From Wikipedia

Around the late 14th century in Europe, smaller and portable hand-held cannons were developed, creating in effect the first smooth-bore personal firearm.

I didn’t enjoy the gun fights, the space fights, the fast traveling

Why did you buy it? That’s like, the entire game.

Damn, gamers are fucking children. It’s a video game, dude. Go read a book, or take a nap, or eat a snickers or something.

Ehh, pretty sure the Hunter tells you that they’ve never seen “you” take up the power and make it that far.

not the people that overpromised and (not underdelivered but) lied.

Who lied here?

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 enjoying Cyberpunk, but Starfield was bland to you? Night City is sparse and empty as hell.

As an aside, the corpo storyline in Starfield is miles ahead of the corpo sroryline in Cyberpunk.

They want to complain about the glasses, but all the salient points in the thread have been made, so they went with whatever.

Spite always creates a better system.

You should probably have an SSD in 2023.

They deorbit very quickly.

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.

Was that the show with the green wireframe CGI animals that they would show duking it out and eating wireframe people?

yes

They aren’t. If I think you’re a bootlicking chud, I have the right to say so in America. We don’t let the offended party decide what is insulting.

It’s also the best hands-down. If you want to use a worse free app, that’s fine. I haven’t paid for Sync for Lemmy, and I deal with 1 ad every 5 pages or so. I’m not that sensitive.

Do you want to work for a company that will intentionally sabotage themselves? Probably not.

Then pay for the ad free version, and you’re letting them make money without ads.

If you just want to steal people’s labor, then nah.

I get like, 1 ad per 5 pages or so. That commenter is kinda goofy.