This strategy has kept him out of jail for a long time. As he gets close to his “too old to prosecute” years, he’s speeding up to make sure he crosses the finish line

Yeah I guess that’s my biggest hangup too, the training process I mean. It’s hard to examine the datasets and be certain this wasn’t stolen from somebody who won’t be getting paid or if it’s being operated from a facility that’s actively siphoning water from a drought affected community.

But I want artists to have tools to pursue the desired scope of their project. But I don’t want scope inflation to be incentivized by a tool that business people are proving to be impossible to not see as an infinite money glitch. And that lawmakers are refusing to regulate

Yeah this is kind of a hard thing to have an opinion on. On one hand I want people in that industry employed and getting to do the job that has turned out to be pretty elusive and arduous to pursue. On the other I really appreciate the art that got made even when time was saved on making some assets.

But where does it lead? Where’s the line drawn between having the machine make some grass and rocks and having it do work a person should have done? First I thought it was okay but now I don’t know how much of a door opener or a gatekeeper these tools will be going forward

I was not aware of these connections! Thanks for the write-up. Guess I need to check out the full extent of the Remedy-verse

Had to go look up what that is. But that’s cool history

Remedy was Finnish this whole time? Why does this keep happening?

Not “massive” at all. But it’s not a demo anymore. I haven’t looked under the hood in a while since back when it first came out but it used to just create NPC’s mirroring your other players actions. That was a long time ago though, I can’t imagine it working this well still using that method

Edit: Here is the list of features, looks like it’s up to 8 people now. But I think it probably does still use that old method, based on the way this is all described

You can install this game as a multiplayer RPG suite with cloth physics, frame generation, and a decade of fan content pushing that medieval engine to do things that shouldn’t even be possible.

But somebody out there still wants to buy it in potato.jpeg resolution and run it on a kid toy