Kathryn Long

cosmic (trans) angel

Game devs throughout our industry are being disposed of and underappreciated. This crass petition and campaign sure isn't improving those issues and feelings. The devs who poured their hearts into Mass Effect 5 don't deserve to be tossed to the wayside and forgotten. Support game devs not games

A huge congratulations to @mayoroliviachow.ca and the incredible slate of progressive councillors elected in Toronto tonight.

"let IPs die" 🚫 "force IP into the public domain" 👉

Feeling deeply grateful that the majority of my fellow Torontonians made the correct decision in voting "YES" on today's binding referendum on the question of "Should Brad Bradford be legally exiled to Bradford, ON?" and I hope what follows will be a long productive healing process

Yay! Olivia Chow reelected as Toronto mayor. Bad Badford defeated! www.cp24.com/local/toront...

I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

The last time I played Deus Ex was during the pandemic, out of sheer perversity. And now, a few years later, this line hits really hard:

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Avi Lewis, leader of Canada's federal NDP, comments on the Bioware closure.

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

video games continue the gradual cleavage and split into "beautiful & heartwrenching indie yuri game made by two trans women referencing clarice lispector and obscure political debates in 1950s china" and "unreal engine anime gacha with the monthly profit of a small country's gdp"

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

As an entirely serious comment, the NDP speaks to the issues the other major parties will not

it's 2030. there is one american game job. the game is a result of the fortnite-roblox merger. they added gatchas and ads exclusively for prediction market platforms. while you work on it, jared kushner and a random c-suite with at least 3 sexual assault cases take turns yelling at you.

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

no one over 40 is gonna buy this because you can't play a bluray in it and no one under 40 will buy it because its going to cost $1200

I also wanted to pull out a special part of the piece: fuck Jensen Huang. By forcing customers to take early delivery of GPUs to boost quarterly revenues, he artificially inflated the price of RAM and every consumer electronic. What he and his hyperscale paypigs have done is morally reprehensible.

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

my entire life trajectory was oriented towards "being good at things", I sacrificed quite a lot to get where I am today, and now society has deemed expertise not very valuable anymore and for what little remains, AI/people using AI will siphon it out of you the very moment they smell it in the air

it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

I feel every time anyone writes "developed with a core team of XX" about a game, they have a responsibility to write "developed by YY developers with only XX developers being employed"

Wow holy fuck what a shit in principle but also at least have some selfworth and ask for more than an hour of time off for betraying your entire field www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-acc...

So I think everyone understands this already, but this is basically a euphemism for "we're hiring fewer full time employees and more contractors and codev studios because we don't have to pay them as much." I wish I could say this was an isolated case but I'm seeing it p much everywhere.

If you dislike AI please stop saying AI can code now. Just because it can generate code that works for some loose definition of the word works doesn't mean it can code because coding is so much more than that. Please, I'm begging you, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

got inspired by this voice line #deadlock

Oh, you don’t like AI cause isn’t ethical or cheap or safe? Well, have you considered that it’s supported by all the most annoying and evil people on earth?

The latest Musk publicity stunt with his “”””flying”””” car illustrates the broader issue with a lot of the tech industry these days (particularly AI, but related to enshittification in general) in that: What pressing problem is this supposed to solve, and does it do so efficiently and effectively?

AM I DOING THIS RIGHT

Basically it's just very important to me that if someone burns $56k of diesel to do this, that I not benefit from their actions in any way

redownloaded the epic games launcher yesterday to get some images for an article. when you drag and resize the corners of the window, the whole interface stretches and warps. vibe coding is the future.

we are all, every one of us, absolutely fucking surrounded by gormless dipshits