George Orton

@georgeorton.bsky.social

Senior Designer @RareLtd creating pirate adventures for @SeaOfThieves. Ambassador for @SpecialEffect. He/Him.

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

Lovely, fascinating thread — the crucial takeaway is how incredibly chaotic the act of artistic creation is A film requires hundreds of people, each making hundreds of daily choices, and the iconic final product is often born from collaboration/compromise/improvisations AI does none of this

All The Right Movies@alltherightmovies.com · 5mo ago

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released 46 years ago today. One of Hollywood’s most popular films and most anticipated and acclaimed sequels, the making of story is as huge as you’d expect. 1/39

Imagine a world where people who made money from music and art liked music and art, people who ran government liked government, people who invented machines to help do work liked and understood the work that needed doing, and what didn’t… Just a bit of fucking skin in the game.

Once again, it feels very strange to be making videogames with all this insane stuff is going on. Selfishly, I'd like world peace, not just for everyone else, but so that I can just, you know, enjoy my day and make nice things for nice people.

a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse? SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!

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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

TONY GRAYSON 🗻@tonycomputerentertainment.com · 10mo ago

Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane? Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.

This year has been absolutely astounding for SpecialEffect, and we'd love to take this opportunity to give our most heartfelt thanks to you, our amazing supporters! Our team are taking a well deserved rest over the holiday season, and we'll be back on Jan 5th. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Impossible to listen to Shuhei without falling in love with videogames anew. What a bloke.

My Perfect Console podcast@myperfectconsole.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Our next guest is one of the most beloved figures in the video games industry. Please welcome, @yosp-jp.bsky.social . The Former President of Sony Interactive's Worldwide Studios helped oversee the development of landmark titles across generations. Don’t miss this exciting episode: bit.ly/43RMgx9

The only safe place to use LLMs is in a field where you are already skilled enough to know you would never trust AI. So you might as well not. We’ve got to start insisting on this Catch 22 being understood in all workplaces: AI only replaces workers too incompetent to notice it doesn’t work.