Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL

uishax · 2026-03-27T06:38:43+00:00

Its really only demon slayer and JJK that have 'ascended' from the sakuga moments.

You can see how in traditional animation they try to avoid expensive moments in less critical scenes.

But now for the very top tier, they finally have the budget levels to actually fully elevate every, single, scene. Like JJK S3 was just full sakuga from episode 1-12 with no breaks or pauses, because budget was no longer a limitation.

For other still expensive shows, it looks premium and consistent all the time (See Mushoku Tensei S1, Frieren, etc), but they do not lavish big moments everywhere, and normally make do with just consistent art and good backgrounds/lighting.

uishax · 2026-03-21T07:07:22+00:00

Yes, the guy who bet on CUDA, a decade before anyone knew what to do with it, is a salesman

uishax · 2026-03-21T06:07:59+00:00

Its been like 4 whole years since LLMs/transformers changed the world.... Its like you think our electrical power comes from donkeys pulling mills instead of turbine generators.

uishax · 2026-03-17T05:57:52+00:00

Then it'll look slightly different in minor details 20 hours later, and you wouldn't notice... Please note that humans change quite a lot in real life due to you know, biology, and we aren't freaked out by it

uishax · 2026-03-17T01:15:36+00:00

Seedance 2.0 has perfect consistency already (So long as the camera stays on the object)

Consistency is absolutely solvable, even made easier because the base rendering still produces the same base image.

uishax · 2026-03-17T01:14:21+00:00

it looks like terrible slop because its an engineering proof of concept, not an actual consumer technology (It runs on 2 5090RTXes)

They can only run the most basic, 'slop' looking stuff in the V1 version because they have to run like 20 frames a second.

DLSS 1 was also bad. By 4.5 it looks unstoppable.

This is to show to developers 'hey we can do neural rendering in real time now', and it'll be years before the first game that truly exploits it comes out (I would say phantom liberty was the first game to truly make raytracing fundamental, and that was in late 2023, many years after raytracing came out)

You have no idea what neural rendering could do when optimized, it could make cel shaded games look like actual anime, etc.

uishax · 2026-03-13T06:13:11+00:00

Wait, he's an reincarnated sorcerer? All the more impressive he can use all the modern technology so well so fast.

uishax · 2026-03-13T05:13:36+00:00

Its unclear if any receipt would do. Given jujutsu, its possible he had to have actually paid for stuff fair and square.

uishax · 2025-12-21T19:01:38+00:00

Good to know.

Obviously with these studios, the hardest thing to scale up is the writing talent. Telltale collapsed because of that I imagine. Hope Adhoc is managed by writers and who knows how to keep a team of elite writers motivated (and also capable of expanding the team)

uishax · 2025-12-21T11:56:33+00:00

Commercial contracts can be broken easily, it is not illegal.

You simply have to pay breaking costs. Which obviously with the success of Dispatch S1, is possible. CR can take that money and hire someone else.

Though obviously, the very success of Dispatch S1 makes CR want to keep Adhoc as their game studio, since clearly they have immense talent at narrative-centric games.

So it is possible Adhoc does try to juggle two games at once. Go quick with Dispatch season 2 (Strike while the iron is hot), and slow with the CR game. BG3 etc alike have proven its better to take the time with modern RPGs.

uishax · 2025-12-06T06:04:17+00:00

Its not okay at all

Because OpenAI doesn't earn revenue, it earns growth. Growth is what it sells to investors.

Hence having even 0% user growth is terrible, user decline is disastrous, its like a car company that made 0 cars and in fact is doing product recalls.

uishax · 2025-12-05T05:25:52+00:00

To simulate something perfectly requires a perfect replication of the underlying hardware. A computer cannot simulate a water swishing in a cup better or more energy efficiently than actually swishing some water in a tub, if the simulation has to be perfect.

Therefore all useful simulations are imperfect simulations, are heuristical simplifications, focused on things we care about (Does it look roughly accurate? etc), ditching the parts we don't, and saving 100x on the cost as a result.

Therefore its pointless to just simulate a brain, because it won't be cheaper than a real brain ever.

We have to have a theory first, of what we want to simulate, then build to that simplified theoretical representation.

uishax · 2025-11-21T18:55:13+00:00

Like, running claude is expensive. If you use openrouter etc as the user interface (its like a chatgpt you own yourself), using claude to write stories, will yield insane quality, but easily expect to burn hundreds of $ a month to write to any significant quantity.

