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Update 5 years later… The Witcher 4 - UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025 https://youtu.be/FJtF3wzPSrY This thing is really getting impressive. Not just for games but also movies and TV series. In my ideal version of City of Heroes 2.0 we’d be able to toggle the appearance between various presets, like “fully realistic” or “Bruce Timm” or “manga” or whatever, and I can imagine that sort of thing would be easier with how efficient UE is becoming. More work up front for the designers, of course, but that would be cool.

AWESOME I made these, inspired by the last song:

I futzed around with Pixlr and the iPad clean-up and got this. Using one’s finger on a tablet is like painting with a cinder block but it’s okay I guess.

I like Double-Draw and Pajama Pants Weirdo. Aces!

Awesome!

Defenders is my favorite of these but you did a masterful job on all of them. 🏆

Very Shadowrun-y.

Saw this example on Bing so I thought I’d use it. Replaced the “cat” and “tail” bits with various hero words. Bamboom the Panda Generic ninja. I think his name is Steve. Robo-sniper Flying hero Standing guy Werewolf

That came out great.

I use https://imgbb.com - it’s free and fast. You don’t have to register unless you’re putting up risqué pics, which is new. I had to make an account a couple days ago for the first time in 8 years, but it’s no big deal.

Oh, I see it now. Thanks! It wasn’t defaulting to Create mode but still had the Create button so I didn’t notice. I’ll give it a go when my credits refill.

Mighty Lad - sounds like the translation of a Japanese cartoon but I kinda like it https://suno.com/song/63a48555-7b82-40d4-86ce-83df25cc4173 OG bio: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Mighty-Lad-94031428

I was going to ask, weren’t we able to write our own lyrics for this at one time? Or was I suing a different app?

That came out pretty good, actually. I notice that most of these songs have similar syllable count and scansion, but even within those constraints they’re fairly unique.

Moon Vixen https://suno.com/song/de10c355-ce34-472b-ba73-8681f7ea0cbc https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Moon-Vixen-1038104468 https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Moon-Vixen-Enhanced-1038110126

Bamboom, the Bamboo Brawler https://suno.com/song/762f0b0b-564a-44d3-a5c4-aeee64f6ebd2 His dad, Boom-Boom the Panda (2009)

Dance Fighter, the diva of danger. (pow-pow!) https://suno.com/song/4a442f87-4c75-4d0d-b054-897a02977af7

Excellent mix of different types. 👍🏻

A little menacing side-eye, too.

Wow, that’s actually great. By far the best one I’ve heard.

A few years ago my wife and I were watching a movie about shopgirls in 1950s Sydney — hang on, IMDBing… ah, Ladies In Black, it’s good — and one of the girls is Angourie Rice who plays Betty Brant in the Spider-Man movies. Their boss is an older guy who looked super familiar so I looked him up and it’s Nicholas Hammond! The original Spider-Man from the 1970s TV series, with an Aussie accent. They let Lou Ferrigno be in Incredible Hulk but not Hammond in Spider-Man? Boo.

Well, Andor is also the most Empire-centric story we’ve seen, and the Imperials are racist and xenophobic. There’s literally only one non-human in the Empire’s ranks, so there aren’t any in the Imperial senate or the various offices we see. But every time the show goes to a non-Empire location aliens are present. True, there’s no Chewie or Yoda equivalent, but I find it odd that people are complaining about this when throughout Andor there are almost as many alien characters as black characters. I don’t recall a single Asian actor. That seems like a bigger issue to me, honestly, because the rest of it is very Star Wars. Although being whitewashed is pretty on-brand too.

Very Ukrainian, I like it.

The autopsy is in and it’s horrible.

I thought there were plenty of non-humans in Andor’s first season. Am I misremembering? To me it felt like the non-human quotient was about the same as Star Wars - they’re present but in limited quantities. Mostly it’s Chewie and the two droids, with a couple background aliens here and there. Andor was the same way: 95% humans, a couple aliens sitting in the bar, and a couple front and center. Edit: I just turned 60 on Wednesday, so it’s never been “A New Hope” for me, always just “Star Wars”. But the retcon title “Episode IV” from 1977 is the one I’m referring to.