Honestly, LinkedIn influencers aside, AI art seems to be dominated by two types of people

1. Techies. Not “tech bros”, like people genuinely excited about the technology. They often create AI art as a way to better understand the technology, push the limits of what is possible, and produce art that exists in their head, but they wouldn’t otherwise have the skill to create.

2. Degenerate gooners. Basically they’ve spent so much of their life gooning that they’ve come to hate the current state of online porn. Not like in a “I need a weirder fetish” sort of way, but in a “modern porn is often low effort, and you have to sift through a lot of crap to find something you like”. They work tirelessly to adapt AI image models that weren’t meant for any sort of nudity into their own personal spankbank generators. They are also extremely willing to share all their tricks and tuning, because their idea of a perfect world is where everyone has their ability to casually generate personalized porn.

The two things those groups have in common is that they aren’t making money, and they put in hours and hours a day to perfect their craft. I don’t know if I would call it art, but I would definitely say those people can do things a layman can’t.

deleted by creator

I mean yeah honestly a huge part of European national identities seems to be getting subsumed by philosophies that originated and primarily exist in the US.

I’d imagine that Trump serves as a wake up call in regards to that stuff, but at the end of the day I’m not French.

The only time I’ve heard of “bury your gays” was Voltron, which IMO was a good series that was murdered by a fandom that resented it for not being their personal self insert fan fiction.

Look man this “grown adult acting like a middle school bully” thing worked on reddit in 2019 because everyone was terminally online and you’d be backed up by twenty plus commenters hurling vitriol.

It’s 2025. There are maybe 15 people total interacting with this post. I have a life in a way that was impossible during the covid era.

Grow up.

Sure, but the vast majority of people realize what’s going on if an IP starts rambling on about freedom, Jesus, or the thin blue line. You can make comments about those things being transparent pandering and the overwhelming majority of people will just believe you.

Meanwhile up until recently that wasn’t really true with liberal pandering, and it still isn’t in a lot of spaces.

One thing to note is that I disagree with you on using Chick-fil-A as an example. They are true believers when it comes to this stuff, and half their claim to fame is being good to such an extent that liberals eat there anyway.

The difference between actual diversity revolves around tokenization, flanderization, homogenization, and of course gaslighting.

“culture war” minority characters are often inserted into narratives where they don’t quite fit, are often one dimensional characters, and often all act in a certain way based off their race/gender/sexuality combo, and are often inserted to gaslight anyone who has an issue with the low quality of the underlying product into thinking all criticism is bigoted.

It’s the last point that both you and Ubisoft are leveraging right now. If they replaced Yasuke with some burly Japanese dude, the entire discourse would be centered around how this game is a mid-at-best title for way too much money.

Instead asshole stans like you come out of the woodwork to push a narrative that most negative criticism centered around bigotry.

There are plenty of IPs with minority characters that don’t get shit on, because both the IP and the characters are actually good.

Enjoy your $70 mid-fest.

Okay so explain to me why things like Spiderverse and Baldur’s Gate receive nearly ubiquitous acclaim in ways Snow White and Assassins Creed doesn’t.

It’s a giant scam to get people to defend low effort mediocre content.

It worked for a while, because there was 100 percent a subset of people who just bought games because of social media hype. The combination of the changing media landscape and economic environment has resulted in this falling apart.

Look if you can’t tell the difference between actually well designed games with a diverse cast and Ubisoft crap number 12 then that’s on you.

I feel like a huge portion of corporate America has adopted the following strategy:

• Half ass a product despite a comically large budget, resulting in a product that ranges in quality from mediocre to downright terrible
• Stick some culture war shit somewhere in the product
• Expect reviewers to give you overwhelmingly positive reviews based off political virtue signaling
• Put a magnifying glass on the vocal minority of genuinely toxic fans, so that you can claim everyone who doesn’t like the mediocre product is toxic
• bullshit about sales numbers
• Obfuscate individual success/failures on earnings reports, and blame overall underperformance on “macroeconomic conditions”

Like at this point it’s on me for engaging with these posts I guess.

You’re right. At least doctors have actual experience in the field. There are legions of academics who have never actually attempted to apply any of their knowledge to any sort of real life situation, have an extremely limited ability to function in the real world, and somehow are even more arrogant than medical doctors by an order of magnitude.

Case and point, this comment. The natural conclusion of anyone without an extreme superiority complex is that I just mildly misread the OC because, like the vast majority of people, I spent like 10s glancing at this post before commenting

Meanwhile you have your head so far up your ass that you immediately launch into an incredibly pretentious rant that somehow manages to stretch a three sentence point into three paragraphs, each of which is somehow more insufferable than the last.

Everything about you gives off the energy of someone who thinks they are better than everyone else because they can quote Foucault at will, and thinks the reason why they can’t seem to make connections outside of their field is because people are too intimidated by an “intellectual”.

Joe Rogan is a caveman, but I hate this mentality.

I’ve had a ton of horrible experiences with doctors. Misdiagnosis, given bad medication, bad medical advice, etc. A common trait all of them had extreme arrogance. They all thought they had all the answers, and that modern medicine was infallible.

If you had an issue they couldn’t put a clear label on fairly quick or weren’t responding to treatment in a textbook way, then that was somehow your fault. Either you were lying, or exaggerating, or it was all just in your head.

I’m not alone in this experience. Basically every American with any sort of complex health issues has had a bad experience at the hands of someone who claims to be an expert. That’s on top of the medical establishment letting bad medicine go on for years, because they are extremely reluctant to admit they don’t have all the answers.

Obviously, none of that makes Joe Rogan any sort of intellectual or trusted authority on anything except bro science. How you can’t expect people to have unflinching trust in doctors when doctors let people down so often.

Dude should have just added comments indicating that the code was part of some security test but was unfinished and extremely dangerous.

Change a few file names, add a comment how it will never run under normal circumstances, and you’ve got plausible deniability.

I feel like this is gonna be a cash cow for reddit, just not in a way spez can just openly talk about.

A huge portion of reddit is OnlyFans promos. Reddit is making zero off of all this, because traditional advertising doesn’t want to associate themselves with porn. A bunch of these “paid subreddits” will basically be a reddit’s attempt to compete with OnlyFans.

I honestly think it’ll work. There’s a lot of money in porn.n

I can’t help but feel that a lot of companies would have been better off just staying out of controversial issues only tangentially related to their business.

I appreciate your comment. I feel that DEI in its current form has a lot of things to hate about it. However I usually don’t say anything because I’m worried someone will just call me a Nazi or something.

I’m a Jewish democrat, but as a white man I feel like I’m basically guilty of original sin in these types of conversations.

Comparing Tim Cook to Lex Luthor is somehow an insult to both parties.

Sometimes I feel like democrats don’t actually care more about voters, they just care much more about appearances.

My Instagram reels are the most tame shit ever. You gotta redo your filters.