ZacKing

Right because the false equivalence of AI generated art and nuclear weapons are totally the same thing... 🙄 Humanity is still here even with nuclear weapons by the way. These same arguments were made for every invention from light bulbs replacing candle makers, automobiles replacing horses, the cotton gin replacing manual laborers, desktop computers using CAD software replacing pen and paper draftsman ... that list can go on and on and on and on. People can and have moved on to do other things, learn other skills and get other jobs. This view is also squarely focused only on potential negative aspects of AI and its effects on society. I'm guessing you don't believe there's anything good that will come from the development AI? Things like vast improvements in medical research into curing disease, improvements to clean energy, resource conservation, understanding of physics and the universe ... none of that is any good I suppose.

Well, why not make sure if this is such an important topic to you? As I suggested, send in a support ticket and have the GMs pass it along. Have the HC lawyers talk to the NCSoft lawyers. Right and you've made your position clear. AI is bad. Yes, it's a tool just like any other tool. Yes, people have complained about tools since tools were invented. People said everything from indoor plumbing to light bulbs to the internet would destroy humanity and ruin lives by taking away jobs. Humanity and jobs are still here and are going to continue on with AI too. How is anyone "not supported" here? There's no rules preventing any artist from posting their drawing/painting/sculpture/whatever medium they work in here. I hope you all find a game more to your liking that doesn't use AI. I wish you good luck there. There are other CoH servers out that that may not be using AI or allowing AI generated images to be posted on their Discord.

Well if by "pleasing some of the people some of the time" you mean Sovereign members griefing regularly scheduled community events, then yeah I guess so.

If you feel this is such an important issue (it isn't), then send in a petition and have the GMs pass it up the chain. The HC folks can have their lawyer talk to the NCSoft lawyer. Maybe you'll get your wish and the evil AI will get banned from the forums and Discord. I wouldn't hold my breath.

If this is going to be the only measure for whether or not "Homecoming approves something", they may as well shut the forums and Discord down. Whether or not an artwork, AI generated or not, is copyright infringing is depending on the use. There are fair usage laws on the books in many countries.

Yeah no, that's not how suggestions and feeback works.

Anyway, go and see Superman. I think you'll enjoy it. Maybe you can even talk about it here since you'll have seen it. 😉

I know what it means, thanks. 😉 I'm glad you know what a dictionary is!

Right, and you were attempting to use this comic winning some award to refute someone else saying they didn't care for the depiction of Supergirl this story was based on. You're implying that since the source material was an award winner, the movie will be good. You haven't even seen it yet.

From what I've seen and heard, that's exactly the case.

What attempt? The Supergirl film hasn't even been released yet. There isn't even a teaser trailer for it yet. How can you know if it's good or not if you haven't even seen it yet? The source material may be award winning, that doesn't mean the script for the film adaption is. 😉

How do you know? You haven't even seen it yet. 😉

Right, I get that. It's just funny to me that instead of commenting on the film which you're always lamenting people to do, you take the opportunity to bring up the nasty evil YouTuber schills that you hate so much. If you don't want to talk about them, stop talking about them. That very well could be. Even so, it seems like an arbitrary thing to throw in. Yeah this is odd too.

I completely agree. Much better depiction of the Superman character than the Snyderverse version. Not that I disliked Henry Cavill. I thought he was a great Superman. I'd just have liked to have seen him with a much better script.

Yeah it's change for the sake of change too, but I think there's a rather large difference between kindly Jonathan Kent who brought his son up teaching him morals and to use his gifts to help and Jor-El saying "conquer Earth and get yourself a harem". I believe you can see the difference too. That's not what was said in the film itself and essentially every article and review I've read/watched have said nope, the message is legit.

Well sure, but I never got into all of those myself. I'd like to see the Superman from the stories I read when I was a kid, not evil Injustice Superman or some other version of him. This just seemed like such an arbitrary thing to change.

Did you see the movie? If so, what did you think of it? What did you like most? Instead of using this as an opportunity to bring up all of those "doomsayers" you can't stand, why not use it to discuss the movie like you're always saying you wish people would do?

His DNA really had nothing to do with any of it. Clark chooses to be a hero whether it was in his DNA or not. Having Jor-El tell his son to conquer and be fruitful and multiply instead of being a beacon of hope doesn't lend anything to the character of Superman or his decision to become a hero and do good. The Kents had way, way more to do with Clark becoming a hero than his Kryptonian parents ever did. It's a superfluous, arbitrary change and appears to be shoehorned in as nothing more than change for the sake of change.

Lots of dumb/weird things have been done before. I wouldn't say this particular thing is a "big deal", more just like a "huh? what for?" kind of thing. It runs against what I consider the Superman story. I've never read Jor-El to be a bad guy or that Superman wasn't meant to be anything other than a beacon of hope. I think the Jor-El from the original Reeve Superman was done far, far better in that regard. Lex said he didn't alter the recording in the film, and from what I been watching and reading in terms of reviews and synopses of the movie, it certainly seems this is indeed an intentional change on the part of James Gunn.

Saw it earlier today and I enjoyed it. The main cast is great - David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult are all great casting. I liked the story and its a much lighter, much better depiction than the darker and more brooding Snyderverse movies. The story is a bit janky in a couple of places ... seemed to me that they came up with action pieces and then tried filling in the story from there in a couple of spots, but overall I had a good time. I'm glad they didn't stretch themselves too thin with having the Justice Gang and Metamorpho in this. Only minor gripe I have is with the retconning of the reasoning Jor El sent Kal El to Earth. I just don't get it and don't think it was necessary at all. That's the only bad part in my opinion. Overall a good movie and recommend going to see it. Looking forward to Milly Alcock in her Supergirl film!

Ok no problem. Glad you found something interesting to discuss. 😁

Ok but I admitted that I wasn't going to watch the show. You have and have complained here on these very threads that nobody actually discusses these movies and shows. Here's your opportunity to do so.

Thanks for the link to your extensive analysis and detailed discussion of the show. 🤣 Did it meet your expectations? What did you think of the character of Riri Williams? Where do you see her going in the MCU now that she's got her own show under her belt? What did you like about Ironheart? What part of the story surprised you the most? Do you think it will get a second season? What did you think of the big reveal at the end?

Thank you Googly for helping to steer the thread back to the topic at hand. I hope you enjoy Ironheart and do share your thoughts on it!

Are you going to discuss Ironheart at all? I'm assuming you've watched it. What did you think about it? Did it meet your expectations? What did you think of the character of Riri Williams? Where do you see her going in the MCU now that she's got her own show under her belt?