I've got a couple of Youtube channels I follow, ChristopherOdd and Splattercatgaming, who seem to mostly charge through a lot of indy content, giving it a whirl so you can check it out. So that helps to surface anything interesting happening outside AAA studios.
That and just waiting for recs to come from word of mouth.
The fuckin bong joke is majestic. I assume he was pulling these out of his ass at signings, too. Nice handwriting, Mark.
I could never be famous enough to sign stuff, people would get it back like what the fuck is this? My sig would be all inconsistent, too. Hamill is a pro, though. Even back then.
You know? He handled going from nobody to Luke Skywalker pretty damned well all things considered.
Idunno, I feel like they certainly fathom it to some degree. They have an awful lot of funky little predator evasion techniques for an animal with no fathom.
That whole schooling thing is a bunch of fish going, I know they like eating us, but I'd rather they eat YOU.
I do agree that they have no conception of humanity, just that sometimes their friends get raptured away by something that makes a boat noise.
Best chess I ever played was when I fired up Yackety Sax out of nowhere and started chessing away with my friend, just saying. I lost the hell out of that game, died laughing.
I managed to be on TikTok for one (1) calendar year and then bailed. For now, I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, but soon, something like this is just going to be a weird picture that means nothing. That's a strange thing.
Oh, yeah, that's the new normal, I'm a bit surprised they gave you a whole 100MB to call your own.
The modern Dad pro-move for giving the kids a game console for Christmas is to sneak the box open, set it up, do all the ridiculous downloads and patches then sneak it all back into the box nice and tidy so that the kids can just open it and go on Christmas morning.
He's not. No Jewish ancestry and his current practice is a sort of casual Catholic thing, but he also thinks Dawkins is cool, so about what you'd expect. That's from a quick Wiki check, but still.
The thing I'm seeing that does sort of skirt the issue is that it's very obvious a lot of YouTubers have jumped on AI image generation to produce static images instead of drawing the images themselves or farming it out to an artist on Fiverr or something. So if they want "evil Jerome Powell with flames in his eyes" they hand it to the AI, it spits something out, and into the video it goes, to be published on YouTube as a memey splash image in the video.
Now that it's in the video, along with all the other clear acts of human creativity that form a video, it's sort of "washed" in the money laundering sense, and I don't see how you legally separate that image from the video in a way that makes the image ineligible for copyright. I don't see a court being flummoxed by that, at all. If you filch the image from the original video, or try to pull excerpts from the video featuring Evil JPow, you're in violation of copyright, and we're on pretty solid, well established legal ground with that. At the very least, you are not completely in the clear to just yank that image for yourself.
So while the original raw image of Evil Jpow that the AI spit out was not eligible for copyright by itself, now it is as part of a larger work, open and shut.
Near the end of the article it affirms pretty much that, saying, "An application for a work created with the help of AI can support a copyright claim if a human “selected or arranged” it in a “sufficiently creative way that the resulting work constitutes an original work of authorship,” [as quoted from the copyright office]
My quote is a bit messy there (i'm quoting the article who is quoting the copyright office) but you get the point.
The raw AI output, assuming no human was involved, cannot be copyrighted, but as soon as the AI output is somehow arranged into a larger work by a human, that changes everything.
So yeah, a bit of arranging, some editing, and the completely AI generated footage can be copyrighted all day. At the very least there would be a court case there.
Weird thumbnail vs headline. She looks like I just asked her if she wants to hit this joint and she does, which doesn't go at the top of a story about atrocity.
This guy looks like he got in a terrible fistfight where he completely lost and ended up in the hospital with a face like a lumpy purple balloon, but that was a year ago, and he's mostly healed, now. Mostly.
I have to remind myself that I'm in Ohio, and that nothing happens here, especially the hottest seven days in human history, I think we barely hit 90s this year. They happened somewhere. Not here.
So of course, I wouldn't understand why all the hateposts about summer. It doesn't kill people here. Winter does. Winter has black ice and doing a clownfall onto the back of your head that kills you or breaks a bone under (inconsolable weeping) American healthcare, so yeah, if that stuff doesn't happen to you in winter but summer hits 100F I'm sure you think summer lovers are crazy people.
I've got a couple of Youtube channels I follow, ChristopherOdd and Splattercatgaming, who seem to mostly charge through a lot of indy content, giving it a whirl so you can check it out. So that helps to surface anything interesting happening outside AAA studios.
That and just waiting for recs to come from word of mouth.