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No prob, man. I've been there, still am to a degree. It is dubbed but I can't attest to actual quality. It's an early 2000s dub, so take that for what you will. They did also have to continue some in OVAs that never got dubs (the last 8 episodes of Phantom Troupe and all of Greed Island). Chimera Ant is only 2011 and in the manga, but either version of that arc is worth checking out so long as you liked the stuff before it, which would bring the length up quite a bit. '99 is 62 epispdes, plus 30 OVAs. Chimera Ant, assuming there's interest, is 60 episodes and the arc after is only 11. Technically there's more after the anime, but you know, hiatuses and whatnot. So, with the OVAs it's a few episodes longer than Robotech (92 vs 85). Beyond that, I'd encourage giving later arcs a chance if you end up liking '99, however that is a lot more than Robotech and really comes down to if you even like '99. I've been much more open to new stuff these days. Like I've never been huge on superhero stuff and recently watched the DCAU Justice League and Unlimited with some friends, which were both very good. I'm also reading, and thoroughly enjoying, Animorphs. Never watched Robotech but I did like what little I've seen of Macross [I believe it was Macross Plus].

Mother's Basement kinda pisses me off, especially on this. The video is literally some guys making a video and having an algorithm rotoscope it. Is that not art? How much computer input is too much to qualify? If an AI obtains full sentience and wishes to express itself through art, is that art invalid? I'd go so far as to say MB goes beyond negligence in his video and the degree to which he misinforms his audience makes the video a downright bad one. I can't say for certain he's being dishonest or simply doesn't know what he's talking about, as I've learned thinking MB knows what he's talking about has often been in poor judgment. Since we're reposting anime folder links, a much better video on this was done by based af chad Adam Conover.

"AI art" is not only a misnomer but is following a predictable pattern of any new form of art. Firstly, no AI we have is actually intelligent. It's an unthinking machine that plays crosswords almost intelligibly sometimes. Secondly, 100 years ago, the concept of film as an art form was met with derision. It's just a fad, one day the youngins will learn that only my high brow BOOKS are the only way to tell compelling stories. 🧐 Yet, nobody can deny the amount of work, passion, and skill it takes to make a good film. We have films accepted nigh universally as deserving prestige. The talkies? Just a gimmick. TV? A fad. Color? Nobody can afford that. But alas, tell me how art is inherently worse because it's easier to make. How many years have video games existed and how many years have they been respected as an art form? It's just antiquated elitism that leaves people scoffing at this because oh no more accessible. It's going to bubble up with the most godawful shit imaginable, but more people being given technology to produce content that would previously take millions of dollars without corporate dumbasses working to actively suck all forms of creative integrity dry seems like a positive. You get passed the wtf is this phase and we'll be seeing some crazy good stuff soon enough. I always thought I was "lazy" for being unable to actually practice art to a level I found acceptable. But I've been cripplingly fatigued for over a decade without realizing it. I don't know if it's an injury or what, just that my back has been messed up since high school at latest. It's hard enough to film with legal blindness, and drawing has been infuriating when my hands had no grip. The animation AI thing actually gives me hope that I might be able to make things like one of you normal people.

They probably just bought rights to use the IP for the game. Same kind of thing you would get out of a video game slapped together to advertise a movie.

Okay, so, for what reason might a corporation fire people in favor of AI production? Because you need fewer resources and it's cheaper to make a product with it. Okay, okay. They can make it with fewer resources, you know who else can? That's right, the people who got fired! It's almost like this means a wider number of people can produce and sell their own art without needing the funding of monopolies. As a result, you get a new form of art unlike any we've seen before: high budget blockbusters made by whoever felt like making and/or selling it without having Disney to doublefist them at every opportunity. In turn, all the competent people now can make their own stuff their own way and the techbro dumbfucks you're talking about are left with lazy morons who think a fancy filter can do the job itself just because it's cheaper. AI art is the path to an art renaissance by way of stripping away the fabric of commodified art as it stands. Not to mention that, need I remind you, it's not artificial intelligence when it's not intelligent.

