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#11

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Jan 19, 2026, 09:44 PM

I generated a bunch of different videos.

To a big extent I was fighting with ComfyUI though. It would frequently not generate a new video. The template workflow also wouldn't update the randomizer seed, so you'd get mostly the same output anyways. 

I generated some videos where people were talking back and forth, yelling back and forth, whispering and having different emotions.
It was extremely cool.

The audio was expressive, but obviously robotic at times. But it matches reasonably with the actor's movements.


The model isn't censored from what I understand, but it's also not very good at uncensored stuff..... 

#12

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by BananaKing - Jan 19, 2026, 06:50 PM

So. 1.5 to 1.6 billion seems likely then for final totals.  Even if you consider the 2x box office for making money, and the reported 400 million budget, I still see this movie making anywhere from 300 to 500 million in profit. Obviously depending on other factors.  Then you consider way of water made 2.3 billion, that movie easily covered budgets from both movies.  There just can't be any world where a trilogy of movies making pretty much 7 billion in box office isn't a success and warrant the last 2 movies.

I think a longer gap from 3 to 4 than what 2 to 3 was will help tremendously in potentially driving box office back to 2 billion for 4.  I know Cameron is considering ways to cut budgets for the next ones.  I think removing 30 minutes of runtime from each and keeping them around 2hrs 45 minutes will work and won't be as big of a day for someone to go watch the movie.

Yeah if they don't consider this a success then the studio heads are out of their minds. But of course you need to consider how much merch avatar sells. I don't feel like it's a merch machine as starwars or marvel. Probably no where even close too. 

Also streaming now has iced things up. This will probably end up on Disney+ soon, and subs aren't directly linked to avatar. 

#13

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Jan 19, 2026, 05:38 PM

Seems like local video generation got a bump.

I see people buzzing about LTX-2 and Wan 2.2 both seem to be doing audio + video.

I feel like I've seen dreams. 

Takes me about 5 minutes to generate a 5 second video, and 9 minutes to generate a 10 second video.  

#14

Off-Topic Community / Re: The Sporty Sports Thread

Last post by Legend - Jan 19, 2026, 05:08 PM

Nobody watches UFC here right?

I watched USDC season 3 but that's it for fighting stuff.

#15

Off-Topic Community / Re: The Sporty Sports Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Jan 19, 2026, 04:07 PM

Nobody watches UFC here right?

not me said the flea

#16

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by nnodley - Jan 19, 2026, 03:57 PM

So. 1.5 to 1.6 billion seems likely then for final totals.  Even if you consider the 2x box office for making money, and the reported 400 million budget, I still see this movie making anywhere from 300 to 500 million in profit. Obviously depending on other factors.  Then you consider way of water made 2.3 billion, that movie easily covered budgets from both movies.  There just can't be any world where a trilogy of movies making pretty much 7 billion in box office isn't a success and warrant the last 2 movies.

I think a longer gap from 3 to 4 than what 2 to 3 was will help tremendously in potentially driving box office back to 2 billion for 4.  I know Cameron is considering ways to cut budgets for the next ones.  I think removing 30 minutes of runtime from each and keeping them around 2hrs 45 minutes will work and won't be as big of a day for someone to go watch the movie.

#17

Off-Topic Community / Re: The Sporty Sports Thread

Last post by BananaKing - Jan 19, 2026, 07:48 AM

Nobody watches UFC here right? 

#18

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by BananaKing - Jan 19, 2026, 07:47 AM

$1.3 billion, le flop

#19

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by Legend - Jan 19, 2026, 06:25 AM

Not even close!

$1.3 billion, le flop

#20

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by BananaKing - Jan 19, 2026, 06:22 AM

Zootopia at 1.7 billion is crazy. But then again the first movie was awesome.