Probably kinda.

I imagine that someone who can’t draw for crap using AI to create the visual component to their stories. They may also use AI to create character “voices” who say things in their specific manner

Manga production costs drop as a writer doesn’t need as many skills to write them and the AI handles more of the heavy lifting when it comes to generating content.

Eventually one of these slop mangas becomes popular enough to get animated. Since it is animated, it becomes a lot easier to make. My guess is that the beginning looks like AI empowered rotoscoping, human actors provide the movements which become the basis of animated characters. You can even do voice modulation too, so the vocal performance gets swapped to the right voice.

These animes might be less popular, but if they are being made at a fraction of the cost of human animation.

It’s the bosses, but it appears to be an industry wide issue instead of just one company.

It looks like you’re doing a great job at protecting yourself against a horrible life, but it looks like you haven’t planned out creating a good life.

I’d save your money and have it grow, but I’d start looking into low/no cost hobbies or something to add some joy in your life.

Nah.

The problem is that AAA gaming hasn’t really innovated that much in the last decade while development costs go up to fund better visuals. Worse, consumers won’t pay for the higher development costs.

I’m surprised that the gaming industry is as large as it is.

A lot of people are like that. It is just that the rich are able to do something about it.

No, but I have things I like to do outside of work and my work funds those activities.

Based on your responses, it seems like the only thing you like to do is to see your net worth go up. Any reason why you don’t have any hobbies?

Do you like working?

If you didn’t have to work, what would you do? Do you still want to work? Would you do something else? Do you have any hobbies?

I’m asking because I’m planning on taking a sabbatical from work because I’m tired of working and I want to enjoy some time away from work.

He didn’t. Mamdani won a majority of NYC, but he lost the conservative parts to Cuomo.

That said, Mamdani got a decent amount of small business support for campaigning on streamlining a lot of the city’s regulations to bring down costs. This includes getting rid of the secondary market for various medallions.

A grandparent did before they died. I read it; it was ok.

So, there are people telling you how to ship packages to a hotel, which is fine. The issue is going to be if eBay will let you. Having packages sent to a hotel is likely going to trigger a lot of fraud warnings, especially as your account is from another country.

And the first part is why a lot of content creators are on it.

At a certain point, a blog becomes more than a hobby. When that happens, a platform like Substack helps people transition the hobby to a job

It doesn’t. I’m commenting more on supporters like you’ve read online saying the current government is great.

A lot of communists here are like Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Their existing living condition is shit and they think that going to a different place will magically fix all their problems because everything just has to be better there.

Open the front door, Hal!

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.

It seems like a descendent of the Shah is currently involved, but I imagine that the replacement government would likely be a constitutional monarchy or a revised republic.

In either case, I expect transfer of several executive powers to elected bodies including control of the military and police.

EU countries did underinvest, but the US is able to invest in multiple weapon platforms and logistics capabilities that wealthy but small countries can’t possibly afford on their own.

The Libyan War was a good example. The EU nations that wanted to intervene in the war needed the US to provide ATC duties and provide supplies after the countries’ missile reserves ran out.

There has historically been a correlation. However, this bubble doesn’t require a lot of labor so wages have been stuck.

Hell, if it weren’t for the AI bubble, it is likely that the US economy would be in recession.

Part of the problem of creating a non-American NATO is that the USA provides a ton of capabilities and logistics that other countries can’t possibly afford.

It is the reason why there has been a push to create an EU military instead.

Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.