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Regarding The Legend of Aang going straight to streaming: I'm devastated. As both a massive fan and an artist on the movie, it's heartbreaking.
Everything I've seen from this film has been absolutely gorgeous, it really was made to be seen on the big screen.
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Not Turning Red director Domee Shi drawing Mei fujoshing over HEATED RIVALRY. Her mind (and her illustrative pen)!
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To think this happened in February, it feels like it's been a long year after all
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Willy Wonka Experience occurred in February 2024
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s…
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i think the success of tv shows like the pitt, succession & severance, and more recently heated rivalry & pluribus, show that the kids yearn for weekly episode drops. hype builds up organically rather than the world binging an entire season and forgetting it all by next week!
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I will expand on my point:
1) You are using AI in your daily life. Search engines are AI-powered, your phone camera is AI-powered (sorry, you haven't become better at taking photos-smudges, blinks-all fixed by AI), Alexa? Siri? Google Assistant? Guess what, they are powered by AI. Netflix, YouTube, Twitch-all use AI to highlight content you're interested in. Google Maps and most navigation apps are now powered by AI to calculate your route. Spam filters, health and fitness trackers, even your online planner-all powered by AI.
You use AI every day to make your life easier and find information faster, you're just too proud to admit it.
2) Witch hunts like with Larian Studios will cause only one thing: they will never tell you they're using AI. You think silly outrage will stop anyone from making their work easier? "Bitch please." I've been here when Photoshop was considered a "real art killer" frowned upon by traditional artists and discarded as "not real art." The majority of art is now made using computer tools.
I remember when tens of thousands of Kodak shops closed down when traditional photography was replaced by digital cameras, millions of people lost their jobs, including me. I don't remember outrage back then.
Let's face it, AI is here whether you like it or not; it will not go away because it makes life easier.
We can be civil about it, accept that studios are using AI, and appreciate that they are willing to be honest with us, or we can fuel witch hunts that will cause studios to be completely silent about any use of AI in their work.
This is no longer Kansas, Dorothy.
Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.
We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.
I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.
We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.
I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
gamespot.com/articles/baldur…
We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
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Look, I hate generative AI and I think my timeline proves that, but people immediately going scorched earth and writing off an entire company based on one or two tweets isn’t terribly helpful to the discourse imo. And while they said or did something you don’t agree with, they’re still human at the end of the day. And I think some people are SO quick to cast judgment and write someone or something off at the first whiff of a thing they don’t agree with. It feels like hunting for wins or justice online because we’re so powerless to so many awful things happening in the world right now. So I get it. And I’ve been guilty of it, no fucking doubt. But I’m realizing how destructive that will be long term for society. Well I think, anyway. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk on my preachy soapbox. I never expect anyone to read these essays really. Just helpful for me to get my thoughts out of my head and put somewhere, if that makes sense. Back to doing some nerd shit today. Gonna record a video fixing that shiny floor in raya lucaria with the awful cube map reflection.
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I have to applaud some in the media on this one, they absolutely nailed the hysteria when reporting Larian and Sandfall use AI.
The end result of this will be companies communicating less and being less transparent, just to avoid projection and emotional outbursts.
Great work.
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Larian admits to AI usage. E33 used AI. KCD2 allegedly used AI. Activision is using AI. Xbox is using AI. GTA 6 definitely is using AI. Indie studios with small teams probably use AI in some capacity. The chances your fav studio uses AI is extremely high, even if they don’t say it
Hell, the chances that VALVE is using AI to help with Deadlock and Half-Life 3 development is probably true
I’m genuinely curious what everyone’s move is going to be moving forward. Are you going to boycott all future games? Stop playing these current games that used it? Quit gaming all together?
I hate genAI as much as the next guy. I’m curious what the future actually will be for gaming as a hobby though
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2025 AWARDS SEASON
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: its all grind and perseverance man . you don’t reap the crop the day you plant it *pauses* i fucking love kid cudi
AMANDA SEYFRIED: AS OUR LATE GREAT BROTHER MALCOM X SAID, YOU SHOW ME A CAPITALIST AND ILL SHOW YOU A BLOODSUCKER
Amanda Seyfried says “socialism is a gorgeous idea” as she grapples with the current state of America:
"How about we all don’t have any kind of agendas? How about our agenda is take care of each other? I know [socialism] doesn’t work perfectly, or that people understand what the word actually means. For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people"
variety.com/2025/film/news/a…
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baby that’s shauna shipman the terrorist
when i’m in a precious baby angel cutie pie competition and my opponent is rose landry #heatedrivalry
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I love it when game developers support each other❤️
We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
ALT Tonight: The Game Awards!
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if only there was a way to ensure the child aged characters looked child aged no matter how long the production gaps in a series… surely no one has thought of a medium for that.
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The bad thing about Pluribus is that it makes almost every other serial TV show look terrible
