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Merry Texas everyone

@RichardHanania You give Richard's a bad name. The company won't suck your dick or hire you Bro, stop licking corporate boots and get your head out of your ass

It’s hard to think of a clearer example of the irrationality of people’s political views. It’s just a building the prints money for the local community.

@HyboreanCat @AlGoreRythin @DAKKADAKKA1 Tourist Christians. If you knew the Bible, you'd know that yes Lucifer is referred to as the morning star in Isiah, but in Revelations Jesus refers to himself as the bright (true) morning star as well

@AlGoreRythin @DAKKADAKKA1 They called themselves MorningStar farms If you name your company after Satan, people are going to say such things

I remember a 4chan post where a guy found out that companies like Beyond Meat and Morning Starfarms were paying Walmart to stock their products. The inventory didn’t cost Walmart anything. So he would grab 4 or so products and leave them an aisle over. Walmart had to throw it away and it cost these poisonous companies money to restock their destroyed products. Fuck the Antichrist.

@LookAtMyMeat1 Re: the cold fusion/hoover dam bit. Oh you have advanced copies of the episodes? He actually gets it? And keeps it? The same doohicky that's out and about in the show aka not in his possession? Fucking 2 IQ tourist

>Mr House in New Vegas >reserved >calculating >composed >genuinely cared for humanity's future underneath his ego >Mr House in the Fallout show >maniac that tests mind controls chips on strangers >all his stuff is apparently powered by cold fusion, which makes the entire fight for Hoover Dam worthless >has a schizo rant towards an actor he just met And then the director of the show wonders why fans are so critical

@TxTSaint @WoahGoTime @SlanderedOne There is no definition of slop lol. You're clapping at shadows on Plato's cave wall, except the objects are stolen and the people carrying them pollute the water.

@RichardSabrsula @WoahGoTime @SlanderedOne By definition it isnt slop if its capable of cranking out something of quality. As good as top tier artists ? Absolutely not. But of half way decent work? Then it isnt slop

I believe if you need to have a tough conversation with someone that you respect, it's best to start by establishing goodwill and positive intent. So let me start by saying I love BG3, I love the Divinity series, I've been a fan of Larian for quite some time, and I have a massive amount of respect for Swen Vincke and everything he has done. Historically, Larian has always been a strong supporter of both gamers and devs in general. I don't believe that has changed and nothing stated here is meant to harm Larian or the games they will make in the future. All that being said, it's confusing that Larian appears caught off guard by the response to Bloomberg's article. Swen seems to be positioning himself as the face of "Ethical A.I." in the gaming industry and even if you set aside the issues with using A.I. at all, this provides cover for a bunch of people who are doing some truly evil shit. If you don't understand what I mean, just look at the link in Swen's post. Earlier today, Bloomberg released an article that highlighted Swen is heavily pushing Gen-AI at Larian Studios, despite "pushback" at the company. This is odd considering Swen's admission that thus far A.I. has NOT made Larian more efficient. Naturally this makes people fear that he's going to start shredding jobs but he has been adamant that's not the case and all evidence points towards Larian employees being unimpacted by this development. Despite this, there's been a tidal wave of criticism because obviously even if A.I. isn't negatively affecting Larian employees it's still destroying thousands of lives across the gaming industry, not to mention millions of lives across the globe. Swen appears to be surprised by this response and in the post below, he provides a link to a Gamespot article proving that he has talked about this before. In that article, Swen talks positively about how A.I. can be used to handle tasks other devs don't want to do. Then, in a section ironically titled "Red Flags", Gamespot writes "...Vincke said Larian is hiring more people, not fewer, thanks to new technologies. This is what others, like EA CEO Andrew Wilson and Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, have predicted." Gamespot links to Andrews comments from TWO YEARS AGO claiming AI will be great for gaming and presents him as some sort of Nostradamus. There's no mention that EA has laid off 1470 people in the last two years. There's no mention that Take-Two has cut 600 people in a similar time frame. There's no mention of any negative impacts from A.I. whatsoever. Instead, media outlets like Gamespot can use Swen's damn near spotless reputation to whitewash some of the worst people in gaming, in exchange for the access we all know they crave. Swen is either inadvertently or purposefully positioning himself as the Front Man to explain why what Andrew, Tim Sweeney, Yves Guillemot, and others of their ilk want to do should be okay. These are the very same people he championed against just a year ago at TGA. On a slight tangent, I'm also baffled as to why they would do an entire PCGamesN article about "embracing the physical world" and "celebrating showcases of craftsmanship" if you know a Bloomberg article touting your continued push into Gen-AI is right around the corner. Again, I'm not pretending that I'll stop supporting Larian or their products. I'm not trying to trash them. It's just very hard to see how this isn't a bad look.

