And it’s just the same model as the second worst car, but with the muffler and catalytic converter removed, a bad lift job, and some razor blades welded to the front bumper “in case of pedestrian impact”. These are the only differing features that let the second worst car claim that title over this one.

I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, but there are controlnet models that can be made from videos or images and used to guide how a compatible generative AI model poses figures, and there may be something that does functionally the same thing for trying to animate bones for a 3d model although I have to stress that a lot of this tech is at once surprisingly capable but still complete dogshit in practice. Generative AI research has been hard focused on making the shitty little black boxes less bad at churning out slop from simple prompts in a way that’s meant a whole bunch of attendant tech that might make it less bad via human curation and guidance has just not been made.

The hobbyist sector wants its slop gacha, the management sector wants a fully autonomous worker replacer, and the whole thing’s such a grift no thought’s been given to how to actually make genuinely useful toolkits involving the tech.

The 4060 is a notoriously bad card with VRAM on par with almost decade old midrange cards, and I did mention it running worse on NVidia GPUs than one would expect given their specs.

The general consensus is the game looks worse and runs worse than world

That’s a nonsense take and people just saying shit. World looked good for its time, and it still doesn’t look bad, but it has some really jarring issues with its antialiasing and certain effects relying on the shitty TAA that it shipped with, and in its time it was as demanding and non-performant. Meanwhile Wilds is visually stunning and runs incredibly smooth on high settings on my 6800, a card that’s older and cheaper than/comparably priced to the 4060 but with a reasonable amount of VRAM. The only problem is starting with Guardian Arkveld it just has random DX errors that hard crash the game and nothing fixes.

With MHWilds it seems to have been a few things: weird CPU things where it was doing too many checks, having worse performance on NVidia cards than would be expected, and running perfectly smooth on AMD cards except for random hard crashes. It runs just fine on older mid-range hardware for the most part, it’s just had some really bizarre problems that it shouldn’t have.

The first thing I’d want from an AI image generator is the ability to highlight a section of a generated image and say “fix this”.

The UIs for running prompts directly on a locally hosted (or personal/private remote host) models can do that, especially if you fix it manually then feed it back in for inpainting to mesh the fix with the surrounding style.

The most “complicated” of those is comfyui, which is a simple flowchart UI that is completely trivial to use - the vast majority of the AI hobbyist/enthusiast community, the people dedicated enough to making slop that they figured out how to run it locally, finds making a simple flowchart along rote lines to be too daunting and confusing compared to just a simple prompt black box interface.

I mention this because I can only assume that the social media flunkies churning this stuff out so their bosses bark and clap like trained seals before giving them good boy treats are even more out of it than that and are just prompting a fucking bot for it instead of even using a simply black box prompt interface or a privately hosted model that would allow inpainting and corrections.

Its also a model trained to produce bitmojis when the whole point of bitmojis is to be cheap to generate. Its like training an AI model to replicate South Park’s style.

It’s as baffling as the pixar and other 3dcgi looking ones, like someone’s really going “finally! I have a computer program that produces dogshit CGI!” instead of just learning SFM or blender.

The “let’s have a ceasefire for elections” is definitely him trying to find a way to weasel out of being the one holding the bag when it really falls apart, without the optics of just resigning, right? Like he’s going to solicit all his backers in the US and Europe for campaign funds, and then instead of campaigning with it he’s just going to take the money and flee, leaving his opponent effectively unopposed for an easy win, in the hopes that said opponent suffers the consequences for Ukraine’s imminent defeat.

Hot take: I really don’t like the dub version of Scarlet. She sounds like someone really hamming it up for a youtube fandub, whereas her tone in the Japanese audio feels colder and angrier. It’s like unflinching repressed rage vs someone being silly on youtube and trying not to laugh while doing the lines.

part of my really doesn’t want to find out what happens when you blow up a small nuclear reactor in the middle of the ocean.

Probably not all that much. It’s heavily shielded and I assume buried deep inside the structure (to the point that “refueling” it means “tear the ship up for a refit and replace the entire reactor while you’re at it, because it’s inaccessible and can’t be refueled”), so the ship itself being made to take on water and sink probably wouldn’t crack it open. I have to assume there are also failsafes to make it shut down in the event of catastrophic failure, if nothing else because having it trying to run when submerged may make salvage operations untenable.

It would likely be less of an overall problem than all the other extremely toxic bullshit they no doubt have on board, or the oil and fuel that the oil tankers and cargo ships that would no doubt also get targeted would spew out when cracked open.

A temporal anomaly displaced key structural parts of the steel frame directly into Charlie Kirk’s neck for a fraction of a second, which is why that just did that on its own too. The scary part is we don’t know when or where the rest of the time traveling metal will reappear again.

that doesn’t make it bad art.

I didn’t say the art is bad, but that the work is. The art is just extremely ill fitting for hentai, and the subject matter itself is, and I don’t articulate this better, that sort of composition where it doesn’t even matter what kink it’s trying to do it’ll still be really bland and uninteresting looking, kind of like the human equivalent of how AI generators can churn out a wide range of flavorless slurries that’s all ultimately equally empty and dull regardless of content.