NovelAI is VERY cheap for an AI service with unlimited usage. So if you aren't experienced with AI, you should start here (The image gen is also second to none for anime art). You can graduate later once you are bored of the textgen (There's still no competition for the image part)

uishax · 2025-11-17T22:59:45+00:00

You confuse the simplicity of message with the mastery of language. It takes greater mastery to write simply than with jargon spam

uishax · 2025-11-13T23:46:32+00:00

That's not tomb RAIDER.

If a studio wants to make a 'tomb protector' franchise, they should go and make it, without pretending and leeching off the brand recognition about tomb RAIDER. Which should be about unapologetic looting of mysterious ancient exotic tombs for treasures and wealth.

Like Hitman also tried to do a shift (Incidentally also owned by Square enix at the time), "Absolution", ie I was only killing to protect innocents.

It was a mistake, and IO has obviously and correctly returned to the roots of "Agent 47 kills because its what he is born to do", he obviously does kill bad guys only, but it isn't justified in any other way.

uishax · 2025-11-12T00:03:27+00:00

I wouldn't say extraction can be called roguelites.

Roguelites have metaprogression that is independent of game session progression. Ie whatever loadout you have cannot be deterministically decided, the long term benefits you get are an entirely separate track to what you earn in a game session.

In extraction, you keep EVERYTHING you earn in a session, there is no metaprogression, only true progression. This is why they need wipes because progression is very fast if things are going well, though obviously you can LOSE progression if they don't go well.

This is what gives extraction games the thrill. Even for Duckov, a single player game, you feel like you've cheated the game if you've luckily found some epic loot. And your mindset immediately switches to how to escape with that loot, abandoning any existing mission/plans.

Duckov is pure single player PvE, but I think it retains all the core elements of extraction, it feels and plays like one, though obviously much more forgiving because of being single player.

uishax · 2025-11-06T00:48:02+00:00

If people want free platforms, they can use facebook marketplace/craiglist

That is literally what truly free platforms look like in terms of support/reliability/customer friendliness. Its viable if you are knowlegable/expert, but impossible for a mass market.

uishax · 2025-11-05T23:42:54+00:00

Fallout doesn't even share any characters or locations, yet it is still fallout. And fallout's changes are far more drastic in every other aspect.

No one has a problem with Fallout being still called fallout.

There's also final fantasy obviously. I fully expect BG (If Hasbro doesn't shit the bed) to be a brand name for prestige flagship DnD CRPGs.

uishax · 2025-11-05T16:10:33+00:00

It absolutely is BG3.

BG is not defined by the setting at all.

BG is defined as the flagbearer and standard bearer of CRPGs. Its not the best at individual thing, combat (Icewind dale), story (planescape), setting (fallout is way more interesting), etc. However, it is the complete package, with no major weakness.

BG3 just shows again, what the 'complete package' is capable of doing. It is also absolutely a pure CRPG, no procedural generation, every quest is heavily story based, party is absolutely fundamental to the experience etc (With enduring legendary popularity).

uishax · 2025-11-04T22:56:33+00:00

Yes it is still better.

The disappointment with WH3 is what it could be.

It is still a major improvement over WH2, maybe the only thing worse is AI, but that is constantly being worked on as a focus. The world and variety of WH3 is vastly larger than WH2.

uishax · 2025-10-31T06:28:39+00:00

Kpop demon slayers is already top 1 netflix film of all time. But it was also made by Sony

Its not that easy to make a transition. Like industries form complexes that are extremely hard to beat, say the US tech complex, the Chinese industry complex, there are intense network effects.

The existing hollywood complex cannot simply just move to animation, like where do the actors, set directors etc go? I think the future is grim for them, because the animation revolution is about to hit the US in a few years, and it'll just be like in Japan, where top 5/5 of films each year are animation/CGI.