@TxTSaint @WoahGoTime @SlanderedOne It's still slop brother, just because it looks nicer and can make half decent gooner material doesn't make it not slop.

@RichardSabrsula @WoahGoTime @SlanderedOne You can call it slop all you want but ai today is not the slop of 2020. And anything can be inspiration.

@WoahGoTime @TxTSaint @SlanderedOne Yeah, and even at the conceptual stage I don't want slop on the mood board. It's there for artists to draw upon their personal preferences, history, and experiences, or if they have gaps to fill then their own discovery other's talent. It's just not a space to fill.

@TxTSaint @SlanderedOne The entire tool is built on non-consensual theft from artists and is being used to take jobs from artists. That's a pretty big thing wrong imo

The game needs bosses totems. As in, you kill a boss and you get a guaranteed token saying you did it. You can then trade in X totems for a unique from that boss. Maybe 2x the drop rate. Maybe make the item untradeable. But there's no reason for even 1% of people to go uber dry

@Malky0010 @doug__h @PositivFuturist I dare you to look up kessler syndrome

@doug__h @PositivFuturist Actually it does reveal useful information about risk causes by space debris. There is none.

Here it is to scale;

@Coeiyi Never understood why people take the time to roll and slide in a firefight, out of cover, when I can just continue shooting and they can't

#ArcRaiders PVP tip: You can queue a weapon switch during a jump into a slide to outmaneuver an enemy, then redirect into a roll to follow up. The weapon switch when jump-sliding feels a bit snappier and leaves you in a less linear path, making it harder for others to shoot.

@JulianC01836230 @PxlKaii Peep the right side of your screen. It is your internet (in this case). Though there were 100% other times that it was server latency/issues at fault.

@PxlKaii Well I thought it was just My Bad internet.

So apparently Newmechanic214 on Reddit mentioned Arc Raiders servers run at around 3 Hz (2–4 updates per second). That would explain the weird moments where you get shot behind cover. I’ve got a clip of me running into cover and still getting shot behind a wall. Thoughts guys?🤨

People working in hammer factory, wonder how long screws have left.

@callistocub @iSkinSheep >one affected nearly every player (besides vegan/skill only accts) >coincides with end of pvp, free trade as well >other is an optional skill Take a deep breath cause right now you look straight up stupid

Oops I dropped this. I'll be over there from now on given *gestures vaguely*

Movie starts with her literally saying "let me tell you the whole story". Proceeds to only tell half the story. Fuck ass Wicked.

People are so surprisingly dumb they can't even do basic math to compare 2 numbers, let alone then critically think where those 2 numbers came from. I'm tired man.

@BisectHosting Dallas servers still down :( any eta on a fix?

Hey Alexa what is Kessler Syndrome

Silver linings

"it's setting up the new arc!" Listen, some of my favorite books/movies/games are the first installment. If you can't tell a compelling/interesting story and make fun game over FIFTY HOURS then maybe you're just at your craft 🤷

DT was a low point (above arr, below hw imo) not because of the VA or anything dumb like that but because the story was told poorly, the gameplay was nothing new, and the side content was the most formulaic yet.