So free cool fan projects only count if humans do all the unpaid labor by hand? The heckin’ tech vegans are pro-slavery and don’t even realize it.

This is either AI or the start of Revelation 8 after the second trumpet.

The way forward is for studios to be overtly pro-consumer, giving players what they want. The games that thrive the most will be the ones that understand their unique advantage is deep story, lore, and character development - and that treat multiplayer, community, and native mod support as core rather than optional. If you don't embrace mods, the community will do it for you. Your game needs to be the foundation for something bigger. Shallow, easily cloneable experiences won't make it.

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes, man. The activists in the industry now have contempt for everyone that thinks outside of their hivemind and they push agenda/propaganda every chance they can over just focusing on making the best game they can. It's not hard to see why them being laid off is celebrated.

For a fan film this is 10/10. A feature-length version would print an absurd amount of money… so Hollywood will never greenlight it.

“Tech vegans” 😂

If land and water usage are your real concern, you better start protesting almonds, buckeroo. Hey @grok, give me a quick comparison on land and water usage of almonds vs AI data centers. Which uses the most of each?

Even Debra Wilson herself thinks it's lame that they keep using her face for game characters she does the voice for. It makes no sense for video games to use someone's exact likeness. Games have the ability to be more immersive with unique characters and instead developers are just lazy or chasing clout.

This scene looks amazing, but simulations like this are something that veteran VFX artists can easily pull off in Houdini. Might still take a few weeks to nail it perfectly, but it's all doable. A solo artist definitely could have handled it, but I suspect this shot had a simulation specialist and an animator. Not counting models because that was likely a different department.

Hey @fab and @TimSweeneyEpic - I'm not anti-AI, but this mass flood of super low quality AI assets is absolutely ruining the experience of Fab. You desperately need to fix this: 1. Introduce a "Following" feature so we can see a feed and get email notifications from creators we want to see assets from. 2. The Recently Added feed is garbage because everyday low quality AI asset authors flood it with dozens of slop posts. You really need to group those posts together into a collection or something, don't let them take up more than one cell in the Recent feed. The site is seriously becoming unusable, I have to rely on a Chrome plugin right now that allows me to hide assets from specified artists, and I'm adding to that list everyday. Sincerely, A customer that has spent thousands buying assets for my solo indie game on Fab.

Unironically, the chuds would gladly accept @ginacarano in GOW.

Make sure to call @grok brother from now on. Absolutely based and hilarious at the same time.

This is exactly how I'm using AI currently. I'm not using Gen AI assets in game yet, but I am considering it for background props and such. For example I need dozens of family photos in an abandoned house environment. My options are either: - Use AI with consideration to get consistency and it would take probably less than a single day and usage is included in a $20/mo ChatGPT plan. - Create character models and environments for characters that otherwise are not in the game, pose them, and render the pics. This would either cost me thousands to outsource or take weeks of my development time. - Try to find stock photos of families and Photoshop the faces for consistency. This would cost at least $1,000+ to purchase extended licenses of the photos and have them edited. I could edit the photos myself but that would halt production on other things by maybe a week. - Hire a photographer and models to create photos for me. This would likely be at least $2,500. When I lay it all out like this, it seems foolish to not use gen AI for something that is a background prop, and just there to set the tone and atmosphere.