Rating Curve

Placeholder review, I will write later. Trying to get a more defined curve so I can see my average opinion on stuff

I hate sampling in terms of Gd as an idea. It shows a lot of misunderstanding of art in general (or I guess different views I see as misinformed) for it to somewhat more popularized now. Liking it to what is done in music is really strange I find, when it’s closer to photo bashing in art, and like you’d never use that for a finalized painting, just as a compositional guide. Such is how I think “sampling” in Gd has its place. Having assets from other levels in a final work even with permission I can’t really be supportive of in the slightest. I have made this argument plenty of times for friends, and I don’t really see anyone genuinely considering my position on things over a level review so I will leave it there. I guess if you want to hear the more nuanced argument contact me or something idk

Personal bias. This level stands for everything I dislike in the Gd community, and it should not exist. Mels was it it though and Mels is nice, Bli is nice too. I wish ill upon some specific members and hosts of this collab though.

I know this wasn’t Desticy’s intent from what I heard, but I dislike the closeness to the references it used. I initially saw them since my friends told me the board he used contained generative AI images (I am the biggest AI hater), and was highly derivative of them. It is far too derivative of them for my liking, so I consider it stealing, therefore my 0 rating. This stand regardless if it were generative AI or not. Either way, it is still stealing in my eyes. From what I heard Desticy was not aware it was generative AI, which is rather sad and I feel bad for him. To be fair though, Pinterest is like dead lately with how much AI is in it (however the ones he used were obviously AI so like :/). I don’t like think this copying was out of malice though, it’s a trap a lot of beginner artists (very much a lot of art creators) fall into, where they don’t yet know how to ethically reference stuff. So I hope Desticy learns from this and grows as an artist and learns to communicate his intent rather than displaying someone else’s (or an horrific amalgamation of stealing from generative AI). The composition in most parts besides the end is rather bad. Super messy, the blocks seem to lack purpose rather than being platforms and take up way too much of the screen. There is also no distribution of LOD (level of detail) based on focal points, very homogenous. The last part has neat ideas though. The parallax is sort of bad, but it is headed in a good direction. Very much think future stuff from Desticy can be quite good, if he sorts out how to ethically reference. Everyone makes this mistake at some point, I have, and I absolutely HATE my past self for it, I’d do awful things to her if I could go back in time, she knew better and that it was unethical. I don’t think Desticy had that malice as he posted his board of references on Pinterest, he was very open about it.

I initially liked this level because it was vaguely funny. However after a conversation with Connot where he sort of excused stealing from other outside of Gd artists even if it was literally just small alterations, I can’t respect anything this level stands for. I think the derivative nature from some arts is fine here since they are references to other media and not trying to say “look what I made” rather “you know these”. I think from the convo with Connot though, he would have done this for any art. I do not tolerate that intent, or stealing in any capacity so I must give a 0.