Tokyo Morose

Man was born tired, and lives to rest.

Involuntary HikkiNEET currently mostly on Twitter for War In Europe™.

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@KingOfSuper @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd (Also uh, his estate has... how do I put this politely... has a history of whoring his image out for enough cash. Like the funny "holograms".)

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@KingOfSuper @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd It's not the visual aspect that is the problem, that's obviously just a model.

But uh, where is the voice coming from? They can plead not an AI all they want, but at the same time there also isn't a voice actor for him unlike the other dead guy.

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@KingOfSuper @Pax_Kandoris @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd I had to assume they were talking on both, because they've said nothing about the source of the voice besides the fact that no VA has been cast.

I do hope you see the issue there.

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@cronos12 @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd Are you someone interacting with the Yakuza?

There's a good chance Tupac had never even heard that word before he died. This isn't some "life of a generic salaryman" game.

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@cronos12 @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd Again, this game is going to be set in Japan.

There's no way they have actual archival tapes of him talking about ANYTHING in Japan or Japan related.

He wasn't some '90s weeb. It has to be made up, and they aren't using a VA.

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@Pax_Kandoris @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd They've confirmed it was "made from videos" and not done by a VA.

Bunta had a protege they got to do VA, it's very classy. Synthesizing the dead guy's voice from old clips fed into a voice model is... less so.

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@cronos12 @DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd "built from videos" yeah that is how you train a voice model.

You can't avoid AI unless you are using an imitating voice actor or *only* using speech already caught on tape.

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@DonovanContre12 @sickheartedd They're almost certainly going to use an AI voice model, in the same way they had the (pre-transformer era "AI") AI "hologram" of him.

It's sort of the worst fear a lot of artists have of AI - you die, your likeness gets sold, and replicas of you get sold forever.

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@Alfa_Particle GT7 is a more traditional, track/course-based racer, of course - pissing on FM8's grave.

The only real rival to what FH is was the Test Drive Unlimited games.

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Forza Horizon 6 update: having to choose between very easy to beat AI, and slot car AI that literally cheats...

Neither are too appealing.

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@Alfa_Particle @AbsolutelySplam There were plenty of great 80s ones though!

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@IndoZEnjoyer @Catbias1 @failure1991 @Majmunspiuni3 @ArmchairW @AmericanVatnik @JoeWestNaCl I've seen it, yes.

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@ChandlerZ18 @AzorFrank @VideoCardz I've noticed for quite some time now APUs have been treated as a red-headed step child at AMD.

They have a near-pathological aversion to keeping them up to date. Either in software support or their classic of releasing new APUs with old IP blocks.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Fun fact: Both the Jaguar 00 and Audi Nuvolari were designed under the same Design Director, Massimo Frascella for a period of time.

Massimo left Jaguar in January 2024, and join Audi as Head of Design in June 2024. This is why they’re kinda similar. 😂

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@Comebackkid2136 @Idawmnz I might have to put up a raffle for the spare 2070S I have sitting unused.

I know like 5 AC fans who can't meet sysreq.

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@Mii_O_Nine @Idawmnz Nah, it'll probably run. They just won't support it.

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.

*wheeze*

“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”

Mostly itself.

You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.

*wheeze*

In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.

As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.

The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.

* wheeze*

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.

Hah hah hah…* wheeze*

So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”

The answer is:

“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”

* wheeze*

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.

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@MinModulation In fact, incredibly likely to double or triple down for someone having dared debate them. Eventually reaching the fabled "You being so mad just proves me right!" stage.

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@FifthCrichton @bryanculbertson Chief of strategy!

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@AbsolutelySplam @Alfa_Particle From the same designers as the new Jaguar concept!