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[JC @JColson963]

@BilsuArt A long running scam they don’t want to break away from to increase profits using the excuse of ‘tradition’ to justify it

[JC @JColson963]

@MarathonDevTeam Nice fix lads…love losing everything to stuff like this

[JC @JColson963]

@nuAngelics Yep it’s a GREAT fix

[Valephore 🌙♦️ @ValephoreVT]

Concept Artist here, the "AI hate" directed at Larian Studio is 100% ignorant and bad faith virtue-signaling.

Artists are NOT against AI usage as a tool, we're against Generative AI that was trained on real artworks and mass-produced "slops" that imitated our hard work and then marketed as our replacement.

In pre-production, the art team would grab random pics off the internet and other games to create a general mood board for aesthetics and "vibe" that fit the art direction (There are more nuances than this, I'm describing this in the most simplified way possible)

A mood board of a character may include several pictures of other videogames or anime shows, dozens of object with "texture references" for parts of their attire, multiple reference pictures of relevant objects such as animals or historical weapons or even other character artwork made for other games; ALL of which are randomly drawn from the internet and put together for the purpose of creating an overall aesthetic for a design that will become original in its own way inspired by its references and the artist's own creativity and originality to visualize it when they create the design by doing ART.

Larian Studio mentioned using AI to streamline this process; an actively menial labor of "looking for relavant and cool pics on the internet" in essence.

There is zero reason why AI speeding up this process is a bad thing; it is essentially the same as someone asking Grok for facts they could have spent a few hours reading through Wikipedia pages.

None of the pictures grabbed by either the AI or the art team in this process are being exploited for any monetary gain since they're simply inspiration and visual direction, this has been standard practice in the industry for decades.

[JC @JColson963]

@cecililytweets The lowest of bars…

[JC @JColson963]

@rickydickydbd A slightly different idea

[Kerrcarr 🌘🟡🌘🌘 (🔴)🌘 🟡🌘🌘🌘 @Kerrcarr01]

Why didn’t he shoot himself to live?
Is he stupid?

[N² @4nt1r34l]

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.

@Bungie @josephacross

[Jyggalag, Princess of Order @_Jyggalag_]

"Star Wars CANNOT handle mature topics" is one of the biggest reasons why we've gotten nothing but dogshit for years I'm NGL

[ris🥀tomura i love you @amarisllis]

Generative ai. You mean generative ai. Not all ai. PLEASE fucking stop doing this, NOT ALL AI IS BAD. you’re not helping by spreading overbroad generalizations on the internet tht aren’t factually correct. Its not semantics when it *really fucking does make a material difference*

[JC @JColson963]

@fatherstink Sorry I couldn’t decide between these two. The round lad

[Jason Smith @JasozzGames]

actually what the hell, ive got a few minutes to burn

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

At this point Microsoft’s tagline for Xbox might as well be:

“Owns everything. Does nothing.”

[🦇 Holly 🦇 Bsky: @teridax.dev @TeridaxDev]

theres a lot of really interesting problems to solve here. like how do we make the AI remember where blocks are placed?

and then you think about it for 2 seconds and the answer to every problem is "program Minecraft normally". so what is the point of AI here. why does this exist

[Dallas ✨ @Dallycatxo]

I dont want pokemon to look like Xenoblade I just want it to look like they actually give a shit

[JC @JColson963]

@jifferey Why do you find it dumb sock man? I can see it creating lots of easy openings (maybe too easy) but this is my first time playing MH so I’m no expert on how long or difficult hunts should be

[JC @JColson963]

@jifferey Fuck mate, gotta love the super reliable airport staff and companies

[JC @JColson963]

@medster101 The first and only multiplayer fps to give me goosebumps mid operation match

[JC @JColson963]

@bartonovopolis So it looks great? Sounds good can’t wait

[JC @JColson963]

Ghost of Yōtei already looks beautiful and considering the time period I almost hope for some reference to Blue Eye Samurai (another female protag done very well)

I couldn’t care less if our MC is female or not, they need to be interesting, Jin Sakai was good, not great

[JC @JColson963]

Really looking forward to this game, especially the music, landscape and overall open world experience.

Jin’s story is done, the ‘Ghost’ franchise being set in different periods of history is way more interesting imo, people complaining about a female protagonist can get bent