Speaking as someone who was responsible for hiring actors in 3 big AAA video games, VO is one of the cheapest assets in the game. Gargantuan bang for buck. I think we spent as much on a single character model as we did on all the VO for the whole game.

You can't use generative AI ethically because it's built on stolen work.

Studio heads believe "GenAi is so fucking magical and will take us back to the old days of smaller teams and shorter production times" when the obvious answer is either make a smaller game or Universal Basic Income 😀 But when the bubble pops, the artists will be the first to suffer, not him.

real sick of this “everyone’s doing it” attitude towards A.I. I have it on pretty good authority that we all at some point got asked about our friends and our positions wrt them jumping off cliffs.

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

Larian’s usage of genAI is by no means close to the worst I’ve heard of (not a defense-just saying) but if companies can learn one thing from this backlash, I hope it’s that nobody wants this and you will actually EARN goodwill (with gamers AND creatives) by outright banning genAI usage.

we interrupt this timeline for a serious biscuit break

I'm back on my bullshit

Hilariously aggravating post as a network engineer First, WoW gets DDoS'd (successfully) all the time. So do other MMOs Second, the actual SE servers aren't what's being DDoS'd. It's down stream providers, who because they are glorious USA companies, have no incentives to use DDoS mitigation

NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

priorities #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

Oh they really gave him a hat, that wasn't photoshop.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Jucika Prepares for the Ball (Sound design by hypnadot on NG)

Me, the other wizard: subclass war 🐸 Bink: subclass knowledge 🐸 This all makes sense in our party. #Daggerheart is a great game.

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

my malevola cosplay from dispatch

Commission of @chewyeclipse.bsky.social 's draenei!! #warcraft

heres another t'lyn doodle

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Geoff Keighley triumphantly took to the stage at The Game Awards this evening to announce Genshin Impact’s newest content update. paletteswap.site/dif...

some people were unhappy with how old i drew re9 leon so here

(also for the record I am not the one who made the trailer for Control Resonant, though I did make the shorter, cutdown versions you may see elsewhere)

Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.

same and I love this tumblr post about DA2

Have a good night’s sleep Mozzarella <3

Commission for TWluna 💙 #warcraftoc #commissionart

Overwatch 2 added a "6–7" emote for Soldier: 76 today, and honestly it kind of makes sense. If Overwatch is set in 2078, Soldier: 76 would probably be in middle school right now.

Zoissette Commission for @biot08.bsky.social 🖤 #art #nsfw #nsfwart #ffxiv #shibari

OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!

Interlude: Stories of Azeroth at Home is out NOW! Read it at interludecomicanthology.carrd.co! Our biggest issue yet, featuring 43 comics from 50+ contributors telling stories of what "home" means to the denizens of Azeroth, whether that's a person, a place or a feeling. #warcraft #interludehome

And with this final part of Robert, Mandy and Courtney, I can finally start winding down on #dispatch art. It's been real fun, but I need to take a break, and start going back to gobbos and orcs We'll still return to more Blonde Blazer and Invisigal in future! #dispatchfanart

On his tombstone

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Heart of steel #overwatch #dvattra

Drew Malevola from Dispatch

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Explaining to Rage Against The Machine fans how to hear the new song in FFXIV

Pepper says reach for the stars

Light it up, let's go! 🔥 A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV! Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Malevola and Prism in a dress 🥵🥵🥵 #dispatch

If you missed the chat experience with fellow fans on the Acquisitions Incorporated PAX Unplugged Live show a few weeks ago, come join us tomorrow @ Noon for our YouTube Premiere! youtu.be/F6LPYBLnyvk #acquisitionsincorporated #acqinc #daggerheart #chat #ttrpg

Enjoy your homes today folks (I cannot believe this day is finally here, as someone who's been playing since uhhhh the original beta, IT'S ABOUT TIME)