Cyn

26. I run D&D three times a week becuase I hate myself. Amateur Artist. Sometimes I record audiobooks.

[Cyn @Cynthegm]

Hi, I'm Cyn! I run d&d 2-3 times a week, I'm a portrait artist, and sometimes we do giveaways! I'll gush about my players and OCs from time to time here too! Hope you like what you see!

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@EndlessGait @Sadlittledevi @PanacheDGames Big dog come on you literally used AI to give a piece of my art a Karen haircut and now you're being precious about being criticized? Get a grip, and learn to take it if you're going to be loud, wrong, and an asshole on the internet.

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@hajima_7 You're right on the money. Ive been saying this for like 2 days now and fighting AI bros about it. Unfortunately 1666 is off the wish list and will not be purchased by me.

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@IGN They've "apologized" but their twitter header is still their AI slop marketing image. This wasn't a mistake or an oversight, you don't make or send this out for promotional material by accident.

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@skarsghardy Wasn't there a whole thing where he was really against trans dammon, someone paid for a cameo of like a gay romance confession but he turned them down instead, then anti-trans anti LGBT and anti Palestine shit? There was a lot in the span of like a week

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@50GreyWardens It is 2004: "If fable lives up to the hype you might never hear from me again"
It is 2008: "If fable lives up to the hype you might never hear from me again"
It is 2010: "If fable lives up to the hype you might never hear from me again"
It is 2026:

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@pcgamer Maybe helpful to report that their placeholder asset excuse is insane granted that their main marketing imaging (and twitter header) is full of AI. There was no mistake, no investigation needed. Just lies.

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@eneri74362847 @Wandering_Edge Oh that's my bad, I thought I was talking to someone with a functioning brain. My mistake, won't make it again!

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@eneri74362847 @Wandering_Edge The devs weren't starving and homeless and it isnt a 2d pixel art platformer, can't be indie! Never you mind that this was a passion project by a small team who almost want bankrupt without funding from Kepler, a company started by indie devs to fund indie projects

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@IsThisRealArt_ Real af

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@AberracionEl Err on the side of actively malicious since this is both the background of their primary marketing image and the current header of their twitter. It was never just placeholders

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@eneri74362847 @Wandering_Edge Or it was a small batch of experimental art that got lost in a game with a tiny art team that managed to get rid of all but one instance of AI art bc they genuinely didn't like it. Occam's razor it: is it more likely a mistake or a fuckin insidious plot from an indie game

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@Brent_Malloy @Wandering_Edge Context is key big man

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@eneri74362847 @Wandering_Edge Well that would be because there was literally only 1 instance left that anyone found that was a graphic on a poster on one kind of poster board. That's all that was left

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@yoshismachbike @Wandering_Edge That's fair. I'm staunchly anti AI, but I can also understand why studios developing a game circa 2020-21 might have experimented with it. In minimal use cases + regret i'm willing to give grace. Blatant uses and games with more recent dev cycles are out completely

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@Mordexai0 @Wandering_Edge I don't think that's an unfair perspective, broadly, especially as we get farther from the debut of genAI. I'm saying that I think its excusable in some cases if devs experimented with it when it was new, and later disavowed it, like in e33 and apparently CD's cases, that's all

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@BandanaBush @Wandering_Edge Well yes, I'm saying that I can give Sandfall (and crimson desert as it turns out) grace because of the context. I'm not saying OP, or you, have to. I think you should, but i'm just offering an opinion not dictating to you

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@Mordexai0 @master1ous @Wandering_Edge That is the opposite of what's being said here, let's work on that reading comprehension a bit.

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@Mordexai0 @Wandering_Edge If you'll take a gander elsewhere in the thread you'll note I've already said I dont really care about CD in general, but if its the case where it's minimal usage + long dev cycle then its fine in my book to give them a pass, and that seems to be the case

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@PaladinJujopo @Chaosx_chaos @Wandering_Edge It really is a shame, this was one I was looking forward too as well.

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@PaladinJujopo @Chaosx_chaos @Wandering_Edge Oh for sure. That's why I'm saying that context really does matter. If there are remnants from the early days of AI before people really got how bad it is: sure. If the marketing and waaay to many assets are blatantly AI (looking at you 1666) then you're out, simple as