Just say no to creators who use AI for anything, even to make their thumbnails.

That is…profoundly icky. The man’s been dead 30 years, let him rest for fuck’s sake.

I mean you, rulu, are a dumbass. This is an unfunny meme and you should feel bad for wasting the internet’s time with it.

Do better, for all our sakes.

Attached to a dumbass.

Wonder if that’s supposed to be Ahmad Ibn Fadlan watching from the lower right. 10th century would be the right timeframe.

There was a Balatro x Chess a couple weeks ago. Everyone out there looking to make a quick buck turning a classic card or table game into a roguelite now.

You may not like it, but this is what peak cleanliness looks like.

Somebody among the AAA publishers had to take the initial leap into full-on reputation destroying slop. Fitting that it’s Ubisoft.

“Day 3. The canines have no idea that I walk among them…”

Forgiveness for my pedantry, but pretty sure a greeble (or greeblie) is the individual plastic details that they would glue on to create the texture, not the texture itself.

You wouldn’t say a texture is “greeble”.

Edit - and if you’re talking 3d modeling, greebling is done during sculpting, it’s not a texturing step.

I don’t remember seeing pirated stuff before Dreamcast / PS1, although to be fair, I was at a lot of PC conventions back then grabbing freeware disks and stuff, so I probably saw a lot of pirated stuff without knowing what I was looking at, just by virtue of being too young to be into the pirating / modding community.

None, because their corporations exist as separate legal entities that own their own assets, and their personal wealth would go to their next of kin.

The way to get the wealth out of the hands of the wealthy is to tax them, or to remove the legal system that would keep their wealth in their family when they die.

Really hoping this isn’t the case. LotR IP isn’t in a good place these days, with all the adaptations being made that don’t have the rights to the time periods or events they want to portray.

We don’t need another half-baked property about the heroic quest for Galadriel’s bidet, Gollum’s cock ring, or whatever McGuffin they come up with as a placeholder for The Ring.

Let the Professor’s work rest. No-one is doing his writing any favors by making a mockery out of it.

No, but I did take the 4 or 5 Oreos I would eat in a sitting, crumble them up, and put them in a bowl of milk like cereal.

Can’t have a tank parade when all your tanks are currently planters for Ukrainian sunflowers.

I remember back in the days when Ebay didn’t have any selling restrictions, there was someone selling an Alfa class Soviet sub for something like 3.5 million.