Man bursts into tears. “But doctor,” he says. “I am Mister Plinkett.”

Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The great clown Mister Plinkett has a series of videos throwing a temper tantrum over Lucas’ Star Wars prequel trilogy. Go and see how celebrated they were online, and you’ll see what the online discourse was like when Disney bought the brand.

So it’s not just that his prior film had been successful, it’s that it resonated with both audiences and a creative affairs executive who knew genius when he saw it and took a calculated risk by financing Lucas’ passion project.

Plus, unless someone has a browser extension they can’t even see the number of dislikes on someone else’s vid, and engagement is still engagement anyway, so don’t worry too much about it. Just keep creating the best work you can.

I promise it wasn’t me!

But don’t let it get to ya too much. I have a bit of survivor bias mysef, since I was bracing for a harsh like-dislike ratio when I made the RLM vid, but if someone’s meticulously doing that for all your vids, they’re just being obnoxious for the sake of it.

And hopefully by then, the bubble will burst, so I don’t have to keep getting ads for this crap every time I launch the software.

I get Adobe creative cloud for free through the school. I currently attend, so I technically pay nothing for these programs directly. But once I graduate, I’ll probably threaten to cancel just to exploit the steep discounts Adobe offers to retain your subscription.

Even so, the forcing of these stupid features and constant price raising on their subscription packages has turned away a great many of their users, who are now turning to Affinity and other alternatives for better prices and a UI that understands the phrase “Not interested.”

They auto-turned on the “generative fill” option for the clone stamp and spot healing brush tools when they first implemented them, so I used them by accident a few times, and I saw literally no discernable improvement in the resulting cleanup over the content aware method.

Conversely, folks like me who still use them regularly haven’t had their user experience improved by the AI tools Adobe has implemented.

Lightroom and Photoshop HAVE generative features, but they’re slow and crappy.

Lightroom is for organizing, archiving, and editing photos you already took. Photoshop is also for editing your photos, but with more transformative tools at your disposal.

I doubt anyone who uses ChatGPT or any of its ilk had been using Lightroom prior to it and decided they didn’t need it anymore

Looking great!

Jakku was envisioned as a polluted junk planet during the period when Arndt’s screenplay and the concept art were working from Lucas’ story (including the downed Star Destroyers in the second image here), but Abrams’ direction is when the planet was basically made into a Tattooine redux.

George personally designed Padmé’s outfit that prominently features a choker, which she wears in front of a fire.

These costuming choices were the best decisions he ever made, Kennedy 😤