Chinese cemeteries are notoriously wasteful. Thousands and thousands of identical plots where each plot averages like 4m² or more in rural areas. And nobody actually visits these. I used to live close by next to one in Thailand and it was such a waste though personally I have a sweet spot for cemeteries so I didn’t mind.
quotes a concept about property from 1850s
Lmao sorry for not being able to take this seriously
Is it? This dichotomy seems incredibly artificial and unsustainable.
False equivalence - not even going to entertain you with a reply, it’s absolutely pointless bye.
Yet none of that can be interpreted as “all property is theft” unless you redefine what “property” itself means which is a terrible strategy for advertising Anarchy.
In Thailand (and Vietnam, Philippines) where I often live plastic recycling is basically non existent and I think it’s a good thing, let me explain.
The value of plastic and recyclability is really low but exposure overhead is massive (thrash being lost to ocean etc) and after visiting a trash burning facility myself I’m completely converted to trash burning. On paper plastic recycling make sense but it so low value with absurdly high overhead - just getting plastic straight to the incinerator as fast as we can is the best thing we can do imo.
As for other materials like aluminum it’s very recycled everywhere I’ve been as it pays very decent money.
it’s a bad idea but I think they think it’s a strong deterrent. “You try to traffic drugs here - you will die” sort of mentality
This obviously is a poor strategy for a dozen of other reasons but they are simple, stupid people so to them simple stupid solutions are very attractive especially if it scratches their need for cruelty and racial superiority.
Yes, a consumer criticizing a process they don’t understand invalidates their criticism.
At the end of the day I don’t have much trust in a consumer being a good custodian of market ethics in general, especially in gaming where AI use is really at the bottom of the list of ethical issues. To me this seems like a pop culture fixation rather than a rational decision making.
Anarchists believe that “all property is theft”? Lol
US will never live this period down. These dudes are such losers that it’s a historical event in it’s own right.
All private property is theft? Lmao go back to your cave tankie
Fun fact: you can literally go to prison in the US for breaking ToS due to various laws like CFFA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). So if the teen broke the ToS to any way that harms OpenAI (like killing himself) OpenAI actually has a legal path to criminally prosecute him lmao
The entire law stack is just broken.
I agree the AI hate is becoming a satire of itself. What could be an interesting, meaningful discussion is impossible to have because anti AI peoppe just yell with their ears covered.
You’re building a strawman as thats not what I said. Consumers fundamentally don’t understand the process, period.
I make casual games and most of the time you are looking for inspiration by copying stuff - this is a fundamental part of the creative process. But americans are brainwashed by copyright and IP law propaganda into thinking that copying and tool assistance is somehow “impure”.
The public sentiment will grow up and shift and I’m willing to take a long term bet here of real money to prove my point. I’ve been a creative since the 90s and seen this same story a dozen times at least.
That’s really just scratching the surface of what AI is doing these day in creative workflows. All game tests will eventually be replace with AI and tests often drive new feature development. Refactoring of not only code but assets is also done by AI these days.
Reality is that this label is fundamentally unsustainable and will go away anyway. Willing to bet money on this.
I disagree, people fundamentally don’t understand creation and art process if they think it’s an artist in a white room doing everything from the blanks of their mind.
It’s just a vocal minority that’ll eventually grow up.
He’s right though it’s not a very useful label in general. The AI process is unavoidable as you can use it as a coop tool or inspiration or thousand different ways where AI is not a direct generator.
Personal anecdote: I do quite a bit of visual design these days and always start with some ai prompt to give me some inspiration as subjects I work with are highly corporate and unheard to me. The final product is made by me in Inkscape with some parts being manual traces of AI generated images but it would be dienginous to say that I didn’t use AI here and silly to say that it some “mindless slop”.
I think they think that losing steam access would just rocket piracy not only in Russia but in the entire world. Getting russian market on legal games has been a multi decade process and that would really suck for the industry.
Not saying thats right just that it be their reasoning
If you ever get to play csgo or dota2 you’re likely to change this opinion
So AI controlled photoshop is ok?
I think the standard is set on wrong metric. Slop is slop and it doesnt matter how ot was brewed be it asset steal or lazy ai