Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...
If a company stole your art and copyrighted it such that it no longer belonged to everyone, in the same way that a Beatles record cannot be freely and openly shared, would you be fine with that?
While I have no clear opinion on this, it's hilarious that people who have had over 11 years to purchase the game, often at extreme discounts or in bundles, are rising up to proclaim that they won't be buying this game. Damn dude! I'm sure the developers are sweating bullets!
I'll keep this short and sweet. Some random guy on the internet compiled together and summarized a bunch of climate research papers analyzing global trends and a bunch of different slow actors that are all going to kick in soon like the permafrost in Russia or the polar ice caps etc....
A lot of people want you to be fearful. Fearful people make for very avid readers and sharers of media. Fearful people spend a lot of their precious time convincing other people to be fearful. Fearful people often don't make the most rational decisions.
I'm not downplaying the problem or saying climate change is some sort of fairy story, but I am saying that it is almost impossible to have a 100% impartial birds-eye-view of what is a tremendously complex problem, especially if you just ingest whatever random media crosses your door.
There is no point beyond which the entire game is lost and we should just lie down and rot. Things can always get better, and things can always get worse. So act, get involved in local action and put pressure on government to make the right calls. Act with the hope of a better future in your heart, and save the despair for when the end is known beyond all doubt. It's just another day at the office.
I loved the previous game (still do), and when I first saw the gameplay trailer I felt a bit ambivalent. This is sounding quite refined from the video -- I really love the sound of stealth being less strict and binary, and having to charge up and call in the grossly overpowered weapons like sniper rifles and grenade launchers...
I do, most of the time. I've always felt creative, I always have thousands of ideas and concepts for anything, be it a drawing, a song or a text of any kind, but regardless of what it is, anytime I sit down and try to make something I hate it, I hate it so deeply it disgusts me and kills any will to continue whatever it is I'm...
It's very common to feel this way about your own work. Your eye is trained in both a broad sense and in the context of your own work, consequently you see a thousand flaws that a layman couldn't even consider and even an outside expert would likely shrug off. Ira Glass called this "the gap".
The way to move forward is both make the process as enjoyable as possible and also discipline yourself into doing it regularly enough to improve and flourish. I wish you luck.
Rookie Level 1 Gamer: "They're called boomer shooters because they're old like baby boomers" Veteran Level 20 Gamer: "Baby boomers thought Doom was satanic, that's a stupid term" Enlightened Level 60 Gamer: "They're called boomer shooters because of the huge debt they owe to the original Doom modding scene and therefore "Boom", one of the first limit-removing source ports"
One enables the other, or rather the snake is constantly eating itself. SEO content and clickbait were already plagiarizing and consuming human communication, polluting the web by crowding out actual information -- ChatGPT and LLMs calcify and turbo-charge this. Tech companies are reacting by piling their own LLMs on top -- ingesting garbage and generating yet more garbage. Soon enough, appending " reddit" to our search terms will not be enough to quickly and freely get human information from the web.
Meanwhile -- laymen are being told that ChatGPT is an oracle, an intelligence, by companies and enthusiasts trying to build a crypto-style hype train. And the laymen are reacting accordingly. They are being told that ChatGPT knows everything. It doesn't even know what a pineapple is.
I've recently found that big (mostly open world) games tend to overwhelm or even intimidate me. I'm a big fan of the Rockstar games and absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, but my playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been a bit rocky from the get-go....
I find that I totally switch off as soon a game starts to feel like a big checklist of "Content" to check off. For open world games, this is usually as soon as there's a fast travel feature. For me, it's not that I'm overwhelmed, I just feel that this framework makes for an incredibly samey experience.
The game itself is a workmanlike Battlefield with a few oddball choices. I hope they never "fix" the vaulting behaviour that lets you break a 20-storey fall and make massive jumps across rooftops.
But I've specifically been having a lot of fun with the proximity chat. Remarkably robust, has an opt-in "broadcast your mic for a few seconds when you die" feature, and somehow isn't a sluice of slurs / edgy crap / etc (at least in my experience).
The anticheat news is really depressing though. Cheaters are out there and will come to this game, and EAC at least has a reputation of being quite weak. We're not allowed to have nice things.
It went 30 USD in March 2018. It went 35 USD in January 2023. FOMO really hardly seems like an issue, especially if you compare it to the usual time-limited event sales.
I really wish more indies could take on the no-sales policy. It'd give me tons more peace of mind to buy a game when I actually want to play it, rather than always waiting and doing weird backlog hoarding when Valve decide it's wallet-opening-time.
But as the video shows, the policy was a risk for Wube even back in the day -- it's an even bigger risk now that everyone and their dog expects to wait for the sale, and especially if you happen to have a game that's not quite as incredibly popular as Factorio.
It’s not exactly the same thing, but itch.io allow developers to have a “reverse sale”, where the price goes up for a given period. It was mostly a joke feature, perhaps intended to provoke a little thought about sales culture.
I really liked the priorities this game had. The endless mode (and to an extent the basic gameplay) wasn't the strongest by city-builder standards, but the four or five "story" scenarios the game presented were all really unique and had their own twists and turns. Not incredibly replayable, but was super memorable.
I hope the sequel understands how good this tradeoff was and doesn't try to become someone's forever game.
hey folks. here's a new FAQ on the community, since the currently pinned thread is a bit haphazard and crammed now, and we've had more time to go over stuff....
Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...
What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)
Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....
New Communities + Beehaw is once again looking for community moderators
quick dual announcement...
Skullgirls Will Change Art Assets for Certain Characters (www.siliconera.com)
I am terrified of climate change
I'll keep this short and sweet. Some random guy on the internet compiled together and summarized a bunch of climate research papers analyzing global trends and a bunch of different slow actors that are all going to kick in soon like the permafrost in Russia or the polar ice caps etc....
Infamous Payday 2 sillyposter gives a deep dive on his time with Payday 3 (www.youtube.com)
I loved the previous game (still do), and when I first saw the gameplay trailer I felt a bit ambivalent. This is sounding quite refined from the video -- I really love the sound of stealth being less strict and binary, and having to charge up and call in the grossly overpowered weapons like sniper rifles and grenade launchers...
Do you ever feel like art "art" is not your thing? [Question/Rant I guess]
I do, most of the time. I've always felt creative, I always have thousands of ideas and concepts for anything, be it a drawing, a song or a text of any kind, but regardless of what it is, anytime I sit down and try to make something I hate it, I hate it so deeply it disgusts me and kills any will to continue whatever it is I'm...
I HATE “boomer shooter” (lemmy.ninja)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/22114...
Kinda strange that people are so crazy about ChatGPT's abilities for bad
There are lots of articles about bad use cases of ChatGPT that Google already provided for decades....
Does anyone else sometimes feel overwhelmed by (big) games?
I've recently found that big (mostly open world) games tend to overwhelm or even intimidate me. I'm a big fan of the Rockstar games and absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, but my playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been a bit rocky from the get-go....
BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15 (www.pcgamer.com)
Trolling in RDR2 RP server - DNSL (Youtube, 16:36) (www.youtube.com)
The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price (youtu.be)
new Frostpunk 2 trailer is out and I'm pretty excited (youtu.be)
frostpunk was by far my favorite game of all time and this is one of the few game announcements I'm legitimately excited about...
welcome, new Beehaw users and lurkers. an FAQ and introduction to Beehaw
hey folks. here's a new FAQ on the community, since the currently pinned thread is a bit haphazard and crammed now, and we've had more time to go over stuff....