shutter stroll ~ animals ?

know some people wish shutter stroll might have animals and creatures to wander landscapes , but almost sort of prefer as is now - without .

might be cute , yes , but to what extent ? unless also add some kind of button to pause movement - which , kind of might also take away from certain charms of game - could end up as hard to catch any picture at all , let alone good ones .
slow predictable movements force player to have presence in scene , to slow down and pay attention . animals can run in face of this , especially if was to try make unique generations there as well .

and ... there is so much mystery in these islands , so much ambiguity - do people live here ? could people live here ? what life might these places hold ?
to try and answer those questions might take away charm , for some players , not add .

recap and commentary on bratz fashion pixiez ~ by jordy mcneill

really fun one ! yeah ... this movie is weird .

comedy !

kossai is not very much fan of current uses for " AI " generations as means to replace someone - whether as artist of picture , as replacement to not pay voice actor for request ( which some do offer ! ) , or otherwise .

but with audio in particular , think this is stickier than just " need explicit knowledge and permission from voice provider " - any enforcement of such rules can extend much further than just AI models , and do damage that would hurt everyone .
inability to sample and mashup musics on one end , and on other end , even further restriction on people who intend to review , document , and archive very important information .
( not to mention that companies who already loophole and disobey laws would simply continue to regardless ... )

what concern kossai much more is when these things sound very real - sentence mixes a la youtube poops and jinriki UTAUloids just do not have this realism factor ... but well put together AI models can , at least enough to fool average person . 
that in mind ... do have weak spot : sometimes will stumble across character AI model , and wonder exactly how that voice come through .

today ? bill cipher .

and answer here is : poorly . these models often do not carry across vocal filters very well - as if remove " noise " - and tone is often wrong , with voice cracks to boot .
well , one cover is rick astley greatest hit , dQw4w9WgXcQ .
as with others , voice struggle to sound quite like bill .

but here is where comedy come in : auto captions . youtube auto captions tend to struggle with music , which lead to lines like :

• i'm going to get you up and i'm going to let you down
• i'm going to make you cry, i'm going to say goodbye
• i'm going to share the light and gra you
• i go around around around
• i'm going to get you

truly , work of art here . not model in self , but errors in automatic captions due to model .

new icon !

icons waffle back and forth today because gender is in slightly rare state , so ... here is actual neutral icon :)
unfortunately lose some of settings from original PSD so details like wings render different . bah , oh well .