He is getting what he deserves right now with the sexual assault accusations. It is a bed he gleefully made and the only thing left for him to do is lie in it.
Sully outed himself as an Anti-American fag a while ago so I wouldn't worry about it, what he did was heroic but as Mr. Dent's saying goes, you either die a hero...
Yes, but the fact is there normally comes an ownership gray area once that product is no longer "current" and support is discontinued. Where the manufacturer indirectly cedes responsibility of the product's upkeep unto the owner. Apple will not fix a 20 year old iPod, for instance, but they might offer you a new iPhone at a slight discount.
Take cars for instance. Other than extreme edge cases with experimental technology like the GM EV-1, cars are NEVER called back to the company to be destroyed once they reach a certain age and decide to stop stocking parts for them. But at the same time, during my continued ownership of an older car, I never become the owner of the car's intellectual property. I do not own the rights to the 1990s Toyota Camry in its totality, I just own AN example of one. And in owning that car, I can do whatever I like with it without the company sending me nasty legal letters. Drive it for another half a million miles. Change the body or engine parts. Lower it. Repaint it. Chop the roof off. Put my name on the back instead.
The same should apply to other forms of media. I don't own a film or a game, but I own an example of it. And given that product has now had support officially terminated, there should be absolutely NOTHING holding me back in enjoying that product even though support is gone. Whether that's as simple as playing it or giving it a total conversion into another game entirely through modding and remastering.
And until a landmark case rules in our favor, which is likely never, I am going to keep pirating, cracking, and distributing the tapes because if licensing beyond the original support window isn't ownership, then pirating isn't stealing. End of.
Exactly - the dev's rights basically ended the moment a player's hard drive began and he started taking the game apart, adding a NoCD patch, and getting it ready for copious modding. That was something they could never control.
Conan The Barbarian.
non-political
I'm taking that to mean "might have mentioned something political incidentally but doesn't ram the author's views down your throat like modern media does and leftards try to deny by claiming it was 'always' political".
Basically anything with John Wayne in it, especially now given that they kvetch over his very existence.
The first two Dirty Harry films. The first one has a retard that gets worshipped by the media for "duin nuffin wrong" before he gets a bullet to the dome. The second made Pauline Kael cry even harder than she did over the original; that alone is worth your watch. These are accidental because this was literally <5 years removed from Eastwood's spaghetti western stint, and he didn't realize how pozzed the America he grew up in had become.
Taken (2008). Cheesy, yes, also a shameless rip-off of the first season of 24 (down to the daughter being named 'Kim'), but with an excellent message at the heart of it; to protect what's yours and make anyone who threatens that harmony pay dearly. First sequel's fairly good, though the third one is garbage.
Boggles my mind that no-one's just shot the motherfucker yet.
Cool story.
3D printing
Not really AI, is it? More like an automated script that actually knows what you want doing.
Anatomy and details
AI got over the "six finger" thing about two years ago, my man. Provided you have a competent, trained model the errors you'll experience won't be that much worse than an average paid artist's.
The rest
I'm not going to address every point individually, just that most of the slop you see is the natural end result of granting internet access to hundreds of millions of turdworlders who lack the brain capacity to know what's good and what's slop, or even what's real and what's fake (as the three-headed African talent show singer has recently proven). You cannot grade what people with functioning neocortices desire over the basal lusts of those who are barely above animals.
The progression of AI as it develops is not going to be stopped. And the leaps and bounds it's made in the last 10 years is an incredible feat of engineering, given that in 2015 it could barely draw a cow in a field. And leftists are running scared because they thought they could colonize all of the arts and charge whatever they wanted for any old shit.
The pushback against AI has been so otherworldly levels of strong because the current crop of gatekeepers realize that a parallel industry isn't only about to spring up, it's about to leave them in the dust.
The working class cannot afford basic art commissions anymore; paying some faggot on DeviantArt $90 for a basic line drawing, $150 to have it colored, and $200 for shading isn't a worthwhile investment for someone who has much more productive avenues to spend their money in. Especially if the quality of the art isn't frankly worth an investment of that size.
Similarly, the answer isn't just as simple as "picking up a pen" (read this so many times the past two years I want to take that pen and shove it up their asses) when you've got a job to do >50 hours a week or more that your livelihood depends on. Broke my back on bricks for 8 hours - what do I want to do now that I'm back? Rest, or draw? Rich faggots like Pewdiepie can take up art whenever they want because the worry of money is completely gone for them. Furthermore, not only do you have to be well-rested and flush with cash, but you also have to have a degree of innate skill that no amount of tutelage can bestow you that you can then build on. If you're shit at drawing at age 14, you'll probably still be shit at 34 because the development your skill should have underwent by that point didn't happen. It's like playing pro football (or any type of sport); if you're not good at it as a kid, you aren't magically going to become a god at it as an adult. The same goes for art. We don't tell football enthusiasts who can't even do a basic tackle to learn to play the sport before they're allowed to appreciate it.
Then there's all the other drawbacks that come with hiring a flesh and bone artist; delays, injection of personal political views, and the worst of all, flat-out rejection depending on what it is you actually want. Take something like lolicon for instance; regardless if there's sexual content in there or not, no artist in the Western hemisphere is going to touch such a commission with a 20 ft barge pole these days and will likely even rat you out to the authorities. So why take the risk? Just create an AI model in your preferred artstyle and churn away. Cut out the money-grubbing middleman and spare yourself the blowback.
