Highland Arrow

Highland Arrow

@highlandarrow.bsky.social

Your source for independent Canadian games journalism since 2013. www.highlandarrow.com. Tweets by Maiyannah.

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Rest in Peace Walter Koenig. Thank you for navigating us through the final frontier, for your years of activism, writing, and memorable characters like the joyous Chekov and the sinister Bester. We're forever grateful that you lent your talents to our game. We'll see you again, in the stars.

This is maybe in hot takes territory, but I don't think we need to carve out special rights for transpeople, because trans rights are human rights. There's this like notion in the right wing space that transpeople are asking for special dispensation, but the really arent.

They're just people, trying to live their lives, as the gender they want to be. That isn't a crime. They should be able to live their lives without fear, harassment, or the intentional cruelty these people try to inflict them on.

They can and will be doing this with F-35s next. Mark my words. bsky.app/profile/tend...

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

Essentially, AI badges are badges delineating plagairists and people actively exploiting the world. "Generative AIs" defenders know it too, its why they resent it. You'd probably get similar pushback if you labelled all the studios that forced crunch, though. bsky.app/profile/kim-...

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

yeh tbh if AI is so great you should be proud of it, you should disclose it everywhere and put a bunch of stickers yourself that you used it for your project showing everyone how cool and cutting edge you are, no? like, it's the future right? you love it right??

Unless the Finnish government actually punishes them for this - and I mean punishments like jail time, not "we fined them a femtosecond of their profits) - expect repeats. bsky.app/profile/hugh...

Hugh Barnard@hughbarnard.bsky.social

After Google *illegally* hacked down the forest. Please stop or minimise Google. Protonmail etc. have free tiers and there are other search engines now. futurism.com/future-socie...

Saying this again for the cheap seats: This isn't AI hacking into accounts. This is people with terminal brainrot giving AI access to their bank accounts because they are seemingly incapable of individual action. bsky.app/profile/newr...

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

4 followers, 22 following, and 100x more engagement than this account got when I was Verified and had 250k ish followers on Twitter. More a statement of how f*ked twitter was/is than anything else though.

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So much of AI culture seems to revolve around telling people who actually care about what they do and take pride in doing it well to go fuck themselves.

ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻@vor-bokor.bsky.social

The big point of any art career is not no hate your job, but AI people so obviously do. They simply despise an honest day’s work

I've decided that on principle I am dismissing things from my feed people don't want me commenting on their stuff. Its their right, but it frustrates me. I don't want to see stuff from people who don't want me to interact with them.

For debate to occur, both people must be available to be persuaded. Most "online" ""debates"" are people screaming their talking points at each other. More often than not, neither party cares to listen to the other, consider their view, or otherwise express empathy. bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started

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people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

Bioware is a mixed feeling for me. It was a great studio that made some of my favourite games, including a game I'm working on a mod for all these years later. But at the same time, in an era where we're seeing more and more "enshittification" and decline arcs, its probably good to go out on top.

And yea, I do mean on top. Veilguard was not the heights of DA1 or ME2 to me, but it was still a much better game than most, and I will die on that hill. The internet hate machine decided that it was going to dab on one character and thats all that was.

Should (finally) have a new review up Soon TM. This year has been very rough for illness and some other problems in life, but it sees to be settling down enough to sort some of this stuff.

Hello world! I don't know how active we'll be here, but got sick of Twitter (and then they banned us when I posted about our site being down, saying we were bots...) so here we are!

What's Highland Arrow? It's a games review site primarialy but not exclusively written and run by Maiyannah Bishop. We also run a chat server and several community game servers.

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