EmptySlime

It... It's gotta be Adult Maggie from when they showed the kids all grown up, right? ...right?

"Oh yeah, this is going to piss off so many Liberal Snowflakes. -post-"

-Gets ratio'd to hell and back by the fucking dictionary-

Near as I can figure the joke is that Montreal has a reputation for queer people with... An interesting fashion aesthetic.

The thing that pisses me off about that statement most is him trotting out that anecdote about the 90s like the situations are in any way comparable. If you bought a game in the 90s even if it cost $80 you got the whole fucking game. You know damn well that at the end of the day that $80 game nowadays is going to end up totaling closer to $200 after all the shit they remove to package up separately and sell as DLC.

The cynical part of me says it's probably because cameras grab everyone. Compared to human enforcement which can be... Subtly encouraged to only enforce the speed limit on the "right people"

Another insane entry for the pile of cuts made because they're just doing a Ctrl-F for whatever buzzwords they can think of and cutting anything they find on that list I guess...

Out of curiosity, when did they show that? Every interaction with demons I remember from it they are shown to be manipulating people at best.

The "Diplomatic Envoys" were literally trying to figure out the town's barrier so their master could come in and slaughter them.

The "little girl" in the flashback with Himmel outright says that she called out for her "Mommy" despite demons literally abandoning their young once they're born because "that word stops humans" and nothing more.

Like yeah it's inherently difficult writing something that looks human as actually an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction because dehumanizing vulnerable groups is pretty much always the first step in real life genocides. But I don't recall any instances of demons in Frieren actually showing "humanity" for any other reason than to manipulate and kill humans.

People: "We're tired of all these 'misunderstood villains' we want unapologetically evil for the sake of evil."

Frieren: "Okay here's monsters that learned to imitate human language and emotion solely to manipulate and kill humans."

The same people: "No! You're wrong! They're just misunderstood and you're doing a genocide!"

Yeah, any media that depicts something human like being an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction is inherently tricky because dehumanizing is pretty much always the first step in mass atrocities irl. But my God I've seen so many people tie themselves in knots trying to give the benefit of the doubt to demons in Frieren.

Well yeah the AI support is just the next iteration of confusing telephone trees and long wait times. The direct hope is that they make it just convoluted enough that a chunk of people that they before would have to "waste money" serving and fixing whatever problem they had will instead just give up without opening them up to liability for denying service. Only now they can do it while hiring even fewer actual people to handle the cases that get through.

Exactly! It's almost like stuff like this is actually pretty great when it's a tool for the artist rather than an attempt to replace them. The accessibility angle would be amazing... If only it wasn't powered by the damn Orphan Crushing Machine and didn't need to steal all of the art/literature/whatever other data the corps can get their grubby little mitts on in order to train the models.

But that's the entire point. They want to pay for a machine they can write off as an equipment investment rather than a team of competent and well paid human artists. Even better if they don't even need some comparatively low wage "Prompt Engineer" to run the damn thing.

I hate the accessibility argument because it's so disingenuous. Yes, technically if I used these models it would have allowed me to keep making art when my wrists were in such pain I couldn't use my stylus for longer than 30 seconds. But the problems with AI way outweigh that potential good.