Wait what? They even said they fixed the leveling, in the announcement video! This was the one thing everyone agreed was broken, and it barely mattered which mod you chose to fix it, because all of them were an improvement. How’d they fuck this up twice?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Oh no, different people. Acknowledging their existence would violate my rights.

Apply consequences.

Stop putting fascist spin in the damn headline.

There are no mysteries here.

More importantly: don’t make games that rely on runaway success.

If your game is fun even if only a dozen people buy it, great! If it requires ten thousand global players right out the gate, and will cease to function once that number drops, you are fucked, by design.

why tf are they doing this?

Because their reputation can’t any worse and they won’t be removed.

… do people still think conservatives believe in something, besides what they’re all doing?

At least it’s just us.

… oh.

It’s not ideal, but we’re pretty fucking far from ideal.

And NOTHING HAS CHANGED in twenty years - yeah? Not a fucking thing that should shift how they release games. Consoles are still sooo different from PCs, with their AMD x64 CPUs and AMD RDNA GPUs.

Sure, we’ll take it.

And it’d sound like they’re literally phoning it in. At that point, no, the artists and writers would just do it themselves. Like old times.

What this tech makes possible is hiring Nolan North to do everyone. Men, women, children, cats, dogs, stuffed toy dinosaurs, everyone. It’s mocap for your vocal cords. You don’t have to look like David Hayter to move like Snake, and you don’t have to sound like Michael Shapiro to talk like the G-Man. What people will hear and see is the performance.

Using AI to recreate a real person’s voice is the dumbest possible use. It’s like drawing a cartoon that can only resemble a real living actor. Just… make something up. How does this character sound, in your head? Generate that, and then use style transfer, so anyone can do that voice.

Because the text-to-speech version is only the voice… not the character. You still want real human actors performing the character. The AI part is just a costume for their throat.

Moist.

In the UK it’s mandatory, ostensibly to prevent deliberate overdoses. You can’t buy a big bottle of acetaminophen.

In part because they call it paracetamol.

Solipsists unite!

Fuck off trying to describe anything as ‘a metaverse.’ That’s like trying to own ‘an internet.’

If there’s more than one, there are zero.

Ensuring no legal recourse for your crimes will never ensure there’s no recourse.

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