Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/page-6#post-149051596

Need more people to come out against the damn studios. Absolutely gross behavior.

And the guy just moved from Larian to CDPR..jeez. CDPR might be next to be condemned.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/page-6#post-149053834

Reminder to people you can remove games from your Steam Library from the Support page:

Kudo is taking the piss. 

Hint: The Avatar 

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[LoverOfCycles]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/page-6#post-149052034

Welp.

There's another company that can eat a bullet.

[Boredfrom]

I'm delighted to see my "if you claim to like videogames, but are an anti-AI insanoid, you might as well just hang the whole hobby up now" coming to delicious fruition in such an immediate and high-profile way.

Maybe the hobby can be restored somewhat after all these annoying fucks self-select out of it.

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

Larian just said it is shit for anything but office work and cheap concept art.

[cRumB]

I'm delighted to see my "if you claim to like videogames, but are an anti-AI insanoid, you might as well just hang the whole hobby up now" coming to delicious fruition in such an immediate and high-profile way.

Maybe the hobby can be restored somewhat after all these annoying fucks self-select out of it.

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

It will be a day to remember when Nintendo openly admits to be using AI.

[Boredfrom]

Under Vincke, Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI, although the CEO says the technology hasn't led to big gains in efficiency. He says there won't be any AI-generated content in Divinity — "everything is human actors; we're writing everything ourselves" — but the creators often use AI tools to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text.

The use of generative AI has led to some pushback at Larian, "but I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we're using it," Vincke said.

[Boredfrom]

I'm delighted to see my "if you claim to like videogames, but are an anti-AI insanoid, you might as well just hang the whole hobby up now" coming to delicious fruition in such an immediate and high-profile way.

Maybe the hobby can be restored somewhat after all these annoying fucks self-select out of it.

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

It will be a day to remember when Nintendo openly admits to be using AI.

Just like they are experts on online multiplayer games

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98avatar-fire-and-ash%E2%80%99-to-set-the-world-ablaze-with-340m-380m-box-office-opening-behind-the-way-of-waters-444m.1386085/page-2#post-149053336

I remember going on a first date with someone and when we were deciding what to do, she wanted to go see Avatar for the third time.

Jeff Marvel dodged a bullet  
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/disney-james-cameron-sued-copyright-infringement-over-avatar-2025-12-16/

[Potato]

I'm delighted to see my "if you claim to like videogames, but are an anti-AI insanoid, you might as well just hang the whole hobby up now" coming to delicious fruition in such an immediate and high-profile way.

Maybe the hobby can be restored somewhat after all these annoying fucks self-select out of it.

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

Larian just said it is shit for anything but office work and cheap concept art.

Always remember that AI today is the worst it will ever be.

[Boredfrom]

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

Larian just said it is shit for anything but office work and cheap concept art.

Always remember that AI today is the worst it will ever be.

So today is unacceptable for anything than niche uses and is pushed just to placate investors. So no close to be used for “every aspect”.

[Potato]

Larian just said it is shit for anything but office work and cheap concept art.

Always remember that AI today is the worst it will ever be.

So today is unacceptable for anything than niche uses and is pushed just to placate investors. So no close to be used for “every aspect”.

Luddite

[Boredfrom]

If ERA wasn’t retarded, they could use the quote against AI forced use in jobs when debating AI, given that the dude actually doesn’t sound that enthusiastic about the results.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98avatar-fire-and-ash%E2%80%99-to-set-the-world-ablaze-with-340m-380m-box-office-opening-behind-the-way-of-waters-444m.1386085/page-2#post-149053336

I remember going on a first date with someone and when we were deciding what to do, she wanted to go see Avatar for the third time.

Jeff and Kyuuji dated?

[Boredfrom]

Always remember that AI today is the worst it will ever be.

So today is unacceptable for anything than niche uses and is pushed just to placate investors. So no close to be used for “every aspect”.

Luddite

 

I’m sorry you think generative AI is magic and you are willing to eat corpo shit until it gets genuinely good outside office work and cheap art.

Dont be a tool.

[Straight Edge]

If you're gonna bite my joke, at least "like" my original post

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/#post-149042179

From its bio:

(She/It) 🌗 Game Developer, Occultist & Fencer 🌓 Previous: Baldur's Gate 3 - MindsEye - Wishbound

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/

Is this person confirmed to be former larian?

