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  • Honestly, that's probably where GOG fits in. They grant you a license to download the full game without DRM. I don't know if they already do this, but if a game is planned to be delisted, they could warn players and allow them to download a final copy that should work whether the listing exists or not.

    In that way, you have a coexisting license and ownership of what you pay for.

  • Because it doesn't just "cannibalize shitty pretenders." It steals from quality artists as well. This is not moral virtue signaling, it's a fact, and if you don't like that fact, take it up with reality.

    It's not about whether AI can make good art. It's about how it got to that mediocre point in the first place. It's about how nobody is offered the chance to opt out. Do you need to memorize, store, and reference every Studio Ghibli art piece to figure out how to paint or draw in that style? Probably not.

    And if you want to pull rank, I got my studio art degree decades ago. Don't pretend that just because "you're an artist, too" (or that you're learning about art) that it absolves you of your complicity in supporting open theft—by billionaires, no less. And if you plan to become an artist someday, don't be so naive to think that you're somehow better than those "shitty pretenders" or that it won't affect your livelihood, too.

  • Oh but it actually is, and there's been loads of studies on exactly what combinations of chords and transitions people generally find pleasing to listen to.

    Okay, pedant. Perhaps I should have been more specific by using the word "melody." But those chords you mentioned aren't all the same. They might be the same notes, but they're all played differently, with more or less expression, with varying tempos, etc. There is math and theory and even marketing studies involved, but Music is more than just notes strung together in a pattern.

    It's a sad reality of the industry, like it or not.

    Okay, but I'm not talking about the industry. I'm talking about music in general, of which the industry is a single part. AI might sound similar to or use some of the same pattern-following as mainstream music, but that doesn't make them equivalent, just nominally parallel.

    And focusing only upon mainstream music discounts the vast array of non-mainstream music. There are countless musicians that try new things, that don't follow the mathematical patterns, that tell "stories." Most of them don't make it onto the radio or into movie soundtracks, but that doesn't make their art less valid or varied, especially when comparing it to AI slop.

  • It means you don't know what good music is (and I mean that kindly), and by using these services that were trained on real musicians' art, you're feeding yourself garbage while helping normalize art theft.

    Music is mathematical. The chords, the rhythm, the time signatures—all of that is based on math. There's a hypothesis that there's a (large) finite number of songs that can be created, due to this fact. If you are enjoying something produced by AI, it's only because it is utilizing these mathematical patterns. However, there's a big difference between AI "music" and music produced by real artists.

    The AI can follow a pattern, but it's not creative. Music isn't just making patterns. It's also about telling stories through sound, and that's not something AI can do, because it has no experiences to draw upon. It can't comprehend what it means to be human, and it doesn't have deep thoughts that drive it to create.

    So if you like something from AI, figure out what genre it is and look for real artists in that genre. I guarantee you'll at least find something in the indie scene that fits what you like, and you'll be supporting real art.

  • It's a blast! The devs listen to and are involved in the community, you can go back and play earlier season content at your discretion, and all the paid content is optional cosmetics that exist primarily as an additional revenue stream for the devs, so no pay to win or praying to RNGesus to get that one ultra rare drop everyone needs.

  • Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?

    Yes, but not if you don't convince others to join you.

    How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?

    Educate people on the dangers. Show them why it's gambling, because there's a lot of apologetics out there to trick people into thinking it's not. Point out the same slot-machine-tactics they use to get people hooked.

    And then convince them to boycott. The CEOs that put this shit in games know how to read sales numbers, and if sales start dropping (or player counts), they'll soon figure out that it's because of their lootbox/gacha systems.

    Lastly, give people alternatives. I usually point people to Deep Rock Galactic, but there may be others that are better suited to people's tastes. "Just leave" isn't really effective if they don't know where to go.

  • Yep, I was more thinking about the first step of login, which I believe you can set to just be a Yubikey, rather than having a password and key combination.

    "Something you have plus something you know."

    But I wouldn't rely upon a Yubikey, simply because I would be worried border agents would take it indefinitely.

  • This is not an example of leopards eating someone's face. Unless those projects threw their support behind Trump's admin, and I have no reason to believe they did, this is simply falling victim to fascist idiots.

  • Cool, and you think Nintendo is spending the resources to develop their own model from scratch? Because if not, the existing models were built and refined upon other people's art (written, drawn, etc.)

    I don't think they are, because that would be costly; it's much easier to just enter a licensing agreement.

  • You missed the point. I'm not talking about just giving a model their library of artwork, which they are within their rights to do.

    That model that can parse their artwork had to be developed and refined upon other work. Unless Nintendo is building their own upon their artwork—which I seriously doubt, because that would be a costly undertaking—they'll be using existing models licensed from somewhere, all of which were developed by stealing from legitimate artists. If they're using it for idea generation (like an LLM), that text generator was built upon stolen writing.

    I'm merely pointing out that it's ironic for a company that takes such a harsh stance with its fans for "stealing" its IP to be okay with AI.

  • The algorithms don't just appear by themselves, and they have to be refined upon something. Are you telling me you honestly believe Nintendo is going to roll their own AI using ethically sourced art and text? Because I don't.

  • Having a Yubikey isn't supposed to be a secret. Security through obfuscation is poor security.

    It wouldn't be much of a secret anyway, since your device would say something like, "Please present your hardware key," when logging in. If OP had a Yubikey with them, ICE could simply search them and use it themselves.

    Yubikeys are excellent against digital attacks but not physical ones, since it's akin to carrying a lock and key together.

  • Alright, so I guess they're cool with AI's whose core models have been developed and trained upon stolen artwork.

    For a company that fucks over its fans for making fan games by daring to use some Nintendo art, I hope they eat shit for this.