You can just not buy the games that have stuff like Denuvo etc. If you keep buying them, of course they’ll keep including the DRM etc.

Steam is the storefront, and they have plenty of games you can buy without that crap.

Chile would be good. It has a fairly strong passport, which I believe is stronger than the USA one in 2025 (before Trump), since it can still travel to the EU visa free.

That’s the heat exhaust. 9 million mAh can get really hot

According to multiple past comments, she actually does stream in the video link she provides, bit mostly just types stuff and smokes cigarettes.

I think that’s what they do in the frog and toad story too

I think both things have some points.

You’re right that military industries should be nationalized, and I agree to a degree (I’d also rather not have the military industry power be 100% controlled by the state, so maybe 50% only).

But also capitalism, if done as it was designed to be done and heavily regulated, can also spark innovation.

Battery technology was in part invented really early on because someone wanted to get wealthy by creating a better mode of transport than the piston engine for example (it’s older tech than people realize). The issue was that once the piston engine was growing in popularity, there wasn’t heavy handed regulations in order to slow down it’s growth and prevent them and eventually the oil companies from using their new power to stifle electrics research.

I don’t think the solution to capitalism’s (and democracy’s by extension) downfalls has been invented or even solved on paper yet. But in the meantime, something in the middle might be the best solution than either extreme.

Yeah but if you burn the whole showroom gonna be awhile before you can even buy more to sell more Teslas anyway. Which would be a huge disincentive to try to sell Teslas again anyway.

•Ok, I know the researching ability of people has decreased greatly over the years, but using “knowyourmeme” as a source? Really?

• You can now run optimized open source diffusion models on an iPhone, and it’s been possible for years. I use that as an example because yes, there’s models that can easily run on an Nvidia 1060 these days. Those models are more than enough to handle incremental changes to an image in-game

• Already has for awhile as demonstrated by it being able to run on an iPhone, but yes, it’s probably the best way to get an uncanny valley effect in certain paintings in a horror game, as the alternatives would be:

• spending many hours manually making hundreds of incremental changes to all the paintings yourself (and the will be a limit to how much they warp, and this assumes you have even better art skills)
• hiring someone to do what I just mentioned (assumes you have a decent amount of money) and is still limited of course.

• I’ll call an open source model exploitation the day someone can accurately generate an exact work it was trained on not within 1, but at least within 10 generations. I have looked into this myself, unlike seemingly most people on the internet. Last I checked, the closest was a 90 something % similarity image after using an algorithm that modified the prompt over time after thousands of generations. I can find this research paper myself if you want, but there may be newer research out there.

Have you ever looked at the file size of something like Stable Diffusion?

Considering the data it’s trained on, do you think it’s;

A) 3 Petabytes B) 500 Terabytes C) 900 Gigabytes D) 100 Gigabytes

Second, what’s the electrical cost of generating a single image using Flux vs 3 minutes of Balder’s Gate, or similar on max settings?

Surely you must have some idea on these numbers and aren’t just parroting things you don’t understand.

Same vibes as “if you learned to draw with an iPad then you didn’t actually learn to draw”.

Or in my case, I’m old enough to remember “computer art isn’t real animation/art” and also the criticism assist Photoshop.

And there’s plenty of people who criticized Andy Warhol too before then.

Go back in history and you can read about criticisms of using typewriters over hand writing as well.

“AI” is just very advanced procedural generation. There’s been games that used image diffusion in the past too, just in a far smaller and limited scale (such as a single creature, like the pokemon with the spinning eyes

What if they use it as part of the art tho?

Like a horror game that uses an AI to just slightly tweak an image of the paintings in a haunted building continuously everytime you look past them to look just 1% creepier?