(It's possible the requests get denied in the backend even though it renders the banner and the responses indicate a success, but I have no insight on that.)
Marketing department switched to a different cookie consent provider, and it feels like a downgrade to me. It doesn't even enforce the origin with CORS so anyone could take the link from our website, add it to their own and mess up our statistics.
I hadn't read "the genie is out of the bottle" in months and seeing it now still makes me feel repulsed. I think that idiom is completely ruined for me
@kaia I assume people who feel this way are the type who actively look out for AI-generated images and focus too hard on hating them so their whole judgment flattens to "is there even a trace of AI in there?"
@icedquinn@meeper Hell, just getting the basic setup right is hard. In my mind, if you get reborn as a dragon, it's not only physically impossible for you to talk, but your brain doesn't even know how to understand and form words. But you still need narration to explain what's going on. Third-person sounds too distanced and I'd prefer an unreliable narrator, but with first-person you easily end up with something that sounds like an internal monologue. My current solution is to use past tense to avoid the latter problem, but I'm not sure if I'm happy with it.
@meeper A lot about isekai feels very lazy to me. Like you said, it's just too convenient that things in this different world are still fundamentally similar so that the protagonist has a pretty easy time to adapt. It's basically only a device to have a narrator who shares your knowledge and understanding of the world and inadvertently "translates" everything going on for the reader/watcher. Part of my motivation to try making an isekai comic myself is to see if I can make one that isn't lazy in this way, but it's certainly a challenge.
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