The Octonaut @ TheOctonaut @mander.xyz

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I'm confused about what you think the EU is if you think it has "teeth".

Venezuela is not a part of Mercosur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur?wprov=sfla1

Abdicating responsibility for who you voted for - or didn't vote for - won't help you. Why was "Israel is entitled to defend itself" in any way more 'politically damaging' than "Let's recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel"? "Israel needs to just end it"? This is information that was available to you.

If someone's going to shoot a person you care about in the foot or the head, "I don't care" or "I can't support either" is not the correct answer. I hope you understand how your choices have made this a significantly more realistic choice you'll have to actually make some day.

Kidnapping is not the napping of a kid. There's no age profile implied.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/kidnap

Because the other candidate was worse on every other factor and worse on the same issue.

You made a terrible political decision. Live with it. Or I don't know, take a principaled stand and die storming Mar a Lago. Whatever, just fucking stop defending the worst decision you ever made.

For the 30 years I've been aware of America beyond Hulk Hogan's theme song I've listened to Americans tell me the guns are for overthrowing tyranny.

If 31% of the country amd "17 guys" can impose this kind of warmongering madness, when does it become tacit tolerance if the only resistance is tweets and telegraphed performative non-violent instaprotest?

Not sure why would take something where I'm talking about a music scene and apply it to an individual band, but sure.

There are bands that only ever sell or perform in Ireland. That is the Irish music scene. Just like there are footballers that play in Ireland, and films made in Ireland. And there is the British music scene, which includes Irish people selling there, performing there. And a British football system, and a British film market. But you wouldn't call individuals or bands from Ireland performing there British, any more than you'd correctly call Roy Keane or Cillian Murphy British.

You and I are not friends. We disagree...

This might be the problem Breck

(Breck?!)

British Isles

Deprecated term, pleased don't use.

UK and Irish is fine. Even just British is fine if you collectively mean to include Irish bands based in and primarily touring the UK.

Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did

What do you think "All" means?

Floorp

Floorp

Yes, absolutely it is virtue signalling. You are taking an utterly meaningless stance for which the only upside for anyone is you think you maintain some kind of honour despite consuming "theft slop" unknowingly every day, even as you read this sentence, and the only downside for anyone is that you don't get to experience a game that you otherwise would enjoy used to have, even if deliberately and knowingly, used to have some AI textures.

You're the one who ignored what I said, which is why I'm essentially just having to repeat myself. If you take such hardline stance that any use at all is "theft slop", you might as well go offline. It's in the code that made the app you're using. It's in the code running your OS. It's in music you listen to. It's in the movies you watch.

Absolutely push back on theft - deliberate misrepresentation of someone's work or style as orignal. Absolutely push back on slop. Just because it took a minute to generate something doesn't mean you don't then check it before productionising it. But taking this weird religious stance where something literally is tainted from previously having used AI, that is just for you. You've got about 30,000 days on this earth, man. Probably a good chunk of that is gone already. Spend a few hours of it playing an interesting, original game which does more to demonstrate the value of real creativity and originality than any little personal protest you indulge yourself in.

They removed the AI content less than a week after release. By unspecified I mean it wasn't a deliberate "this is the AI section".

The awards were given 4 days ago, 6 months after release (more?). So the judgement is not on the game as it stands or even as it was submitted.

The awards don't matter, I'm just genuinely baffled by this person depriving themselves of joy because of some virtue signalling that relies entirely on just not being aware of AI being used everywhere else.

Following the publication of this article, Sandfall Interactive wishes to provide the following clarifications.

The studio states that it was in contact with El País on April 25 - three months prior to this publication. During these exchanges, Sandfall Interactive indicated that it had used a limited number of pre-existing assets, notably 3D assets sourced from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. None of these assets were created using artificial intelligence. Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative Al-created assets in the game. When the first Al tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.

Because they used, and then removed, placeholder AO generated textures in some unspecified location?

I hate to break it to you buddy but for the last 2 years every piece of software you've used, including this one, has had the dev experiment with AI tools.

Nice religion.

It's a tool. You're attaching far too much moral virtue to something that in another breath you will describe as an autocomplete tool.

Merriam-Webster, the Urban Dictionary of dictionaries

You are all over this thread repeating variations of the same comment which, despite wildly different responses from voters, mostly show you do not at all understand how image model training and generation work.

This sort of absolutism is dead. Do you think they should be disqualified if they Google something and the answer is in Google's AI summary?

• No? Great, now we understand your line is subjective and you get to decide what is or isn't acceptable use of AI.
• Yes? Cool. Describe how the you police this and how do you choose between fhe three games made next year that will qualify, of which 2 are furry Visual Novels made entirely of RPG maker assets and 1 is the fifty-seventh Pokemon entry.

Neinhundert-neizig, eins-zwei-drei, eins-zwei-drei - rauf an!