painting of a big scary T. rex crunching the thorny head of an idiot pachycephalosaurus while his two buddies look on in horror but will probably joke about it years later to soften the shared emotional pain

Painting I did of a T. rex absolutely obliterating a Pachycephalosaurus. 2022

So much of what makes windows machines bad and Mac machines so good is that windows is so filled to the brim with bloatware, meanwhile on a mac, the OS itself is made to ensure the machine runs well. The hardware is great, but the software is sublime.

Warframe's devs said nothing will ever be AI generated in the game? I quit like 4 years ago, but... I guess I'll push my 1k hours to 2k.

Monster Hunter has the best community out of any game I've ever seen. It's like the spirit of the game and how the hunters act carries onto the players, it's truly amazing.

The reason is that they don't want to tie their shoes. They just want to step in and put them on like slippers.

DLSS 5 looks like actual garbage. It basically uses some AI image model to generate faces based on the graphics underneath. It looks dreadful.

CSP 5.0 might be the biggest gamechanger since CSP 1.12. It's not even about the new features (the Procreate-style smart shapes are cool), but the... performance increase compared to CSP 4 is shocking.

So I made the mistake of updating my Wacom driver and my old Wacom One no longer works, purely because of a software update.

I should stick to the ol' reliable - a working driver should never be updated.

I legit did not expect Larian to commit to backing out of all genAI use. But I am glad to hear they did.

MERRY CHAI-MAS 🤶🏽✨

You will own nothing and be happy.
Make sure to renew your GamePass subscription and GeForce Now subscription. Netflix susbcription with ads and Spotify subscription and cloud subscription and whatever else subscription that exists just to take your money without offering ownership in exchange.

Nolan enjoys playing with the narrative structure of a movie - Memento, Inception, Tenet - and when he's given something normal to work with, he really can't do much there. He seems to be a nerd for the mechanics of storytelling.

Clip Studio pro tip:
You can set your blur and blend tools' color mixing to "perceptual" instead of standard, which will massively improve how those tools blend your colors.

One of the conundrums of the entire AI convo is... What if you use a tool like Cascadeur, which is amazing and is not AI, but calls itself "AI-powered" since the AI boom started to attract investors (and help managers meet their AI use goals without actually implementing AI)

I got hand of malenia and rivers of blood in one run, and we even had a volcano so the rivers of blood got legendary. One full rivers would do 5k+ damage to the Dreglord lmao

>then they chose to prioritize process. If you're wondering why their games are mid now, when they used to show the industry how gaming is done, it's that. Process stifling creativity, and them not realizing it. AC2 having better facial animations than AC: Shadows and SW: Outlaws, etc.

Larian and Warhorse both have expressed a sentiment about using AI to streamline process which affects creativity. This is what Ubisoft did, and had one of the greatest falls of any studio in all of gaming. They had the absolute strongest run of any studio in history from 2003 to 2013 >

It's not just about aesthetics. All works should have history of inspiration. As an artist, you should know the names of the people in the images that inspire you, and the names of the artists that made them.

But it's not just GenAI. Pinterest achieves the same goal of ruining art.

One of the things I genuinely dread is FromSoft using GenAI to generate references. I hope it never happens. The cultural grounding of their works is a major reason why they're so valuable.

Just go on youtube and watch Charred Thermos' Bloodborne story analysis to see what I mean.

Lara can't stop catching W's. All versions of her are so amazing. I hope even in the new game we have her doing dual pistol backflips and the dodge/parry mechanic from Anniversary/Legend would be so awesome if it came back. 😍

I found the way Hans interrupts the game's ending to go on a love quest quite jarring, but once everything clicked at the end of the DLC it all made sense. Damn that's some good writing.

Finished KCD 1 recently and there's the way Hans gives Henry a love letter is so damn elegant and Hans is being so careful in his approach. They also made the DLC mandatory to finish the game if you have it. So they absolutely planned for what happens in the 2nd game.

The layoffs are inevitable, and it's sad that the people who should lose their jobs likely won't. And the people who tried to argue they should make a good game instead of this slop will be the ones on the chopping block. CoD is likely dead.

The fuck is this ChatGPT generated shit in an $70 game. No wonder CoD overall LOST players on Steam after this garbage came out. Absolute disgrace of a game.

I truly believe people would come down harder on Arc Raiders for using AI if they knew it's a Nexon game, which a lot of its fans don't seem to be aware of. People hate on Nexon for their recent AI ambitions, but forget Arc Raiders is the testing ground.

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A bit of fun painting my favorite subject tonight.

The only way to get copyright exemptions for research is if you're working outside of the private sector entirely. The moment you have private money enter your research, the exemption is dropped. And you cannot openly distribute the copyrighted works.

OpenAI lost an author's rights case in Germany, and I'm reminded of the time when AI bros were trying to tell me EU directives and German law allowed for AI training on copyrighted works cuz of "research", which now you know for a fact is not the case.