Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

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I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Game Awards: We're inviting less press and opening up seats to the public so that we (probably) can have a more engaged, excited audience for the camera and make more money What the Game Awards thinks the public can afford:

Anyone who disrespects QA should get out of the industry, tbh. QA is so much more than finding bugs or typos, it's your first exposure to consumer feedback. It's a crucial part of developing the user experience. Without human QA, you don't deserve human players.

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

I truly can't stress this enough: No one's art is good enough to justify them being miserable to work with. Almost everyone I've worked with has been wonderful, but the handful of folks that weren't brought the whole team down by being egotistical, sexist, condescending, etc.

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead. If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Very important factor to this

Shout out to the Fortnite leaks server for not being evil about this like I suspect many other leakers and people who believe the game can do no wrong will be

Remember to be considerate tonight while trick-or-treating!

Day 31 - SPORTS #beastoberball #beastieball

Day 30 - Alien #beastoberball #beastieball

The gun pointed at the protesters is at a ridiculous range - rubber bullets are bullets. The gas is to be used for crowd control… not to point and spray at seated people attempting to recover from being attacked. These people, ICE, are criminals. No honor, no integrity.

So it’s flown under the radar but Utah just went forward with forced labor interment camps for the homeless at the direction of the Trump administration. We are seeing the construction of the infrastructure for industrialized death and forced enslavement for those seen as a drag on society.

the thing that actually annoys me about this is that in final fantasy vii it shouldn’t be yellow paint it should be a giant floating hand pointing at you and green arrows over where to go

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

I wish I was allowed to be 1/100 as bad at my job as these people are that are in charge of massive teams and ppl’s livelihoods. Omg.

Day 29 - Crash #beastoberball #beastieball

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Fifteen prominent games industry figures react to the rebranding of GDC as a Festival of Gaming. "Not wholly embracing online attendance with all sessions streamed is a mistake," says Richard Browne. "A lot of people simply don't want to travel to America." www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-festival...

Day 28 - Bat #beastoberball #beastieball

Thinking about how fucking awful some of the folks who worked on this game in 2001, divorced entirely from the present day, must feel about seeing their work used as imagery for fascist propaganda.

Not commenting is commenting. aftermath.site/microsoft-halo...

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

I painted ur dog

day 27 - game #beastoberball #beastieball

Day 26 - Counter #beastoberball #beastieball

I think about this a lot.

remember that time when I wrote an article explaining how and why alt right types like to infiltrate wholesome communities and how to be resilient against that behavior? docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...

Day 25 - Detective #beastoberball #beastieball

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

Day 24 - Serve #beastoberball #beastieball

I think it shows that GDC just isn't competitive anymore with far more accessible, affordable, reachable events everywhere. There's no one front door anymore - and even if there was one single door, GDC'd be the fancy expensive door with the racist bouncer. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/skipping-g...

Hmm.

Introducing the gdc "Supergiant and Klei employees fuck off" pass lmao

Day 23 - Block #beastoberball #beastieball

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

Day 22 - Net #beastoberball #beastieball

literally how are we still in a place where doing this is considered acceptable by _anyone_ in this industry www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rid...

"Immersive storylines" = "films" is kind of an incredible game industry self-flagellation move lmao. What's our shorthand for good storytelling? I know! This other unrelated medium