I would say that can be an issue of guilt by association. There are a lot of AI bandwagoners who are genuinely contemptuous of not just artists but art in general, so when one gets into an argument over AI you have to be careful to make it clear what you actually think, else others will fill in what isn't being said.
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I would say that can be an issue of guilt by association. There are a lot of AI bandwagoners who are genuinely contemptuous of not just artists but art in general, so when one gets into an argument over AI you have to be careful to make it clear what you actually think, else others will fill in what isn't being said.
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Also of essentially art theft - by paying private companies whose AI art models rely 100% of having essentially ethically (but not necessarily legally, that remains to be seen) stolen art and who benefited massively by trading on the names of specific artists and the like, even though they've mostly since hidden the latter or made it not work, you're propping up some of the worst people in the industry.
There will be "clean hands" AI art companies and models, there are a couple already I understand - but none of them belong to the major players in the AI art subscription scene.
And yes add that to the fact the internet, especially social media, is full of people openly contemptuous of and even hateful towards artists and the very concept of art who are constantly showing off their AI art (a confusing situation lol - but given it's usually boobsy young ladies I think it's safe to say their core motivation is misogyny), and you've got quite a lot of reasons to be annoyed with people paying actual money to those companies and/or promoting them.
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The edition war shaped 5e very successfully.Unpopular opinion, at least around here, apparently: edition warring is completely useless, play thethat appeals most to you
Well, forced it to re-trench in a shape more like TSR/3e.But there simply isn't the impetus to war against 5e. It's not downright offensive to anyone. It doesn't do everything that each other edition did, there are legitimate criticisms of it, sure, but it's just, nothing about it represents the sort of existential threat that 4e apparently did.
Yeah, I would have been about 13 in 1981. At that point, I was still watching cartoons, but I had just started discovering anime (other than Speed Racer). And if there were toys associated with the shows I was watching, they weren’t available In Kansas or Texas at that time.
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to imply I wasn't watching cartoons, only that I drifted away from toys. When I was in high school there were a ton of great cartoons including Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man. I must have been in my late 30s before I pretty much stopped watching cartoons that were ostensibly aimed at minors but it's not because I outgrew them. I just neve hear about them anymore.
And as hard as this might be for younger people to believe, it was hard finding anime and anime related merchandise in the 1980s. Matchbox released a line of toys to support Robotech and there was Voltron but I'm hard pressed to remember anything else.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear.
I wasn’t saying I had outgrown cartoons, either. It’s just that at that moment in time, I discovered “japanimation” (as it was called), and watched the deluge of anime shows that were being played on local stations. G-Force. Battle for the planets. Robotech. Etc.
I had almost completely stopped watching American cartoons.
Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) and Robotech (Macross) were absolute revelations, which transformed my expectations for extended narrative storytelling. And spectacle.
American TV wouldn’t satisfy those new expectations until Twin Peaks.
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There was some space cowboys thing, Galaxy Rangers or some such, and Bionic Six, though they were more stand-alone as far as individual episodes went.
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