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[Perfect Paz]

I like that they're cancelling all their faves so eventually they will have no media to watch at all except the porn they will goon to death with.

Yeah it's almost tragic. They're cannibalizing their own so much. The old guard of leftoid media people were legitimately good at what they did, in spite of being objectively bad people. This new crop just sucks; nobody likes them, and the constant churn of "content" that's somehow less entertaining than YouTuber e-drama gets forgotten in less than a year. Nothing they are putting out today will be remembered a decade from now, much less taken seriously artistically. And it's because they select almost exclusively on a combination of identity and ideology.

Not to venture too off-topic, but I think this plays into why they're so afraid AI-generated content. There's a lot of potential for a wide range of things with it. There's the technical elements of it that traditional asset creation can't compete with outright, like LLM-generated dialog in a video game that gets translated into AI-generated voice acting based on training from a real voice actor, or procedural map creation as we see in Minecraft or Diablo II evolving into AI-generated asset generation where each goblin is slightly unique while still conforming to the desired "style" of the game. Then there's also the possibility of a very motivated person with a really good "vision" who simply lacks the skills to illustrate or write individual background stories using generative AI to expound on their ideas and make a whole-ass franchise out of their Midjourney and Claude3 subscriptions.

In both of the above examples, it democratizes media production, and in my opinion, in a good way. If you look at the history of vidya in the 1990s and 2000s, a lot of the best games/mods ran on dogshit spaghetti code written by a literal 12yo, but he had imagination, vision, and that fire inside. Now that creation of individual assets can be done by anybody with $50 and an Internet connection, what's left to sell? Vision (a cool idea that) and legitimacy (confidence from your fans/customers that you won't fuck up what you already created), which is precisely what the media people today lack.

 

[robobobo]

Yeah, I'm actually with the cultists on this one. Fucking the hired help that's young enough to be your granddaughter is a no-no even if it wasn't rape.

 

[Perfect Paz]

Credit to them, I'm not presuming the allegations are true but still stand by the second part with them.

Also I'm pretty certain it was a 40 year age gap. The fan was the 20 year age gap, the nanny is 23, it happened in 2020 and Gaiman is 63

Yeah, a 60yo with a 20yo is definitely a bit much. But given his Early Life, I'm not surprised he's a dirty old man.

 

[AnOminous]

Not to venture too off-topic, but I think this plays into why they're so afraid AI-generated content.

I think they're more upset that AI can generate wokeshit easily. There's nothing good about this garbage content they generate. It's shit. So is what AI spews out. They're so obviously replaceable.

Actual creators are not afraid of being replaced by something that can only generate homogenized garbage.

Example: imagine AI gets so good it can generate full movies. Can it generate Goodfellas?

No, but it can generate much of the shit that these "woke" morons shit out onto our screens. They know what they are doing can be replaced by AI. Real artists, though? They don't care.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Yeah, a 60yo with a 20yo is definitely a bit much. But given his Early Life, I'm not surprised he's a dirty old man.

I'm unsurprised by it, I think legal or not it is a textbook case of power imbalance that is incredibly morally wrong even if no laws were broken.

That said as regards it being actual rape/sexual assault I think we need more information. As it stands it's sounding like regret after the fact rather anything more.

 

[Perfect Paz]

I think they're more upset that AI can generate wokeshit easily. There's nothing good about this garbage content they generate. It's shit. So is what AI spews out. They're so obviously replaceable.

Actual creators are not afraid of being replaced by something that can only generate homogenized garbage.

Example: imagine AI gets so good it can generate full movies. Can it generate Goodfellas?

No, but it can generate much of the shit that these "woke" morons shit out onto our screens. They know what they are doing can be replaced by AI. Real artists, though? They don't care.

Partly agree, but I keep throwing around the word "vision" for a reason. It's because AI can't be terribly imaginative, but it can to some extent obviate the technical skill required to generate something interesting if you have imagination. This is particularly the case if you are willing to edit its output. I wouldn't dismiss AI-generated content as slop unless you're looking at the absolute laziest uses of it, and I mean the laziest of the lazy.

I'll give an example. I wanted a cyberpunk vaporwave Goodfellas movie poster. Here's what Midjourney gave me:

Alright, so that's obviously kind of flawed. The text is all fucked up, but let's do like 5min of touching that up in Photoshop:

I can still see some flaws. The signage text is still wonky, but I'm not going to make a production out of this because it's basically a shitpost, and if I'm being honest, even with the flaws I'm seeing, I'd probably pay the $10 for a movie ticket to this over whatever garbage wokesters are putting out these days. I guess my point is, I wouldn't be dismissive of this stuff: it's the new tool, and it's here to stay, even now it's fledgling, and we're not even touching the point I made about procedurally-generated assets for things like vidya.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

I think they're more upset that AI can generate wokeshit easily. There's nothing good about this garbage content they generate. It's shit. So is what AI spews out. They're so obviously replaceable.

And the AI companies work overtime to remove AI's capabilities to generate anything offensive, but wokeshit is allowed. An artist making nazi fetish illustrations will not be so easily replaced by AI.

 

[Flexo]

Double post but lol, imagine getting banned from the Neil Gaiman SA accusation thread for this:

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Personal. Heartbreak.

L.o.L.

 

[Pump Meat]

The Neil Gaiman angst isn’t surprising.

Believe it or not, compartmentalization is a healthy skill for your innerlife and while it can be used towards unhealthy means, you are better off if you can do it. Generally it is a sign of emotional maturity to distinguish a creator from their creation and to be able to acknowledge that reprehensible people are fully capable of creating lasting works that merit praise and appreciation in spite of their flaws. Yeah Richard Wagner and H.P. Lovecraft believed some stupid shit, but that doesn’t necessitate that the music and literature they generated bears any kind of deep relationship to what it is you actually like about their work.