They're going to be so not racist that all memes of white people come with a "no blacks allowed" sign. You know, to stop racism.

I share gifs when they're contextually funny. I don't give a fuck who's in it.

I doubt Adult Swim wants him back. Maybe if it were just these allegations but the only way to save even a little face, considering the workplace behavioral issues, is to stick by the choice. It looks real bad that they only fired him after his awful behavior came out publicly rather than dealing with it while still entirely internal. Bringing him back now would be further doubling down on actions they're already under fire for. Regardless of abuse allegations, his actions behind the scenes sound like plenty of reason to have dropped him well before the allegations became public.

You should give the old version of that one show a try now that it's been a while and we've chilled out. I'd be interested to see where you land on the better version. I'm down for a show exchange if that would make it more appealing. But yeah, people are bad at rating things. 6 is like the lowest most people go, which is dumb and wrong. It's like a 1 or 2 takes anger or disgust and that supercedes whether it's good or bad.

Most people operate on the C (70%) = average scale, despite it being a terrible rubric. Especially since the average viewer's idea of mediocre (7/10) is realistically closer to a 3/10....

I know what the argument is. I'm saying this doesn't actually learn and you have to still input in data. What was made clearly has significant human input since AI can't write a script and AI generated videos are nonsense. It's a complicated Instagram filter. Whose to say it cannot be implemented in creative, artistic ways? What about people who want to make animation but disabilities prevent it? Couldn't this help that? I'm not saying there are no valid concerns, but an algorithmic camera filter isn't one for me. You still need actors like rotoscoping, you still need to go in and change stuff. It doesn't create new work. My phone can turn photos into drawings, but if I took a cool picture and used a filter to make it look drawn, is that automatically a worse photo purely because a filter was put on it? Is it impossible for the filtered version to enhance the original in a meaningful way? What people are freaking out over would require the program to actually learn and create its own thing. Animating on its own is useless if the data being input is created poorly, or if the creator is bad at writing or choreography or directing. You have to have an original to rotoscope in the first place.

I don't know why y'all are so down on this. This isn't much, if at all, different from an algorithmic randomly generated filter for video. There's still a lot of work that would have to go into making this regardless of the use of AI. If it were just a case of AI made the animation, it would be nonsense considering our AI capacities right now are still fairly limited.

@Insipid The other day I was going to ask if you played Nirvana Initiative before realizing you have Tokiko as an avatar. I just did the thing again.

I heard from a friend that they heard from a friend that it is better than sex.

Meh. The game is probably fine but I never cared for Harry Potter. Always seemed kinda bland. Like, my Harry Potter growing up was more along the lines of A Wrinkle in Time or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I was spoiled by authors with creativity. It's not impossible that I might play it someday on a used copy or something. But, like, probably not for multiple years.

Alice in Borderland is a good adaption for what its worth but really the wrong medium. It would've made more sense to go for a full 50-ish episode anime. They had to cut a lot of things that made the manga as good as it is to compensate for 1. Time, and 2. The fact a long-form live action drama with only 2 short seasons can't really get away with the several volumes worth of content where the protagonist kinda dips out of the story. That and the limitations of live action compared to animation generally. That said, for what they had to accomplish, the resulting show is markedly better than expected. Anyway, all this is to say go read the manga. For all the show's missteps, it was the push needed to finally get a US release and the manga is the better version by a large margin.

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They've announced a movie and season 4 just started in China on the 18th. No clue how long until we get those with Netflix releasing everything like jackasses.

They have 2 dumb ones. It may have been the starlight one. It was gross.

Coca-Cola released a cola that tastes like pixels. Pixels taste like ass, apparently.

@Vela Scissor Seven Once the show starts really picking up (back half of season 1), it goes hard. Just the coolest shit.

Rick and Morty nosedived remarkably fast and it's incredible how long it has taken for the bandwagon to evacuate. It was already souring in season 2. They clearly ran out of ideas for Rick and Morty stories since the only good parts were when it focused on other characters. I don’t know how people enjoyed any of season 3 onward.