again, its just very clear you have no clue what graphic design involves, let alone anything else to do with the creative process

art really is just ‘pretty picture’ innit

its very evident from their other replies that their metric for ‘good’ art is ‘is it beautiful?’ and their definition of ‘beauty’, in turn, is simply ‘does looking at this release dopamine or not’

deeply unserious person

that doesn’t answer my question though - what are you defining as a mediocre artist? or is anything that doesn’t fit the ‘hyper realistic AI’ look count as mediocre?

genuinely curious what you mean by ‘mediocre artists’ and the idea that Stable Diffusion has ‘surpassed’ them

do you have any examples? or is this just a vibes thing?

this is what it always comes down to

they don’t respect artists, they don’t respect artistic labour but they so desperately need and want the fruits of said labour and so the only option left is to cheat and lie

hell, it’s evident in the last sentence of their reply - that they see ‘Artist’ as a profession that is getting ‘Obsoleted’, as if the only reason art exists in the first place is because we as a society have been too archaic, and we would jump at the chance to drop the creative process in a heartbeat

complete and total alienation from creativity as a human experience

its not even that they don’t have the creativity - its that people have been so poisoned by commodity capitalism that they feel like their art ‘doesn’t count’ unless it looks like ‘real art’ that can make money

people are so isolated from the creative process that they think they can dump it entirely, as if all it is is just knowing how to scribble on a page

its more like the pizza shop calling you out when you’re cooking frozen pizza and calling yourself a chef

all power to you if you want to just consume slop, but dont complain when you turn around years later and the quality of everything across the board has gone even further to shit cos you were so happy you could type in words and see anything you wanted for all the 15 minutes of dopamine it gave you

there is literally a genocide being perpetrated by israel right now what do you mean america has prejudicial issues at astonishing levels comparatively

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is iconic, the claymation and dedication is insane for a music video from that time period

It’s okay to envy by Takayan is impressive for how it plays with the subtitling, trust me turn on Closed Captions for this and enjoy

Loretta by Ginger Root for how perfectly it captures an atmosphere and aesthetics of those late 80s/early 90s East/South East Asian music videos, it’s a vibe - plus him playing all members of the band/accompanying orchestra is also impressive in its own right

just a few off the top of me head

nah, The Scientist will always take a backseat to Drop by The Pharcyde which did the same thing, but years earlier in 1995 (and a rap track no less)

like it’s not even a competition in my mind

its the other way around, it’s getting changed to lunkhead from airhead fyi

there’s actually a plot relevant planet called Gagarin, with a statue of him in the main square and you get lore about his accomplishments

not as much as I’d wish, but like no other location is seemingly named after any other famous space race figures afaik

i remember people going in on her for being a woman and partying, and some sexism on some ‘which way western man’ shit that got push back, if that’s what you mean?

not to defend a ghoul but i specifically remember that mini struggle session

pizza tower dev is iffy af tho from what i hear

i think there’s things that are fair to criticise, i think you hit on a few but there’s just something in it for me such that I can’t stop plowing hours into it haha

maybe i’ve got endemic gamer brain or something :P

im enjoying the fuck outta it what can i tell ya

i mean its more than that, I was just making a joke about my need to pick everything up cos there’s a lot of stuff in the game lying around

I’m about 20 hours in and enjoying it immensely, for what it’s worth

I think a lot of people had expectations way too high for it, expecting to have a life replacement ala Star Citizen - I didn’t follow any of the marketing, and I’m genuinely enjoying the story and the atmosphere a tonne

It is very Scifi Fallout (love to pick up trinkets) and imo it’s come out really well

hmmm people seem to like this thing i don’t like

ah it’s because they’re actually lying for the purposes of fooling me, the objectively correct main character