I’ve absolutely done the Family Guy gag of gift-wrapping a CD to look like a bottle of Jack.

I appreciate packaging that says “y’ain’t gon’ hurt it.”

That bird is a member of Tally Hall.

I made an FPS on NES.

It doesn’t use any mappers or added chips. There’s quicksaves, a level editor. jump-in two-player co-op, and SNES mouse support.

I have not been arsed to add music.

All both of them?

Or like a hundred million?

Sony pulls this shit with every new Playstation, through the ingenious and difficult process of not making enough. “PS3 sold out at launch! New shipment sold out again! And again!” Meanwhile they’d moved fewer total units than the 360 in the same timeframe, but Microsoft made one big shipment instead of three small ones.

I don’t care if kids see tits.

They’ll be fine.

Childproofing the world is a fucking terrible goal, and an even worse excuse for mass surveillance.

I guarantee you’ve been unironically smug about “only a sith deals in absolutes.”

Fuck software patents.

Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark’s mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice.

But software patents aren’t about how you do something - they’re claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody’s gonna care in twenty years.

Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were still single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can’t do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era.

How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.

Now they build a new school for exactly as many students as they have now, because pattern recognition is for communists.

It’s just cranking out albums at an inhuman pace!

… oh, that’s the real band.

Holding out hope for that GBA port.

So if I searched “AI-generated” and “crossover” on a Rule 34 site, it’s just Superman and Marge Simpson. Right? Only the super popular characters that any model can pull off out-of-the-box. Due to totally insurmountable obstacles, there’s no way I’m gonna find Loona from Helluva Boss doing the weird stuff with Sans Undertale.

… huh, that combo doesn’t actually exist. Shame, it sounded hilarious. There’s one of Loona and Toriel, though, with… Katia fucking Managan? Yeah come on, if some quest-thread webcomic character can show up at an orgy that’s not just herself, I think we can say loras work fine for two people.

The current era of humanoid hype has a clear inauguration date. On August 19, 2021, at Tesla’s AI Day

… they picked fucking Judgement Day?!

No, sorry, that’s August 29th. They have some taste.

Text to anything is the least version. You can perform a line yourself, out loud, with your human mouth, and then the model will make that sound like the voice you want.

Diffusion turns whatever you have into whatever you describe. It’s powerful enough to work on noise. If you want even that to be consistent, just use the same noise, with a fixed seed. Otherwise - put in literally any more effort than asking nicely.

So you can’t have 2 people in the video.

… have y’all genuinely avoided seeing anything generated since 2022? Even the text-to-whatever models can handle “left guy” versus “right guy.”

At this stage, it’s literally easier to learn real film editing than it is to prompt engineer 1 minute of continuous footage.

A clip I saw ages ago showed a guy walking through his backyard holding a cardboard tube like a rifle, and then the result of presumably typing ‘monkey soldier walking through rainforest’ was Wish.com Planet Of The Apes. But: same camera motions, same body language. This tech is CGI for dummies. You don’t have to engineer shit, when you can nail down the animatic with amateurs. Or dolls.

You could apply this shot-by-shot to Who Killed Captain Alex, and it would look better than any Steven Seagal movie.

Establishing that they need permission. Which is a massive own-goal from OpenAI.

> Every goddamn Republican does a terrible thing in lockstep

*fist shaking* DEMOCRATS!!!

Aaand that’s why this tech was always going to cannibalize Hollywood. Congratulations, studios! You’ve disrupted yourselves!

If they arrest him again, arrest whoever did it.

Apply consequences.

As if that’s not the goal.

“If Herr Hitler isn’t careful, this may lead to conflict with Poland!”

Same reason strip clubs exist - some people need the social aspect. They want someone to pretend to be into them, rather than just get off.

The poor alloromantic bastards.