Game owns, get it while the gettin’s good!

MinnMax@minnmax.com · 19h ago

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I genuinely think those who love video games for what they are and are searching for *somewhere* to call a spade, a spade in this weird era of AI slop, should start looking to @aftermath.site. I'll put it as succinctly as this: giving a shit is a superpower, and they do.

Get out and vote BC, do not hand your Province to the Conservatives #BritishColumbia Advance voting for B.C. provincial election down 11% compared to 2024: officials Snap election was called last month, with campaign period overlapping with municipal vote last Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d ago

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

"oh someone else will buy bioware or fund new studios or get the IP" WITH WHOSE MONEY

I’m 10,000% on board the train of “you’ve got to hire sickos and then let them go sicko-mode in their area with minimal interference and maximal encouragement to further sickoness.”

Alice Bell@abeewords.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Biddy Blas situation is proof that if you hire a human voice actor and allow them to make absolute insane decisions, the ROI is far greater than any amount of money you could save by using genAI

Was just typing "this fucking industry" to a friend and instead typed "this fucking injury." and you know what,

BioWare closing rings the same hollow bell in my soul as WB and Paramount becoming “Skydance.” Across movies, TV, publishing, games, we’re watching decades of legacy and history being hijacked and fed to the furnace of an abyssal engine with no desire beyond the abstract concept of “More.”

also like. bioware is 31 years old and 31 years of documentation, work, writing, code, stories, information-- it all goes in a big, locked box and EA throws it in the trash and it's illegal for anyone else to ever look at or even mention it again :)

it’s kind of insane how Bots and bot spam were considered a major problem on the internet for decades until silicon valley found a way to build a business model around it and rebranded them as “Agents”

YOU CANNOT INPUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION INTO CHATGPT. YOU CANNOT INPUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION INTO CHATGPT. YOU CANNOT INPUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION INTO CHATGPT.YOU CANNOT INPUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION INTO CHATGPT.

I "love" people who think LLMs in their field is an outrageous field but are totally fine when it comes to someone else's work. "Look, my work is real, important and valid. Theirs is fake and stupid so I can just vibeslop it"

being a UX designer in big tech must be crazy these days. your whole job is making people accidentally click on whatever AI shit the company is pushing until all your users want to stab you

A reason I don't do any callouts or "name and shame" for games I suspect might be using AI undisclosed is there is the potential for serious reputational harm to developers if I make an accusation and get it wrong, and it's weird a z-list steamer like me has better ethics than the fucking Atlantic!

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.

for the record what i love most about 40k is that it was clearly created by a bunch of british nerds in the 80s that hated margaret thatcher. that's what makes it good.

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

Epic's lawyers seeing them publicly announce most of their new launcher tech is non-copyrightable and non-patentable

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

Folks have written about this in more important contexts but a consequence of this sort of thing really is an erosion of trust. You look at a thing and immediately have to *doubt* y'know? And that's not fun! That's not any kind of way to live! 😵‍💫

reported on something that was really difficult for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons in a lot of different ways.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

People need it constantly drilled into their heads that their mental conception of media figures are at best incomplete representations of the people behind those figures. You can't help but gain a sense of familiarity but it's illusory, it's familiarity with a persona not a person.

Know your worth

My favorite piece that Kotaku ever ran was just Shawn McGrath expounding at length about how beautiful Doom 3's source code is.

EvilToaster@eviltoaster.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've seen a lot of programmers really disrespect themselves thinking that genAI is "fine" when it comes to coding or w/e because it's not "art" Programming is an art. It requires creativity. And you're literally programming graphics, it's visual art. It's just art. It counts. AI coding is AI "art"

Men, I promise you, you don't need to, in any way, try and defend someone who literally admitted to sexual assault. Just don't do it. Don't even think about it.

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Ticky🏳️‍🌈@drac.at · 3w ago

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links.

i believe in rehabilitation and redemption and change but i also believe in the victims in my life and have to put them first. that's really all it is.

hope everyone vanquished their enemies this weekend

you're being sold the most stupid attempt to evade corporate responsibility we have ever seen