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  • I think vendors being open 24/7 was a quality of life choice. Different planets work on different time-scales. In skyrim, you fast travel from Riverwood to Whiterun, and it only takes a few in-game hours. You leave Riverwood at day and likely load into Whiterun at day as well, so shops and quest-givers are more likely to be up and open.

    In Starfield, the day/night cycle and the distances are so different and vast that every time you jumped anywhere it would be a 50/50 on it being night and you having to find a bed or chair to wait or not. I think that would get tedious, so the shoddy solution is that everything is open 24/7.







  • you’re the one doing each and every brushstroke, deciding each and every detail as you draw.

    Does Photoshop or any digital art not count? I don’t have to have the skill to draw a perfect circle?

    good photography takes skill.

    So we should artificially handicap the art at the expense of the lesser abled?

    Whereas for AI art, all you’re doing is providing instruction to the AI, that then goes on to make all these decisions

    Same as clicking a button on a camera at something that just happens to be beautiful. Does it matter if someone next to me is using the same ISO or exposure?

    I don’t have to realize the complexity of lighting, shaders, or materials to render a scene in Unreal. I get to utilize the processes that pioneers before me discovered.

    I understand the frustrations, but this seems stifling in the same way that cotton-gin-phobes, typewriter-phobes, and computer-phobes wpuld have stifled the ability of the average joe to accomplish something.


  • To what degree do you consider AI involvement to be the deal-breaker. My phone uses something arbitrarily akin to generative AI to sharpen photos. If I take a photo with my phone of something novel, should I be able to copywrite that photo?

    If I use an AI generated image and spend 24 hours manually tweaking and modifying it, do I have a right to copywrite?

    If I use an LLM to synthesize an idea that I then use to organically create art, is it lesser art?

    It all seems so arbitrary at this point. It’s like a typist in 2005 arguing that digital word processors shouldn’t be used to create copywritable art, as it takes significantly less work.