From its bio:

(She/It) 🌗 Game Developer, Occultist & Fencer 🌓 Previous: Baldur's Gate 3 - MindsEye - Wishbound

[Uncle]

I'm delighted to see my "if you claim to like videogames, but are an anti-AI insanoid, you might as well just hang the whole hobby up now" coming to delicious fruition in such an immediate and high-profile way.

Maybe the hobby can be restored somewhat after all these annoying fucks self-select out of it.

They have no convictions. They will cave at the first hurdle after Rockstar or From admit they are using it in every aspect of development.

It will be a day to remember when Nintendo openly admits to be using AI.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/nintendo-isnt-ruling-out-the-use-of-ai-in-game-development-but-knows-that-what-makes-our-games-special-is-our-developers/

Nintendo isn't ruling out using AI in the development of its games going forward, but Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser is making it clear that "what makes our games special is our developers," and that "human touch" will never disappear.

Speaking in an interview with CNBC following last week's flurry of Nintendo Switch 2 news, Bowser is asked how Nintendo is thinking about potentially inserting AI into its games. He makes it clear that he's not trying to "speak on behalf of the developers," but notes that generally speaking, "as we look at technology, we always want to make sure the technology we may be leveraging, whether it's to develop our games or whether it's in our devices, is going to create a better gameplay experience." This, he says, is "a very important part of our decision-making process in how to use AI."

He acknowledges that AI is "being used broadly in a number of different ways" around the world like to "enhance productivity," before going on to say that the potential use of it by developers is something that is being discussed within the company. He makes it clear, however, that it wouldn't be integrated to outright replace the actual humans who bring the company's games to life.

"If developers choose to use AI, and it is a discussion right now at Nintendo, it's not the only method of developing games," Bowser explains. "We still believe that what makes our games special is our developers, their artistic capabilities, their insight into how people play, so there's always, always going to be a human touch, and a human engagement in how we develop and build our games."

basically it's literally Larian's position, people in the company can use it but they're not going to replace people

[Boredfrom]

Being fair, Doug Bowser is out and is Nintendo of Japan the ones calling the shoots.

They are probably in the “wait and see” approach and how they could do a Nintendo spin if they are going to actually use it beyond the current ‘accepted’ tasks.

[Uncle]

So today is unacceptable for anything than niche uses and is pushed just to placate investors. So no close to be used for “every aspect”.

Luddite

 

I’m sorry you think generative AI is magic and you are willing to eat corpo shit until it gets genuinely good outside office work and cheap art.

Dont be a tool.

no hate or hyperbole or insult, but I really don't get how you can have this perspective

in this thread propagandhim was just fucking around and it made him engine-ready sprites to use for a game directly, like it was nothing

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=269&pid=161832#pid161832

what about that looks not production ready to you? maybe it would take some formatting editing to slice the sheet and record coordinates for use in code, but seriously

[Nintex]

Nintendo likes to have helpful guides in their games and AI is perfect for that. The next Zelda probably has some kind of ground breaking AI implementation.

[LoverOfCycles]

If you compare AI from 2 years ago to today, it is very clear that it will dominate everything in the near future, for better or for worse.

edit: top of page huge rack

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[Uncle]

Nintendo likes to have helpful guides in their games and AI is perfect for that. The next Zelda probably has some kind of ground breaking AI implementation.

I disagree with that, there is no implementation of chat AI which is unable to break out of the bounds of its context, no matter the safeguards

you'd have to examine the input, reject if it's too out of context from the game, generate output, examine the output, reject if it's too out of context from the game, and even then a bunch of weird stuff would slip through

best you can do is generate thousands of things for characters to say, read through them and edit them by hand if necessary, rather than needing to wrack your brain to write all those thousands of things yourself

[Uncle]

but like, for example



the actual generated texture

I checked in an editor and it tiles seamlessly

to me this isn't a niche use, this is core game development right here, and it produced results immediately, and it isn't "programmer art" or from some recycled royalty free pack where everyone can recognize that same texture that everyone uses

the only concern is whether it matches your game's art style, but no one said you can't edit this stuff after the fact, alter the color temperature or give it a painterly filter or whatever

[kaleidoscopium]

Just waiting for the day one of them discovers their posts are being fed into AI models by MOBA, bound to happen. Gonna be a bloodbath 

[Boredfrom]

Luddite

 

I’m sorry you think generative AI is magic and you are willing to eat corpo shit until it gets genuinely good outside office work and cheap art.

