I mean… They are not necessarily wrong. They probably would do that.

Overlord is amazing, but definitely a very different vibe from Apothecary Diaries, despite being in the same fantasy genre.

I think I would say this happened to me once when I went from watching Coffin Princess Chaika to Skeleton Knight in Another World.

Like your experience, Chaika and Skeleton Knight are both fantasy themed anime, but boy was the beginning of EP1 of Skeleton Knight uncomfortable. I mean, it was like that on purpose, and it obviously achieved what it was trying to accomplish, but I think that that type of opening would have been better if they showed a whole lot less than they did (which was still basically nothing, by the way). Goblin Slayer had a shocking opening, but it gave a good reason to the viewer why goblins would be hated, and made goblins a justifiably evil villain for the show. Skeleton Knight on the other hand, could probably have gone without the opening and would have been fine as the rest of the show doesn’t ever really match that intensity.

Chaika was a mostly fun show, with an easy to follow plot. Skeleton Knight, while also easy to follow and a mostly fun plot, had massive whiplash from its opening episode, at least IMO. I am not a thin-skinned person, and while I don’t necessarily feel good or comfortable with certain onscreen actions, I do think that they can be used to enhance a story, depending on context and presentation. But in Skeleton Knight, it didnt really add anything, it just left me wondering for the rest of the entire show “why did they chcoose to open the show like that, was that a shock style marketing attempt?”

Why? So they can graduate? :(

Because this opinion here on Lemmy is a minority opinion. Most of them aren’t as unpopular as they are here. Theyre not totally garbage, but they can be an amusing watch.

Dude, its NCD. We never watch our backs.

I am pretty sure we agree, the upper end of “Normal” just below “Overweight.”

I was remarking more to the fact that Nikkes are androids which are considerably heavier than normal people. So would the android definition of “chubby” also be the same? I wonder.

I hope its better than the Turtle Arc. S3 was a good turn though, so I am sure it will be much better.

Wait a minute, this isn’t Non Credible Defense. Is NCD leaking again?

Yeah, age 10, season 30 lol

I mean, is Bready “chubby?” How far beyond the normal weight bracket for one’s height and muscle content do they need to be in order to be considered “chubby?” Certainly by Nikke standards Bready is heavier than the rest, but is she really “chubby?” Or is she merely overweight, not quite obese, and “not fit?”

I do not, because I am 33, and she is not a hag but a young woman.

(I am in fact, not 33. Or perhaps I am, you will never know, Reader. That’s my secret to know, and yours not to.)

That is certainly one of the anime titles of all time.

These were great. Bubblegum Crisis and its related proprties are peak cyberpunk superhero anime, IMO. It doesn’t get better than that.

I recommend starting with BGC 2033 (the original OVAs) first. Tokyo 2043 lost the style and character of the original. Crash is a cool sequel that unfortunately went ultimately unfinished due to legal problems.

Don’t forget to check out Parasite Dolls!

Gonna need more support for that spine than that.

The title of this work should be:

“The Unrelatable Experience” or “The Nightmare.”

Also, if the genders were swapped this would be viewed pretty differently.

What most people actually object to is a large corporation spending countless resources to vacuum up public data in order to create a privately controlled model.

I am curious how and why this seems to be viewed differently when it comes to something like proprietary code.

For example, there are large swaths of publicly available repos of code. Some are licensed under restrictive licenses, and some are public domain. Many are hosted on the Internet, and many more are written in educational books and other such materials you can find in your local library. If a business, large or small, references publicly available information to create its own proprietary code which itself does not contain any actual instances of infringing code (just as AI training data files do not contain any actual images and therefore no actual infringing data), why is that considered okay? It is extremely rare for completely new, original code to be written especially when a publicly available, well known method already exists. Why re-invent the wheel?

What I mean is, are the people that feel the way you have written upset when they see any project, from any business, large or small, that referenced anything that is publicly available? Are they upset that the names of all the references are not listed in the credits of every project ever? What is their problem with this? Does it matter whether a business that does that has 1000 employees or just 1, since the outcome is more or less the same?

Additionally, nothing prevents private citizens from doing the exact same thing themselves. A person can go along vacuuming up publicly available data to train a model only they have access to. Would those that you talk about object to that as well?

Hm. Not sure how I feel about a company treating an artstyle like it’s their own legally protectable trademark or intellectual property.

I think the specific IP they have created can be their own to protect, but not the style of artwork. Just like the art style that was popularized by Blizzard’s earlier titles that were later copied in other games (such as Paladins), the artstyle alone should not be enough to initiate legal action.

When it comes to AI, I can understand people being concerned about “unauthorized use” of training data (which honestly, how is that any different from a human artist seeing an artstyle and creating art inspired by that). At the same time, this could easily be avoided by training data made by artists that mimic the artstyle of Ghibli. If OpenAI hired artists to create artwork that is not of Ghibli property but has the same or very similar artstyle of Ghibli, nobody should have a problem with that. But I have a feeling Ghibli would complain anyway.

Maybe a movie?

Okay, but I mean, what was the competition?

Snow White?

Like, Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite films, but it was bound to be a success guaranteed if its competition was literal garbage.

Im gonna guess this went like every other live action show recently:

• Fan of IP works on show, puts in great effort to make sure their ideas fit into the canon and setting
• Everyone else hates the IP, makes no effort to learn anything about it and actually makes effort to intentionally avoid the IP
• Causes massive disagreement between the one fan and everyone else
• Everyone else makes the fan’s time on the project completely miserable, always denying and overriding everything the fan does
• Fan gives up and leaves project they were excited to work on because they got bullied by everyone else