GOG or TPB, anything else is just extended renting

someone put it their initially

Yeah… Do you think the people using these packs are the same people putting the packs together? Do you think they sifted through reference pack after reference pack looking for the one that had the challenger explosion? Or do you reckon maybe it’s more likely it was an unlabeled picture that the devs didn’t recognize at first?

Did you think they deliberately went and took a screenshot of the Challenger disaster specifically to use in the game? It was part of an asset pack

Imagine if it was worse. “Somehow, Troy Calypso returned”

Well famously Nintendo owns 1/3rd of every dollar Gary Bowser makes for the rest of his life

The music in this game has no business slapping so damn hard

At this point I’m convinced that companies intentionally reduce access to their properties because making examples of a few pirates by making them pay millions of dollars is more profitable than legitimately selling games to a few thousand people

Would bet my life that that is why you can’t legitimately buy most old Nintendo games online

"In re-reviewing our recent interview with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, we have found several significant errors and inaccuracies that don’t represent his perspective and values (including topics such as animation, writing, technology, AI, and future projects).

“We apologise to Neil for misrepresenting his words and for any negative impact this interview might have caused him and his team. In coordination with Naughty Dog and [Sony Interactive Entertainment], we have removed the interview.”

A certain kind of person will read that headline and come out with an entirely incorrect assumption about the story

An online connection will be needed to install the game

Guess I ain’t buying a used copy then

It takes place in 17th century Japan? I might actually buy a used copy if it doesn’t have any fantasy elements whatsoever, and if the open world aspect isn’t just a time sink like it is in most modern games

Helps protect the shareholders from guillotines after the proles get fed up enough

Not that I’m advocating for that or anything

No shit, that’s the entire problem

You can always press the button twice

companies of the modern era have to justify their existence not just with success, but growth, and Microsoft’s been struggling to do that.

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Yes, which is why Steam is issuing refunds

A goldfish randomly swimming from one side of the tank to the other could run things better than these guys do

One correction: the only calculus that matters to the execs is whether it works for now. Whatever happens later is somebody else’s problem

Dude just watch porn I’m begging you

I’m picturing the number of messages they’d receive the day the update hit. People suck. Most will understand that they need to hold off on updating if they want to play the mod, some will seek support when it breaks. Some of those will say “that makes sense” and disappointedly wait for the mod to update, some of those will get angry. I certainly wouldn’t want an inevitable flood of angry emails a few days after the big release.

When art is commissioned, art is produced. If no human produced it, an ai did. If ai cannot produce art, then a human must have.

Right, so this is what I mean when I say that charitable interpretation is dead. Taking my earlier assertion that AI generated art isn’t real art, along with my assertion that providing a prompt to an AI is essentially equivalent to providing a description to a human artist for a commission, should not have read as an argument for or against AI generated art being real art. Taking those statements together, the only reasonable conclusion you can make about my position is that prompt engineers aren’t artists.

I suppose I don’t understand why engineering a prompt can’t count as an artistic skill, nor why selecting from a number of generated outputs can’t (albeit to probably a much lower degree). At what point does a patron making a commission become a collaborator?

Never. It’s not an artistic skill in the same way that providing a description to an actual artist is not an artistic skill, which was the point of that paragraph. They become a collaborator the moment they make changes to the work, and the level to which they can say they’re an artist depends on what changes they make, and how well they make them.