Re: Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

The AI witch hunt claims its first victim, apparently over some placeholder textures.

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-19/the-low-cost-c...

> Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative AI-created assets in the game. When the first AI tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.

skibidithink, 8 hours ago

Я в ахуе, фандом жив!
По нему пилят эдиты и рисуют арты! Он попросту обогнал своё время и получил признание только сейчас

ДО ЛЮДЕЙ ДОШЛО, ЧТО ПРИ ТАКОМ ПЛОСКОМ СЦЕНАРИИ РАБОТАЕТ ТАКАЯ ГРАФИКА И ЭТО АХУЕННО

Сила есть - ума мусуме

Re: Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

This is thematically amazing when you consider what the song is about — the roboticization of the abducted band. (Music video:)

https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ

In this song, which is also chapter four of the movie Interstella 5000 movie (spoilers from here!), the knocked-out singers are scanned, parameterized, brainwashed, uploaded into The Matrix, and then used in the following songs of the movie-album to robotically mass produce music.

It makes perfect sense that the BPM is 123.45 because that’s exactly the sort of thing you get when a manager (who’s shown at the end!) just enters some numbers on the keyboard into the bpm field. They don’t keysmash the numpad; they just hit 123456789 until the field is full!

So not only does the song itself convey what some boss thinks is music, robotically beating at 123.45 bpm, but it is itself about being endlessly-rotating brainwashed-boring cogs in a pop music production industrial machine. I’m pretty sure the movie scene cuts and animations are timed specifically to the beats of the song, but knowing that they’re timed to a machine-specific bpm that a human would never select at random with a metronome?

Absolute genius.

I had no idea. Thanks for posting this.

EDIT: At 123.4567bpm, I think the track has precisely 0.2345 seconds of silence before the first 'beat' of the song and actually has 456 beats total, which is either numerological nonsense or pure genius by Daft Punk. Math elsethread :)

altairprime, 5 hours ago