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  • "AI simply takes inspiration from human-made work, it doesn't steal anything"

    Then explain why you can very faintly hear the P-Switch theme from New Super Mario Bros at 00:35 in this AI-generated video.

    MegaBowser64
    MegaBowser64
    AI has potential, it just needs to be more controlled
    Fizzle1491
    Fizzle1491
    Wow, that is an exact P-Switch
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    @MegaBowser64 I don't know if I'm the right person to pinpoint its outset exactly, but AI has long been an integral part of IT. Of course it "has potential" and I don't need to argue why. The problem is that it is now at the unprecedented stage of being used and promoted to steal massive amount of data, mostly in the name of cash, and conglomerates such as Disney have already jumped at the opportunity with seemingly little consequence.

    The trailer I posted is probably made by some dude in his basement, but it's starkly illustrative of the reality of the matter, especially with the little jingle cribbed 1:1 from a copyrighted work.
    A very special shout out goes to bosses who tell you how hard-working and talented you are and list the sheer contributions you have brought to the team and company before they fire you from the job for something completely byzantine that was mostly out of your control (and is framed as obviously being your fault). The way they try to soften your inevitable crash is absolutely admirable.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    In my work place, the reward for getting your route done early is piling MORE work on you aka doing like an hour and a half on another vacant route or handoff, sending out to help slower carriers, or chucking you an unaccounted express mail right before you are gonna clock out.

    For my workplace that shit ain't gonna happen unless you are in your 90 days because I'm protected by a union.
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    My first few days were unpaid (later learning that was illegal on the part of my assistant manager), with the second one being on short notice, and I did it all with a smile on my face.

    I did exactly what they said. I fumbled a lot, yes, but always took it in stride and aspired to learn from my mistakes.

    I gave my all. And it wasn't enough.

    Unfortunately I'm not sure if anyone takes unions seriously over here.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    If they are letting you go while you made simple mistakes on the job as they are new then they aren't worth working for anyway.

    Sincerely someone who destroyed a basketball hoop and broke my LLV windows and mirrors.
    Wayback Machine no longer displays snapshots from Facebook on either of my devices, even if they previously worked just fine. By that I mean, they are technically shown as being archived, but won't load any elements whatsoever. Anybody else with this issue?

    Example: this post

    Edit: When the Wayback Machine snapshot is viewed in the element inspector, it seems the content in the "div id='mount_0_0_'" tag, which is pretty much the post itself with images and user comments, has been removed completely.
    In Romanian, when you wish someone to have fun, you tell them "pleasant fun!" ("distracție plăcută!")

    I've used this phrase all my life and never once thought, until a couple minutes ago, how redundant it sounds. How can fun be anything but pleasant? :koopa:
    I want everyone here to admire this Morshu in the style of Zelda TOTK.


    source: Reddit (art by user lr31o)
    one of the first videos i've ever watched on youtube. what a masterpiece. nostalgia kicks in like a mule with rabies

    not to brag, but at today's MarioWiki AMA, i got a vague impression that my overwrought barrel description may have been elevated to the echelons of Pirate Goomba and "barrel in the darkness"

    (...should i feel proud or embarrassed?)
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    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
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    Flowey
    Flowey
    In the Mario universe, barrels do not differentiate from those in the real world. A barrel is made of several vertical convex staves (fourteen in the latest appearances) bound to form a pseudo-cylindrical vase, which is the barrel itself. Four gray steel hoops (only three in the New Super Mario Bros. games, and two in Wario Land 3) circle the staves: two of them are each placed at one of the barrel's base, while the other are donned on the barrel's bigger circumferences.
    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    and you can carry them in the darkness as a bonus
    budget drake meme

    (Drake gestures disgust with his hand) Correcting someone's statement in a plain and uninflammatory manner.

    (Drake points his finger with a smile on his face) "*sniffff* *adjusts glasses* umm, uhhh, you REALISE that x is actually y, RIGHT?"
    twitter and reddit users have such a binary outlook on everything, and they never ever consider their options may have ample overlap or that neither may be ideal. it's like they have to choose between 2 working brain cells when they emit an opinion.
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    Mortimer Freeze
    Mortimer Freeze
    I've also noticed that okayness is dead. Everything has to either be the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. There's no such thing as being mid on the internet anymore.
    Princess Luigi
    Princess Luigi
    Am a Reddit user and can confirm the userbase annoys the hell out of me with their black and white thinking. It's abhorrently bad in fanbases, which is why I like to stick with the Mario community and specifically here, ha.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Several reasons for that but mostly outrage is what the algorithm likes and favors and people are more likely to respond to extreme opinions so it causes a satisfying feedback loop.
    The Nintendo Kids Club site recently shut down, and welp... much of its content is now lost media.

    Fortunately, the Mario Wiki has preserved practically all Mario-related content from that site, including screenshots and sprites of the little HTML-based games featured on it! For what it's worth, pictures formerly used on that site also appear to still be on nintendo-europe.com's servers as of writing.

    The bad news is that Wayback Machine itself couldn't be used to archive the site integrally (something tells me European copyright law had a hand in that, but by no means should you quote me on this), and archive.today did a poor job archiving such that you can't actually play the games--it archives web pages as if they're screenshots, though your cursor still changes shape when hovered on buttons and links.

    I'm just a little bummed, but I had fully expected this to happen
    Toadettefan
    Toadettefan
    I knew this was coming. The site never got updated with new content after 2017, and the Cat Mario show stopped the same year, so it was bound to happen sometime.

    It wasn't a good alternative to Play Nintendo in America/Canada, as it had less activities, less variety with their browser games (mostly puzzles and other low effort content, with Kirby's Quick Draw being a carry-over from the Kirby and the Rainbow Curse website (it was also the only game that stopped working prior to the shutdown)), and its other content being stories, quizzes, and videos from Paper Mario Color Splash, Yoshi and Poochy's Woolly World, and the Cat Mario show (whose content was carried over from its American counterpart, minus some segments only featured in the European versions and a change in voice actors) so I wasn't that fond of it.
    Is the taxi service in Romania as bad as this video suggests?
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    worse. if seagal's daughter utters even a single phrase, anything at all (e.g. "wow the city sure is busy today"), the driver will somehow jumpstart that into an academic dissertation on romania's socio-political role in the EU sourced from facebook comments.
    Nintendo published an article with an AI-generated banner. Doesn't seem to be directly related to any of the games they are promoting, just something they came up with quickly. I can understand why: when you're worth billions of dollars, your money overflows past some point and what cash you're left with is too little to pay an artist to do your art.
    zel
    zel
    god yea it really looks like they just took to neuralblender and then they took the generated image and typed some text in ms paint over it
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