gamers are the single most oppressed minority in human history and it's not even close
the good news is that literally nothing they can do to their oppressors is morally wrong
As a game dev who just switched to Blender and has figured out exactly how to make AI work really well inside of Blender, I think the workflow is probably going to be less about prompt generating and more about artists integrating AI into their tools to work more efficiently.
AI is like a lever, if you’re weak, you can move something that someone strong could move. If you’re strong, that force-multiplier now allows you to do superhuman feats. I imagine that a single talented VFX artists suddenly is more effective than a full studio if he has the right tools.
@ZanVT_INC I’m just confused about who tf cares if Zentraya is a woman or not. Like it’d only be relevant if you were gonna be parasocial over em, and like… why the fuck would you ever be parasocial over a TTS voice you freak
One of the fun aspects of this too is that its actually fix one of the main issues with Harry Potter: the House system is extremely shallow and they seriously gloss over that in the end. The idea was always that Slytherin wasn’t supposed to just be “the racist bad guys”, but instead representing the virtue of ambition and cunning to achieve your goals. Voldemort was the one who twisted it into the being the Wizard KKK, so by Harry bonding with Malfoid in the end, they are essentially healing the rift in the houses symbolically.
@moonlightbro “Dumbledore, why does this mirror keep showing me Malfoid?”
“Oh hmm it uhhh… shows you your greatest rival” while he thinks about how funny it is to play this game with them
She tries a bunch of "Certified Muggle Courtship Strategies" and it ends up just being weirdly translated pickup artist tricks, and as a result Harry is just confused, so she pivots to being mean to deflect her embarassment.
Eventually she switches over to reading romance novels in an attempt to learn how to woo him, but all of the ideas she gets are far too embarrassing to actually try on him, so she just gets addicted to reading romance books all the time and imagining Harry as the love interest.
More Draco Malfoid
It can be pretty frustrating knowing your crush was raised like a Muggle-born. And has no real basis in high-class wizarding etiquette or courtship. Maybe learning some muggle stuff helps.
The problem with the way people flirt today is that they misunderstand it.
Most young men today think flirting is superficial charm to mask that what you really want is sex. That's why so many women hate it.
That's also not flirting.
It also sets off alarm bells in most women because it's lying.
Flirting is an end in itself. You flirt for fun, NOT to induce a woman into a date.
Flirting is supposed to be fun. It's also supposed to be noncommittal. You're supposed to be able to be flirty with randos with zero expectations.
Why? It's practice so that you can flirt well when you're on a date.
When you're chatting with a stranger, you're not supposed to be trying to get a date. You're just supposed to have a little fun.
This is why you're supposed to flirt with anyone... Old ladies, fat girls, and so on. You're not trying to have sex with them. You're trying to make them feel good.
This is what too many today misunderstand about flirting.
I think that it's perfectly reasonable to say that Harry Potter isn't nearly good enough to justify the position in culture that it has, I've read sooo many books in the same niche that are much better.
At the same time, it's still good, it just has a bunch of annoying problems.
Most complaints levied against Harry Potter ring as cope.
Either because the complainer has a political beef with the author or because the complainer is upset about how popular Harry Potter is and continues to be.
Both types wish the masses loved what they wanted instead but fail to understand what the masses find entertaining.
@BenisKen Ginny wasn't in the story enough for it to mean anything. She felt like such an afterthought that I didn't even know who she was when I first read to the end of the books.
AI is just like any tool: It's a force-multiplier
If you totally suck, it'll make you suck slightly less. If you're already skilled, then you have the knowlege to actually build a coherent structure for the AI to work within so that it's not constantly patching its own holes.
@willie_ole AI in the hands of an incompetent will post on twitter "i made 5 bucks with ai and you can too!!"
Then a competent developer get it on their hands and suddenly become the equivalent of a fleet of senior engineers
AI hating was fun a few months ago, now its kinda too good
Actually a shockingly good movie that did this well was Onward, which used the MC learning his wizard powers throughout the movie to drive the plot, and also gave rules for each spell.
Hollywood is really really really opposed to the idea of ever actually having an interesting power system or magic that you can follow along with.
I think it's due to their belief that magic and powers are baby shit and that they have no respect for the audience's ability to follow these things
One thing that I adore when reading/watching a fantasy story is learning about its magic system.
Now… so far, this girl can just zap with her hands and apparently do anything, including create life from nothing here. That’s INSANELY powerful for such a simple spell, feels lame