Leo Gura

Business exerts a strong corrupting influence on art. As do the tastes of the mouth-breathing masses. So a big chunk of making good art is figuring out how to survive. Art & survival, that's the trick.

Dude, slavery existed in all the ancient world. So what?

@digitalkaine Mixing art and business is a classic challenge. Business corrupts art. One solution is to just create a side business which is not artistic and use it to fund your art. That's what I did. This is an opportunity for you to buckle down and get serious about business. Being a poor, starving artist is no way to live life. The solution to capitalism is to start your own biz.

I must admit that I do have a bias on this topic, which is making art as accessible as possible so that not just the exceptionally skilled can experience the joy of creating beautiful things. Art is the joy of creating beautiful things for one's own amusement.

Do not call women that here.

#CancelAncientEgypt

Ya'll can keep whining. I'll keep improving my art. Let's see who comes out ahead.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/ai-art-is-here

@The Mystical Man Nice! You found the good stuff.

Signal to noise ratio for him is great and not the issue. There is a deeper issue at work. If you're gonna read McGilchirst, start with The Matter With Things.

Maybe put in a bit more effort into your questions.

Where do your buildings come from?

Apparently you've never heard of photography or photoshop.

The epitome of cringe.

It is a common myth that Egyptians used slaves to build their stuff.

Connect with the joy of learning and studying reality. Otherwise you'll be a dumb human and your life will not go so well.

https://www.actualized.org/articles/understanding-duality-part-1

Your mind gets better at with massive experience. Some of my friends who game a lot reached the point where they can basically read lips.

Thank God this clown lost. There is still hope for democracy

What's silly is that this royal cosplay still takes place in the 21st century. Chimps wearing crowns.

Of course you are dreaming others' suffering. You are even dreaming your own suffering.

Dude, you have very fucked up ideas of women, relationships, and sex. Learn to contect with women. And no, there is no point in "saving yourself".

That is quite stunning. Some people just seem to have natural resistance to it.

Making AAA games and films will never be that easy or cheap. It will still takes lots of work even with insanely powerful AI tools. Yeah, but the issue is that the uninspired, overproduced nonsense is what the mass public loves. They do not want deep films, they want mindless popcorn flicks. AAA studios cater to those masses because that's where the real money is made. Even if you can press a button and make an artsy film in one day, who's gonna watch it? Don't forget, half the budget on a major movie or game is marketing.

All the most innovative people in the world moved to America over the last 100 years. Countries experienced a brain-drain. Germany is a good example. All the best Nazi scientists moved to the US and worked for NASA and the A-bomb project. And consider me. If Russia had a decent political environment then I could have stayed in Russia and been counted as one of theirs. But the brain-drain brought me to America.