You do know that the Luddites were objectively correct, right?

They weren’t anti technology. They feared the harms of technology being used to replace peoples labour, and concentrate wealth into fewer and fewer hands. (https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/)

Username checks out.

They cater to a niche market and their games are profitable for them due to good managing. They’re stunting on others because their happiness isn’t based on appeasing shareholders by fucking everyone over.

stunting is older than drip my guy. 

This “photography didn’t kill painting and AI art won’t kill artists” take is not a great argument. For one, photography offered something that painting was never able to: accurate and efficient visual documentation of events as they were occurring. Second, photography may not have killed painting, but it absolutely…

“ballerina-esque body types”?

I think it’s important to note that the single player-money maker games you mentioned all had a built in fanbase through one way or another.

Elden Ring and Cyberpunk were make by top developers in the industry and were hyped for years (in particular Cyberpunk), God of War: Ragnarok and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order…

I’m personally fine with that? I dunno. If someone’s a phenomenal artist I rarely go ‘well okay that’s great and all, but can you dunk?’

people who brag about working overtime are consistently the most miserable tedious individuals alive, they are never “enjoying” the fruits of their labor and they are battered and bruised but still they defend the system that got them there and want other people to suffer too, ad infinitum. truly grim

I would take you less time to Google why Rowling is transphobic than it took you to type out this comment, much less expect someone to reply to it.

Separate the art from the artist

You cant separate the art from the artist when the ‘art’ is what keeps her relevant and influential enough to promote transphobia on a massive scale.

sincere question: if you are against JK but don’t want to support her, why not just pirate it? 

She is %100 a virulent transphobe. Also the whole “separating the art from the artist” debate is entirely up to the person consuming that media. You can hate Roman Polanski because he’s a predator and still think Chinatown is a good movie. You can also say you don’t care how revered and good the movie is, you will…

You THINK you care about trans rights but the first time that it causes the slightest discomfort for you you get huffy and petulant about it.

Your “allyship” is rooted in convenience and your self-image as a good person, but lacks any substance.

Oh she’s definitely a transphobe.

I love the first fail. Guy thought he was gonna out-play the AI, but the AI was having none of it. It not only kept him as a dude, but also burdened him with the responsibilities of fatherhood.

If I wasn’t busy with my real, actual work, I would dip back into that first article announcing George was going over there just to re-read all the dick-riding comments about how this galaxy-brain genius was going to move mountains, just to taste how poorly they aged.

You’re looking at the whole company vs whole company. Not division of company vs other division of company.

The third-largest company in the world (by market capitalisation in 2022) complains that a company which doesn’t even rank among the top 100 anymore doesn’t let them do what they accuse their competitor of.