@Dr_Awkward Massive layoffs after adoption of these technologies, the widespread creation of distrust online in regards to art, the numerous articles over the past several years showing the tech doing the exact opposite of increasing efficiency.

Several studies showing prolonged use brings negative effects on being able to think and persevere through difficult tasks. Creating a disinterest in learning many different things, not just the arts.

The massive theft the models were built on, or how about the fact we had one of the team members of Twitch say the quiet part out loud where they used an Opt Out model for their AI training features because they believed nobody would use it otherwise.

Consider then the fact it's been so rapidly pushed far and wide, often with no regard for anything, and the fact companies keep using Opt Out models instead of giving anyone the opposite choice to choose to Opt In.

It paints a very vivid picture: they knew they would never get people to agree in large enough numbers to provide data, so they force it on us and knly give the choice to leave later. They also intentionally hide the turn off sworch in settings menus.

Not even to mention this doesn't guarantee that none of your data is being used for it against your will.

Combine that with everything else, and it becomes clear the only ones tangibly benefitting from this are those at the top.

It discourages learning, they want to force you to use it, put it everywhere so you can't escape it, and upend tend to hundred of thousands of people's lives all in the name of profit.

For a technology supposedly so beneficial to humanity, they're not so keen on anyone having a choice in the matter.

Wonder why that is, hmm?

And quoting Shakespeare as if it's some mark of intelligence... You remind me of a certain character from a book I read once: he also quoted fiction and plays to try to seem more intelligent than his opposition.

@Dr_Awkward Except I'm not. I'm speaking from what I have seen, heard. There is nothing irrational about that.

You aim to discredit anyone who doesn't willingly give you ground to stand on as completely irrational purely as a means to avoid dealing with the fact we've seen what is happening and what these things are doing to the proverbial landscape, for years now.

You lack the integrity to face those things.

@Dr_Awkward -or maybe most of us have actually seen what it's doing in nigh-real time. You know, cause it's the freaking internet and we hear about stuff as it happens rather than months or years later.

You sound more like you're straw-manning and trying to rationalize away opposition. Sorry. It's not going to work.

@Untempered-Link You and every other person saying this just completely ignoring all the problems it's repeatedly caused, not to mention the backlash against Level 5.

Improving alarmingly fast my foot.

@JohnnyMind Remake of the first one already exists. Problem is it was never released stateside or in the UK or Europe... that I know of.

@WaveBoy Excuse me, where the heck did you get the information that Cactus Man won? There's been no announcement, or even an indication that the winner has been revealed, well... anywhere...

@Golem25 What are you smoking? Golurk is a great design and so are several others. Getta outta here!

@Bolt_Strike The fact a whole new one is gonna take over a year to release makes me wonder how big it's gonna be and what it's environmental focus will be.

@VirtualVisage87 History informs, not dictates. You're just looking for excuses to not give a it a shot.

@zawa113 They added an ad-hoc way of it. There's a new item that acts like an Ender Chest from Minecraft.

@nocdaes Are you uninformed? Retro was given a concept from Bandai Namco and basically told by Nintendo to make it work.

The concept wasn't theirs to begin with, they were just made to try to make Nintendo sinking money into Bamco initially worth something.

@GoldenSunRM Oh please, get over yourself. 90s Mega Man fan here. Capcom is not constrained by your arbitrary idea of "canon". If they make it canon going forward if they make any new X games, the only option you have is to not buy and cry about it.

@Markiemania95 The simple interim fix is to build a centralized warehouse. Which is what I've done.

Glad to see I'm not the only one excited for this one!

@N00BiSH at this point you've basically convinced me that you're literally grasping here.

"The art direction doesn't feel purposeful in any way" So, trying a fresh new visual direction for the franchise doesn't count as "purposeful?" Especially since this is very likely Nintendo trying to introduce Star Fox to new players after 10 years of nothing?

Even considering how uncanny Katt and Falco turned out in particular, saying it doesn't "feel purposeful" seems like putting on blinders, to me.

@Chocobo_Shepherd Because countering what you said wasn't the point.

@Friendly I would rather they consider remaking Phantasia ala Symphonia but with higher resolution models.

@Trollwut Lame troll is lame.

@jfp And what precedent and case law do you have as your basis that such is the case? Because this isn't just changing the art style. This is transformative reinterpretation.

As I already noted: the proportions have been changed, the visual details and texture were entirely interpretive. Hell, the likeness and the cry are the only things about this that would cause any kind of issue.

The entire nature of this guy's fan work in and of itself, can be interpreted as a commentary on Pokemon, especially individual ones, very easily. By giving his own interpretation of how Pokemon live.

So not only does he have a fair-use leg to stand on here. His videos did not bite hard enough into Pokemon's market share to even matter.

Also: yes you did. You straight up called his stuff "a mashup of Pokemon and Dave Attenborough style documentary", which, yes, that's true, but it doesn't constitute a fair use problem to do the latter thing.

@jsty3105 Yeah, no. You can't tell for beans.

Source: I am one of the creatives.Been drawing my whole life. The PFP I am using was drawn, scanned in and colored by me.

And yet you probably categorized me as a non-creative just cause I'm not on your side of this. :]

Take your assumptions to the scrapheap, it's garbage.

@jfp That is not how the criteria works.

Dave Attenborough style videos are a "style" of doing something. You cannot copyright the way someone does something, that way. Secondly. Look at the designs of the Pokemon in those videos. How much do they differ, from the original models.

If your answer is not at all, you're lying. Texture choice, proportions, and more make it a substantial transformation from the original.

