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happens when people in the rp stop posting

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as an rpg meant to be taken seriously for the standards of its time? probably not

as a classic pile of jank and (usually) unintentional hilarity that only got funnier the more outdated it grew? absolutely

You can't bau bau your way out of this one!

Happy birth!

that's my guy

antarctica represent

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There have been a not insignificant amount of plugin changes. Things will be slightly different to what you are used to, but, I hope you'll come to like new bits etc.

If there are any particularly heavy pain points, let me know.

How's your throat?

You had the strength to do what I did not.

that's why you pay me the big bucks, boss

oh hey I'm sick too, solidarity among the staff!

ok daddy

He came down with a soar throat. Maybe don't take me so roughly next time.

he was changing his name to "bonsoir ikuhara" so people started joking he was transitioning to fr*nch

God... I forgot almost everyone's names and my history with them.

Nevertheless, happy birthday, Yemachu.

I would, too. But I so often forget where I got the image from, and YGO don’t credit artists like MtG does, so it feels even more distant. 
 

That might be so, though it isn’t going anywhere. I used it to come up with ideas for my blog logo. I use ai to help with my writing when I am stuck. 
 

I feel like AI is such a strange bar, but I have to compare it to the computer or the typewriter in terms of its use. It is another tool that has so many ways to help break a mental block. But I could get around it being more indusive in life. I hate seeing AI art for sale, people using AI to make stories. I hate when it replaces the creative process, and that is my schtick behind it. 
 

but, really, I think it could never replace the art or the artist in their vice, in their creation. It replaces the production, which relates back to work and payments. It stops allowing artists to live off their work, and others to try and profit from doing nothing. 
 

I think there is a place where, since it supports something that people create, even such as YGO cards, it is applicable to some extent. 
 

I can’t be fully against AI when I use it so much to help things I am doing, maybe not all the time, but it has been useful. Wish I knew where the “tool” ends and the “taking over” begins. 

Yu-Gi-Oh! doesn't credit artists as part of the business deal. Someone not crediting the artists for their custom cards is just being lazy. I don't have the time to write out the full spectrum of reasons why it's not a good idea to use artificial images for your custom cards, but the main reasons are 1. Your custom cards are a personal thing, and you cheapen the experience by using Frankensteined slop that doesn't belong to you for images. 2. It just adds to the idea that it is okay to use in general. 3. Oftentimes the art used to train on is taken without permission. 4. Normalizing this over using one's own artistic ability (which everyone has) and one's own creativity leads to a loss of culture and life becomes all about products instead of art.

YGO not crediting artists was more attached to my comment on me being lazy. But also, most of the images that I have over the time are just in downloaded folders, mostly just random things that were found. I really don't think that is lazy as much as it is forgetful.

1. It is making YGO cards. The experience isn't that rich. No images belong to me, ai or not.

2. The real concern I have with AI is more of its environmental waste rather than artist work. Using AI is still something okay to me. Explain to me why it is not? I am not considering myself an artist when I use AI, I am not trying to profit of it, and I am not claiming credit in any form for something that amounts to pixels. If I use someone else's art, it would be rendered to the same position. 

3. This I can agree with, to a point. Artists like Vincent Van Gogh has no concern of what his art is or how it is used, and much of that research has led to vast curiosities that extend his work into a new age. Artists from Twitter get "screwed" over by what? Their clientel doesn't increase, and it maybe decreases their influence, but the people that were going to buy their art doesn't change. Their ability to reach new ones hits differently.

4. We live in a capitalist state, life is all about products instead of art. This is an argument that has gone back decades, and I know more about the argument than you do. "Art in Mechanical Age of Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin. If you want to venture into this: how does AI bring about people's creative abilities? Writing prompts requires some sentiment toward this. Having more avenue to express yourself offers more chances in the ways for expression to take place.

How does AI take away from my artistic ability if it is helping to develop it?

I am sorry, but I want you to write more. Write the whole damn full spectrum. None of these arguments are convincing to me. In fact, they are as lazy as using AI to me, and yet you still desire to be lazy about it.

If you want to call YGO card creation some holistic artistic endeavor, be my guest.

I think AI does a lot that is great; I think that the people who use it without thinking about how they use it make it shit. But people were doing this for decades, and complaining about some new Printing Press is not going to stop that. Most artists I know are turning to AI to help them with their own art, and that is what it should be used as, a tool. Hell, I write THOUSANDS of words just to understand something. I use AI to help organize and develop my thoughts. But I do not let it have final say on those thoughts.

Going back to the idea of "products": everything is a product. If you buy someone's art, you are buying a product that has something more sentimental than the exchange value. But part of production is also "produce", so if you want to maintain your thoughts around it: what are you producing to create culture? I promise you, at the end, the YGO card I make is not going to be some reified object. But normalizing AI use as a part of the production process probably does more than to take away people's abilities to produce.

If I am using AI to create art that I disparage as my own, then that is a problem of me and not the tool; What does we do with that? Regulate, teach, etc? Something. If you give me a hammer and a nail, I am going to use it how I see fit. Eventually, if I use it wrongly, then anything can become a hammer and a nail. But it is, at the end of the day, a tool. It is one that I think the scum of the earth is going to use to be scum regardless; it is another venture into exploiting the workers; it is something that puts the "more efficient" in line to "work harder" and "not smarter".

But being anti-AI just seems so absolutely ridiculous to me, especially with when it helps to extend one's own abilities. The only limit I seem to come across whenever I get into a conversation about AI: do not let it take over for your ability.

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half same but actually

Did some digging. Turns out they decided that the URL should now include the .js file extension. Easy enough that I could do it via my phone. The card maker should now be working again; can someone please check this claim?

In the long run I should look into having all code in a self contained bundle so that this doesn't happen again.

here to confirm it works on firefox at least

works on phone chrome also