u/Real-Contest4914

Like I'm being honest.

As much as I love Celestia and the Shades and Phanes. The game has always felt very telepegraphed i always figured that deep down it would always be either Celestia or the Abyss.

I always have hope given how the wq add nuance to Celestia but I dont know lately the way the story has been going it has left me dejected.

In the end it feels like despite all the wq stuff the game is just gonna default to the evil god trope for Phanes.

Which honestly feels like a waste. The game has continously managed to pull of subversion for every godly arcehtype its used. But it seems like phanes wont even get that.

I initially started supporting Celestia purely cause Asmo was cool looking and well narratively speaking Celestia would be the eventual under dogs.

Imagine my surprise when I heard the firld tiller stuff and got my hopes up that the story might go the route of showing the humans as just as corrupt as theh gods the claim to oppose.

Maybe its delusion or head Canon, I really thought the story was gonna go a route of needing their to he balance and communication or something but it seems like nah. In the end it seems whatever the humans did, whatever they do. No matter how vile will be swept away.

Even when the fatui enable a psycho like dottore its just swept away cause he doesn't represent them.

I still love genshin stories on the individal character base but man is the overarching one with celestis getting depressing for me.

How do you all cope with it? Like how do you all stay positive without slipping.

So before anyone starts...I'm not an anti. I just thought I'd draw attention to something that I've started to see a lot recently.

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As someone who has been involved with art for a decent part of my life. My dad was a visual arts teacher and he taught me many things ever since I was kid. I have to say its a little amusing and disheartening to see how the state of art is being reduced.

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Apart from the ongoing debates between traditional artists and ai artists, there's also notable level of mediocrity thats begun to spring up from both sides.

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I'm sure some of the artists on both sides know what I mean.

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Some people produce lazy work but just slap I hate ai or I love ai and call it a day.

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I'm talking about the traditional artists who just make simple doodles or traces and stop and say right...thats it, im an artist because I'm a human who made this. Never mind its not made with any real passion and is more just done for clout because they can say check this sketch i made with no ai.

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It feels like some people only sketch and post their works to take jabs at people using ai without any real love for the activity. Or if there is love its just buried under spite.

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Likewise for the ai artists...I'm gonna be honest...some of you all are just lacking in any kind of qol. Like seriously, some of you make complete trash and its not because the work is ai, on the contrary there some people who make ai art thats pleasing to the eyes.

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But some of you all make work thats got too much detail for one resulting in it being bogged by a lot of visual noise and clutter, work such has comics have a lot of grammatical issues or there are just many inconsistencies in general.

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I get wanting to show your work off but you can honestly tell me its that hard to look it over and make sure that some stuff at least makes sense some sense.

I recall distinctly that a group of ai artists were featured together protesting for ai but the maker of the artwork didn't even bother to check if they were all holding signs or speaking via speech bubble or having some weird mix of the two.

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Like it was a huge glaring inconsistency that many people saw. Ai is meant to make it easy to do, it shouldn't be this hard to look it over and fix these minor errors.

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But yeah...just thought id throw my two cents into it. I swear ai has made it easier to produce a lot of cool stuff but I'll be damned if the debate between the ai and traditional artists haven't lower the standards of art for some.

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