Honor is a concept shared between true men and should be respected. If your opponents act without it, then they are not men but animals. And you should put them down like you would any dangerous animal.
That doesn't give you full authority to torture and be a monster just because, just like it doesn't when you kill a bear or the like, but it does give you full rein to do what is needed to control or remove the danger. Its not evil to steal the eggs of snakes or poison entire colonies of insects, nor would it be when dealing with men who've lowered themselves to that level.
Women (and troons) love tearing down other women especially hot ones, so this is entirely catty bullshit masquerading as political activism.
Its not any more effective than it was in high school at doing anything but circlejerking.
I would be genuinely shocked if the TDS types don't have some sort of program to follow without following Trump to keep up on it.
Similar to the people who watch H3H3 videos through his detractors streaming themselves silently watching them, which is currently turning out to be a fun fun lawsuit if you hate everyone involved.
That's how basically all corporates operate, entirely to protect themselves.
If they didn't fire or punish their employee for it in some way, then it becomes "approval" of their actions and suddenly the criminal can sue the company for damages to himself to find some loophole to get paid bank.
Its part of the reason why "letter of the law" is often treated so derisively, because it allows for retarded chains of events like that to become the norm. Because technically X Y and Z until criminals win for doing crime, when anyone with a brain would just tell them to fuck off even if technically.
Markets change, especially as the entire world got less community/social oriented.
Look at what Doordash and similar did to restaurants and fast food in general. Now most of them are adapting towards a no human contact, almost half delivery customer base and that's likely to continue until the people that eat in are so few that its not worth the floor space to cater to them.
It just happened to pizza specifically earlier because delivery for them became normalized decades earlier.
I have ublock, and NoScript even. Odd, but its literally only there and I stopped using them in May anyway after their fucking so its mostly moot.
I did check the forum earlier though and apparently the ads are "temporary" because for some reason they are well below operating costs this year.
Its some specific MD script that allows it to get through, as its literally the only site I get anything of the like through. But there is a giant one for AFK Journey above my library and the classic "give us money" one overlaying on the bottom that turns into a bar if you close it.
Point being you can't beg for money after blowing up something like 30% of your site overnight, telling people to suck it up, and ending any trust the scanlation community could have in you.
Yeah, if someone goes the full mile to "perfect" the work its very much a passion project that requires considerable amounts of work, though maybe not exactly "skilled" work the same way non-AI art creation would. Though you can certainly combine those two to make some truly great works as well.
One of the issues with this entire ethical debate is that the guy saying "draw this girl giving birth" in some program is getting treated as equal to someone going that extreme mile, despite at some point it clearly becoming a creative endeavor all on its own.
You won't convince people with hate boners over it otherwise, but at the same time too many companies/creators have also gone way too "all in" on it without the proper controls/vetting to make it seamless and functional on any level beyond cost cutting.
Probably should have a few really, both in terms of effeciency and extra sets of eyes, relative to the size of the project, but what keeps happening is one guy does literally everything using a prompt/program left over from another project.
It is continually amusing that the same problem you might see on a lazy MTL scanlator working by himself on a niche series repeats with billion dollar corps working on major properties.
The AI will always struggle for the same reason the AI does in every category. People assume its magical, or aren't paid enough to give a shit, so they do zero vetting or editing on it once its done to make sure the parts where it failed to understand the intention are corrected.
It will still need multiple takes to get some scenes right, same as a human, simply because it needs directing on the correct emotion and all that jazz. But as we can already see, companies aren't going to do that so the final product always ends up slop trash.
Now, unofficial works will likely be much improved to the point of superior because passion projects will have guys willing to do that work. Those are the guys that make the AI art right now that is indistinguishable because they've spent hours messing with the prompts and rejecting dozens of lesser versions before considering it done.
Which is probably why they went this way with it. Its usually garbage that nobody watches, so they went with the lowest investment to fulfill their contract and just put it on the site knowing basically nobody would buy it anyway.
Ubisoft truly deserves every fate and worse for that nonsense across all its games. Its especially bad in that game because you can see how much the game chugs and has to load because its trying to log in and verify with the server over and over.
Like most others, probably complain on the internet waiting for his John Galt to finally call on him after setting everything up and doing the risky work so they can finally do the Turner Diaries without maybe getting killed themselves.
Well, I imagine you do, since that's exactly what you've chosen to do.
Well why would I attack the rest, as I agree with them in concept? There is nothing disagreeable in what you were trying to say, only in the retarded method you went about saying it.
One describes a concept, and another describes an antagonistic from a fictional story
So why was Peter called Satan by Jesus? Hm, almost like it was a concept in that story too because the word had a literal meaning before 2000 years blurred it.
I'm certainly capable
Doubt, considering how pissy you've been about seeing a word you don't like.
you demanding respect as some sort of chief greybeard
There is no respect to be taken. You brought up your oldfaggotry originally to try and act like it gave you credit to dismiss people, and I simply keep bringing up my own to say your assertions are wrong and these people have always been here.
Notice we aren't on the fucking donald
T_D founded the .win website. Everything that existed here came downstream from people they approved letting in, and it was much later that it became more open to the greater internet. You'd know that if you were around as far back as you keep trying to pretend.