Dont be a tool.

no hate or hyperbole or insult, but I really don't get how you can have this perspective

in this thread propagandhim was just fucking around and it made him engine-ready sprites to use for a game directly, like it was nothing

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=269&pid=161832#pid161832

what about that looks not production ready to you? maybe it would take some formatting editing to slice the sheet and record coordinates for use in code, but seriously

I’m not a game dev or a fighting game fanatic to understand how good it is.  

(I said before, but I have my own opinions about copyright on art so it would be hypocritical from me to complain about whatever they are stealing or not, I believe that using others work can be transformative, even if is AI. At the same time, the reality is that most people don’t think the same as me, and that includes the big corpos that suddenly are thinking twice about it.   )

If anything, it proves my point that it needs to tailored and used in specific ways.

So what I don’t understand is why you think everything is ready and corpos need to sell everything regardless actual quality. The technology is evolving and is going to stay, sure, that’s why I’m against shit like “AI is anti human”  I’m just not going to pretend that there isn’t shit or let me be gaslighted that “I’m a Luddite” because I’m wary of how is used and sold.

If anything, these past weeks actually made me a little more accepting of it, if only because it genuinely can be a good tool for investigating and ERA stupidity is irritating.

[Boredfrom]

but like, for example



the actual generated texture

I checked in an editor and it tiles seamlessly

to me this isn't a niche use, this is core game development right here, and it produced results immediately, and it isn't "programmer art" or from some recycled royalty free pack where everyone can recognize that same texture that everyone uses

the only concern is whether it matches your game's art style, but no one said you can't edit this stuff after the fact, alter the color temperature or give it a painterly filter or whatever

Being fair, someone mentioned that the grass texture program that Hot Shots uses has existed way before current Generative AI, it was just the usual social media fear mongering.  

So this solution has been found before Gen Ai.  (maybe the GenAI stuff is better, I dunno)

[Uncle]

not grass, it was speedtree, and the japanese company misinterpreted what counted as AI use they needed to report

and just because something could've been done before AI doesn't mean you can't now use AI to do it better or faster or cheaper, speedtree is middleware you have to pay for

[kaleidoscopium]

I dont know why she would be lying, and I'm not saying that shes a liar. im just saying it seems a little premature to go off of what is little more than random web comments, its kind of impossible to disprove this at the moment since nobody (including larian) knows who this person is, if this was a lie theres no possible way to larian to refute it without just looking guilty.

You are not giving her the benefit of the goddamned doubt is what you're doing and you know it. How about treating a human as though they are a fucking human?

You are quick to lay your coat down to give Larian the benefit of the doubt.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/page-7#post-149055280

surely this person will apologize if it comes out this was all wrong

[HaughtyFrank]

I suspect people would be surprised to know what kind of stuff was already automated before the AI boom

Ubisoft has been procedurally generating cutscenes for years



(Which also explains why they kind of suck, I guess)

[HaughtyFrank]

You are not giving her the benefit of the goddamned doubt is what you're doing and you know it. How about treating a human as though they are a fucking human?

You are quick to lay your coat down to give Larian the benefit of the doubt.

It? Treat it like a human? The thing that specifically uses non-human pronouns?

[kaleidoscopium]

This person says they an Occultist. I'm a Christian and I'm sure if I pointed out how uncomfortable that made me feel virtually none of you here would care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-larian-employee-claims-she-suffered-sexual-harrassment-there-and-they-refused-to-fire-an-outright-fascist-despite-protest-from-employees.1386304/page-7#post-149055376

Probably rightfully so. This is a topic about that person saying that they were sexually assaulted. That's much more important.

Fuck off all the way with this. You don't get to equate homophobia, racism, and transphobia with your 'discomfort'.

Not very Christian of you to respond to a woman's story of sexual assault with some random hypothetical that positions yourself as a victim.

We are not your colleagues and this is not a work environment, so yes, we don't give a fuck.

and many more, whole transmafia came for him lol

[Boredfrom]

not grass, it was speedtree, and the japanese company misinterpreted what counted as AI use they needed to report

and just because something could've been done before AI doesn't mean you can't now use AI to do it better or faster or cheaper, speedtree is middleware you have to pay for