I understand how you’d extend reproach to the employees of a bad business. I don’t feel it personally though. Solidarity for all workforce trumps it in my heart. Maybe it’s my family ties with active union members.

In gamedev particularly, a lot of creators get in there mainly because of their passion for the medium. Then they get chewed up by shit work conditions. Ultimately dream job type positions are especially vulnerable to abusive management.

Oh no! Venture capital has moved to AI! (Anyways.) The article goes on to talk about humongous corporations making dubious decisions and toppling over themselves. Are we supposed to lament Ubisoft’s demise now?

Expedition 33 just came out of nowhere to great acclaim. Valve is hosting a thriving market & slowly but surely freeing PC gaming from Microsoft’s grip. SILK SONG IS DUE THIS YEAR MY FRIENDS. Everyone’s wishlist is as long as their backlog. The bar to entry for development has never been lower. Video gaming is an established medium at this point. A handful of corporative giants infected with a rotten management culture matters little. What essentially matters to me is for the creators out of a job to find new footing.

Remember this thread is about a bot commodifying the production of cumshot videos from any person’s photo. I fail to see any nuance here. There is only one use: generating porn featuring people that don’t want to. Decency rules continues to apply to general use tools as it always did.

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Generating nonconsensual sexual videos is not something you think, it’s something you do.

Yes yes that’s it! I’m happy now ~ thanks!

(A few days ago I skimmed a super cool post about Steam’s relationship with Linux that says what you’re saying and now I want to give it a thorough read but I can’t find it . If anyone remembers and has a link to it I’d be super happy )

I’m playing Cassette Beasts lately too! It’s such a good monster collector. The low poly 3D+2D aesthetic is on point and it’s real cozy. They don’t hide their Pokémon inspiration but they do their own thing with it and I really like their take. It feels both kinder and more stimulating. I love that basically all battles are doubles.

Also Google’s now retired motto: “Don’t Be Evil”.

I loved botw, I wished so bad for totk to happen, it happened, I got it, then I realized I didn’t really want totk. It’s a weird feeling.

I’d like to add that machine learning is not learning, just like a network firewall is not a wall and doesn’t protect against fire. Lending the same legitimacy to machine learning than to true learning is an equivocation, a fallacy.

Oh so you didn’t like it eh

Your rudeness coupled with your lack of attention to others insures whatever point you have will be disregarded, just so you know.

Agreed. Up next: what’s the best song ever?

20K games were released on Steam last year, and almost all of them are indies

That’s your problem right there. I can’t possibly pay attention to 20K games a year. By a mix of luck, quality and marketing, some indies absolutely manage to be in the spotlight. “Have you heard of the hidden gem Stardew Valley?” Or maybe the joke should go Balatro instead in 2025.

Have you played ORAS? I think this was the peak for me. Good vibes, good features, massive pokedex.

Me and my son have a history with Pokemon. It’s a franchise close to our hearts, but we’re both disappointed with everything that happened on the switch. I’ll always remember taking him to the anime convention to battle with the local gym champions. Just watched the Z-A trailer and it’s depressing really. The last entries’ artistic direction is utterly lifeless and the gameplay feels stale, despite the revolving door of gimmicks from gen to gen. I’m still hoping, one day, we get a fucking good Pokemon game though.

genAI: I will replace all workers with my undeniably superior intellect

Also genAI: Elon Musk surely has two left feet

A server/client solution is absolutely not offline. You need a connection to save your doc, I mean please.