World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.

You implied it with the phrase “when Google can’t pay for YouTube anymore”.

This is what we expected to happen. They should have not taunted the bear with that whole “library rental” model a few years back.

Now, an important resource is going to crumble under the weight of lawsuits because of one domino.

You honestly think a massive corporation that can’t afford the costs of its own operation could be replaced by a couple of scrappy individuals who absolutely, definitely cannot afford the costs of its own operation?

This is totally a “Not sure if serious” pic.

This is an incredibly condescending headline, directed at the wrong party. They had every right to blame Funko.

Especially when Cloudflare is super transparent about their incident reports.

AI could have been a decent bridge for indie developers to fill in holes in their talent pool with something that was halfway decent. After all, if you have two developers, and none of them are good at art or voice acting, maybe they can put enough time and effort to produce actually good AI images and voice work. It wouldn’t be a substitute for real artists and voice actors, but at least they can have something where they previously had nothing. Or artists that use the tech for getting a starting design, and use their own talents for producing the final picture. Or musicians getting a starting idea, etc., etc.

The problem is that all we seeing are billion dollar companies spending even less effort to save money. These companies think they can rush their people into spending five minutes on an AI image, and whoopsie, there’s an obviously bad AI image with 6 fingers and weird background objects.

This technology is not for them. They have the money to spend on this shit. It should be for the people, but now there’s so much bad rep from corpos that it’s ruining it for everybody.

Only 500? I have something like tens of thousands of games on my MAME cabinet.

Come back to me when you’re preserving games like the console and arcade collectors do it. They have entire 100% complete collections for certain libraries, and they are always on the lookout for rare ROMs that have never transferred out of their hardware.

That seems less than ideal. And yet, here we are with it being way more popular than Mastodon.

Were people really that damn confused over “which instance do I join”?