Replaying Metal Gear Solid 2 and once the control muscle memory came back I couldn't believe how modern the game felt. It plays smoothly, has a lot of great mechanics and it still looks phenomenal.

A good art style never ages. Windwaker and MGS2 really are great examples of that.

I might be making a lot of MGS posts over the next while

I propose we start using the name "Derivative AI" for image models and such.

Models are only capable of using their training data to derive an end result, they aren't capable of generating new artistic concepts.

I did some googling (and therapy). Turns out that 'TIS nobler in the mind to suffer.

In real life it basically just sucks.