Walmart also uses 3rd Party Sellers; I don't believe Target does. There's enough commentary about false/bootleg products on Amazon that it's no longer my primary destination for any purchases I need delivered.

They do but they are easier to avoid buying from. It's usually the same folks crossed listed across amazon, walmart, target, ebay etc...

Scorcese's production company office was based in the Directors Guild of America building on 57th St for many years.

It still is rude... it's just become commonplace.

Marketing directly via ads is not free, either.

Most industries have trade and consumer shows (from film to boardgames to concrete). There's no reason to expect that gaming is somehow unique and should not have one. It's unlikely it will be like the E3 of decades past (or even have the name), but there's value to getting consumers to see/try a bunch of new games.

Those just look like AI images with brush lines.

Yeah it took minutes to do. If you spend even a small amount of time, 30 minutes say, it wouldn't be difficult to improve the outcome significantly.

There's nothing extraordinary about the style of Bob Ross. He isn't famous for producing astounding artwork, he's famous for his speech tone (comforting), instruction (audience being able to quasi follow along at home) and that he produced peaceful natural scenes. There's nothing about his painting style that Dalle3 isn't going to be able to recreate to a high degree. How much time are you willing to invest into the prompting? If you're a big Bob Ross fan, I would think spending a small amount of time to get a highly effective prompt would be worth the ability to endlessly produce new artwork that reminds you of his style.

It's very clearly feasible at this point.

Not a graphic novel you'd want to read, or a movie you'd like to watch.

Put in a prompt and get an image is working out pretty well

Even aside from "AI", movies are already formulaic - you plug in popular celebrities into an already-told story, pick a setting and music, there you go.

I kind of wish they already let you generate this - you want that celeb in this setting, or a mixed race couple, or all Asian characters, etc, go for it vs studios picking and choosing for you.

Virtual celebrities are here. Hatsune Miku was the first. They're a big thing in China.[1] Partly because they can't get into trouble in their private life.

[1] https://www.insider.com/chinas-flawless-ai-influencers-the-h...

Gorillaz, The Residents, GWAR

That is also true for a lot of those made by humans.

Right now? No. Within 5 years? Undoubtedly

Let the market, their dollars, and their attention decide.

Thank you! I had shared a photo I had seen of an Amazon warehouse painted this way, but couldn't find the source of it. In this picture specifically, the warehouses in the rear perfectly blend into the sky to the point where my brain thinks the horizontal stripes are JPEG artifacts in the photo.

I would also highly recommend FX's The Americans.

I forgot about that! That stayed good throughout although it did dip a little towards the end. But I think it's still good enough for my list because I enjoyed it throughout.

> My point is that a million makers on a million joycons couldn't generate enough commercially viable content for a single game.

The toolset is limited, so you end up with Mario levels of LittleBigPlanet.

If you provide a fuller toolset (like UnrealEd or the ability to mod), then you absolutely have viable content, enough for (in the case of CS) the original publishers of the base game acquiring your commercially viable content.

This is as bad as some self-published children's books, but in a different way.