The Business: We Are Already At Good Enough For Normie Acceptance

The original trailer for Ghost In The Shell.

This AI-generated live-action version.

That's Good Enough. Normies will watch it. They will pay to watch it. Folks screaming about how bad AI is now are either performative wankers or grossly overestimate what Normies will accept in media.

Remember that is is Nomies that demand "The Same, But Different" in their media; they absolutely accept AI-generated media that is Good Enough and keeps up the industrial-level production of The Same, But Different in their preferred media.

This is not about going from hand-painted cel animation to near-perfect photorealistic live-action. This is about one or two folks, using AI tools, replacing 80% of the people doing bitchwork in media production with machines and software; human involvement moves up the value chain to Command Decision level by cutting out everyone under that level. As it is now, you can have those folks churning out ads (and they already are, as Corridor Crew noted recently) and trailers.

We have people using it to make political ads, merging Meme Culture with Ad Production to be able to seize the zeitgeist effectively and efficiently; AI-generated ads will be the norm within a year or two because they are 90% or less cheaper to make and easier to produce. With the wide release of AI models able to generate consistent video of longer and longer lengths (again, reference what Seedance 3.0 is already rumored to do) this will eat up the entire business.

Live Action is not safe. Animation is not safe. Nothing in media production of any kind is safe anymore. Commercial pressures will compel widespread adoption, trumping everything else, especially since the Chinese will use it to swamp the world with media that is Good Enough to satsify the Normies and that alone will be enough to force the issue. Holdouts will lose, lose fast, and lose decisively.

Hand-crafted, for lack of a better term, will become an luxury. Luxuries do not generate revenue; they are COSTS, EXPENSES, not GENERATORS. The AI-generated production is what will make the "all-human" stuff possible- not viable, POSSIBLE. Just like mass-produced knives, clothes, guns, etc. are what make the hand-made versions possible because otherwise the skills would be lost due to disincentive to learn and practice them- as we've seen with hand-production of paper, hand-binding of books, etc. vs. machine-produced versions.

You had better believe C-Suites across the media business landscape are paying attention. This turnover is already happening, and now it cannot be stopped.

The Culture: What Has Mr. Wargaming Been Doing?

Boot Hill, Demonlord and a sologame called Kal-Arath.

"Where can you find these things?"

• Boot Hill is at DriveThruRPG in digital and POD formats. Get the package deal if you're buying at all.
• Demonlord is at this site (OOP; gonna have to make your own parts)
• Kal-Arath is at Itch.io and POD omnibus copies are at Lulu (They have a Substack feed.)

The Culture: The Gab Is Back

Daddy Warpig, flying solo, has brought back the Gab. On weekends again now. Below is the one streamed on the 14th.

Which you can get by clicking on the image below.

The Culture: The Tribal Chief's Triumphant Return!

A week ago today.

New Jeffro book, you say? pic.twitter.com/URMZJcOrDt

— Brain Leakage (@BrainLeakage03) February 16, 2026

And here are those details.

More when the campaign launches.

The Culture: The Daevites Coming Soon To The Clubhouse

At the Clubhouse next week, for Paid Subscribers only.

The Daevites, from the SCP Wiki, adapted for AD&D1e.

There will be a full Monster Manual style entry, and then information for their use as playable characters.

You'll want to be there and paid up for it.

The Culture: Yarvin's Future Is Now Inevitable, Sort Of

Dude gets it. Lots of these bundles of sticks deserve their job losses; they deserve worse and less.

AAA believes they are entitled to your time, attention, and money. Games Journos--those subhumans--are the goblins running defense for them.

They deserve their failures. They deserve their backruptcies. They deserve their job loses, their career setbacks, their enventually--and, now, inevitable--blackballing.

I support AI for one primary reason: that is the technology that guarantees the destruction and deletion of these hacks, and their eventual discovery near tall river-spanning bridges everywhere.

As for Vidya, so for all media.

That is worth the price of YouTube being filled with a Googleplex of AI-generated fanfilms; you'll find something worth watching out of that- not so as things are now.

The books? The comics? The music? Games? All the same: you WILL find something worthwhile- you won't if the Death Cultists and Mammon Mobsters retain control of the media.

Yarvin's going to get his world of endless absolutist city-states with No Say and Free Exist; it will just exist in pop culture, not in political reality.

The Business: The Hellmouth Fears The Terminator

Last week ByteDance released Seedance 2.0. You can tell how good it really is by the reactions.

Seedance 2.0 took over social media!

People generate WILD videos that go extremely viral

Here are TOP 7 recent examples👇

1/ Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise pic.twitter.com/36X64IMuBF

— René Remsik (@aitrendz_xyz) February 13, 2026

That reaction? Telling. Hollywood knows.

Hollywood demands Seedance 2.0 removal after AI Video goes viral.

The Motion Picture Association issued a takedown demand to ByteDance after Seedance 2.0 generated a photorealistic Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight scene from a short prompt.

Director Ruairi Robinson's clip has… pic.twitter.com/oTwYzsdO47

— 𝚉𝚊𝚎𝚜𝚊𝚛 (@zaesarius) February 13, 2026

You've got people saying "This is crap!"

One: No, it's not. Well over 80% of people watching these things will not notice that this is AI-generated; they will, at most, think of this as a SFX showcase to drum up software sales and business contracts.

Two: This is as bad as it will be. It only gets better from here, and the rumors of v3.0 on Chinese social media state that single-prompts go to 10 minutes at a time in length. Nine of those is a 90 minute movie, which remains the ideal length that exhibitors want for maximum revenue potential

Three: They will not be able to regulate or lawfare the threat away; this is a global issue, so the rules are actually defined by the party that cares least about IP law- and that means Russia, China, Southeast Asia, and the Stans between them. China, in particular, wipes its ass with US and European IP law. They already have no problem with hosting content that violates it; they will be glad to host and stream AI-generated content that does so.

As we are already seeing with prose/comics (an AI-generated LN already won awards) and Tabletop, we shall see with Vidya and film/TV: total disruption of the existing market and social State of Play. Go ahead, go to YouTube; there's a flood of AI-generate Star Wars fanfilm shorts, which will only get longer and better over the next few years, which itslef is a follow-on from (very formulatic) Human Fuck Yeah audiobook channels (increasingly with accompanying illustrations).

"But no one-"

They are already finding audiences and making mad bank, starting with niches where conventions are already so rigid that they might as well be a Madlib template (i.e. ChickSmut of all sorts, LitRPG, etc.) and the workflow already exists to automate the entire process once you tool up the (virtual) factory.

As it is with books, comics, music, and art so it is now coming to video and and software which means Vidya is next.

By 2030 no one will notice the difference, and Normies TODAY already do not care. They say they do; their Revealed Preferences show that they don't.

This is why Hollywood freaked out. They see it and know they can't stop it.

You can adapt or you can get crushed by it.