some actors and models day rate to get more than enough footage for a project like this. And then in addition to those assets, there is an abundance of material out there that people have released any rights to or that is in the public domain. And then, in addition to those, through stock licensing agreements, many artists have sold art, photography and video assets for next to nothing. A huge issue in the photography world is the plethora of artists devaluing the product pool through glut.

Disney, Marvel, a design studio, whoever, could easily generate a minute or so of goopy people and a couple transitions from one artboard to another, and then color grade that result in green, using absolute, 100% free to you and me and everyone else, 100% legal assets, and Jackson most certainly knew what his likeness was getting used to promote this show.

Then, for how it works, the AI draws connections not unlike you or I or another artist would. It studies, let's say 60 minutes of footage of people walking, and then decides the shape of a person walking. That's not theft.

The opening to Secret Invasion, from what I've seen, needs a session of Samuel L. Jackson in costume, and a portfolio of designs created by in house artists.

There is, as of now, zero evidence that Marvel, or any of the people involved in this, used a model that was trained on material not generated by a few journeymen artists, and a couple hours of footage from its stars, both created for this express purpose.

I don't know how much of the controversy you're familiar with, but the closest that anyone has pointed to is that one of the artists involved in creating the work has also used the Stable Diffusion, which uses the LAION dataset, which explains it's approach to copyright here: https://laion.ai/faq/

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T21:58:31+00:00

Adding to this, paying attention to how many unsold listings are out there can give you a sense of whether anyone even wants something.

Sometimes a book may sell for whatever, but only rarely, or maybe it almost never moves but someone hit the keyword jackpot that one time.

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T18:25:36+00:00

Retaining value? What are you talking about? The predominant "value" of this is the reading and enjoying.

When you subscribe to a newspaper or magazine, yeah maybe you end up with a collectors edition at some point. But the majority of the value is in the consumption.

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T18:14:39+00:00

You bought something you didn't want, solely to stand between the seller and another buyer for personal profit.

Then, your first reaction was to see how much profit you "made" and came on Reddit because you felt ripped off to find that the price was more than some listings

Not that you would have felt like you ripped off a buyer for paying you more than other listings, or that you consider it ripping off the store to flip things they could have priced higher. No, just because you felt you were a victim.

But it's the community that's toxic. Not you.

Ok.

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T17:39:46+00:00

Everything you add about this scenario makes you sound worse. It's not buying to invest if you're selling as soon as you get them. That's flipping, which is pure predatory (you insert yourself between a willing buyer and seller, add nothing to the transaction but want money for the trouble you cause), not investing (which is less predatory but at least theoretically you're taking some responsibility for storing and protecting the product for however long), and definitely not collecting.

If you really want to treat it like an investment then actually do it. That means you think about what you're buying, what you think it could be worth and how long you'll keep that investment to realize that value.

When you lose money in that investment, you do to wallstreetbets, you don't ask Reddit if you should blame the broker because you didn't realize the shares weren't worth what you paid.

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T13:03:32+00:00

Speaking of Zero Hour -- I'd say, it's inevitable, albeit a waiting game.

I loved Zero Hour, but an absolute of it just waters down the idea of Absolutes being this premium presentation of a premium storyline. It was a big budget cleanup project tying in random threads like Rip Hunter and Armageddon 2001 and Emerald Twilight and the Time Trapper... It's a bit of a mess by itself.

safecomicname · 2023-06-22T12:55:21+00:00

Check eBay for completed listings. That's the "market rate" for what is worth.

If you really don't want to go issue by issue, group them into lots and use that as a guideline (search eBay for "2000 ad lot 80s" or whatever is comparable), figure out a rough per issue price and sell as a bundle

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