And this is where the it comes full circle. To have a team I need to pay the team. To not have a team, I need to do every position provided by a team. Which means if you can’t do it or pay for it, you don’t deserve it and no matter how well thought out the idea may be it will never happen.
Tell me where the line falls.
He takes Americans to the moon?
Straight up, all state and federal politicians should be paid minimum wage by hour. The only way they get a raise is if everyone gets a raise.
Given the state of the world in my dreams, that would mean I only exist in the most unhinged of realities. Each dream world always starts in a reasonable place before it became what it is and I’m only ever around for the early stages of collapse or well into the post collapse world.
Sorry guys, this shitty timeline is my fault.
Don’t know if it counts, but my suitcase record player has vacuum tubes. Still spins but it needs a needle.
I can hear the laugh. Fantastic work.
Bloodhound Gang are such a weird thing to me. Their general vibe says these are a bunch of frat boys that got way too popular but if you actually look at the lyrics of most of their songs, they’re layered better than some baklava. I can’t think of any oust band that can fit two pop culture references, a double entendre, and a straightforward statement into one sentence and have it seamlessly rhyme.
Quick, someone link them the kidz bop version before they grow up to be perverts!
So I’ve got a few points on this. The smallest is that welding is very much an art. Any dingus can stick two pieces of metal together. A consistent bead, a steady hand, it’s all on par with painting but no one considers that because it’s used practically instead of aesthetically.
That segways to my next point, art isn’t just the pictures. I don’t have 4 years to learn how to make the art because I’m not passionate about that. I love the mechanics of the game, my creativity is in balancing and abilities, loot tables and incremental growth rates. You wouldn’t say the people who decide the spray pattern of digital guns or the appropriate damage for level 12 don’t deserve to be in video games because they didn’t paint the skyboxes.
I love a story about a single guy making a game from scratch over twenty years as much as the next guy, but it’s unreasonable to say that everyone has to do it that way or it doesn’t count. Just as unreasonable as saying someone’s idea for a game doesn’t deserve to exist because they can’t pay a team to make it.
To be clear, I’m not defending the slop. There’s probably plenty of games on steam that are AI garbage to grab a quick buck. That’s fine to hate. But all the people out there that put their hear into the work and wrapped it in the wallpaper of AI, they deserve to be seen. We can’t all be good at everything and that doesn’t make what we do any less valid.
My dude, every time you post these my spouse and I talk about how cool they are and how she needs to add this to her tie-dye roster. I’d wear all of these.
Woot! One year!! Congrats my dude! Thanks for making Lemmy what it is.
Been doing a lot of pickling lately. Sourkrout with apple cider vinegar, coriander, dill, garlic, and crushed red peppers is damn good on a hotdog.
If you don’t have the money on hand to pay what it would have cost out of pocket, then you’re better off dying.
This is the main reason I cheat ballistic weave on everything in fallout 4. I love some of the outfits and it’s dumb that they’re worse than the vault suit.
I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have a lot of leaned skills but programming and digital art aren’t on the list. Since I don’t have the money to pay someone to make a game for me or 4 years to learn the whole of the skills from scratch, generative AI is my only option. Plenty of people will look down on me for that but if they had a robot that would do all their welding and woodworking for them they’d tell me to get fucked for asking them to pay.
That’s actually a bit of a mislead. Most AI software has hand correction built into models now so they get it right more than they don’t. We’ve all just associated bad hands with AI so the easiest way to get the wanted response is to make bad hands. If those images are AI generated, I’d bet “bad hands, too many fingers” were in the prompt.
Organization and exploitation of the tolerant.
The right wants to meddle and they wanna fight you so they can meddle more. The left don’t want to bother, they want everyone to mind their own.
Letting meddlers mind their own means they come to you to meddle and you leave to avoid it and suddenly there’s Lemmy in an internet full of people that want to kill you for not being them. The left doesn’t fight, it allows.
At the time I read The Girl I thought that part was a bold move. Drinking random creek water will totally do that to you and I liked that he didn’t pull his punches just because the character was a girl.
Then I read his other works. I’m pretty sure he’s into kids. There’s a small benefit of the doubt that it’s his version of a dead baby joke and he does it just to fuck with readers, but I’m too jaded to expect he’s not dicking children himself.
Hell, you’re not even gonna get that far. I don’t think there’s a forensic lab within 2000 miles of me that could do this kind of work. All that funding goes to guns and cover ups.