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

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-larian-using-genai-on-divinity-often-using-it-to-explore-ideas-flesh-out-powerpoints-develop-concept-art-and-write-placeholder-text.1384618/page-17#post-148996435 

As I said before, fundamentally the bedrock with which the West continues to exist upon and exert dominant economic, technological, and cultural influence is inextricably linked to Black and Indigenous colonialism. Every dollar flowing throughout its system inevitably had to come from the scores of land, wealth, and labor that was stolen and appropriated and continues to be stolen and appropriated.

It's not just NVIDIA. It's everything- the infrastructure, the banks, the schools. All of it. People either haven't come to terms with the sheer scale of fuckery against Africans and Indigenous folks that was not only necessary for The United States and Europe to establish themselves but continues to be necessary- right now- for their continued place on the world stage, or they just don't care because, hey, they and the few minorities they care about aren't the ones in the mines so why even bring it up at all?

Oh, but let me tell you how much I care about the conditions of "workers." The question always comes back to a clarifying one of specificity: Which workers do you actually care about? Can't possibly be all of them.

Didn't realize African slave labor contributed to the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the abundance of coal and iron, the development of joint-stock companies,  high wages that incentivized labor-saving mechanization, the development of private property rights and democratic accountability, scientific inquiry and achievements,etc...  Why are Germany and the Nordic countries wealthy? They had little to no colonial holdings.  Why is Spain and Portugal, who had massive colonial holdings and wealth extractions not as wealthy and have experienced economic stagnation?  How did China achieve economic and technological influence through internal development and global trade (and why don't you ever mention the Chinese and African role in PRESENT-DAY negotiated extractions of wealth from Africa w/ infrastructure-for-resource swaps, mining, and debt traps)   Why have modern economic systems lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty globally through trade?   Why does NOBODY reply to Nepenthe with this obvious information?  Why am I talking to myself?

Oh, but let me tell you how much I care about the conditions of "workers." The question always comes back to a clarifying one of specificity: Which workers do you actually care about? Can't possibly be all of them.

You think Africans are too stupid or too incompetent or too easily hoodwinked by others to provide value in a competitive global trade system, so they have to carve out an exceptional, isolated system for themselves (as their economies are growing) because they're unique humans.  You're deranged and racist as fuck.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I might have to boycott it over the Harry Potter thing

Just FYI, the mods said they don't want this IP mentioned in any context

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fortnite-ot3-chapter-7-season-1-pacific-break.500466/page-496#post-149085238

The fucking irony is they're using the same thing from Harry Potter: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.  Logged into the riotous account and no one is screeching over that TERF BITCH's tweet on wishing people a Merry Terfmas 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nihon-falcom-actively-using-ai-for-brainstorming-scenarios-conducting-research-and-similar-applications.1386748/

Wow this happening right as I'm playing the Cold Steel games 😲

Tasks that previously took 2-3 hours can now be completed in 10 minutes

https://www.eurogamer.net/falcom-is-the-latest-developer-to-buy-into-the-ai-hype-machine

😢

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thieves-dressed-as-santa-and-elves-steal-3k-worth-of-goods-from-grocery-store-to-then-redistribute-montreal.1387474/#post-149086798

Direct action works.

Yep, all you gotta do is plan out your petty crime, get the 3000 bucks, then do it all over again until that business moves out and you complain about food/pharmacy deserts.     Or you can develop skills and get out of your menial job, provide people with value and help in a normal, productive, non anti-social way that doesn't make civilization suck ass to live in.

[Mediocre Lager]

They're all into European worker's rights and protections from being fired for any reason right up until it's someone they think deserves it.

[Mediocre Lager]

They're all into European worker's rights and protections from being fired for any reason right up until it's someone they think deserves it.

Well maybe they shouldn't have admitted to liking Harry Potter. Ever think about that?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nihon-falcom-actively-using-ai-for-brainstorming-scenarios-conducting-research-and-similar-applications.1386748/

Wow this happening right as I'm playing the Cold Steel games 😲

Tasks that previously took 2-3 hours can now be completed in 10 minutes

https://www.eurogamer.net/falcom-is-the-latest-developer-to-buy-into-the-ai-hype-machine

As reported by Umisuika on X, attending the shareholders meeting in-person, a Falcom representative stated: "We are proceeding cautiously due to legal issues. We are using AI to brainstorm scenarios and do research. What used to take 2-3 hours can now be completed in 10 minutes. AI is also used to correct typos in the scenario.

Is a shareholder call, my dude.

[Boredfrom]

"We are proceeding cautiously due to legal issues."

 

[Jansen]

Wait until they find out about the working conditions at falcom

https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-poor-pay-underage-staff-and-no-credits-digging-into-falcoms-dark-past

[Jansen]

From Constructive 

[Boredfrom]

They plagiarizing Ultima art is pretty infamous as they were about to strike a deal with them. 

Those times where the Wild West in regards of copyright at not Anglo countries. Interesting times.

[kaleidoscopium]

Just ask for a list of all the banned games, or even a set of official forum rules. Nothing fuzzy about it!

[Jansen]

So much for eliminating crunch culture huh Neil.

