I guess I always thought this was an exaggeration.

Here’s my regular reminder that you people have a problem with capitalism, not a problem with technology. All this pearl clutching over displaced artists completely misses the point that in a just world, the artists could continue to make their art without the threat of poverty and new technology like this wouldn’t…

I dream of an alternate reality where Ubisoft released a direct sequel to BG&E in 2006 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It was a single-player game featuring Jade and Pey’j as playable characters and had a combination of unique, linear levels and open hubs and lasted about 20 hours if you went for 100% completion. In…

The problem is there isn’t really such a thing as “true imagination”. Every creative work is ultimately just remixing the creators own experiences, knowledge, and influences. AI can’t go beyond it’s dataset for the same reason we can’t, doing so just produces nonsense and noise. We need to have a conversation about…

This really feels like one of those “things are going to get much worse before they get better” situations and God knows that’s probably the best way to describe this decade so far. I think about all the people who have poured their heart and soul into creating only to get rejected for one reason or another, but keep…

So you just go and murder a whole camp one night and show up to herbology the next morning and everyone’s just okay? Fine not to have a morality system as they are rarely implemented interestingly enough to warrant their inclusion, but this will easily surpass GTA IV levels of ludonarrative dissonance. 

Respectfully, it would take less than 10 minutes to do some research about the state of the game or the ongoing concerns players have, including but not limited to:
- Advertised content (number of weapons, for example) is missing from the game

We really just can’t have nice things, can we.

This is always going to be a super problematic argument because what critics of AI art don’t want to admit is that human artists train themselves on vast amounts of copyrighted work with “no consent, no credit, and no compensation”. There are thousands of artists who have learned to ape other artists styles, and based…

I had a lot more of a problem with the brothers fight than nipulon, once I figured out which color was the real one he was toast. I dont think I died once.

Being as there is already more pornography on the internet than any human could ever consume in a lifetime, I can only assume the point of training computers to make more on demand is to produce material so depraved and evil no person will, or can, produce it on commission.

Fully transparent communism is a winning strategy. the problem is that all of our real world communism examples are not transparent. This tends to breed corruption. We are not super transparent in the US either but since we have 4 year elections with proper safeguards to insure each state gets a fair shake it means…

A take I heard a long time ago in a forum discussion about Transformers Gender was that it probably wasn’t a thing when they lived on Cybertron, but that when they came to earth & learned our language & changed their bodies so they could change into earth vehicles they were also learning our culture & figuring out how…

I swear, I’m just going to start treating AAA multiplayer games as launching in alpha and needing 1-2 years of work before they’re actually ready to launch. That sure seems to be the bloody trend lately.

I hate “crafting” in video games so fucking much. It’s painfully arbitrary and tedious.

I think what it comes down to is that most people have realized that what actually stands in the way of any kind of reform is an overly-complicated, corrupt, self-perpetuating bureaucracy, and it’s going to take a cataclysmic level event to tear down that edifice. The apocalypse is seen as necessary because there’s no…

The problem with art and the free exchange of ideas is that it’s all fun and games (or, rather, communal suffering) until big money gets involved, and the people tend to scramble towards their own best interests, and when things weren’t clearly defined in the first place with legal documents, this is a messy,…

Is there something about running a company that turns people into complete monsters or are complete monsters just naturally drawn to run companies?

Read about this over the weekend. It all seems tragically ironic but also, exactly the sort of thing Disco Elysium talked about, Capital absorbing it’s critiques. The bottling and selling of rebellion against itself. The anarchic-communist revolution sponsored by Pepsi.

Wrecking Ball is my biggest question mark. The single tank thing doesn’t fit his playstyle at all. Unless they make him an absolute cannon that the enemy team has to deal with immediately, it’s going to leave DPS and healers hanging. Wrecking Ball is kind of built to go into business for himself and he’s basically the…