For better or worse, at least he will get remembered forever above most others around him thanks to being the namesake for the Jojo villain, whose popularity has probably long since eclipsed him just by sheer reach in places that others wouldn't be found in.
I'm glad Youcis is getting the resurgence she deserves. She was genuinely talented a long time ago above most others who got picked up.
And, ironically, is a monster of their own making. She was a virally popular snack vendor at the Phillies' Stadium, completely divorced and independent of her animation and political work. So some killjoy got her cancelled for being a "white nationalist" and basically sent her back in to the dredges of the internet.
Now she has emerged three times as unhinged about the same politics they tried to punish her out of, and they are lucky she seems happy to spend her focus destroying this relative nobody instead of bigger targets.
I never comment on religion.
Except you did. Satan is a concept, that Biblically can refer to the singular entity except it also is used to mean simply "the adversary" multiple times. Because it was literal word, its why Peter the literal founder of the Church gets called Satan once, and you can take his original statement and, instead of sperging out numerous times about "sky gods" simply take it as "agents of Evil" in whatever form you think that is.
That's what a normal human might do, instead of someone with a clear axe to grind that he sees something that triggers him and has an immediate reactionary response to it instead of the point being made.
But sure, you ain't mad at all, my nigger.
you do on scored and the .win sites
You mean the site founded as a T_D offshoot that let us squat on it? I was there on T_D for a lot of years in the first term and, unless it had a radical demographic change at some point, there were far more spams about Jesus/Satan than you see here any day. Again, you keep trying to flex your apparent status as some oldfag but you clearly were either retarded or not paying attention back then.
Ironically, you are right. There are a lot of grifters using "Christ is King" posting to shroud themselves from criticism and give themselves undue authority. And now you've given them the exact ammo they need to keep going by sounding like a retarded Fedoralord straight out of Atheism+, the exact people who need to be gatekept out.
bit I wouldn't be surprised if it got a bit bigger.
It literally can't. Until the companies themselves decide to either start releasing or free the IP to the market. Which they seem to prefer releasing "digital classics" instead, sans the rare "SNES Mini" thing. We are limited to the dwindling original supplies, and the "technically illegal" recreations.
And then, as you said, the rich people trying to make money off it driving prices beyond anything approachable for what originals do exist still.
It could change, but it would need considerable change from the industry themselves to make it happen and they seem completely uninterested unless they retain full control over it all. Only Xbox seemed different, in their big backwards compatibility push, but they are basically dead.
My dog is that religious types have been here since the founding of this place, as I was there talking to Antonio as he was doing it, so your little holier than thou soapbox about it being "new" is nonsense.
But it is very notable that you decided to shit on a bunch of people's beliefs out of nowhere, then when getting minor pushback on it had a breakdown about how the whole of the internet is ruined because you can't do that unopposed anymore.
A 43 year old tranny gets banned from hanging around a schizo young pooner girl in a group home, so he starts sneaking in until they finally break out together?
I'm sure he only had noble intentions with the obviously groomed little psycho.
Ubisoft addresses Stop Killing Games by saying they can't keep servers on forever.
Guild Wars 1 has been online for over 20 years and was being maintained by like one dude for the last decade, for the cost of a rounding error for the parent company. It even did well enough that that guy got around to getting a small team and then did a "reforge" in his spare time. We'll see how well it goes next week when it drops, but it looks solid.
Point being, if the server costs that much to run you fucked up to begin with. And having played Ubisoft games recently, its because they are so terminally "always online" and checking in with the server that of course its way more work.
Epic blames bad game designers for sub par looking games
In all industries, when you give people guaranteed money you get subpar products. Epic was literally trying to bribe people into their ecosystem, and in return they got fleeced as the "free money for early access" and "game that would never sell much anyway" suckers.
People are collecting boxy old CRT TVs, so, some companies are starting to make them
Retro gaming has become like Vinyl music. Where entire industries exist just to provide the most "authentic" experience with the old technology. Its not something meant for casual consumers any longer, its for pretentious faggots or guys with too much money to act superior about. Shit my local mall has two retro gaming stores and the only modern gaming store is the section in Target, and both of those stores are basically the same handful of guys hanging around talking about the same things for days.
Anyone who wants to play the actual game will probably just emulate it or pay for the one broken part from their childhood setup.
As much as I love Dark Souls it really did insane damage to the industry with people thinking they can just create this creative, deep universe and then litter the game with bread crumbs of it that barely relate to anything you are actually doing most of the time. Likely because all the cool shit happened aeons ago and you are basically a cleanup crew finishing it off.
Most of them probably know if you could see the full picture of their universe it would be easily picked apart as stupid or nonsensical, but it sort of "works" when you have a bunch of random pieces and then fill in the blank yourself (or a random youtuber does it for you).
At least the From games remembered to keep the gameplay the strongest suit (until Elden Ring) and you have games like Sekiro where this trend is reversed with insane gameplay covering milquetoast "every Japanese story ever told" cliches.
UPS lost most of thier jobs because their union "won" a huge pay boost and a bunch of other benefits for their workers, to which the company responded in kind by cutting a relative amount of employees to ensure line kept going up.
That's a pretty important context for why that one is so massive. Those guys just straight up got "you gotta earned this extra pay" smacked, because they forgot you don't ever "win" against the corporation.