Iain Wilson

He/Him. Making cool stuff for Maelstrom's Edge. Posts may also contain Warhammer 40000, Necromunda, Warmachine, and anything else that catches my eye.

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@mirrorpunch @Mayfuel Lightsabers were always supposed to be heavy. It's why the OT had them generally wielded two-handed. The Prequels made them look lighter to show the Jedi at the peak of their power, but also because Lucas wanted to show more dynamic fights once the BTS technology allowed for it.

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@SpacecraftingCG @ScriptTrooper The movies have been showing ships hovering on repulsors since the beginning. The Naboo fighters in Episode 1 don't even bother using their landing gear...

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@sonyxperia This still doesn't explain what the point is of an AI that suggests filters that make the picture worse. Cameras already have built in filters the user can select. What is the AI actually adding to the process?

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@vnicolici @intersphinx @sonyxperia The blurred background in actual photography services to draw attention to the subject. In this case, the AI achieves it by blurring the whole picture, so the end result is terrible.

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@sonyxperia They're all over exposed, and the flower one isn't even the same picture. Was the person who approved this ad on drugs?

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@pepsi The choice -was- Pepsi, but since they started adding artificial sweeteners here in Oz, I can no longer drink it without a migraine. So, sadly, back to Coke...

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@cryptopunk7213 "8 year old (target audience): “haha that’s awesome”"

Even ignoring that kids aren't the sole target audience for Pixar, the target audience being incapable of telling whether or not a job is done well shouldn't automatically result in an assumption that the job is done well.

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@CourtOfLoreHQ @IsThisA3DModel I know that when the response to 'please explain...' is not an explanation, it's because you can't. Moving on.

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@ethereal_view @Alex_Fedderly @ImKingGinger No, by their logic a person who makes a film using CGI is a filmmaker, while a person who tells the filmmaker their idea for a movie and asks the filmmaker to make it is not, in fact, a filmmaker.

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@CourtOfLoreHQ @IsThisA3DModel Can you explain how my example is any more absurd than people assuming it's ok to use an artist's work without permission because asking them would be too difficult?

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@CourtOfLoreHQ @IsThisA3DModel Should I assume it's ok for me to spray bleach on all of the lawns in my neighbourhood since it's impractical for me to ask every individual resident if they mind?

Or should I stick to killing the lawns I have permission for, even though that reduces how many I can spray?

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@DougTenNapel @mrraenman @grok This isn't live action, though. It's janky CGI with everything moving at that odd, distinctly AI speed, that's unsettling to watch because nothing looks natural.

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@cryptoxiaoxiang Where does the sword in her hand come from? Why do the swords on her back disappear? Where did the pod and the damage to the road go? How does the cut appear across the creature's neck when she slices across its chin?

It's a series of pretty images, not a coherent video.

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@bstuartTI I mean, it's a series of pretty pictures but as a movie clip it makes no sense, the cuts are jarring, there's clipping, and the movement is unnatural. So, no, I watched the clip, and it looks bad.

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@robertflorence I remember spending hours as a kid talking about movies and figuring out how the stuff that didn't seem to fit could have worked.

People these days seem to prefer to just shout at the screen that they're doing it wrong.

I prefer the path that lets me enjoy what I'm watching.

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@MutenRoshi31 @sawyeurism It was worse because Luke couldn't sense any good in him, only darkness. Which, again, is literally explained in the movie.

The audience knows that Ben was caught between light and dark. In that specific moment, though, Luke didn't. And yet he still chose to not strike.

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@MutenRoshi31 @sawyeurism What if, and I'm just spitballing here, there was some dark, I dunno, 'force' that clouded his judgement...

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@MutenRoshi31 @sawyeurism They literally explain the difference in the movie. Luke tried to save his father because he could feel the good in him. He considered (and then realised it was a mistake) to kill Ben because he could only feel darkness in him.

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@Bacon_Is_King @Nightscalestud1 Now go back to the original HH novels and take note of how many Legion-specific units, weapons or vehicles were never mentioned until Forgeworld came out with models for them. It's always been an evolving setting, adding in whatever the studio feels like making at the time.

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@Bacon_Is_King @Nightscalestud1 I mean, back when I started playing 40K there was no 'lore' of ANY Custode accomplishing anything of note. There was just a model of a dude with a pointy helmet and no shirt.