Furthermore, again, the monetization question doesn't matter in fair use. What matters is how much of Nintendo's market share, does any of this cut into. The answer of course, is it really doesn't. This stuff is on the level of a doujin in terms of being a derivative work.

In other words. You're blowing smoke up your own behind to justify being a complete arse.

@Dreamcaster-X Maybe you and more than half the people in this comment section should look at your PFPs before saying stuff like this. You're technically using it without permission and it belongs to SEGA.

@Chocobo_Shepherd The fact you think this is a matter of not understanding copyright or IP law is hilarious.

Like, exquisitely hilarious. No.

I'm just tired of a bunch of foolish jerks acting like nothing of value was lost here and being total asses about it.

Not to mention the fair-use angle and on top of that the fact there are hundredw of PokeTubers who post official imagery in their videos on a regular basis, and yet get no hammer.

Even by current law, fair use is mutually exclusive of something being monetized. Fair use just makes the infringement cease to be illegal infringement of Copyright

Good christ almighty, I can smell the arrogance as if there's a dumpster full of corpses in here. "Hurrah for originality!" indeed!

Yes, how dare someone make something based on something they love that isn't wholly original. How dare a fan of something make fan works or derivative works of any kind. How dare someone be creative in a way you don't approve of. How dare they do just as hundreds of prominent Pokemon focused YouTube channels do, yet have not been struck by the proverbial hammer!

Yeah, no. A whole lot of you in this comment section would be acting this way regardless if they were making money or not. You're not fooling anybody.

I swear a lot of you are just a bunch of vultures waiting for stories like this to pop up just to stroke yourselves over someone's misfortune while acting superior. Revolting.

@foursider AI generated videos were not targeted. Did you read?

@N00BiSH I don't think the movie canon being made game canon is going to go beyond the sibling connection detail.

All Mario games to a point are pretty loose with the characters personalities and such, but otherwise as you said are rather consistent. Besides the Bros. backstory and this, I don't see much else becoming canon.

And if it does, believe it or not, I'll be nearly as incredulous as you about it. Cause please no.

Okay but why though, is pretty much my reaction to this.

@N00BiSH so you -and they- see it as pointless key jingling cause it has a loose plot, not too many big character arcs and that those arcs have no permanent effect, for the most part?

I agree it's not all that well-written, but calling it pointless is a bit much.

Not to mention you and the way some others talk about it seems more like "It's not up to my standard therefore it's trash."

And what bothers me more is you and others never seem to take the time to quantify or qualify what any of what you want would concretely look like in your ideal version of the movie.

@Ogbert Unfortunately that is probably exactly what will happen...

@Yosher You know, it's one thing to have a grievance with what they decided to do.

Entirely another to imply desperation when you don't know anything about how they run as a publication. Good grief.

@Kilroy You still would've found out eventually even if NintendoLife didn't spoiler or report on it. Don't be thick.

Those of you complaining, the official twitter account posted it.

You would've found out eventually.

@Aquinas For the love of... Look, admittedly the recent outings with Pokemon haven't been the best by a fair margin. ScarVi from a technical standpoint was a mess. Pokemon Legends ZA was too subdued for that matter despite what it tries to do.

But reducing GameFreak to "makers of cashgrabs" is a bridge too far, and far and away not a fair assessment. Especially considering they have another title they're trying to push out during all of this in collaboration with other studios, and the fact Winds and Waves looks graphically a step up from both ScarVi and ZA... which isn't saying much but it's still there.

@SillyG she's neen voicing Tails since movie 2 my dude

@TobiasAmaranth ironically this could be useful in a way cause of the obscene amount of blocks in the game... to some people at least.

@Liam_Doolan

Moonblast is correct. I once tried to get a Pokemon to move into a house with no furnishing in it, and they refused.

Home is what you make of it, literally, and a place with no furnishings is at once, a space full of potential, but also a space of sadness. No feeling of being lived in.

@Aquinas Blah blah blah.

AI can be stopped. It is not some supernatural or natural force of nature that can't be opposed. It is a man-made tool and like any tool ir thing made by humans, it can be broken and destroyed, and therefore stopped.

This inevitability nonsense is why it's so difficult to fight back. People like you who throw their hands up as if they think we're trying to fight a tornado. Knock it off.

I've had it with this talk. Stop doing the AI chuds work for them by spreading learned helplessness.

@FantasiaWHT Whatanoutism doesn't win arguments, pal. Next please.

@Pillowpants Capcom wanted him to do the job without a union contract. That means not having those AI protections at all because having those protections would be part of the contract.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Buddy, that wouldn't fit. Online battles are the orher mode.

@Dom_31 I was genuinely expecting it to be no better than Legends ZA, so what I saw actually caught me off guard a bit.

Sweeper Woman was my choice, in the end.

Lets keep supporting her through all the rounds, whoever has this time!

@Hwatt and exactly what tasks offer no value, pray tell?

@Boxmonkey They don't own it, they have license to use it. Big difference. And they need that license or else it could land them in real legal trouble.

Resd that print more carefully and get off your high horse.

@Hwatt I would rather use my brain than let my intellect and imagination atrophy by using a Gen AI slop machine.

Or did you forget there was a study showing prolonged AI used damages your brain and makes you dumber?

@SuperEndriu Cause companies insist on spending a fortune on graphics rather than what actually matters, and then decided humans are the problem rather than increasingly exorbitant budgets and unnecessarily detailed games.

@KeeperBvK The man truly had an Icarus complex, unfortunately for us all.