There is no such thing as a “new” idea. Everything is derived from something else. There are no directors who have never watched films. No writers who have never read books. No artists who have never viewed the art of others. Everything we create is inspired and informed by previous creations. AI just automates that…

No this is spoken by someone who has clearly never learned a skill or craft. I’ve learned several. I paint, I’ve done woodworking, I play card games competitively. So I’m well fucking aware of how nothing I do is wholly original. The majority of what I’ve learned over the years I’ve learned by copying others. I see a…

“If a human made an exact copy of another human’s drawing”

“No horse should take my job as a field plower, no car should take my job as goods transporter. No robot should take my job on the assembly line.”

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…

Yeah, but it’s also $15K for four days of work. Assuming the game takes around four years to produce, that’s almost 1500 days of work. That’s something in the neighborhood of $40,000 per day. On a team of hundreds, that comes out to less than $400 a day per person. So someone getting paid ten times that is quite…

Schreier’s exposés while he was here are probably responsible for more instances of Kotaku being cited as a source by other games news outlets than every other Kotaku post combined.

Yeha, Kotaku is trying to create a narrative against Hale, even though Taylor was very much in the wrong here.   15K for a week of work seems like a sweet deal to me. Esp when you look at the salaries of the people working on the actual game itself.  

It’s actually kinda funny how Hellena Taylor got milkshake duck’d in a matter of days for being TERF-y

It also sucks that this might stall talks of how badly paid VAs can be in the business — simply because the person that highlighted the issue turned out to be unsavory.

Actually, same thing happened with the…

Yeah, but Schrier is persona non grata here after telling G/O to eat a bag of dicks.

Luke, you’ve gotta be kidding me. Jason’s reporting deserves more than a tiny blurb at the bottom of this article, and you shouldn’t even be quoting Taylor at this point. You of all people know the significance of Jason’s article on this story and what it means for Taylor’s original statements. Please stop amplifying…

If I tried to burn the wrong fucking house down I'd be pretty quiet about it too. Well maybe not going that far but fanned the flames for sure.

Especially that article only listed as “Update” on the boycott article.

Not putting the recent information uncovered by Bloomberg (which was referenced on Kotaku in an updated previous article) where it was proven that she was offered 4k PER session for 4+ sessions is pretty disingenuous.

But if she KNEW about all of this before being hired, and still took the job anyway? Then she’s a scab, and rough treatment comes with the territory.

Guilty of what?

It’s funny, but I’m also pretty sure they mean they agree with her stuff about “please buy the game anyway” and “don’t harass people online” in particular 

Good. I don’t care how you feel about the whole situation, attacking Jennifer Hale for just doing her job (a job that she got after negotiations with Taylor fell through) is a pretty crappy thing to do.

On the other hand you have Apex Legends where 20? of the top 25 players play on controller because aim-assist is too good. People on PC are playing on controller because aim-assist is too good!

I’ve played OW2 on Switch and PC and I'm no pro, and honestly now that I’ve seen aim assist in action I’m ok with them disabling it on PC because I don’t know the best way to balance it. Mouse and Keyboard is still preferred to me because I’ve never liked console shooting, but the problem is the aim assist seems very…