My impression from looking at how the likes of Temu and Shein are raking in billions is that, people are perfectly happy with cheap leas-than-mediocre slop.
I had some fun with Bing AI..
Draw me an illustration of the following. A lady with pink, long flowy hair holding up a blank sign. She is wearing an off-white silky gown. The background are some pastel coloured pink lilies, and sky in the colour of pastel blue, yellow, and green.
Sign should be above her head. The lady has Caucasian features.
She should have a face that looks angry and determined to right a wrong. Also, use some bold outlines.
Sure, it doesn't exactly have character like the one in the OP.
But I also put almost no effort in prompting (less than a minute). And Bing (Dall-E) isn't exactly the pinnacle of image generation AI. And the whole tech will only get better by time.
The problem is that it doesn't even have to be "very good"; the majority of people are entirely happy with "good enough". It's not hard to imagine how the whole thing will threaten and disrupt so many industries.
just worlds to run around in
Which, ironically, was why I only played the main quest in Starfield vanilla. Running around empty, boring planets, with copy-pasted dungeons (there's only, what, 10 varieties?), felt like nothing but a colossal waste of time.
So glad I didn't pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).
Most clients can show split votes. So a 0 upvote is different to 1up 1down.
On that note, not a single person downvoted your comment 🥲
where the policy is, what the policy is.
And most of all, why the policy is.
Well the open source crowd is probably one of the most diverse communities in so many ways.
Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses that rolled a one in social skills. From Mexico, to Israel, to Indonesia. From a kid in the library who can't afford a computer, to millionaires running a data centre in their basement.
Diversity is one-third of DEI, which currently is public enemy number one. So here we are..
Mexico is still part of North America. So Gulf of America is a better, more inclusive name.
Wait.. Inclusion is one-third of DEI. WE CAN'T HAVE THAT! We need to change it back!
I just checked and nearly choked. I've played every single Civ game ever made. As much as I love the series, there's no way in hell I'm paying AU$160 for a base game.