Joe Kent has resigned as Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center:
“[Iran] posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
everything about this is a betrayal of these game’s artistry. painting over hand crafted intentional 3d art with shiny, wrinkly, sunken-in, porous, puckered, fraudulent filtered nonsense is deeply disrespectful. if you want this just watch gen-ai videos all day
we should stop treating videogames as products of their time(derogatory) and start treating them as product of their time(affectionate). It's a piece of history influenced by its environment, circumstances and the state of creators lives. It's awesome! We need to appreciate that!
"would you still love me if i was a worm" weak, stupid question, has no ramifications
"would you still add me to your team if I had bad IVs and a nature that lowers my preferred attack stat" , difficult, powerful moral dilemma, will eventually run into this situation
The heartbreaking part is that the left image is literally how drawing starts. Blocking out ideas like that is a common strategy to art. They’re so close to creating what’s in their head themselves but instant results culture has normalized skipping the part where people fall in love with the journey of creating. The main goal of art has never been instant end product consumption... it feels like society has forgotten that