Nurgle’s contagion is also often literal mindcontrol, like people literally just get infected with a plague that takes control of them. The rest of it is someone wallowing in despair, particularly when afflicted with magic diseases, until they become blackpilled and start reveling in their stagnation and decay and trying to spread their literal brainrot to others. And also the usual Chaos hyper-fascism shit of people seeking power and self-actualization through spreading horror and worshipping the ruinous powers, and just rolling the extra icky god from the “I’m going to commit abominations against reality for fun and profit” results chart on their rituals.

It really does make a lot of sense when you look at actual reactionaries, and at its core does make for pretty good writing casting these pure concepts of fascism and related reaction as the foils to a brutal, corrupt, and stagnating empire that was built according to an inscrutable plan to play with the line where that remains the lesser evil compared to Chaos. Yet another way the Imperium is fundamentally a liberal autocracy, except unlike real liberals they actually materially crack down on subversion from their right instead of only from their left.

I looked it up out of morbid curiosity and it’s really bad. He’s got that overly busy horror manga linework and shading style that’s just kind of visually repellent as its key point, and the actual content is the worst combination of generically dull and extremely gross. Also like a third of the stuff he’s put out is nonce shit, because of course it is.

Carrot is a class traitor (good)

Carrot might technically be a royal, but his actual class background is proletarian and functionally an ethnic minority, at least within the context of Ankh-Morpork, so in practical terms he’s as much a class traitor as Vimes and in a similar way, for all that Vimes is objectively a piece of shit who is at best a lesser evil compared to much of the setting’s elites, while Carrot is fundamentally a well-meaning true believer who’s likable and earnestly trying to improve the material conditions of the city and make the police somewhat less shit.

Oh fuck, Carrot is just Judge Dredge except charismatic. Maybe he wouldn’t nuke another city to save Ankh-Morpork the way Dredd did in the Apocalypse War, but he really is just an affable Judge Dredd: a fanatic true believer with a layered belief of the law and then his own ideals atop it. Carrot would definitely say that murder is a crime even where there’s no law, and he’d ignore non-murder crime if he wasn’t legally on duty in a jurisdiction. He’d probably even arrest himself for a petty noise violation out of consideration for his neighbors.

I thought he’d been in the fascist grifter industrial complex since he was a literal child?

That’s just the tattered remnant of his soul, barred from passing on to oblivion by his misdeeds and his failure to procure sufficient grifterbucks in life to purchase the sweet release of nonexistence anyways, haunting servers like a poltergeist except instead of throwing stuff around he just makes the machine spirits churn out grifter slop.

I wouldnt be suprised if we hit 50 before they stop support.

Hello Games is an absurdly small studio that as I understand it is wholly owned by Sean, who’s mentioned them having cash reserves high enough to keep working on NMS longer than any of them will be alive. I think the only thing that would make them stop their current almost-seasonal release schedule where a dozen people are putting out more content than some 800 person studios is Sean losing interest in the project, except he comes across as an overenthusiastic puppy who’s endlessly excited about whatever new thing they’re working on.

LNF coming out and being a hit might do it, if that absorbs all their focus moving forwards.

I didn’t say “good”, just that the ones who weren’t personally doing their crimes seem to have mostly avoided punishment and received special treatment in exchange for going along with expropriation quietly.

That’s actually pretty accurate, and it wasn’t so much “Mao’s policy” as just what wound up happening as a result of peasant outrage mixed with suddenly being given agency and an ideological push to redress their personal grievances. It was as I understand limited specifically to the rural landlords who lived in or near their the villages their victims did, the people who’d most directly committed crimes against their tenants, while absentee landlords who lived in cities far from their estates were spared and often given deals where they willingly gave up their claims to their former lands in exchange for party membership and jobs as bureaucrats on account of the CPC of the early 50s being that desperate for literate workers that they made a lot of “oh, you can read? If you’ll take this desk job doing paperwork and make a gesture of good faith by voluntarily giving up your capital and land, we’re ready to forgive a whole lot of stuff you may or may not have done” concessions.

I couldn’t help myself, and went and looked again. Here are some highlights of the titles from the past week:

• Everyone’s a Catgirl! Ch. 332: Rice to the Occasion
• Oops! I Accidentally Started an Industrial Revolution in Another World (24/?)
• [Brian The Isekai] - Chapter 27: Staff Time
• [Reverse Isekai] A Ninja from 1582 gets stuck in modern Tokyo.
• The Villainess Is An SS+ Rank Adventurer: Chapter 486
• There Will Be Scritches Pt.219
• Villains Don’t Date Heroes! 3-25: I Hate Being Right
• How I Helped My Smokin’ Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-71: Pre-Ass Kicking Checklist
• How I Helped My Demon Princess Conquer Hell 27: A Promise To A Pretty Girl
• Why isekai high schoolers as heroes when you can isekai delta force instead? (Arcane Exfil Chapter 61)
• Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (158/?)

I do see a lot of titles that sound like sci-fi, but it’s a pretty even mix of that and what are clearly fantasy, and there’s a bunch of obvious isekais too. A lot of the ones I listed showed up multiple times, too, and three of them are from the same author. I’m assuming a fair bit of it is AI word vomit too, but I really don’t want to fry my brain by looking any closer.

I think that’s just Watanare, although I don’t know where it goes past the first season of the anime because I haven’t read it, nor watched the movie/5-episode continuation.