I always find it ironic that progressive niche communities that set out to establish safe spaces end up inculcating poor mental health skills in the very people they seek to help. Identifying “microaggressions” is actually a good idea because it helps you identify how an environment can impact your emotional regulation, then you can actually work towards cognitively reframing those incidents in such a way that they no longer impact you, thereby increasing your mental resilience. That is how you can control and strengthen your autonomy.

Paradoxically, if you identify “microaggressions” more as means of policing behavior in others, you’ll actually erode your personal autonomy and end up making your environment even more stressful. In a similar fashion, holding the creators to such a standard that if they do something reprehensible it means you can no longer enjoy their creations, you’ll end up impoverishing your own life because human beings are incredibly flawed (especially the more creative they are) and will ultimately disappoint you. Most adults intuitively understand this because being disappointed in someone you admire from afar is such a universal experience that it has become a trope to highlight naivete in even ancient media.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah Richard Wagner and H.P. Lovecraft believed some stupid shit, but that doesn’t necessitate that the music and literature they generated bears any kind of deep relationship to what it is you actually like about their work.

Despite being insanely shy, reclusive, weird, and a bizarre racist, Lovecraft was actually a genuinely nice guy. Part of the reason he was such an influence on subsequent generations is he was incredibly generous with his time and writing advice to other writers, who were grateful for life for his help.

Ironically, despite being absurdly anti-Semitic and racist in his comments, a lot of the very people he helped were Jewish themselves. I think they just sort of rolled their eyes when he got on one of his spicy streaks.

Meanwhile if I had a nickel for every woketard with all the "right" opinions who was a rapist, a criminal, or otherwise just a complete piece of shit, I'd have, well, a lot of nickels I guess. But we're supposed to hate HPL in current year because he was a weird, paranoid autist with some questionable views, even though he would never even hurt a fly.

 

[Perfect Paz]

Despite being insanely shy, reclusive, weird, and a bizarre racist, Lovecraft was actually a genuinely nice guy. Part of the reason he was such an influence on subsequent generations is he was incredibly generous with his time and writing advice to other writers, who were grateful for life for his help.

Ironically, despite being absurdly anti-Semitic and racist in his comments, a lot of the very people he helped were Jewish themselves. I think they just sort of rolled their eyes when he got on one of his spicy streaks.

Meanwhile if I had a nickel for every woketard with all the "right" opinions who was a rapist, a criminal, or otherwise just a complete piece of shit, I'd have, well, a lot of nickels I guess. But we're supposed to hate HPL in current year because he was a weird, paranoid autist with some questionable views, even though he would never even hurt a fly.

The kind of autist who has said "questionable views" are usually doing so out of anger for having been so wronged in life.

 

[AnOminous]

The kind of autist who has said "questionable views" are usually doing so out of anger for having been so wronged in life.

He kind of explained it himself in his thesis statement in Supernatural Horror in Literature, an absolutely necessary read if you're into that kind of thing at all: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

Lovecraft was raised in a cloistered environment by a family that was largely mentally ill themselves. He really did not have an opportunity to be normal.

 

[Moral Decay]

Ironically, despite being absurdly anti-Semitic and racist in his comments, a lot of the very people he helped were Jewish themselves.

That fact, plus the chance to travel a bit more, actually made Lovecraft reevaluate his views and become less antisemitic. He went from pro- to anti-Hitler when his neighbor returned from Germany and told him how he saw the Nazis just beating random Jews in the streets.

Basically, Lovecraft did what these weirdos should do: touched grass, stopped living in a bubble, and gave people who were "wrong" a genuine chance. And died shortly after

 

[FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw]

Ironically, despite being absurdly anti-Semitic and racist in his comments, a lot of the very people he helped were Jewish themselves. I think they just sort of rolled their eyes when he got on one of his spicy streaks.

Lovecraft's racism was more about culture than race so he got along with people he deemed assimilated to his Yankee standards.

“Although he once said he loved New York and that henceforth it would be his ‘adopted state’, I soon learned that he hated it and all its ‘alien hordes’. When I protested that I too was one of them, he’d tell me I ‘no longer belonged to these mongrels’. ‘You are now Mrs. H. P. Lovecraft of 598 Angell St., Providence, Rhode Island!’”
(The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft by Sonia H. Davis)

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Spoiler: HE HAS A STUTTER, OK

Middle aged kraut fedora tipper Matt.Ceb finds the last based German woman and lets her slip through his fingers:

Spoiler: Random gun autist is happily living his best life

 

[Loose Goose]

Gun guy is going to get banned.

 

[Loose Goose]

Just documenting this. One of the few times the mods could see how bad the optics would get if they left a thread open.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Just documenting this. One of the few times the mods could see how bad the optics would get if they left a thread open.

I look forwards to the results from the new thread that gets made. That one they locked down because the news hasn't given them orders on what to think yet, next one they'll be free to say what they really feel.

 

[Something Awful]

Middle aged kraut fedora tipper Matt.Ceb finds the last based German woman and lets her slip through his fingers:

lol, fucking brilliant, poor lady had no idea she was going on a date with an RPGnet poster. 41 years old, arguably male, needs the help of a friend to escape this vile woman who wanted to go to a club and have some drinks. Jesus wept. Well, at least the whole situation ended without a... male feminist event (it's rape. I'm talking about rape).

Does anyone know what he's talking about with the worst insult towards homosexual men that's (Allah forgive me) worse than a sissy? All I'm thinking about right now is this scene from Letterkenny:

 

[The Ugly One]

Does anyone know what he's talking about with the worst insult towards homosexual men that's (Allah forgive me) worse than a sissy?

"Faggot." Libs recently decided "faggot" is the nigger-word for gays.