Grey DeLisle's chimpout over that one animator who used a synthesized version of her voice is another good reason as to why so many of these fuckers need curbstomping back to reality and shut out now that we hold the cards, no matter how famous they may be. Where was this homewrecking harpy's objections in the days of YTP when we manually sentence mixed material such as hers?
The worst part is, so many of the chucklefucks who spread the biggest amount of propaganda concerning AI (such as "stealing" artworks - if that's the case, then tracing and sampling are also types of stealing by the same logic, or the supposed environmental impact it causes) are the people who stand to benefit the most from it. If you're already a great artist, there's no reason you shouldn't be seeking to maximize your profit by creating a model to replicate your style and rapidly cut down development time by letting the machine get the basic line work down for instance.
In the next 10 years, Ideas Guys will inherit the Earth and its many arts. And it will be infinitely all the better for it.
1 word: Minnesota.
Somalians have basically conquered that state and no-one has done a fucking thing.
Give us one more with Wesley Snipes. He still has it.
Half of her surname is "Basora", which literally means "trash" in Spanish lmao
Taking out the trash indeed
She has the same facial features as AOC.
Truth be told, I suspected it for a long time.
No fucking way a gigaloser like Hbomberguy can make half a mil+ a year sitting on his ass doing nothing, especially if you're someone like me who does the YouTube gig, puts out a fuckton more content, and only gets a few grand a year despite getting 6 - 7 figure views each video. Just not possible.
As another commenter pointed out, this is outdated by about 12 - 15 years. AAA studios don't look like this anymore.
The "lead programmer" is now some 20/30-something skiddie who can barely remember a time before Unity and Unreal Engine. Look at Grove Street Games, for instance. Not one of them had more than 5 years' experience in the industry, and yet they were entrusted with the remastering of an all-time classic trilogy.
Most 2D artists can hardly draw, making simplistic, single-shaded sprites that even an artist from the era of the Atari 2600 could have bested. 3D modellers are rapidly disappearing in favor of those who scan from real life or take shit out of a stock library without optimizing it like the infamous burger model from Cyberpunk 2077. Texture creation is also similarly awful these days - again, look at the "Definitive" GTA releases and see how shit some of the pajeet-created textures were, taking the originals and OCR'ing some hilariously incorrect text onto them.
Composers? Minecraft used to have C418. Now they have Lena Raine.
It's all gay and retarded now, from top to bottom. A fag writer and DEI consultants can only ruin a good game by so much. The rot has to come from elsewhere in the development.
In the past, famous people such as writers, actors, athletes and musicians had a private life that largely WAS private. Very rarely would you hear their unfiltered political opinions. You just saw their art and judged them by that alone. If you knew anything more than that, you were either a biographer or a creepy worshipper/stalker figure.
The modern internet with social media and the terminally online who use it allows common people who otherwise wouldn't know shit about what they're "learning" to invasively pry into not only certain celebs' current personal lives, but their past too.
D-did you know in 1989 this actor called someone a nig-
No, and neither did you before someone else terminally online decided to bring it up every single fucking time that person gets mentioned despite it happening decades ago. Knock it the fuck off.
To me, members of a dev team should be given 20 minutes to fire up a game they worked on and point to something they contributed - some menu UI they designed, a voice line they scripted, a camera angle they programmed, a texture or model they created etc.
If they can't do that, they are surplus to requirement. Like all the jeets on AAA titles.
Haiku.
The new "Former President Trump".
Always found it funny how the media shat on him for referring to Obama as "former", which although not correct (since a President never loses his title, not even in death), it took them the best part of 5 minutes in January 2021 to begin referring to Trump as "Former President", almost exclusively for the next 3 and a half years.
Funnily, I don't see the media using the term "Former President Biden", not even after using quotes on Google's News search. Rules for thee...
The business should never have been hijacked from the Disney family to begin with. Not Iger, not Eisner, not Katzenberg. Eisner's tenure did print the company a lot of money (with their genealogy, what else would you expect) but it changed Disney from that "innocent" company who turned still drawings into masterful works of art into a predatory, omnipotent corporation that didn't even want you home taping their classics when they came on TV. A company that bought out its partners and competitors left, right and center all the while spreading its hooked tentacles into every facet of not just American life, but just about every other culture too.
Look at Leonardo di Caprio. They think a 49 year old male being into a 22 year old woman is pedophilia.
Tubi is quickly proving itself to actually be the streaming service every other one promised they were. I'd gladly pay $1 a month to use it if they ever wanted to charge.
His most popular videos were the "Glitterbomb" series, which he announced a year or two in advance would be drawing to a close.
If you watch them, it's obvious why he wanted to stop making them. Because his audience was starting to overwhelmingly notice the race of the porch pirates, especially the more violent ones.
Literally no-one outside of the satanic elite is doing that anymore.
GOOD
Hopefully they can remove all permabans for the bullshit reason I got banned for (which was literally stating that menstruation was a woman's biological indicator that her body is ready to carry an infant, and that the only reason the age of consent is 18 is because it's largely understood as the age a person can competently take care of themselves without being manipulated).