the main issue with editing Calvin & Hobbes comic strips as a meme template is that you are probably not as funny as Bill Watterson

@antlionaudio.com Tagging y'all again b/c a video from nutty has reinvigorated my desire for low-latency wireless transmitter+receivers that work with headsets and iems/headphones.

I would fucking LOVE to make my kimura wireless including the high quality mic, or use DT770s wireless w/ a modmic.

I'm hyperbolizing and obfuscating a bit b/c nda blah blah

But at previous roles and especially as tech-anim and qa, I noticed people forget to look at the project holistically. Not to mention finding old documentation and assets and source files is not typically game studios' strong suit.

I feel like those are just waiting for simplified "good enough" optimizations.

The hair tech in Indiana Jones didn't make the game play better, and looked visibly worse than standard card methods at anything below Ultra settings.

What's the point of adding filesize/vram bulk at that point?

When I started at my new studio I straight up asked "so do we have a rock library that we re-use between games" and they sorta laughed at me.

Someone said the normal maps from the previous project wouldn't be good enough.

I was trying to think of why on earth any players would care.

I don't mean to dismiss your point by the way. He was elected by our votes.

I'm just frustratingly aware of our decades of voter suppression and years of bipartisan "red vs. blue" propaganda that has scared or prevented people from voting at all in many areas.

It's not what "We The People" wanted.

Something incredibly frustrating to me is "WE" didn't elect him.

Voter turnout here was only 64% (compared to the almost 90% in 1933 Deutschland) and he won by only 2% of the popular vote.

So at best 30% thought he was worth voting for, many probably just didn't want a woman of color president.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

Let's do this.

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Genuinely so excited for the @deckninegames.com team on Square announcing Reunion

Being QA on the remasters made me a micro-expert on LiS1 so I got pulled a lot to help the narrative team as they were starting dev on Reuinuon and I'm looking forward to seeing where they take the story!

It'd be like if we never made gasoline UN-leaded. There are a ton of choices about how to engage with technological advances, but suggesting there is no agency there or that change isn't possible is kinda absurd.

forgive me i'm gonna get moderately annoying about basic (not even advanced bc i'm not that guy) performance-aware programming again, because our current state of affairs has only been enabled by crazy power-per-dollar hardware improvements that are being HAMMERED rn

I know I gotta be careful with my words, but it's safe to say @larianstudios.com use of genAI doesn't bode well for public perception of the game.

this shit sucks so bad, I got into this industry to be creative and see experts at their craft, not facsimile slop and board room art direction.

what a... terrible analogy lmao

I'm happy to concede the point about art vs artisan. That's fine.

liberal propaganda? that genAI is theft and used to manipulate public opinion while attempting to remove people from expressive roles or valuing labor?

at this point I don't know what you're trying to explain with all the pedantry.

No? lol

Artists still made the fonts, made the press machines, wrote the text, etc. You don't need a monk rewriting the book to still have artistry.

My entire point is just that genAI was optional and a poor choice given the bigger picture.

Using genAI is what the fascists want. It's algorithms they can control and remove artist and community. It's also absolutely optional.

Not saying it has no message, but it's weaker as a result of not just asking an artist or using stock images with a poster filter.

The point is using AI removes the humanity of the protest, and uses the tools of the oppressor, lest we be reminded who is funding and lobbying for the current US fascism.

It's so fucking easy to ask an artist or to draw stick figures, and it would give community and humanity.

AI is created through theft, trained through exploited people's labor, and biased toward the desires of billionaires who have been stealing and overdeveloping land

That all sounds fairly relevant.

Old church guy on FB turned a discussion about AI ethics on his own post into an opportunity to generate a diss track of me from the comments I and another guy were making

I'm stunlocked honestly

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

"just get a better job, forehead" was literally not the point of what OP was saying.

CEOs should be paid less and be willing to take pay cuts rather than lay off staff, which hurts company culture and creates knowledge vacuums that further deteriorate future projects.

That's nice, most people in the US don't get severance when they are fired, when I was laid off my last job I got... Two months?

Tell me, who has greater risk, the guy who made millions and left with millions, or the average employee under him trying to make rent?

The guy who got a 2 million dollar severance package? Who is still a board member for another company?

Anecdotes are everywhere, fella, and even then you picked one that quite literally proves the point he was making about golden parachutes.

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This EA deal is bad news.

I'm fortunate that I don't hate my job, but everything else about being forced to move to this city has been miserable.

I feel like eventually it will either turn into something really good for me, and I'll feel like I learned something... or everything will crumble around me...

I think 2015 was the second time I met you... And the last time I went lol

The Phil Spencer email actually makes me sick to my stomach

Might just be me, but feels like directors (art especially) are the most enthusiastic about genAI.

I'd imagine when your job is about approving other people's art and focusing on deadlines and checklists... you forget the joy of creating something yourself. It's really rather sad.