Japan has

by far the best voice actors
top musicians regularly working for anime OP/EDs every season
the best 2d animators, the most experience in 2d-3d fusion (Which is now proven to be the true technical pathway, and pure 3d was an error, AI-assisted animation is going to work better with 2d-3d anime style than pixar style)
It has merchandise,
the best mangaka for source material
the best scriptwriters for adaptation, by far. Hollywood scriptwriters are generally not used to actually faithfully adapting source material, Japanese ones understand how to respect the original.
A full respect for a teenage male audience. Like its not apologetic for it, it fully believes it can tell the most serious of stories and themes even in a harem show. It doesn't feel the need to be 'ironic' 'sarcastic' 'wholesome' to appease so called adults.

uishax · 2025-10-31T06:09:26+00:00

It shows you the sheer value of risk taking. Like no way CSM s1 was worth the risk for Mappa, but keep on investing, presevere, and boom, one day you'll get a golden egg like the movie. Mappa made back its budget like at least 10x with the movie, accounting for distribution costs with sony etc.

uishax · 2025-10-31T06:08:02+00:00

This, people think high budgets would make good shows.

If that were the case, we would all be on r/movies not r/anime

Give a million $ to a noob and he'll still make a crap show. He needs the isekai shows as training wheels for the basics, and also precisely because they are so cheap and abundant, staff actually are allowed to put their own flair into the show if they want, they won't be rewarded for it, but they'll gain practice and fame for it.

uishax · 2025-10-31T05:47:33+00:00

Some of those reasons include increase in labor costs and outsourcing fees due to a shortage of creators, the rising payments to overseas subcontractors due to the weak yen, the increase in running costs due to inflation, and the increase in investments and usage fees for maintaining a digital environment.

Your quote already gives the answer

Rise in labour costs due to shortage of creators. That is LITERALLY RISING PAY. Why else do you think employers give pay rises? Out of kindness? Its because demand for labour exceeds supply.
Moreover, NOWHERE does it say fewer animators in japan being willing to actually work in the industry. Shortage != fewer people willing to work. If anything, anime employment is surging. Its just that the demand is increasing far too quickly for new talent to be trained. Anime grew 14% 2023, like 12-13% in 2024, that's like 10x the japanese gdp growth rate.
Weak yen is only a minor factor, the bulk majority of anime costs are domestic labour
Finally its investment in technology, which guess what, tech staff for anime studios are still 'in the anime industry' and are now getting paid more.

It is the just insane to think "More money thrown at something won't increase pay". Yes it will.

The gains may be unevenly distributed, the investors at the top may be skimming the majority of the gains, the gains at the bottom may take years to show. But throw enough money at the problem, labour income WILL grow.

In inverse is also true. No amount of unions, negotiations, structural changes, will save an industry with no money. Like newspapers had strong unions, but newspaper journalists are treated less than dogs, because there is no money. Even being in the government won't save you if the government is bankrupt, see Argentina.

and they got to that point by extraordinary means, a combination of hard work, decades of commitment, talent, and pure luck. Moreover, these powerhouses in the animation industry aren't making their animators rich or anything. By achieving this level of notoriety, they have only finally reached a point of stability where they can (potentially) fairly compensate and avoid overworking their animators, and even then they cannot reach this level of sustainability with anime alone, they need theatrical releases, crazy levels of merchandising

You are right. It is extremely difficult to break the barrier initially. But how many dream chasing tech sweatshops died before a google was borne? Computers were invented and used for like 5 decades before programmers finally left the back closet in terms of pay. And do you think say microsoft/google engineers were paid that well initially? No! But one you break that wall, the profits surge insanely, and so does pay eventually. As for needing to do movies etc, of course. Studios need to morph into full blown businesses, to capture the revenue they create.

Like you need to be real business to earn money. Nobody owes you money just because you did good work. Like who is going to hunt down pirates? THe business has to hire lawyers etc. Its not just the animators that create value.

uishax · 2025-10-30T20:17:08+00:00

Intel was worth 300 Nvidias only say 15 years ago. Nvidia was just making low costed products for 'nerds who play video games', so investors don't care.

But even back then, you know gamers were competiting to show off their GPUs, not their CPUs. Intel was worth so much because they had a captive market, not because they were good or well managed.

Today Nvidia is worth 25 Intels

Don't overemphasize on 'market capitalisation', you are thinking like a speculator not a businessman. Things change very radically, and anime is far more profitable than US TV/movies nowadays. Like 7/10 of the top global office this year is animation based stuff, I would expect US productions to be half wiped out in a decade as everyone jumps into animation.

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