The thing that makes Alchemist leaning into AI art extra annoying is his track record of amazing visuals that accompanied his work for the longest and now he resorts to this low effort shit for no explainable reason than laziness
@RealUndyingStar@HCStealth ai is being used a lot more for programming in most companies than you’d think, I know a lot of incredibly talented developers that use it regularly; a lot of software you use these days is being developed with some level of ai assistance (and when done carelessly, it def shows)
@WaterMuseum_ Fun fact: Hawaii in Tony Hawk’s Underground did something kind of similar for the distant ocean shimmer - just an overlay texture over the water. I don’t think it was animated though.
@fxrmaIine@mascdonna This video came out in early 2022 before ChatGPT was even a thing. Absolutely not comparable to using AI video gen now and required a lot of manual work and was likely using software ran locally. If anything this is really impressive and cool
@anontanuki@greenmellonade This was pre-launcher when you could only play on the site (unless you downloaded the jar)
For a while your saves would be stored with your account too because they were so tiny. Wish I saved mine. Good times