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    Project Hail Mary Discussion

    I’m a big Ryan Gosling fan, so this was an easy like for me. But, I loved it more than I expected. It had a bit of everything, but especially humour and heart. Not to mention some really beautiful visuals. They had some free pins at my theatre, so I stuck them on my DnD backpack…
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Instead of all the mental gymnastics, just pay people for their work. With the amount of time some people have spent glazing AI in this thread, they could have learnt to draw themselves instead.
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    The funny thing about that quote is nobody was saying, let alone crying that AI makes good art. If anything the thread was started by someone crying that they aren’t entitled to steal other people’s work. And when folks offered multiple alternatives, it was met with more crying. It doesn’t even...
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    I brought up Women’s right to vote as an example to pushback on the notion that somehow a law is less valuable based on its recency. I guess I wasn’t really prepared that people might have had an issue with that too.
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Just because a right hasn’t always been recognised doesn’t make it artificial. Would you say the same things about say, a woman’s right to vote, which is an even more recent development than copyright law?
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    Friday Fun: Your Formative Geek Media

    Saturday morning cartoons: Astro Boy, Robotech, Battle of the Planets, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Kimba the White Lion. Comics: 2000 AD, The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian, Conan Saga
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    WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

    But, when I googled Urban Fantasy, I got this...
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    Horror general thread [+]

    Saw this in a bookstore the other day, cool cover…
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Don't mention the demon child.
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    New Lord of the Rings movie in the works centered around Tom Bombadil

    I might have to go through and read some of these articles, from what I've seen, I've only heard about him writing.
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    New Lord of the Rings movie in the works centered around Tom Bombadil

    Colbert is as passionate and knowledgeable about LotR as anyone, so I'm interested to see how this turns out. I kinda skimmed the article, does it mention that Peter Jackson is directing, I assume because he was part of the announcement that that was the case, but didn't see it confirmed.
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    Antimatter transported by CERN

    So, no reason to be conCERNed then?
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Exactly, you haven't created a book until it's written down, not to mention that the editing process exists. The idea that you're just transcribing an entire book that's already written in your head is baffling.
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    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    The act of actually making the work, be it painting, drawing or whatever is the creative part. The hint is in the word itself, I would suggest that create being the root word of creativity is no accident. It's not called thinktivity.
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