I knew that guy looked sketchy

I mean I guess that’s sort of the point I’m stuck on. The situations I’m describing, such as in the post we’re on, are that which I cannot see as creative or active. They seem passive and overwhelming and able to genuinely convince someone of that which is clearly not there. They are of the imagination, yes, but they seem to rely on some form of unprompted and willful cognitive dissonance.

??? That is wildly off the mark. I’m a full on supporter of intrinsic motivation to create. I’ve defended art for the sake of expression repeatedly on this account, and I abhor when people play to the gallery. My confusion is with passive conviction of anthropomorphism rather than anthropomorphism arising only out of driven intent.

SAG-AFTRA said it celebrated the rights of artists - such as James Earl Jones’ estate - to use digital replicas, but said Epic Games did so “without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.”

I had chosen that source just for the best headline for the meme, but turns out it also had a succinct answer to your question. Jones’ estate consented but SAG claims the way Epic went about implementing it violates contracts between Epic and SAG.

Passivity vs. activeness in consciousness is the distinction I was making.

I understand the connections well enough and I could make them on my own if I saw a purpose to it, such as narrative storytelling or choosing them as representative props. Someone seeing a banal object, devoid of story and history and just merely existing, and then succumbing to emotions over loose connections to human characteristics is what I don’t relate to. A cigar without narrative purpose is just a cigar. I can see others have totems and fetishes (in the sociological sense) of their own but the extent to which I deal with these is recognizing the message when they are used or abused.

I understand the purpose of anthropomorphizing for the sake of narrative storytelling. But I don’t relate to people unwillingly imagining an inanimate object to be sentient and emotive to such an intense degree that the imaginer is affected by it. I’ve pondered with purpose over writing metaphors or fantasy worldbuilding, but it has been with intent rather than passively.

(And yes, my most recent emotional reaction to that lamp was disappointment with a couple of areas of the design of its new Lego set)

That’s correct. I brought up the beaker scenario since the characterization of the inanimate object was adjacent to anthropomorphizing and it was an example in which I was the anomaly of the crowd.

Not trying to be rude or stupid, but is projecting emotions onto inanimate objects and being emotionally affected by imaginarily anthropomorphised circumstances a neurotypical thing? I remember in high school chemistry class when my classmates were awing and giddy over how “cute” a ~1” tall and 1/2” diameter beaker was and I just couldn’t understand.

> We tried to warn you

> .ml user

You’ve made 10 posts on Lemmy and 6 of them are shitting on Biden by name. 2 of the remaining 4 are shitting on Harris by name. Kind of sounds like an unhealthy obsession, in multiple ways.

Ai Weiwei, minus the Weiwei

Commercial exploitation?

Important to clarify that you mean Point Of Sale (the checkout software) since it also makes sense with its other meaning

Reminds me of this

Palpatine’s plan included predetermining every hand of cards Lando and Han each got in Sabacc /s

Everybody who thought this was even remotely ok needs to be removed from LucasFilm/ILM immediately. The audacity to call this “Artistdriven Innovation” is a disgrace to all creatives, all audiences, and to Lucas and his works.

You don’t need to bypass human influence to make “Star Wars-y animals”. Handcrafted CGI definitely can help and may be essential for some cases. But take a look at the Dray used in Andor using real-life sheep accessorized to look alien. It’s simple, it’s cheap, and it’s believably non-Earthly.

It really is an insult to everybody who has worked on or appreciated the franchise and the industry’s output in the past to think that it’d be better to dispose all of the human design and care in all of the model props and careful editing used since the opening crawl and replace it with a dice roll of shoddy surrealism.

I remember the first time I was an authorized personnel only

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Category is mothers mentioned in songs written by a Beatle?

Mother Superior - “Happiness is a Warm Gun”

Mother Hubbard - “Gimme Some Truth”

Mother Nature - “Mother Nature’s Son”

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Historians generally agree that there was an actual person named Jesus at the place and time described in the Bible. In Biblical canon, Jesus was born to a virgin mother, so he’d have no Y-chromosome on account of having no biological father.