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Spoken like a terrible human being.

The corrections to the paper literally ask for actual quotes lol

They're designed to run constantly, and your GPU is designed to run with some heat. I highly doubt you're maxing out either like you would with a demanding game. Fans are much cheaper than a new separate device, and your GPU will become outdated long before it dies to wear and tear.

Literally all of the arguments in this post apply equally to people freshly out of high school, except that most of them won't have well-paying jobs already. But then again, if an adult has a well-paying job why are they thinking about going back to school?

Why will using your PC "run it into the ground"? Unless you're trying to use it for something else simultaneously, it seems like you've already got a solution there.

Honestly your sketching is quite solid, you've obviously got a decent knowledge of anatomy. All you need is some color theory and some practice, which AI will rob you of.

Alternately you could pay a real artist to color and finish your sketches, this is how comics and many other works are traditionally done.

If you use AI, I would definitely disclose that in the description of the book, and as a consumer I would certainly be turned off by that fact. The fact that you're using it to enhance your own art absolutely makes it better, but the finished product still isn't really your art any more.

I discovered Shaun this year and binged most of his videos. The War On Science was this year and is great, though 4+ hours is a big commitment... Most of his other stuff is shorter.

That's fair I legitimately forgot Solo existed

They are THE MAIN CHARACTERS in the movie you're watching. I think that's a big enough reason to try to make them interesting.

What would make a character interesting? Motivations, conflict, maybe seeing someone change in any way as a result of things that happen in the story?

This is why I said people that enjoy the movie cannot have seen good movies, because some of the defenses are just absolutely ridiculous. "Why do characters need backstories to make them interesting?" Like do I really need to answer that?

Luke at the start of ANH is literally a farmboy with little direction in his life. That's much closer to the "just people" type of character you're describing than anyone in R1, again except for Jyn. Every supporting character in R1 feels like they were designed to be interesting, but everything interesting in their lives happened before the events of the film, and we just get to hear about it a little.

I also think the ending of the movie where we get a big fanservice Darth Vader scene gives the lie to this perception of the movie as a gritty, realistic look at the dark side of the franchise. The movie is pretty transparently just Disney pandering to the adults that grew up with Star Wars and wanted to feel like they could still enjoy it through more adult media. Andor does what Rogue One was trying to do much better, and it's telling that by doing so it barely feels like Star Wars any more.

I'm not talking about the whole movie, I'm saying that the opening 30 minutes of ANH have more character development than the entire movie of R1. We're not "getting to know the every man" in R1, we're told a one-line backstory for each character and they are basically static entities until the time comes for their death scene. Also, none of them are "standard soldiers" except for Jyn. Everyone else is clearly supposed to be an interesting character, they just don't do any of the supporting legwork to actually build the backstories or characterization, they just insist upon them.

To be fair trial and error and RNG are just par for the course with classic roguelikes, but learning how to manage all that is part of the appeal. Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup are probably the two best-supported old classic roguelikes out there. Honorable mentions for Dwarf Fortress, which basically abandoned its roguelike mode in favor of a fortress simulator, and UnReal world, which is a weird outdoor primitive survival game that's a testament to one man's obsession.

There are also more modern offerings like Tales of Maj'Eyal, Caves of QUD, and Dungeons of Dredmor that are fully faithful roguelikes with either more modern graphics or QOL upgrades.