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M10S following the second floor tradition of the listed prog point actually being one point ahead of where you're going to be progging. IA2 is to Deep Aerial is to Snaking as Bridges was to Adds was to Desert. I just want my clear man.

Very much so.

It's not only antithetical to the creative process itself, but it's contradictory to E33's own message about humanity and art.

A screenshot of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, showing one of the main characters standing next to a pole covered in posters and newspaper clippings. The posters and newspaper clipping texture is clearly generated using an AI Image Generator instead of being made by an artist.

People found gAI poster textures.

Sandfall quietly replaced them in a patch shortly afterwards without acknowledging the issue.

If this is what slipped by then we can assume that there was a volume of assets made with gAI during development. Game's built on a foundation of garbage and slop.

This is pretty much why I'm so disappointed by seeing Expedition 33 get so many nominations.

One placeholder that slipped by means there were many. The game was built with gAI at its foundations, and it doesn't matter how good the final product was, it's compromised at its core.

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They love to treat politics like a spectator sport. It's entertainment, something to watch, your team wins some and loses some.

I'm not saying she should have spent her time talking about how gAI is bad, and you know that's not what I said.

It's that "stop exploiting creative labor" rings hollow from a person who is themselves actively exploiting creative labor.

I'd take her a little more seriously if she didn't use gAI and try to publicize its use positively with Misha.

You don't really get to soap-box about an industry being absolute dogshit to its creative talent then do the exact same thing to artists by using the Plagiarism Machine for funzies.

Even if there was anyone who wasn't purged who was capable of mounting an enforcement action without being obstructed, Musk would just be immediately pardoned by Trump and back to snooting around.

"We won't stand for this" is bold words for a party of people who then immediately sit down.

He really should finish the job that the tree started tbh.

Right, it's always the people who do the work who bear the brunt of the failure, not the people who made the decisions that caused the failure. Those people will continue on with no repercussions and repeat those failures with the next set of developers. It's the story of our industry.

Two things can be true:
1) The real economics of what was needed from the game did not get met, and
2) The real economics of what was needed from the game are a result of terrible leadership, dismantling Bioware doesn't solve that problem or hold account, and EA should be critiqued for it

The budget wouldn't have ballooned if leadership didn't flip-flop on project goals.

Expecting the game to recoup the frivolous waste of leadership throwing away years of work is unrealistic. $80-120 for what actually made it to ship should be seen as a success.

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Really sad to see only one person masking in a community-oriented space.

Everyone should be masking still, especially if you're trying to practice community care.

You voted for Trump lmao

Cope and seethe, Tankie

Stein is laughing all the way to the bank with her blood money

Good thing I'm not a liberal, then.

"Nooooo you don't understand, Jill Stein profiteering on Israeli arms sales is totally different and based! Her cozying up to hate groups and fascist autocrats is just competent politics! You're the liberal!"

Okay tankie lmfao

I don't think tankies have any moral ground to accuse people of fascism or anti-environmentalism when they suck fascist petrostate toes.

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Incorrect, I did not vote Green.

The Green Party is not a leftist org. The purpose of a system is what the system does, and they aren't pushing any leftist ideas. They refuse to build a power base and just spoiler presidentials every four years.

Jill Stein has millions in MIC stocks, and pals around with autocrats.

Caveat being that Libertarians actually want to collaborate on power, while the Green Party's only goal at the national level is to spoiler. Collaborating with the Democrats is the exact opposite of the Green Party's goals, and they don't care about actually having political power.

And by declaring them terrorist organizations, the admin gets sweeping powers to suspend due process for people they accuse of being cartel-affiliated.

Who are they going to give the Guantanamo treatment to? Probably someone other than the actual white Americans who do most of the smuggling I bet.

"AI will have an Icarus moment" is amusing to me because I've already seen devs who started with gAI assets, realized how it wasn't workable, and proceeded to stop using gAI.

I suppose that failure just needs to be repeated at a scale large enough to cause real harm to be considered a real event.

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It's too bad that their lifestyles and livelihoods necessitate Not Actually Getting It, and making sure that their audience also continues Not Actually Getting It.