Wrecker ass post

https://youtu.be/9Q9WGTCFwzY

The vid was posted 10 years ago but it’s much older than that. I remember watching it on Google videos right around Burning Crusade coming out.

Anyway, gl next time you’re in Goldshire.

I think it’s pretty clear that you’re just creating a space for you to exercise your own defeatism. You can either change your frame of reference or you can wallow in your own suffering. Up to you. Everything sucks and there’s no way out but all around you are people doing just fine figuring out how to be good in their own little world.

I want you to realize that you are choosing this and maybe filtering it through the lense of romantic relationships is just the easiest way for you to externalize this. I guarantee you can meet the love of your life tomorrow and you’d make all the excuses as to why you deserve punishment instead and how the love of your life is a normie romantic concept anyway eith no real value.

Get a hobby. Not one in front of a screen.

Aro/ace 40 something here, I think giving up isn’t the right sentiment here. I haven’t been in a meaningful relationship since 35ish either and it’s less that I’ve given up and more that I realized my priorities are different. I have a regular rotation of friends that I spend time with, and there’s been a few I’ve entertained the idea of being sexual with, but ultimately, the shine is off sex for me, the novelty isn’t there to push me into the arms of just anyone who offers, I feel like this is relatively normal but I also know that I have a significant ace bent that is a little outside the norm.

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely miss the oxytocin and the sense of security and the sort of weird sense of success you get from finding a companion on that kind of level, but this isn’t just the raw excitement of bringing someone home from the bar when you’re 22, it’s not the same game.

I second a lot of the sentiment that maybe trying dating apps is good. If you don’t have a lot of meeting places then you gotta alter your net, I imagine you are not alone in your current state where you are, and if you want to just spaghetti method the hunt for companionship that’s probably the way to go. You don’t have to have sex with everyone you meet, you get to choose, but you can’t ever know if you’re interested if you don’t put yourself in a position to meet people.

Or, yeah, you find something else to do for a while. I haven’t been with anyone for over half a decade. I’ve had a broad range of experiences with different types of relationships and I just realized that the standard options don’t work for me. Probably some sort of poorly managed neurodivergence on my part but it also doesn’t feel wrong or like I’m giving up. It’s just where I am. I made my own socks. It’s a unique kind of decadence I didn’t know I wanted. Maybe find something like that and work it out of your system then see what you feel like.

That’s true, I’m amazed by what people are able to do with custom brushes but depending on your art app you can start with drag weight and opacity, and in some cases even textures and that was always a fun start if nothing else.

It was a little bit of a block for me but custom brushes seemed to be the next major step in digital painting.

Oh, it’s digital, I didn’t register that at first so that’s something. I like the composition and it doesn’t feel repititious or forced so you got a good result from the tedious bits.

If you have the physical means, unironically follow along with a Bob Ross video. You don’t have to crib the entirety of his techniques but it’s an incredible exercise in what kinds of strokes and adjustments can create some wild illusions of details that don’t make sense until you stop and go ‘what the fuck how did that haplen’

If not I would still try and study how painters work on things like grass and the like. Taking a lot of time on details isn’t bad, until you get tendonitis and hate grass forever. It’s okay to take shortcuts in appropriate contexts.

https://youtu.be/tETJK4EG1aY

Eigong… and then the other Eigong…

I mean I don’t actually believe this, and I do think disclosure should ve required at all levels if any AI generated content remains in a final product because the goal should never be to dupe people into thinking someghing is sincere and legitimate. Again, the point is the principle behind the shortcut. If you afen’t interested in making dialogue portraits, don’t have dialogue portraits. If you don’t want to write believeable banter, don’t include it. You engage with the artist when you engage with art. If you gave me Undertale today and said it’s completely AI generated then I would be completely unmotivated because it’s not anybody’s story, it’s just content. If you never told me it was AI and I found out on my own at the end credits I would never speak to you again, if not report you as some sort of untrustable source. No matter how believeable the AI is it will never change the fact that it undermines real work and sincerity from real people and will never have a place with anyone who actually cares.

Of course if you want to be cynical those people might be the minority here and that’s a different problem.

TL;DR don’t use AI. Or do, but I won’t play it.

I played a game, Crust, I’ll name and shame, don’t give a shit. Right up my alley, make a moon base, dig in the ground and deform terrain for resources, get it all automated, great stuff…

I’m playing the tutorial and I realize, there a shit ton of banter and dialogue in this tutorial for my factory game, can I please play the game? I do not care what these coworkers are up to.

Then I listened to what they were saying. First, the dialogue was extremely flat. No affectation. Strange emphasis on the words. Oh, it’s AI text to speech. Okay. It’s a small studio, it’s early access, I could forgive that. Then I realized the actual dialogue made no sense. There was some weird logic to the flow of the conversation. Ah, okay, the dialogue is AI. Okay… i mean, it’s early access, and a factory game, and I’m listening to two AI’s talk to eachother and do some weird puppet show of character develolment. Even the portraits are AI generated, none of this is real.

Then they told a joke. I have no memeory of what it was, but one character said something in the pattern of a joke, the other laughed, and I still can’t even play the game. I am a captive audience of an AI telling an AI joke to an AI who made an AI laugh.

I think anyone considering using AI should take a long hard look at what they want to make and their goals. No moon base factory game needs fake ass banter with no bearing on the plot to drive a tutorial. I uninstalled that shit so fast and am now and active enemy of that game. Why? Because someone thought generated content was more important than the gameplay. I don’t care about what happened later on I know everything I need to know about the dev and I hate it with an unexpected passion.

So yeah, no, if a game uses AI content it’s not a game, it’s the weird hollow perception of what someone thinks a game should be, which is an easy flag for me to pin something as inescapably ass.

Just for fun I ran the Mario 3 release price through the Bureau of Labor and Statistics inflation calculator and it came back with $127 today for what 50 bucks was worth in 1990.

I’m not saying $100 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 is good and correct but I will say I always find people wanking on about game prices to be a bit short sighted. Gamers are the most spoiled price point consumers on the planet.

Man Cody/Katie/Wormbo from Even More News look like they got put through the early 90’s prime time TV show filter.

Yeah baby I’m a scorpanceitarius