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  • Minotaur@lemm.eetoAI Generated Images@sh.itjust.worksLiving galaxy
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    3 months ago

    One of those concepts that, despite being done a thousand times by real artists, AI just can’t really capture in a meaningful way.

    It’s very bleh. It’s got the elements. Hey look it’s a big star system and there’s kind of a big squid thing out of it and a bunch of eyes placed everywhere just kind of willy nilly. But there’s something the AI fundamentally doesn’t “get” that normally makes these types of pictures feel spookier or more interesting to look at.

    It’s just kind of slop. Glad that it means real artists still have a place.


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    3 months ago

    I mean… most industrial machines have a stop button present on them (though not on the controller). I’m not sure that the sub having a “stop imploding” button on the inside of the hull would have done much good though


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    3 months ago

    The controller is not a life support device. It’s an input device. It is designed with the express purpose as being an input device.

    Again, any one million dollar “special submarine input device” they could have manufactured would be less tested and more prone to failure than a simple controller already subject to decades of research and both hands on and automated testing.

    I’m not trying to be mean to you and I hope you don’t take it as such, it’s just really standard practice.


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    3 months ago

    I mean. Yeah. It does. The controller didn’t fail during the submarines trip lol. It was perfectly fine the whole time.

    Trying to over engineer a specific entirely new device when incredibly developed options already exist is kind of an engineering mindset failure that would only lead to more problems.




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    3 months ago

    Just as a fun fact, it’s actually quite common for industrial machinery and the like to be controlled with a gaming controller. Like, a hundred things wrong with the submarine trip - but the PlayStation controller is genuinely one of the more legitimate aspects.

    They’re simply made well, easy to use, and typically extremely durable and long lasting.






  • Rich parents.

    There’s really no other answer for this one. I went to a very nice university. The average person has no idea how many college students are coming from phenomenally high income families where price is essentially no issue.

    It’s just a matter of how high up the top 10% is relative to everyone else. Both your parents are doctors and they have 18 years to save up - half a mill for Amy’s college bill is basically piss money.

    The only problem is that these college students tend to grow up in areas where this is basically the norm. I had so many 19 year olds act flabbergasted that not only are neither of my parents doctors/lawyers/engineers… they didn’t even gasp go to college!