YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise

“I’m an accountant and I use a calculator, so all artists should have to use photoshop.”

The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading

“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, [Ricky says]. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…"

“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”

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Per to the report, three games led the way for the growth of microtransaction revenue: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Roblox, and Fortnite.

The 58%, or $24.4 billion, represented a slight 1.4% year-over-year (YoY) growth in that area.

So, nothing new. Fortnite continues to make bank. Not a surprise.

I’d be interested to see what kinds of other games the people making the majority of these purchases play

If he’s not arguing to improve it, he’s arguing that it shouldn’t exist at all, which is worse.

We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them…

I don’t like Black Mirror, but I would never say that there’s no place for it. It obviously resonated with a lot of people, and it was probably an entry into the genre for a lot of new sci-fi fans. Very ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’

It definitely reads like a criticism of Black Mirror to me

Black Mirror fails to consistently explore the duality of technology and our reactions to it.

Absent is the plot twist of Pandora’s box that made it philosophically useful: the box also contained hope and opportunity that new knowledge brings.

Black Mirror didn’t fail to do those things, it wasn’t interested in them

I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.

If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!

Maybe I’m just an old man now, but it’s been years since I was interested in a game with lootboxes. I think the last one I played was Overwatch, back when it originally came out

I think the US have certainly shown that we are not a reliable ally, and for Ukraine specifically, I don’t think it would be unfair to say we’re straight up your enemy, now that our president is a Russian asset.

I have procrastinated the switch this far, I’ll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol

… Meta’s security systems were unable to identify…

I think you mean incentivized to ignore

As far as I know, that’s pretty much stuck around. I think it’s a game where you kind of need to embrace the jank

In Fantasy Axis and Allies news, Germany’s election to join the Axis this time around is not expected to have a significant scoring impact, unlike the Brexit Shakeup of 2016. Instead, while many players correctly anticipated America’s most recent fascist power play, few gambled on a parallel humanist shift from the former Axis MVP. The sentiment of those surveyed can be summarized as, “Well, yeah, it’s Germany, what did you expect?”

Now we’re going to have to go north for medicine and graphics cards

Interesting. Wild, but interesting. I consider Mormons to be Christian too, I didn’t realize it was its own thing, I thought it was just the blanket term for religions that worship Jesus.

But Europe has the literal Vatican! That’s where the religion comes from!

Fuck, I don’t want to be a keyboard pervert, but these are some good points

The title makes it sound like the judge put Data and the AI on the same side of the comparison. The judge was specifically saying that, unlike in the fictional Federation setting, where Data was proven to be alive, this AI is much more like the metaphorical toaster that characters like Data and Robert Picardo’s Doctor on Voyager get compared to. It is not alive, it does not create, it is just a tool that follows instructions.

The existence of intelligence, not the quality

I’d settle for reasonable ports