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Alrighty, as some of you know, it's highly likely that I have ADHD. And this year I decided to try and get diagnosed (again)! So I'm gonna document my journey in this thread. 1/?
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Chera Fox retweeted
You idiots. We WANT AI to be used for mundane tasks like finding broken code… it wasn’t GEN AI. This is quite literally where we want it to go ahhhhh
Chera Fox retweeted
you know what else runs at 30fps but doesn’t cost a hundred bucks, has a physical disc, and isn’t complete slop ?
Bloodborne
BREAKING: GTA 6 will run at 30fps on all consoles, with PS5 Pro enhancements that improve ray tracing. bit.ly/4iIuAM5
Chera Fox retweeted
We’re reaching the point in which using AI for user-facing content in games becomes a liability, and I love it. Let the backlash and regulation continue.
Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized ai generated models doesn't mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized ai generated models
As a reminder we have had an AI spam clause in our quality guidelines for over two years: itch.io/docs/creators/qualit…
Chera Fox retweeted
BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters.
"Everything is destroyed," a sales manager in Sweden said, adding that "there has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees."
More than 40 supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected. "I only have two words for them: wake up, please, because there's something going on," a store manager in Belgium said.
This follows a similar cyberattack last month that hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, raising freezers as high as 80°C and causing major food losses.
It also comes after freezers at 6 US military bases mysteriously malfunctioned, spoiling large quantities of food, which the Pentagon is investigating as a suspected cyberattack.
Chera Fox retweeted
FromSoftware turns 40 today.
Four decades after its founding, the studio behind Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring is about to see one of its worlds on the big screen for the first time. A24’s Elden Ring adaptation is shaping up to be the most ambitious film in the studio’s history, while Netflix’s animated Dark Souls series is still in the works.
Chera Fox retweeted
I asked some Mass Effect Universe devs about this and this isn't even true. There were same sex romances of course, but no flags in the game which isn't even said in the article itself. Totally misleading headline.
BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says polygon.com/mass-effect-univ…
ALT BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Polygon headline claims BioWare "was asked to remove LGBTQ flag," but BFM journalist clarifies devs proactively removed a flag resembling (not the actual) Pride flag from a demo to anticipate feedback, not to hide elements.
kotaku.com/mass-effect-5-…
bfmtv.com/tech/gaming/un…
polygon.com/mass-effect-un…
Chera Fox retweeted
Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout gamesradar.com/games/mass-ef…
Chera Fox retweeted
"BioWare was repeatedly forced to abandon its strengths (narrative choice, consequences, companions) to chase unprofitable live-service and multiplayer trends, wasting significant resources."
That one especially pisses me off
EA employees are speaking out about mismanagement, GenAI push and BioWare’s closure🚀
✅Employees report that the "do less, better" mantra has simply resulted in handling the same workload with fewer staff.
✅Upper management is heavily promoting generative AI (specifically Claude), telling staff that adoption is mandatory for the future.
✅Workers believe the technology is being pushed to test how drastically EA can cut headcount while maintaining output.
BioWare’s Decline & Closure
✅BioWare was repeatedly forced to abandon its strengths (narrative choice, consequences, companions) to chase unprofitable live-service and multiplayer trends, wasting significant resources.
✅Studio leadership grew overly reliant on user experience research (UXR) and fear-driven decision-making, stifling creative risk-taking before the studio's closure.
Source: Vertical Slice
Disappointed, but definitely not surprised. So much of what’s said reflects very much how many of us felt, as it was quite obvious for the last 10-15 years.
Risk-averse development, “do less” mentality, cost-cutting..etc.
I feel really bad for the studios and talents that had to be suffocated under EA’s mentality. It’s obvious what kind of people they were ever since they tried to gaslight gamers into thinking single player gaming to be dead.
