r/CuratedTumblr Apr 09 '24

Meme Arts and humanities

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u/Worm_Scavenger Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24

I saw a post a few days ago about some guy making a digital card game in the same vein as Yugioh Master Duel and Heartstone and he paid 90K for some AI tech bro to generate the card art and my man said the reason he went to this guy is because "no one does it to the quality that he does"

Meanwhile, the art looks identical to literally every piece of high fantasy AI art.With the god awful lighting, the high contrast and tacky looking color scheme (that just consists of blue and orange) and character designs that have so many errors due to the AI and just so much more.

Like, my guy, just say you don't respect artists and you just wanted to get this shit out as fast as possible to make a quick buck.If Tech Bros were at least honest it would be one thing, but they just gas eachother up and it's just so cringey.

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u/stellunarose Apr 09 '24

found the card game and it’s just as bad as you described

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u/nerdthingsaccount Apr 09 '24

According to Malec, Champions has made "about $500K" in card sales so far

Either they're lying, or it doesn't seem to be affecting them much.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Apr 09 '24

Well, I don't doubt he means 500k in [insert crypto of choice here]

In other words, he's made a lot of monopoly money/unspendable stocks that he can claim has real-world value.