Ah, the ketamine addict wants to talk to us about mental illness?

Ough. I feel bad for all the animators who worked on that studio for decades.

While I do know Microsoft HAS accepted studios (or groups of workers) unionizing in the past… I wonder how they’ll react to this one, considering that when the voice actor strike was going on they replaced one of the voice actors in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies, who just happened to have been Samantha Maxis’ original actor for nearly 15 years before that :|

Here lies the problem: A lot of FPS players literally only want ONE fucking tone for EVERY FPS, which is like. Serious-looking milsim appearance that takes place in the present day. That’s it. They’ll literally attack any futuristic game as “it’s a mobile game” and “not realistic”, as if that should be the only thing that dictates if an FPS is good or not. I for one am tired of it, especially considering most of the people who are extremely anal about that are either chuds or fascists who want to roleplay as a super soldier fighting for the good ol’ US of A. So when people constantly talk about how “ah this thing has robots I don’t want to play it” it immediately triggers that suspicion in me.

Not to mention, this whole obsession with “realism” to me is absolutely stupid. I don’t need to see literally every pore on an old man’s face for my game to feel good. Hell, you have games like Hades II, Silksong, MOTHER 3, and a fuckton of other games that are just extremely good that none of those people try because they’re not realistic.

That’s great and all, except no one is fucking succeeding. They’re having to resort to revolving money to stay afloat and OpenAI has current debts going at over a 1.5 trillion.

Anything that pisses off milsim obsessed manchildren is a win in my eyes. You have hundreds of games at your disposal, go play them.

Well yeah but the same thing applies regardless. Every time CoD tried to “innovate”, outside of Black Ops 2, resulted in players complaining endlessly and/or poor sales. And I say this as someone who HATES milsim obsessed manchildren who demand every FPS franchise cater to them, despite most of them already doing it. Those mfs will straight up say anything futuristic “looks like a mobile game” as if we can’t look past their buzzwords. I blame their bullshit for the failure of Titanfall 2 and CoD Infinite Warfare, which did have an EXCELLENT campaign. But, regardless of that: FPS players don’t want their favorite game to change too much in terms of raw gameplay. This has been a thing you can observe for decades. Hell, people still play Dust 2 the almost exact same way as in 2001.

Meanwhile if CS players have ANYTHING change in the game they throw a fit… “innovation” does not enhance FPS franchises, it breaks them.

In several parts of the South, yes. Also happens in a few Latin American countries.

This is one of the reasons I switched to Startpage and asked it to hide any AI results.

“I’d rather have an itchy asshole, skid marks, and a smelly ass than BE GAY, that’s worse than any of those things!!” and then they wonder why they’re single 90% of the time and if they ever get a woman it’s from an arranged marriage.

How does your steam deck not explode from that?? I assumed ARC was like, heavy as fuck?

No, they just had a fuckton of duplicate files so HDDs could load the maps faster.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

This just reminds me of the absolute horror that was Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019). The entire thing, with Warzone (that you couldn’t uninstall, btw) was 250 fucking GB. Like, what the actual fuck?

I still wonder how the HELL I managed to play that game with nothing but a GTX 950, an FX-4300 processor, and 8 GB of RAM. Which, even for 2019, was an absolutely TERRIBLE computer.

I get massive productivity gains every day from AI

You mean heavily hallucinated code you’re gonna spend more time fixing than if you did it by hand?

incredibly useful image generation that dramatically speeds up the work of designers

AKA: Stealing from hard working artists to not have to pay them. As an artist, go fuck yourself.

suno, which can generate stems that my musician friends are regularly using instead of having to hunt through the Internet for days for the right trumpet melody

Again, stealing from hard working artists (this time musicians). Hard fucking pass.

Also, you definitely sound like you wrote this with AI. Mods, send this clanker to the scrap heap.

I remember once Fortnite did something similar and shaved the install size from 75 GB down to 30 GB or so. And now it’s mega bloated again…

Activision, Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar devs, please take note. Oh, and you too, ID Software. I don’t like Doom Eternal being 89 GB. At least Battlefield 6 is only 37 GB if you only have Multiplayer installed without the high-res textures.

Jesus Christ, when even IBM, the father of computing, says “AI is not gonna give you infinite money”, you KNOW the technology is doomed. Altho I’m more inclined to believe the AI CEOs will be like “shut up boomer we’re gonna be trillionaires and you won’t be!!”

Well, good luck with that once the investors realize you’re selling snake oil!

I’ve heard some people with more sci-fi prothestics (or even any at all) be referred to as clankers, and I’m just like… Bro. Our skeletons are made of calcium, which is a metal. Most of our biological processes use electricity. We’re literally just as much of clankers as robots are.

You are doing the Lord’s work, Helldiver.