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Oh lol. I always use old.reddit.com (as should everyone else) so I didn't realize only that was available.

It's up now.

Intro2Logic posted...

Hillary Clinton is the best thing that happened to Bernie Sanders. The sheer distaste that many people have for her is the force that propelled him into relevancy.

Is that what also propelled Obama into relevancy?

It's a free-for-all where companies know they can jack up prices and get away with it because everyone else is doing it "because inflation". $9 for two shitty pieces of chicken, a bit of cheese and bacon, and some sauce is not reasonable.

Kronii birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkJt2kg9RwQ

Did her voice get deeper or what?

It's a 1/1 scale statue, so it should be 141cm tall.

This randomly popped up in my mind today:
https://twitter.com/hololive_En/status/1505038932966539265

Did that charity auction happen and how much did they raise?

The best roguelike in my opinion is Spelunky.

Proton VPN

She's got a nice third leg there.

Super_Slash posted...

Almost all of your second paragraph is entirely subjective. I personally believe Undertale helped kick off the indie game industry; there's no way no one has ever taken inspiration from it, or became motivated to become game makers themselves since it was largely done by one person.

You are right that the fanbase is likely what made it explode in popularity but even without that, it is legitimately a great game and I think it would have become a big hit regardless.

Were you asleep when Cave Story came out or what?

Zeeak4444 posted...

but thats not why it became popular. It became popular because it attracted people outside those fan bases too.

I havent played it but Ive seen enough of videos to know it stands on its own merits.

It became popular because of all the attention it received from the rabid fanbase not shutting the fuck up about it for a single moment. Like Justin Bieber had a whole bunch of "fans" who were paid to go crazy over him at the start. It snowballs.

Super_Slash posted...

As someone already said, that's not the only reason it became popular. It became popular because it's a good game. It also stood out due to its unique gameplay mechanics and at the time being one of the only seriously notable indie games. Undertale has earned its place, even if the fandom is really fucking cringe.

Being a good game or unique is not enough. There are and were tons of better and more unique games. Indie games had already exploded in popularity long before Undertale showed up on the scene and there were tons of notable releases. The differentiator was the rabid fanbase.

Zeeak4444 posted...

imagine thinking undertake was popular because of anything other than it being a great game

It's true. Undertale attracted the Earthbound and Homestuck fanbases, which are perhaps the two most rabid fanbases of all time who greatly overrate their favorite things.

I think it's good but not that good.

CaptainStrong posted...

Borderline softcore porn pretty much is allowed. There are threads up right now that are full of pictures of underboob, feet, and asses.

Feet? Naked feet?! No way!!!

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Gonna save this seed for more characters.

Yeah.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

How much is a dollar worth today?

One dollar.

FaultyCircuitry posted...

It was for a while, but they're extremely simple to get at or even below MSRP

The rest of your post is spot on tho

Except MSRP is ridiculously inflated.

Counterpoint: kewpie mayo

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/7/AAONleAAERFT.jpg

"People keep saying [scam] will fail but it's been [amount of time] and it's still going!"

Ame doing an unarchived karaoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8EPYdkheo

So I could be a cute catboy and $5 million richer? Sign me up!

Blightzkrieg posted...

You could make a lot of arguments if you were a Russian shill, yeah.

Are you saying CIA assets can't make any arguments?

Also, there's an unarchived karaoke after that so make sure you catch that if you don't want to miss out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVYSEy_5HhA

edit: It's started.

Also, I think twitter's got me pegged:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/9/AAONleAAEQ9N.png

I like to play it when I'm bored at work. For a while, I'd keep getting "database overloaded" so I believe them. It's been a while since I've gotten that error, though.

Blightzkrieg posted...

It's a generally naive take towards an armed conflict, and towards dictatorships in general.

The Russian people are not necessarily deserving of hate or hardship, but their success directly benefits their actions in Ukraine. Particularly in the case of a game like this that appears to have ties directly to the Russian government. It's not a significant difference from say, Tencent (though obviously on a much smaller scale).

You could make the same argument of American companies paying taxes to the US government which go toward wars like Iraq and genocide like in Yemen.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If anything, this is why more "indie" vtubers need to emerge.
Who do we have, Arlo?

There are tons of indies. In fact, Zaion was an indie: https://twitter.com/sayuokami

but I guess she couldn't adjust to corporate life. She may re-debut as an indie.

Darkfire12 posted...

Listing them off for the sake of transparency is a nice idea, but the fact of the matter's that there's now an official list directly from the company giving antis all the reasons they could ever want to go harass her. Niji knew what they were doing with the list and intentionally went through with it

As if antis needed a reason. Most of the list was already known anyway.

The chance for drama increases with the number of members regardless of company.

Either way, got on trending:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/2/AAONleAAEQ1c.png

I'd snap that pencil neck in half.

So does this guy make a lot of money just showing other people's footage?

https://twitter.com/NIJISANJI_World/status/1634147534795841536

She lasted like a couple months.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

She really should have gotten the message after 2016 that she needed to stop saying things.

That's sexist.

I don't like this, but I do like having the toilet be in its own room.

I have a pretty rare blood type but it's not accepted by most anyway.

andel posted...

well they are fighting the genocidal fascists that you have been suspended multiple times for supporting

When have I supported Russia in the Ukraine war? When I said they were 100% for invading? Don't spread lies about me.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

For starters, that it can't. Like I said in another post AI can't actually modulate.

