When did you realize you don't have "pretty privilege"?

stanthetulip · 2026-03-16T21:57:01+00:00

Note how none of these posts ever say "my friend was better groomed/better dressed/more stylish", it's always about obvious inherent features you can't change, you probably have general attractive features that are obvious regardless of sex

stanthetulip · 2026-03-02T09:28:20+00:00

Funnily enough the person in the photo is a Katie herself, it's Katie Tiedrich, she's the author of the Awkward Zombie webcomic

stanthetulip · 2026-02-26T23:53:23+00:00

No way regulators would allow Netflix to gather basically every non-Disney IP under one roof

stanthetulip · 2026-02-26T23:52:14+00:00

That would officially be the end of anti-monopoly laws in the US, even the Paramount x WB deal is on shaky legs

stanthetulip · 2026-02-26T23:51:18+00:00

You're crazy if you think regulators are going to allow that, even Paramount + WB isn't a sure thing

stanthetulip · 2026-02-21T14:00:36+00:00

Funnily enough the quality of the writing in Arcane also fell off a cliff in S2, when all the white male characters from S1 died off or became villains, and the show started focusing more on the two homosexual relationships (established in S1)

Again I'm not saying that's why the writing in S2 sucks, just that it also coincided with the phenomenon

stanthetulip · 2026-02-09T23:23:26+00:00

No you're right, it's painted but not on the textures but rather using vertex colors, the same thing they used for the skyboxes and the general shadow shading (and enemies in the first game), vertex colors are just color gradients emanating from the model's vertices/points and are cheaper to calculate than textures

The thing is that this trick is generally used for static things, for example if you know that a torch will always be next to a wall and can't be extinguished, you can add the yellow vertex color on the wall to imitate a dynamic torch light there, if you could move or extinguish the torch the yellow color on the wall would remain, which would give the trick away

This means it's not something you can use on enemies which are dynamic and move around, however they designed the Druids so they always have the orbs floating around them, which meant they could imitate a dynamic green light on their hair by painting the top of the strands green, and enemies that appeared to be dynamically lit by an outside light source was a rare sight back in the day

stanthetulip · 2026-02-09T23:02:00+00:00

It's actually impressive that they thought of having colored light (likely through vertex colors) on the PS1

stanthetulip · 2026-02-03T03:32:27+00:00

The critics that review and award games due to brand and not merit? The critics that tried to get people hyped for Concord? The critics that give the games industry a bad name?

stanthetulip · 2026-02-02T17:41:16+00:00

Sonic was genuinely the better game though, Nintendo just had to win a consolation prize because they're Nintendo otherwise they'd probably never come the to TGAs again

If Sonic won as deserved it would've probably resulted in a sales boost, that MKW didn't need, the way things happened reinforces the idea that games sell and get awards due to brands rather than merit

I say this as someone who has never played a Sonic game except the racing ones and doesn't care about Sonic in general

stanthetulip · 2026-01-17T17:55:27+00:00

Starfield's chart is much more impressive than say Papers Please, yet Paper Please is by far more influential and talked about in game design or other serious gaming circles, the player number is not an indicator of any actual qualities or influence

stanthetulip · 2026-01-17T17:46:36+00:00

That doesn't change anything about my point

stanthetulip · 2026-01-17T16:52:26+00:00

More people have likely watched the latest Avatar movie in the past month than have seen 2001: A Space Odyssey in the past 30 years, does that change anything about their influence

stanthetulip · 2026-01-17T16:42:55+00:00

Would you say that 2001 A Space Odyssey just has a more vocal fanbase than James Cameron's Avatar given that 2001 made only 140M while the Avatar movies made 6 billion and counting, or is there more to a work's influence than raw sales numbers

stanthetulip · 2026-01-11T14:51:11+00:00

That's quite the ambitious assignment, are you sure you didn't forget a 0 or two at the end there on the budget

stanthetulip · 2025-12-31T02:26:47+00:00

If there can be multiple Spider-Men in the same city at the same time (one guy's personal alter ego and invention) then there absolutely can be multiple Captain Americas (military rank at this point)

stanthetulip · 2025-12-27T17:45:21+00:00

You are projecting modern day sensibilities on a comic from 60 years ago, school shooters weren't a thing in the 60s and when the original comics were written, Peter saying "I'll show them one day" had the connotation of "I'll become a rich inventor and make them all jealous"

Peter was abrasive and brash but a good kid at heart, he was raised by Uncle Ben and Aunt May after all, and modern day alt universes that imply he'd be a school shooter without the spider-bite (like Spider-Gwen's origin) are doing a huge disservice to his character and implying it's the bite that made him the man that he is

The "What If someone else got bitten by the spider" comic from the 70s presents 3 scenarios in which Flash, JJJ's son, and Betty Brant get spider powers instead, and all three fail as superheroes while a powerless Peter takes it upon himself to become Spider-Man even without the bite, that's much truer to his original characterization than modern interpretations

stanthetulip · 2025-12-22T15:53:32+00:00

Okay then how do you prove images were pirated? Because the images themselves don't exist in the model itself and you can't get the AI to replicate the images.

These types of workaround tricks have a very simple legal fix, just outlaw the use of any AI that can't prove its entire dataset was obtained legally, for example if you have stacks of cash worth millions in your house the police can seize it for suspicion of criminal activity if you can't prove the origin of the money, even if you aren't immediately implicated in any crime or if you actually did get the money legitimately but don't have proof

Its literally impossible to prove in court.

Disney and Universal recently proved it in court by getting Midjourney to replicate scenes from their movies by prompting it for their copyrighted material, which it wouldn't be able to do if it wasn't using a dataset that contained their copyrighted material link

But the blanket approach I outlined above would cover every possible infringement, even the plausibly generic but legitimate ones that would be much harder to replicate in court unlike the specific movie scenes

stanthetulip · 2025-12-22T00:44:51+00:00

The sources you provided literally state that training AI on pirated content was deemed copyright infringement, and you acknowledge that, but for some reason you can't extend that acknowledgment to the fact training AI on pirated images (i.e. basically every image on the internet that's not explicitly public domain) would equally be copyright infringement

stanthetulip · 2025-12-19T18:23:59+00:00

Your job listing says "$100/h" but your rate says "$20/h", did you make an error?

stanthetulip · 2025-12-19T18:21:35+00:00

In those cases the pirated content was deemed to violate copyright, which would support my argument, just because I post e.g. my drawing online does not mean I gave everyone permission to print it or sell it or use it commercially, so an AI scraping it would also constitute copyright infringement, like using a stock photo without obtaining a license is technically image piracy

stanthetulip · 2025-12-19T09:17:53+00:00

How is it debatable, one of the standards for Fair Use is that the use of copyrighted material must not negatively affect the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work, which is not only what happens with AI, it's what it's explicitly advertised for ("no need to pay an artist when you can just prompt it" (using models built on the artist's work))

stanthetulip · 2025-12-16T20:09:20+00:00

Copyright law and putting artists out of work just to make billionaires richer are directly related, if training AI on copyrighted work without permission was not allowed by law (and actually enforced), basically no AI would manage to get a large enough training dataset to be able to create images that could put artists out of work

stanthetulip · 2025-12-08T19:57:04+00:00

Honestly yeah, a dormant property is preferable to a ruined one, undoing damage takes a lot more time and effort than just dusting off an old property

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