If you give me 40min and an internet connection I can become proficient in literally anything mechanical. Build a banjo, lift a house, 3d painting firearms, doesn’t matter. I can replicate it and master it by the 4th try.

Unfortunately I have the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel in a bounce house. Doesn’t matter if I’m a master machinist if I can’t be bothered to actually do it.

I once made a seafood and butter sauce pizza for a highschool gf. Hated it myself but she still talked about it years after we spit. Pizza and Sandwiches are the peak of human civilization

Room temp water guy here, but already happily married lol

There are dozens of us!

Came to say the same, Dark City is the entire vibe I want from city life.

When you’re so toxic it rots the paint.

Counter suggestion, we flood x with our own bot not pushing the side we want. You abandon the masses and they’re at the whim of the oligarchs.

You’re not the only one bothered by it

In the same vein, better is not perfect. There are hundreds of things wrong with our political systems and no single thing will fix all of it. Getting paid more than could ever be reasonable does not stop these people from doing everything they can to get more so whether they get more money or less won’t change the corruption you’re taking about. That’s a separate problem with separate answers.

As opposed to the honest and pure politicians we have today…

And this is where the it comes full circle. To have a team I need to pay the team. To not have a team, I need to do every position provided by a team. Which means if you can’t do it or pay for it, you don’t deserve it and no matter how well thought out the idea may be it will never happen.

Tell me where the line falls.

He takes Americans to the moon?

Straight up, all state and federal politicians should be paid minimum wage by hour. The only way they get a raise is if everyone gets a raise.

Bonsai goals.

Given the state of the world in my dreams, that would mean I only exist in the most unhinged of realities. Each dream world always starts in a reasonable place before it became what it is and I’m only ever around for the early stages of collapse or well into the post collapse world.

Sorry guys, this shitty timeline is my fault.

Don’t know if it counts, but my suitcase record player has vacuum tubes. Still spins but it needs a needle.

So I’ve got a few points on this. The smallest is that welding is very much an art. Any dingus can stick two pieces of metal together. A consistent bead, a steady hand, it’s all on par with painting but no one considers that because it’s used practically instead of aesthetically.

That segways to my next point, art isn’t just the pictures. I don’t have 4 years to learn how to make the art because I’m not passionate about that. I love the mechanics of the game, my creativity is in balancing and abilities, loot tables and incremental growth rates. You wouldn’t say the people who decide the spray pattern of digital guns or the appropriate damage for level 12 don’t deserve to be in video games because they didn’t paint the skyboxes.

I love a story about a single guy making a game from scratch over twenty years as much as the next guy, but it’s unreasonable to say that everyone has to do it that way or it doesn’t count. Just as unreasonable as saying someone’s idea for a game doesn’t deserve to exist because they can’t pay a team to make it.

To be clear, I’m not defending the slop. There’s probably plenty of games on steam that are AI garbage to grab a quick buck. That’s fine to hate. But all the people out there that put their hear into the work and wrapped it in the wallpaper of AI, they deserve to be seen. We can’t all be good at everything and that doesn’t make what we do any less valid.

Woot! One year!! Congrats my dude! Thanks for making Lemmy what it is.

If you don’t have the money on hand to pay what it would have cost out of pocket, then you’re better off dying.

This is the main reason I cheat ballistic weave on everything in fallout 4. I love some of the outfits and it’s dumb that they’re worse than the vault suit.

I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have a lot of leaned skills but programming and digital art aren’t on the list. Since I don’t have the money to pay someone to make a game for me or 4 years to learn the whole of the skills from scratch, generative AI is my only option. Plenty of people will look down on me for that but if they had a robot that would do all their welding and woodworking for them they’d tell me to get fucked for asking them to pay.