From the tone of the first message, I'm guessing that's not the first off-by-one error in their relationship.

That is precisely it. Generative AI is a tool, just like a digital canvas over a physical canvas, just like a canvas over a cave wall. As it has always been, the ones best prepared to adapt to this new tool are the artists. Instead of fighting the tool, we need to learn how to best use it. No AI, short of a true General Intelligence, will ever be able to make the decisions inherent to illustration, but it can get you close enough to the final vision so as to skip the labor intensive part.

Epic offers jack shit in terms of features, has admitted to be losing money from the 12% cut, has a shitty storefront and is beholden to Tencent, the shittiest gaming company known to the world. Also, Steam is free advertisement, whereas the EGS is antiadvertisement.

And what is it?

Is the US socialist because nVidia is a public company, therefore the shares are owned by the public? [...] The ownership of the company is shared, so it must be socialism, right? I’d say no, because it’s not shared evenly.

How did you mess up this badly? A "public company" [sic, the correct term is "publicly traded company"] is a regular private company where the owners are hundreds or even thousands of individuals. A publicly owned company is one where every single citizen owns the company simply by being alive or every single worker owns the company simply by working there.

What if a single individual owns a single “mean” of production, but everything else is owned by the state

I don't even understand what you mean by this...

Modern economies are mixes of socialism and capitalism. The people (through the government) own certain things, and individuals own other things.

No, they're not, and this shows a very serious hole in your knowledge of economic and social systems. While, informally, it's sometimes said to be the case, that's strictly an oversimplification to communicate a different idea. Countries like the US simply use a government-assisted capitalist model. Places like the Nordic countries have a more transitional system, but are ultimately still just capitalist.

They're not entirely wrong... Quite a bit of the division comes from pre-modern events and decisions.

That's the correct meaning of "liberal", yes... as in "libre", meaning "free". It's 'murica that fucked it up.

They did, though. Can't remember which video, but hasn't been that long since we got an update akin to "Emily is fine, they're working in a different project which is why this video doesn't feature them"

Yes

But I am Annatar, the Lord of Gifts!

Watch Star Trek TNG and you'll instantly get it. The original series was getting a bit dated by the 90s, but TNG is still as fresh as you can get, talking about issues we're still dealing with - It's timeless. Not to mention it has, IMO, the best and most synergistic crew of the whole franchise.

Building anything requires trigonometry, unless you just say "fuck it" and hope the thing doesn't fall apart, which is a pretty stupid way to live life.