This project has such a weird niche now that Bazzite is catching on.
The number of places you’d consider an XP VM - or god help you, actual 32-bit hardware - is steadily shrinking. If this project Just Works for programs with hideous picky installers, hey great, but that seems untenable. Sometimes even era-correct hardware won’t satisfy the wizard. Like this EXE knows it’s not not 2003 anymore, because the stars are misaligned, and your WinRAR trial has expired.
We ruined everything for Hollywood accounting and sportsball.
There’s DRM in your goddamn video cables.
You know it’s crazy, someone just told me that’s more dangerous than having them do nothing.
Experts who enjoy doing [blank] the hard way don’t enjoy the tool that lets novices do [blank] at a junior level.
Somehow this means the tool is completely worthless and nobody should ever use it.
Consolidation fucked them. Optimal economics through the 90s meant maximized seating per screen, and one ticketing / concession apparatus for as many screens as possible. If the theater was in the mall and you were already at the mall, this worked out perfectly. Aaand then everyone bought a big flat television right as Netflix-as-DVD-rental and Netflix-as-streaming-service made home viewing basically effortless… and online shopping finally worked. By 2015 you’d go to a dead mall to sit in a half-empty theater and balk at prices that would nowadays seem quaint.
Small theaters should be doing okay. But small theaters are mostly dead. Anything old was driven out by the push for growth, and anything new is some boutique horseshit that’s somehow even more expensive.
You’ve turned the movie-going experience into an event, and people act accordingly. Even when movies were struggling against color television, going to the theater was still dirt cheap and down the street. It’s no longer a convenient way to kill an evening. It’s a commute to a distant box full of strangers, so you can see an overhyped entertainment product that’ll be accessible from your couch in two months.
Good, frankly? CUDA’s monopoly has been a pox on computing. Vendor lock-in on PC is an artificial abuse.
Oh my god, he’s doing the Dunkey “strand-type game” joke. We’re only a few steps removed from him re-recording the Lasagna Cat monologue.
You want to be sold a fantasy.
it’s about the purity of the expression and it’s intent. Even if the artist is a baby-eating fascist,
You want to be sold a misleading fantasy. One where poet Yukio Mishima’s virulent backwards-facing nationalism is what makes his synthesis of modern styles… “pure.” That’s a dangerous fantasy even when we’re not slapping the word on genuine fascists. It’s infatuation.
Motorhead’s “Ace Of Spades” is all about gambling on card games - which singer / songwriter Lemmy Kilmister famously did not give a shit about. Because it turns out… people can write things… that aren’t real. Talented writers don’t need to experience whatever befalls their characters. You can imagine him betting it all on blackjack, but it did not happen. You can imagine him in a pretty pink dress if you like. You can rotate a cow in your mind. It’s free and the government can’t stop you. Why the fuck would you not be able to envision a fictional character unless it’s literally the artist?
Inventing that parasocial relation to a JPEG, at first sight, is nuts. Insisting you didn’t experience that rush of wonder when you had no further context is a lie.
To say it’s less interesting, fine, sure, people don’t like the robot that draws anything you can describe. But people reach for extremes in a way that goes beyond subjectivity, and beyond irrationality, to the point it’s contrarian. Like a teenager tearing posters off their wall and insisting they never liked their favorite band.
Personally? I’ve loved some albums that it turns out were made by fascist bigots. They’re never getting another cent from me, and I’m less bothered that several of them got shot, but I’m not gonna pretend the music was bad now. If an artist’s suffering and misery are what excites you about a painting of a flower, maybe the fact three people died onstage is a bonus.
OP’s issue was explicitly about AI, and they dismissed all AI specifically as intrinsically disappointing. Don’t smug up where you butted in.
If it was a photoshop or a render, nobody’s like ‘oh, so it’s garbage.’ They’re just slightly disappointed it was made-up. They don’t pretend it’s utterly devoid of value or interest, because someone used the wrong tools to produce a striking visual.
I shouldn’t have to convince you of anything - YOU SAID you found this interesting. Then you learned you were impressed by a program, and want to pretend that didn’t happen.
You can’t unfuck that chicken.
No. You’re in denial of sincere emotions you openly acknowledge you felt.
You said you found it interesting. You can’t make that reaction un-happen. You can only glumly attempt to reclassify it, because this was a machine fantasy, rather than a human one.
Surely you wouldn’t insist it was a disappointment if it was merely photoshopped or rendered. But because it passed through an autoencoder instead of an image editor, well, that’s fundamentally different… somehow.
It is cool… you’re just prejudiced.
You experienced fascination, but then found it was Wrong, and have to pretend you did not experience that emotional reaction to a visual medium. Like it’d be any fucking different if it was a real place you’d never visit or see depicted again.
I’m really hoping we solve some other problems in NP, because otherwise, this is a long walk just to ruin encryption.
I think the majority of Lemmy users are American or expect American news to dominate. The thing you’re complaining about only happens because of that.
If ignoring them worked, we’d be fine.