As in, laughing, screaming, panting, change in rythm and overall emotional nuance.

But even if/when it becomes sophisticated enough to replicate human nuance convincingly it will still always be an algorithm. It will never have the spontaneity of an actual human cause there's nothing behind, it's an immitation.

Edit: Here's an example of a company that actually works for video games, and it's developing emotions.
This is how AI sounds screaming.

https://youtu.be/vDv-pMJ4MRM

For starters, people also thought AI wouldn't get this far. It's a pretty safe assumption that at some point it can modulate. It can be argued that humans are "just an algorithm" too, hence the old argument over the concept of free will. We are more complex creatures, but complexity is made up of a lot of simple mechanisms.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Lmao dude. I dunno, what is the value in humans, period?

That's essentially what you're asking.

That is the question. If you tie your value to whether you can out-compete automation in your chosen field while working for megacorp under capitalism, you'll find that your value is actually quite low. Under the conditions we're in, "soul" (or whatever you want to call it) amounts to jackshit. Trying to make the argument that humans are super duper special and therefore AI cannot take over is simply denying our reality.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Lol because that's just literally how acting is approached. It's real because it's coming from real emotions, coming from real thoughts, which is how the "acting" occurs.
And all that is what you get as a viewer, it has nothing to do with reading the actor "talk about it outside of the work itself."

and yet if AI can convincingly replicate that, what's the difference?

Mr_hulk88 posted...

It is a threat if most people start thinking like you basically, not understanding or caring about the value in a human performance.

You've yet to explain the value in a human performance. You say the emotions and thoughts are real, but what makes them so real? Because they come from humans? If you are still moved by an AI performance and didn't know it came from an AI, how is that any less real?

hockeybub89 posted...

How much money are you getting for licking the boots of corporations? There is a threat because greed doesn't give a fuck about whether AI would be better quality than humans, just that it would be labor that won't ask for compensation. The whole point of this is to fully eliminate humans.

When a big-box store comes into an area and eliminates the competition, would you say it's generally because they offer higher quality goods and customer service? Hell, those stores themselves sometimes go down in quality and service and make more money.

I'm not saying I like this, I'm just stating the reality. Corporations are always looking to cut costs, but no one here seems to care when blue color workers lose their jobs. In fact, I distinctly remember people making fun of them with a mocking "dey turk er jerbs" while corporations abused immigrant labor to undercut them. We need to rethink our economic system and how we'll move on from capitalism, because all the problems caused by AI automation stem from that rather than the AI itself.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Well because the whole point of acting is seeing human emotions and thoughts.

I thought the point was largely entertainment. That seems to be the case for most viewers, at least. Still, how do you know the emotions and thoughts behind things other than reading about/listening to the actor talk about it outside of the work itself? Other than that, it's just your own interpretations and assumptions. If you truly believe the human element makes a difference that cannot be done by an AI as well, then there should be no threat to human works, right? At the very least, there will be a niche just like there are with hand-made crafts versus mass-produced stuff.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Um.. I wanna watch characters performed by humans, yes.

Why?

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Lol this would be the part I don't understand. What do you mean I don't care about creating things myself?

There are a couple of perspectives in this. One from the side of artists and another from the side of the viewers of artists' work. I wanted to see which perspective (if not both) you were talking from.

hockeybub89 posted...

The problem is capitalism. Why pay anyone for their art when you can get AI to generate infinite approximations of art for free? Art is literally a human thing. This isn't robots helping us run factories more safely or efficiently. It's not helping us in any way. It's just taking away and that is what businesses want from automation, to make the human unnecessary.

The factory workers that were replaced also had families to take care of. Artists being replaced this time doesn't make this a special case. You were already watching media produced on an assembly line. While there was more of a degree of freedom in expression, it was ultimately never more than another product to sell you.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Um.. I don't know what you're talking about but back to acting being performed by AI, yes, that means actors aren't able to create their art.

Again, ..what?

What part don't you understand? Do you just want to watch things made by humans? If you don't care about creating things yourself, why do you care about who creates it?

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Because then you have nothing human left?

Who's writing the lines? Hell, let's take it to the logical extreme: Let's say AI is doing every single aspect, even initiating projects. Does that mean you'd never want to create anything ever again? You're free to sit back and just consume a bunch of AI content, but how is that different from letting others do the creating now? Is it some nebulous human "soul" aspect? If that was so important, then it'd be something that only humans could provide and thus there is no threat from AI.

hockeybub89 posted...

AI should not be used to remove the human element from art

Why not?

Flauros posted...

I cant wait for the day that VAs can sell their "likeness" wholesale to companies to shit out dubs by the thousands without the actor having to step foot in a studio.

You're making the assumption that the human actor won't just be cut out entirely. Why would companies go through the trouble of licensing and paying royalties and everything when they could just grab some random guy's voice and turn some knobs to get the results they want?

3.5% yearly return at this point in time with no obligations to hold it there for a long time like with a CD: https://www.discover.com/online-banking/savings-account/

~50-60 pieces of sushi, a serving of beef and broccoli, and about 5 scoops of ice cream. It was my only meal for the day and I didn't eat for the entirety of the next day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-xDAvCx32Y

Don't they have more important things to do?