Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • Using AI to generate it is a legit practice because you aren’t wasting an artist’s time on shit that won’t make it into the game.

    I’m sure those artist’s would like to earn a paycheque regardless of whether their work is in the final game or not. That’s my main beef with A.I.

    Edited: The amount of slack I’m prepared to give in the case of placeholder assets depends entirely on the size and financial backing of the development team creating the game. Am I going to flip out about a small developer with very little money creating their small passion project for using AI because he can’t afford a bigger dev team. No. I’ll wish him/her all the success in the world so that they reach a point where they no longer HAVE to use A.I. to generate placeholder assets. But will I give a billion dollar company slack for using A.I. instead of paying artists? Hell no.

    Long story short. If you’re a big company with the money in your couch cushions to pay artists, than PAY ARTISTS. If your a small indy dev just starting out, A.I. placeholders can help you a bit until you can afford proper artists.



  • Technically there is no such thing as a “completely secure system”

    What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It’s the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

    To put it simply: Yes…linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we’ve got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can’t see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

    I’ll take my chances with the community approach every time.


  • Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it’s not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

    That’s why it’s the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

    As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn’t included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

    If you’ve ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you’ve essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.