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Alrighty, as some of you know, it's highly likely that I have ADHD. And this year I decided to try and get diagnosed (again)! So I'm gonna document my journey in this thread. 1/?
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We’re reaching the point in which using AI for user-facing content in games becomes a liability, and I love it. Let the backlash and regulation continue.
Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized ai generated models doesn't mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized ai generated models
As a reminder we have had an AI spam clause in our quality guidelines for over two years: itch.io/docs/creators/qualit…
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BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters.
"Everything is destroyed," a sales manager in Sweden said, adding that "there has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees."
More than 40 supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected. "I only have two words for them: wake up, please, because there's something going on," a store manager in Belgium said.
This follows a similar cyberattack last month that hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, raising freezers as high as 80°C and causing major food losses.
It also comes after freezers at 6 US military bases mysteriously malfunctioned, spoiling large quantities of food, which the Pentagon is investigating as a suspected cyberattack.
Chera Fox retweeted
FromSoftware turns 40 today.
Four decades after its founding, the studio behind Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring is about to see one of its worlds on the big screen for the first time. A24’s Elden Ring adaptation is shaping up to be the most ambitious film in the studio’s history, while Netflix’s animated Dark Souls series is still in the works.
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I asked some Mass Effect Universe devs about this and this isn't even true. There were same sex romances of course, but no flags in the game which isn't even said in the article itself. Totally misleading headline.
BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says polygon.com/mass-effect-univ…
ALT BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Polygon headline claims BioWare "was asked to remove LGBTQ flag," but BFM journalist clarifies devs proactively removed a flag resembling (not the actual) Pride flag from a demo to anticipate feedback, not to hide elements.
kotaku.com/mass-effect-5-…
bfmtv.com/tech/gaming/un…
polygon.com/mass-effect-un…
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Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout gamesradar.com/games/mass-ef…
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"BioWare was repeatedly forced to abandon its strengths (narrative choice, consequences, companions) to chase unprofitable live-service and multiplayer trends, wasting significant resources."
That one especially pisses me off
EA employees are speaking out about mismanagement, GenAI push and BioWare’s closure🚀
✅Employees report that the "do less, better" mantra has simply resulted in handling the same workload with fewer staff.
✅Upper management is heavily promoting generative AI (specifically Claude), telling staff that adoption is mandatory for the future.
✅Workers believe the technology is being pushed to test how drastically EA can cut headcount while maintaining output.
BioWare’s Decline & Closure
✅BioWare was repeatedly forced to abandon its strengths (narrative choice, consequences, companions) to chase unprofitable live-service and multiplayer trends, wasting significant resources.
✅Studio leadership grew overly reliant on user experience research (UXR) and fear-driven decision-making, stifling creative risk-taking before the studio's closure.
Source: Vertical Slice
Disappointed, but definitely not surprised. So much of what’s said reflects very much how many of us felt, as it was quite obvious for the last 10-15 years.
Risk-averse development, “do less” mentality, cost-cutting..etc.
I feel really bad for the studios and talents that had to be suffocated under EA’s mentality. It’s obvious what kind of people they were ever since they tried to gaslight gamers into thinking single player gaming to be dead.
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BIOWARE DIDN’T BOTCH DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD.
EA BOTCHED DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD.
If you can see and acknowledge that EA shut down ME5, you cannot fucking say BioWare ruined DA when we’ve had multiple BioWare devs repeatedly tell us EA severely hindered DAV.
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Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch
'According to an ex-Sucker Punch employee, 26 people have been let go.'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-…
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WITH EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT I FALL FURTHER INTO DESPAIR
SHITGODFUCKINGDAMMIT
#SaveMassEffect
Romain Toutain revealed more about Mass Effect 5/Universe (this one really stings):
✨"The Shepard" was customizable and could do same moves in real combat as trailer
✨Everything in game was "stateful"
✨All choices from 1-3 taken into account
✨Called Universe so you could plug your saves together to create parallel universes (simplified explanation) but you could almost generate timelines similar to Zero Time
✨You could make decisions that might contradict things you've already done and so it would create plot "points" in the timeline
✨Missions didn't fail because you killed someone, paths would remain open (it worked well)
✨Absolute autonomy was the cornerstone of the game
✨No two players would experience the same thing, would have "experienced the same story but differently"
✨"EA never sells anything. they just shut things down and sit on their licenses"
✨Barman was a new race
✨Lore was incredible around new mass relays
✨"Billy" the hand thing might have generated tentacles
✨Was an idea for sharing your saves
✨He says it was fucking amazing
it was an absolute banger and we would have loved it. The people at BioWare were brilliant
FUCK
Source - bsky.app/profile/loustica-lu…
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From the Behind The Scenes of the "K/DA Firestarter" music video, directed by Marietta Ren at Fortiche.
>> youtube.com/watch?v=0VVpF3Ct…
