Ok. So you're trying to start another business. A business where you will sell these cards for something other than "free".
You don't have the capability to draw the cards yourself. So you're outsourcing.
In a previous world, you would have to probably hire a graphic designer or illustrator. Someone who would charge you for your work. Charge you a LOT... I think someone here has a relative[/daughter?] who is a graphic designer doing quite well for herself. This would probably make your entire business idea infeasible because you couldn't possibly make money after paying a graphic designer.
In the AI world, however, you can get that service for REALLY cheap in comparison. It actually makes your business possible.
And yet, you chafe at the fact that while a company is giving you your critical business inputs for free, they're not giving you ENOUGH of them for free? And you expect the government--i.e. the tax dollars paid in from everyone else on this forum--to step in and subsidize your business, so you can get your critical business inputs for free?
Why do you expect that your business should be handed AI-produced graphics for free, while you will be able to then sell the cards bearing those AI-produced graphics for cash?
lol, all of that is centered on a false premise. I'm not trying to start another business. I'm just seeing if I can do it, for fun.
You make good points, but I'm just frustrated because I want all the images and don't want to pay for my leisure activity. I just deem AI stuff like this inevitably universal in the coming years and don't think I am where they'll be making their money. Corporations with infinite pockets and high-leverage, big ideas will gladly pay AI producers all the money they want for the utility to make a lot more money while spending a lot less (on employees and shit).
I'm an ant. A whiney ant. I've just taken a recent interest in these trading card games and how they work. For a football game, instead of a back-and-forth battle, turn-by-turn, you'd need one player to attempt to put a drive together, using a variety of plays and card types to gain 'enough' first downs for a score of either kind.
But combatting that on defense would be fun, too. These TCG decks tend to have around 60 cards. I started with 10 off/10 def all-time greats from various schools, but have since expanded it to 12 on each side of the ball, to better mimic the vast variety of these game types.
The OG one, Magic the Gathering, doesn't interest me, because when there's magic involved in something, like movies, etc, I check out because anything can happen. Boring. Like in the Mission: Impossible movies, where they can wear a perfect mask of anyone else, I checked out, because you couldn't trust anyone was who they were anymore.
But there are so many different themes with these TCG games, that maybe football would be a fun one. It's right in our wheelhouse, right?
You play a blitzing LB card, but I counter that with a RB's "pick up the blitz" card, and so on.
If a frivolous "can I do this?" leisure activity costs too much, then the answer becomes 'no.' I haven't shared it with anyone and I've only shared the idea here because you asked. I was content just whining, lol.
I've talked to a friend from work, because I know he's into these card games. Whoa Nellie wasn't meant to be a business, I just shared it openly on FB and people started asking me where I bought it. Only then did I consider making it something to sell.
