Jomega

In a democracy, voters are responsible for who gets elected.

Shape shifter makes half of these redundant. I pick that, teleport, and electric control.

I'll just leave this here.

Not really. You just interpreted it in a less shitty way than intended.

Voltaire never said that. He lived under a monarchy, so it wouldn't have made sense if he did. That quote was made up by a neo nazi and falsely attributed to him.

Because it's not a human and possesses no self awareness. Humans take inspiration, machines copy. When people tell stories, they have to think about what they're doing and why. Everything in a work of fiction is intentionally put there by the author. Computer programs do what they are programmed to do, which in this case is copy shit other people made. That's what it's designed to do. You're speaking about the technology as if it were anything more than that, as if it were a person who were capable of knowing the difference. It doesn't know the meaning of terms like "homage" or "adaptation". It does not think about what it spits out at all. It's sole function is to do what you ask of it, and it does that using data stolen from other people. That's not even getting into the whole spyware thing tech bros keep trying to normalize.

You cannot be both pro-art and pro-"AI". Full fucking stop.

Unironically yes. Art is a part of the human condition. If you think that's something that should be automated, then you don't understand why art has value. Doubly so considering you feel keen on dehumanizing the people who make it. Humans have hopes and dreams. Computers don't.

It's a computer program that turns the hard work of artists and utterly ridiculous amounts of water into samey, uncanny abominations. To compare that to the moon landing? I don't even have words for that.

Even in a hypothetical utopia, the thought of a sea of slop drowning the creative world makes my skin crawl. Imagine putting your heart and soul into something only to watch some machine liquify it into an ugly paste in a nanosecond, then it goes on to do the same thing a million times in a row. It's hard enough to get noticed in this world, and now every passion project has to compete with the diseased inbred freak clones of other passion projects? It makes me feel so goddamn angry that some asshole felt the need to invent such a thing, and for what? What problem does it solve? Why do you need to use up a cities worth of water to make a six fingered Sailor Moon?

They actually already did change the rating for the virtual console release of Red/Blue. I always thought it was stupid, because the game corner was explicitly run by the bad guys.

Channel Awesome was run by a guy named Mike Michaud, who was a really shit boss. Pretty much anything you expect HR to do is something he neglects. Harassment was rampant, contributors were scripted into situations that they weren't comfortable with, nobody was notified about massive changes to the site, the works. Some stayed quiet because they feared retribution from man child Mike, others were either fired or quit in protest. This all bubbled up for years until a 70 Google doc detailing every single instance of neglect and hostility that went on behind the scenes was published, at which point CA collapsed like cheap cardboard. The document is freely available online, but since you're looking for a short version, I'll just summarize thusly:

Mike Michaud is a parasite that feeds on content creators and gives nothing in return. Also, his stench attracts roaches.