Like genuinely why do people want Toby to purposefully sabotage his own storytelling just to 'own those theorists'?
Being a fan of a story where the writer actively subverts his own plot points and foreshadowing just for gits and shiggles is not fun, for the fanbase or the author.
Randomly stumbled upon this on FB~
For anyone who does not know, this is the artpiece 'Fountain', made by Marcel Duchamp in 1917. It is a regular cookie-cutter urinal with the name 'R. Mutt' signed on it.
There is nothing special about the urinal itself, it is completely indistinguishable from any other urinal, and yet it is considered a major landmark piece in 20th century art.
Now this is a major oversimplification, and I encourage you to read more about this, but in short: The entire point of the piece is that anything can be art so long as it is elevated to that level by an artist's choice to make it so. Even something as lowly as a urinal can be art if an artist chooses to make it art.
So I ask, is there any strict definition of art that can include this, but exclude something made by AI? Fountain was made directly by taking something pre-existing and slapping a name on it. The urinal wasn't originally made with the intention of being art, and it certainly does not produce any rush of emotion like a more traditional artpiece might. (Seriously, it is just a urinal, please try to engage with this in good faith).
Is it the name R. Mutt that makes it art? Then what would be the difference from someone taking an AI image and drawing their name on it? Is it the fact that it was chosen to be displayed? Then what's stopping someone from displaying an AI image with the same weight?
Personally, I do not consider myself an AI artist, and only use AI for quick sketches when I'm feeling too lazy to draw myself or to throw money at another artist. But with all the discussion over whether AI is art or not, I just wanted to bring this up.
There are plenty of paths in various mods where you get to go uber-1984, or just follow killpeopleism until most of the world is depopulated, but what about endings where that isn't the case?
What's the worst anarchist or democratic world to live in, do you think?
For one of my picks, I'd have to go with Catharsis, from The Fire Rises
I had the idea to make a joke submod giving lafayette a decision to reveal that under the mask she was a girl the whole time, because of the whole female lafayette joke
not changing any of the atrocities or anything, just the frank uber-fascist is a girl now
went through the trouble of finding a girl in a GIGN uniform that still covered her eyes like the original lafayette portrait
Then to continue the joke I thought about adding a similar thing to reveal Rädelsführerin, got a portrait for her too
The whole thing was going to be called the nuclear-waste yuri mod
but then I slept on it and realised I may need a lobotomy
is this too far? should I be committed to a mental ward?
(The secret is their leader is so cute the planes work through sheer force of will)