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@Humpleupagus @skylar @lonestarr @Goalkeeper @bronze @EdBoatConnoisseur @cunnyoisseur @mischievoustomato I view AI art in the same way I view every other technological advancement in the creative fields. It's just another medium. Painting didn't go away when the camera was invented. Live performances are still how musicians make the majority of their money. Synth didn't destroy real instruments. It shifts demographics a little, but I think as long as there is somebody doing a thing, there will be people who enjoy the thing.

There is AI art out there that is pretty cool, but a lot of it I personally just kind of view it as kind of cheap. Make no mistake, there is real art like that too. Likening it back to music, I don't see any real difference between someone who just puts a bunch of loops together and someone who prompts an AI to make some song.

I also think that the kinds of people who were paying for art in the first place aren't going to suddenly stop paying for it because they can just generate stuff instead. I like the kind of personality each artist brings to the table, and if I'm commissioning something it's extremely nice to be able to give them a bunch of references and more complex ideas. Then I don't have to fiddle around with an AI and watch it like a hawk for an hour just so I can get something relatively close to what I was picturing. On the flipside, I'm not going to ask an artist to draw a picture of a random NPC in my D&D campaign. Beforehand I would just find a picture online that looked kind of similar, now I can generate one that looks a little bit more similar (although even that usually takes some time).

What I'm mostly getting at is that I don't think it actually affects artists *that much* at the end of the day. Perhaps it does a little bit, but not in a way that's dissimilar from any other technological advancement. The only thing that is really annoying about it to me is just how much of it gets shit out, especially if it's taking up space on a website like pixiv or something. I think it's totally fine (preferable, even) to segregate it. I also hate how it's the only thing that comes up on Google images anymore, because I don't always want some AI slop coming up when I search for "white knight on horse" you know what I mean?

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@vriska who tf goes to the gym high

@Verfassungsschmutz @LukeAlmighty i was gonna say, probably water

@LoliHat @bleedingphoenix this OST though... so amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brsJ19kclwc

@ZRDR_DelRio @C_J_S @flux_the_cat Sleeping Dogs = PS3/360/PS4/One/PC
Ara Fell = PS4/Switch/Xbox One/PC
Ghostrunner 1 = PS4/Xbox One/PC/Switch
Ghostrunner 2 = PS5/Xbox Series/PC
God's Disdain (my game lol) = PC

Sleeping Dogs, Ara Fell, and Ghostrunner don't have current gen versions but they'll run under backwards compatibility.

@flux_the_cat @C_J_S >i absolutely love old school turn based JRPGs (think old final fantasy, breath of fire, old phantasy star, etc.)

GOOD NEWS MY GAME ON STEAM "GOD'S DISDAIN" IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT

it's free so give it a shot if you haven't already :) it's definitely not gonna be a game for everyone though, i knew that very well. it's non-linear, and after the first quest the game just spits you out into the open world and asks you to explore it yourself. there are a few NPC lines that help guide you to where you're supposed to go, but for the most part the journey is in figuring it out for yourself. it's got elements of the elder scrolls too, since every NPC is named and has their own lives and there is quite a lot of lore to find between talking to them and finding journals and such scattered around.

you don't have to play it haha but i thought i'd shill it a little bit. it took me 9 years to make, may as well xD all of these other games below are definitely going to be better. cream of the crop kind of stuff.

other than that though, Ara Fell is an EXCEPTIONAL JRPG. it's on the shorter side which is perfect for me, and it has a lot of modern QOL stuff. it's at #30 on my top 100 games of all time list. if it had released on the SNES back in the day it would have been seen in the same light as Chrono Trigger and FF6, I have no doubt about that.

if you like Saint's Row, i think i could recommend Sleeping Dogs if you haven't played that one. it's kind of like a more grounded Yakuza game set in China. you're an undercover cop getting involved with the triad. open world, lots of stuff to do (including karaoke lol), awesome story, great combat with contextual environment kills. rank #39 on my list.

as far as something like DOOM goes, you might like Ghostrunner (and, subsequently, Ghostrunner 2). extremely fast and hard gameplay that mostly revolves around movement and attacking with a sword. dying sends you to the last checkpoint immediately, no load screen, so even though it is a brutally hard game it never feels too punishing. i'm a huge fan of both of those games, but if you're not into melee combat as much in an FPS you might not enjoy it as much as you would DOOM. still worth checking out some gameplay videos at least, though. the second game is at #17 and the first is at #20.

@LoliHat @bleedingphoenix i guess a good way for me to describe the feeling of it is like a PS1/SNES JRPG. it has the same kind of pull to it, especially with the backgrounds and the soundtrack. i haven't really seen anything quite like it. the closest is probably some of the ghibli films, but those are typically more childlike and whimsical and mushishi is more mature. not in a way of "ohhh blood and guts and swearing!" but just more contemplative/meditative, that sort of thing. it's slow but there's a lot to take in.

@bleedingphoenix yeah, i don't remember it too well since it was like one of the first anime available on netflix. i think i watched it in like 2011.

i remember it being extremely chill, though. it's also downright gorgeous. it's about a "exorcist" kind of guy who travels around and more or less cleanses spirits.