Tymon

Setting everything else aside for a second: AI proponents keep saying the models are getting better, but if anything, in my experience and seemingly in the experiences of others, they are if anything getting worse as compute is getting more monetized. Just a weird divergence

god i love ridgewood

The major opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, claims that he isn’t pro-genocide *enough.* Almost every major party supports war crimes & opposes a Palestinian state. When almost every leader is a slightly different shade of Hitler, you don’t get to complain about blanket condemnations

Fifteen seconds ago, I ate fifteen sour patch kids. I think I might die

workers first, always

It Really Sounds Like The Mass Effect 5 Team Had Figured It All Out Before The BioWare Shutdown: 'I've Rarely Seen A Group So Good At Working Together' https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-5-bioware-art-leak-trailer-writers-developers-2000750144

"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

I just received a notice from Wells Fargo that due to the age of the debt I owe them, they have decided to cancel it instead of continuing to call me 1,000 times per day, as they have done since 2009.

One thing about #SaveMassEffect: What really sucks & cannot be undone is all the folks at BioWare who lost their jobs. Even if EA licensed the IP, that doesn't solve anything for them. 😕 Someone with a lotta cash would have to license it AND hire the team.

Lula Goes HARD

The closest I’ll ever get to being up in lights in Times Square That phrase isn’t Keelah Se’Lai It’s the Quarian phrase I created for #MassEffect Annihilation. The name of my ship Not “by the homeworld I hope to see one day” but “by the homeworld I hope to find one day” I have a lot of feelings…

"arabs have contributed nothing to the arts and sciences" is such a funny fucking thing for a bog ape wearing a little suit to say

There's simply no excuse for this. Sucker Punch has delivered two back-to-back acclaimed and high selling games. This team should be safe and celebrated. and yet this industry continues to be fucking demonic.

I think it's beautiful when art effects people so deeply they'll go to these lengths to try to save a particular project, I just wish we had any kind of organized body for creative workers across industries that could funnel this energy into actually supporting the people who created the art

digital urine

Oh, dear. I had the good fortune to meet him a few times at conventions and had lunch with him once in Australia. Such a lovely fellow and of course an iconic figure in science fiction. RIP.

There are individual cats with 3 billion views

enough.

People forget that back in the 90s, kids weren't on the computer all the time, they didn't have cell phones. Instead they watched the Beethoven dog movies

It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

don't call it claude. call it clod

Veilguard did not kill BioWare, wokeness did not kill BioWare, Private equity killed BioWare, Corporate greed killed BioWare

obviously the Bioware closure is a travesty, but what's really getting me is the amount of people my age who went into games, specifically into narrative design, after playing a Bioware game.

All companies are Lucy holding a football and artists without rich parents are Charlie Brown. All of them.

There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

Electronic Arts closing BioWare, laying off hundreds: aftermath.site/electronic-art...

I never worked on the ME franchise, but I did play the shit out of the games (and felt a bit envious about some things that team seemed to do so effortlessly). My heart goes out to those who were on the current team, cooking up something wonderful only to have it yanked away. This looks SO good. 😭

Mass Effect is so cool.

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

fucking ipad baby adult

I meant what I said. Saved. My. Life. kotaku.com/dragon-age-i...

i was sad yesterday now i'm pissed because this fucking rules. EA, choke.

dumbest shit i've seen in a deeply dumb week

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

"Stop talking about how we abused and mismanaged BioWare and get excited for this other thing we're going to abuse and mismanage instead."