I just reckon it is such bad faith to suggest that E33 "popularized this excuse" or similar that Lucifer himself can be seen sneering with pride in the faint outline of the post. There has to be room for understanding, and focus on more current issues like genAI being used in production processes.
Audiences are overtly hostile to genAI (good). But this overt hostility is going to also affect titles it has no business doing so, where someone explored a novelty in good faith, decided against it going forward, and missed a spot in cleaning up the crap.
The Wild Mother is finished :D
DALL-E was a fun curiosity at one point because the end results were kind of fucked up and weird and obviously blending into one another. It was uncanny, but worked well enough that you might be tempted to make an asset with it in early days as a placeholder. Likely what Sandfall did with E33.
Recent Discourse about Expedition 33 about having one (1) AI placeholder is infuriatingly bad faith stuff. Sorry but gamedev takes a long time and there was a period in the early days that a lot of people were fucking around with DALL-E or whatever. It’s gonna happen a few more times.
As a heads up, my email and accounts associated with Doc Wolverine have been compromised.
I'm working on getting control back but am sorely tempted to just shut them down afterward. A fresh start feels nice
