MoogleMaestro
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- Comment on Are you shore? 5 days ago:
I am, beach.
- Comment on Evangelion Announces New Short Anime By Hideaki Anno For 30th Anniversary Festival 5 days ago:
Yes, I get the narrative part of it. But I also felt a bit like it was shallow compared to the broader themes of Evangelion as a whole. Like, Midori as a character, why is she important and what’s the point in seeing her perspective? Why is it worth talking about her at all? Granted, it might be worth re-watching, but it felt mostly like it was “filling space” that didn’t need to be filled. I do understand that I was probably one of the few people who really enjoyed 3.0 because of it’s disconnected continuity as it felt like it was trying to say something about evangelion and story telling in general (you can shuffle the pieces around, or even completely change the context, but the story would still be the same because the themes of the characters are consistent.) I was never sold on them needing to get into “what happened before 3.0” so I may just not be the target audience.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 1 week ago:
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart or Doctor Robotniks Ring Racers. It’s a good time if you have friends and there are still regular players online.
- Comment on Evangelion Announces New Short Anime By Hideaki Anno For 30th Anniversary Festival 1 week ago:
Really glad that this isn’t directed by either Tsurumaki or Anno. Otherwise, I’d be a bit bummed that they’re spending more time on Evangelion again.
A 13 minute short is kind of an interesting choice of format. I wonder whether this will be “canon” or if it will be intentionally out of universe with it’s own story.
The last short they did (-48 hours?) was ok but kind of didn’t make a clear point about why it was made. I’ll be curious if this director can make good use of the short 13 minute timespan.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
I won’t bother engaging with the “gamergate” false equivalency. I think it’s disingenuous to try to tie any of what I said so far to a some fearmonger induced culture war, biggotted nonsense when we’re talking about a much broader wealth extraction mechanism and misanthropic tech movement. I think you’re saying this from a well-meaning place, but I actually don’t think what I’ve said is overzealous at all. The CEO is saying he’s using AI and, if you’re opposed to the social and financial repercussions of this, it’s fair game to boycott a product over this.
To pick a true real world example, some people won’t eat meat that isn’t free-range. This isn’t about the quality of the meat really, it’s about the inhumane treatment of animals. Not everyone subscribes to this, sometimes I don’t buy free-range meat either, but it’s not “wrong” for people to choose to not buy meat that isn’t free range. The same can and should be true about the media we consume, whether it’s games or films.
If it’s like an image/video model, they could start with existing open weights, and fine tune it. There are tons to pick from, and libraries to easily plug them into.
If it’s not, and something really niche, and doesn’t already exist to their satisfaction, it probably doesn’t need to be that big a model. A lot of weird stuff like sketch -> 3D models are trained on university student project time + money budgets (though plenty of those already exist).
…Look, if Divinity comes out and it has any slop in it, it can burn in hell. If it comes out that they partnered with OpenAI or whomever extensively, it deserves to get shunned and raked over coals.
I won’t get into this too much, but “open weights” is not “open source”, and even “open source” is not real “open source” when it comes to AI. Really, what you should be talking about is an open dataset based model, which there are very few of in reality. The issue isn’t the weights, the issue is the data that was used to generate the weights in the first place.
It’s not impossible that they’re using some bespoke model derived from an open dataset model, but considering the full transcript is now out and he name dropped ChatGPT in particular, I don’t really have much confidence that there’s some kind of ethical silver lining. Since he was the one who mentioned using AI in previs development, it’s actually up to him to clarify what models they’re using and whether they’re ethically sourced. I don’t really have to prove anything beyond them using AI and not thinking AI is to my personal pallet. That’s fine, everyone has their own tastes. To me, I was excited about the new Divinity until this news dropped, and the hype is simply deflated because it is against my morals. That’s on them, not on me.
If he wants to push for open datasets as an AI industry counter play, then fine – fair play and good riddance to closed source (closed data) AI industry players. But until that happens it’s actually just a fantasy and not based on reality. I’ll stick to what has been said and not extrapolate what could-be.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
What if it’s a home grown model to assist with mocap?
Well, that’s not what it is (a), at least according to the CEO. They used it for concepts, not animations. And also, (b) I’m not really in the place to give people the benefit of the doubt when using AI that is trained off stolen materials. I sincerely doubt they’re using a “home grown model” because anyone who knows even a scrap of how LLM/GANs work knows that the data needs to train a model would be far beyond the reach of a company of Larian’s scale. They’ve likely just licensed it from one of the many grifting oligarch AI peddlers.
We don’t need defenders coming in here trying to pretend that the CEO hasn’t just clarified that they are using AI for preproduction, we know this and it’s not up for debate now.
Would that be enough to write it off?
