Stable Diffusion seems to be the done thing. Apparently you provide a list of tags with numeric weights, and it “denoises” all the ways the image doesn’t fit. From-scratch images are generated from a canvas full of random noise.

Basically “remove all the marble that doesn’t look like a statue.” The missile knows where it is because it knows where it is not.

… unless the customer is over 18, right? The age where an age rating doesn’t fucking matter?

This is the same shit as Australia “refusing classification.” Oh cool, guess it’ll default to the highest bar to entry, oh no wait the whole thing was just an excuse to censor fictional people taking imaginary drugs.

The silliest part is, they could absolutely keep milking nonsense forever. All they’d lose is exclusivity. Star Wars would be a genre, the way zombies are, thanks to George Romero’s incompetent producers. And every new detail would still be in that vice-grip for another thirty years! Winnie The Pooh is public-domain and Disney’s still gonna slit throats if anyone depicts him wearing red.

They’re scared someone might make a better Star Wars than they did.

Dunno why, when the thinly-disguised competition is Rebel Moon.

And the author spent a year hassling Mozilla about how killing XUL plugins would make his wildly popular plugin nearly impossible. Did they move one iota to help that? Nope. Did they adopt DTA functionality natively, like they’d absorbed Pocket? Did they fuck. Their mantra for two straight decades has been “just rewrite!” and they cannot imagine why they kept hemorrhaging devs and plugins and users once Chrome slimed its way into everyone’s options.

And?

There’s a dozen Firefox extensions that really matter, at any given time. Mozilla has never appeared to give a particular shit about any of them. Paying special attention based on popularity wouldn’t be ideal, but for fuck’s sake, their passive-aggressive treatment keeps burning out the developers who fuel their ecosystem, and it would take vanishingly little effort to shield their keystone plugins.

If their active neglect had ruined both uBlock and DownThemAll - I’m not sure I’d be using Firefox anymore, and I’ve been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox. Why the fuck would anyone normal even consider it?

One: thirty-year copyright, no exceptions. Culture belongs to its audience.

Two: noncommercial use is not copyright infringement. Copyright is only a monetary incentive for new works. There is no “unpublish.” Once it’s ours, you are entitled to any money involved, for a time. Take it or fuck off.

“Agreement” is quite a fucking twist on “threat.”

If you want to oversimplify future expectations of a brand-new technology to two loaded words.

The people insisting it’ll never be useful are as off-base as the grifters insisting it’s the next everything. Right now, on consumer hardware, you can take a photograph of a toy spaceship and tell your video card to make it look real, and it will. No kidding we’re gonna see that used professionally.

Even if we’re still way too early - sometimes the alternative is that a thing does not get made. Fancy new ways of faking stuff don’t need to be flawless, when they’re competing with non-existence. Early special effects were laughable. Early CGI was hideous. But they did things a production couldn’t possibly do, or couldn’t afford to do. If this stew of linear algebra and pirated DVDs lets weirdos like Gilliam show us a mildly gloopy version of what’s going on his head, with a budget he can scrounge together in less than thirty goddamn years - great. I’d rather have a mildly gloopy movie than what-ifs.

Never give Nintendo money.

He never had enough money to make any of his movies.

In total sincerity - this is what video generators will be for. Letting the robot make it all up from one sentence is an overblown demo. Anyone with a killer script and a great visual imagination should be able to make a two-hour film instead of a comic book.

The technology modifies existing frames. If you feed in some actors doing a scene, and describe what it’s supposed to look like, you should get out dirt-cheap CGI to fix up all the details. The closer the input looks, when blurred, the better the results should be. So if the script says the clouds part and a giant hand gives us the finger, well, grab some pillows and a ladder.

Or, this being Terry fucking Gilliam, animate some flat cutouts, and have the computer make that visual punchline plausible.

Quest 3 spinoff game! Comes with free bucket.

Don’t phrase it like they fucked up. Their publisher made them stop doing the subgenre they pioneered, to chase the latest “it always makes a billion dollars!” trend, and now they’re resuming things they actually wanted to do.

They were innovating new geometry so the button placement could be even less convenient.

One bed, half bath.

Nonprofit gacha. That’s a new one.

Still no.

Most soaps wish they could be as melodramatic as the rugby baby scene.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

The difference between this abusive horseshit and any cheaper example is quantitative - not qualitative.

That’s not equal spacing - 1000-1500 is a bit longer than 1500-2000.

The graph is almost certainly logarithmic. Only the markings are stupid.