Fuck them kids. Children aren’t why these bastards are offering financing for this industry-swallowing abuse.

AI tends to be distinct, because things move so fast that we’re exposing programmers’ stupid internal names.

What an obviously terrible name.

Bu-si-ness mo-del.

Not: genre. Not: content. Not: players. We are talking about corporations committing systemic abuse for profit.

Abuse that’s gouging so hard, you might need FINANCING… to play a VIDEO GAME. How big a hint do you need that something has gone wrong?

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey’s paw for a language that works on the first try. What’s onscreen are your raw brain patterns.

Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn’t pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.

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Hmm.

“Frrrom…?”

“No.”

But they can’t just patch out always-online DRM! Think of all the no more money they’d lose!

Not looking forward to MLs pretending the Taliban did nothing wrong.

It’s easy to mock the Xbox brand like it lost a fair fight and is on its last legs.

But this is Sony acknowledging that consoles don’t matter anymore. The war is over. Who won is irrelevant. There’s just color-coded interchangeable platforms now, like releasing on both Steam and EGS. This was always the purpose of the Xbox project, from back before DirectX had a proper name… though admittedly Microsoft assumed they’d still control the PC gaming market.

Whoops.

Buster: “It’s not the pronunciation that I’m worried about.”

… right, and the reason nobody’s done that, despite the aggressive availability of local models, is that even a few static assets lead to shrill backlash. Like this article. My man is frothing at the mouth because a complex systemic city-builder used a program to draw the “you can’t cut back on funding!” guy.

We can assume the same people would screech that any game with generative dialog was “written by AI.” Like a text parser being able to respond to insults means the whole plot came from a ten-word prompt. It’s not a rational environment for selling studios on a multi-million-dollar investment.

Oda’s really reaching for new characters.

… oh.

“Lose.”

Huh, it’s almost like this new tool is fine for placeholder art, and placeholders can be good enough to ship.

Did you know The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” was supposed to have a brass section? That driving riff with the fuzzbox guitar was a placeholder. They released it as-is, the song hit #1, and distortion became mainstream. At what point do we stop lamenting all the horn players who were robbed?

Hard to convince a studio to embrace it if this article is the kneejerk response to some PNGs.

Which leads the loudest complainers to act vindicated, because what could it possibly be good for, except the few PNGs they notice?

Or maybe they could put the holographic lightfield display… on the inside.

“Hey guys, glad to be here. Step one: don’t do any of this.”

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