As someone who really appreciates and likes animation, in that particular example, then yes it would probably be enough to write it off. And frankly, why do I need to play their game when I could just AI generate my own slop and save the 70 bucks? In reality, it’s actually fine for me, I have plenty of games and can replay the old Divinity games before these guys lost their way. They used to be a company that followed a passion for CRPGs with good-will behind them, but now that BG3 has been a runaway hit, it seems like they’ve forgotten about the community that got them to where they are today in favor of some AAA gaming nonsense.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
As someone who owns D:OS2, this is really disappointing and below their standards. I’ll be giving this new Divinity a pass.
They don’t need to be using AI to create concepts, and if they do, I don’t think the “concepts” will be all that great in the first place. Not to mention the ethical perils of using models trained off other artists who are not licensed or compensated.
This is some classic CEO “step on a rake and then get mad at everyone else” nonsense. They openly talked about how they liked AI, and get mad at us for saying “cool, that’s a game I’m gonna skip then!”
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
The cat’s out of the bag
That’s 👏 not 👏 an 👏 excuse 👏 to be 👏 SHITTY!
The number of people who think that saying that the cat’s out of the bag is somehow redeeming is completely bizarre. Would you say this about slavery too in the 1800s? Just because people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s morally or ethically right to do it, nor that we should put up with it.
- Comment on if only 1 week ago:
*My life is Isekai where I’m born into a lovely family that I really like, but it’s everyone else whose either fucked in the head or just a little aggro. *
I’m still working on the title. I think it needs to be a little bit longer to really stand out in the Isekai crowd.
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- Comment on Regarding Gainax Co. Ltd (Studio Kharas Statement on Gainax Closure after 42 Years of Production) 2 weeks ago:
The good news here is that Trigger has gotten TTGL back and they seem interested in treating the IP with some respect. Hopefully things like Gunbuster eventually find their way back to Khara eventually once all of the legal dust settles.
I really wish that Gainax could have been kept around as a brand though, particularly from Khara and Trigger who could have used it for a shared fan merch and otaku goods subsidiary. It’s a shame to think the entire Gainax legacy will be only a fragmented memory spread across multiple spiritual successors, even if it is ultimately healthier for the Anime scene that all of these studios have strong individual futures.
- Regarding Gainax Co. Ltd (Studio Kharas Statement on Gainax Closure after 42 Years of Production)www.khara.co.jp ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to anime@ani.social | 5 comments
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- Comment on TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere 2 weeks ago:
I had really mixed feelings about the reboot.
Triguns original run was great but technically incomplete because the Manga was in hiatus dues to production issues. When he eventually continues Trigun it became a completely different story in some ways (and in other ways not, without getting too detailed.)
So the idea of a remake was fine if it was going to be closer to what the Manga became except… It didn’t, it’s now a third take on the same story with some major differences again from both the original show and the manga.
I hope the next season is better, because the framework of where the show is heading post the first season ending does potentially have potential, but they need to nail the episodic structure better imo.
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- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 4 weeks ago:
Penguin sounds intensify
- Comment on Manga challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently) 5 weeks ago:
I’m still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.
You’re just one step closer to the church of thighentology.
- Comment on Contacted by the US Secret Service & the AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 1 month ago:
Crazy how nVidia is the backbone of the modern tech oligarchy.
Glad Steve made this video to expose the craziness of the whole thing.
- Khara Posts Part of The End of Evangelion Film's Early Script Draft · Anime News Networkwww.animenewsnetwork.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to anime@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 month ago:
Used to go to SF for work events.
It felt like a town that once had culture that still wants to peek out, but it almost entirely covered with silicon valley monotony and misanthropic policies. It feels like a city where the people living there are the after thought, and the tablet where you order your coffee while you sit around a room where nobody makes eye contact or speaks to you is the product.
I’m sure there’s a part of the city where humanity still thrives, but it should be a cultural warning to those who are adopting silicon valley cures as anything other than snake oil.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 month ago:
Better yet, help support open data initiatives like OpenStreetMaps or alternatives. No reason why maps can’t be digital without ads.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 2 months ago:
This is really awesome.
What OS did you flash on that Pixel6 to get it working? Or are you using a linux vm on an android phone?
- Ken Akamatsu Hands Over Duties to New Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [ANN]www.animenewsnetwork.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to manga@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 months ago:
At work we had to remind people recently to not do this. I think it was originally brought up as a joke, but we all felt the need to remind each other just in case anyone was seriously thinking about it.
- TIMEMOON, a VN all about being a time-traveling taxi driver, was my TGS 2025 game of the show · RPG Site - All articleswww.rpgsite.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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- CITY: The Animation Production Notes #02-11 - Keiichi Arawi And Kyoto Animation’s Imaginative Quest To Defy The Normsblog.sakugabooru.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to anime@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 3 months ago:
The cable is an interesting point, as I haven’t tried a different cable. Since there’s a non-zero chance that it could be responsible, I’ll try switching it next time I plug it in. I suppose the cable they shipped me could be bad.
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 3 months ago:
I can confirm it’s not the outlet, only because I’ve had a trip in a completely different room after moving the printer to test it.