Never trust a zionist, ever. They lie more than they breath.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-5#post-149091232

[Boredfrom]

No one in a position of leadership at a video game company, outside indies, is going to shit on AI because is incentivized by various governments (   ) and is the new hot thing with shareholders.

I think ERA and Eurogamer can allow themselves to give them a pass unless some controversial use is discovered. If anything, is better for everyone that they are disclosing its use.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-nyc-a-good-place-for-dating.1387372/#post-149084026

Go on Updating lol. It's often filmed at The Loft at City Winery.
https://youtube.com/@updatingshow?si=vnN1LlwJt5fBbA95

For someone who bought a wife, messy is really obsessed with the concept of dating

[Boredfrom]

So much for eliminating crunch culture huh Neil.

Never trust a zionist, ever. They lie more than they breathe.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-5#post-149091232

Holy shit!   

[BIONIC]

So much for eliminating crunch culture huh Neil.

Never trust a zionist, ever. They lie more than they breath.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-5#post-149091232

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nvidia-to-build-new-campus-in-israel.1386850/#post-149071126

ZTX On

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-larian-using-genai-on-divinity-often-using-it-to-explore-ideas-flesh-out-powerpoints-develop-concept-art-and-write-placeholder-text.1384618/page-17#post-148996435 

As I said before, fundamentally the bedrock with which the West continues to exist upon and exert dominant economic, technological, and cultural influence is inextricably linked to Black and Indigenous colonialism. Every dollar flowing throughout its system inevitably had to come from the scores of land, wealth, and labor that was stolen and appropriated and continues to be stolen and appropriated.

It's not just NVIDIA. It's everything- the infrastructure, the banks, the schools. All of it. People either haven't come to terms with the sheer scale of fuckery against Africans and Indigenous folks that was not only necessary for The United States and Europe to establish themselves but continues to be necessary- right now- for their continued place on the world stage, or they just don't care because, hey, they and the few minorities they care about aren't the ones in the mines so why even bring it up at all?

Oh, but let me tell you how much I care about the conditions of "workers." The question always comes back to a clarifying one of specificity: Which workers do you actually care about? Can't possibly be all of them.

How could this be possible let alone inevitable?

Seriously, the only way this could possibly be true is if Black and Indigenous capital (aka land, wealth and labor) had magical properties that made it exponentially more lucrative in return than any other race's capital despite the fact that these places were less wealthy and continue to be so. Many places in Africa literally do not have functioning markets for capital, the warlords will come in and bust it up and steal everything not nailed down. Sometimes these warlords are also called the nation-state. This is why the yearly billions in foreign aid continues to not achieve anything.

You can't demonstrate this claim in any way, there's no historical examples, it's not even really a theory, it's just a racist myth she perpetuates because it makes her feel better if billions of people suck as much as she does. And that the rest of the racists on Era are complicit in because they don't interrupt the holidays to hold her accountable for saying.

[Boredfrom]

Fucking company can't release a single new game per generation and still has to crunch.

Pathetic.

 

[Boredfrom]

And that the rest of the racists on Era are complicit in because they don't interrupt the holidays to hold her accountable for saying.

What if that was the reason why Nic Reiner fought with his dad at Conan’s party?  


Maybe he read the theory and just wanted to call everyone out for being enablers of the Capital.

[benji]

Just delay the shit and treat people right. No one will cry if this slips to 2028 or some shit. There's plenty to play.

The shareholders will cry about the expenditures for the studio with no return.

Y'all need to understand that capitalism is the foundation of the video game industry and it requires abuse and exploitation to ensure "return on investment."

We're not getting a $200+ million video game from SIE because they're a charity. Leadership demands proof-of-concept from management, who then demand curnch from labor so that the funding to a very, very expensive California-based developer can continue to flow.

(A studio that no doubt burned a LOT of cash on the now defunct TLOU Online, by the way. As a finance man, I know without a doubt that bean counters absolutely wanted answers and accountability for that.)

There is no ethical basis here. No nice way to "solve" this problem with moving away from AAA game production and the obscene amounts of corporate funding required to produce these games.

These are capitalistic corporations, they do not give a fuck. They want return on investment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shturmovshchina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarnik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chollima_Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Hey Naughty Dog employees reading this, if you don't like it there is a solution and it is called collective bargaining. You can make this stop.

[Straight Edge]

So much for eliminating crunch culture huh Neil.

Never trust a zionist, ever. They lie more than they breathe.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-5#post-149091232

Holy shit!   

And that's a lot considering their big hooked noses, right?

[Jansen]

I'll never cease to be amazed at the level of attention these things provoke in the gaming industry. Everyone in my circle, working in diverse fields like finance, big law, medicine, non-video game software development, consulting etc, has periods where they have to put in long hours.



I can't imagine a journalist having an audience for an article like "Clifford Chance associates required to work long hours to finish due diligence on X client" - because that's what the job is. Like, how is this newsworthy? You occasionally get some visibility into this issue at investment banks, but only insofar as some junior analysts have been overworked to a much, much different scale than what gaming journalists call "crunch" (not 60 hours)



You are free to work somewhere chill, and probably make less money or work on less important things; or chase the money or status typically found in high-workload environments. Gaming might be unique in drawing this level of attention to this issue, and I'm not sure why that is.

Better stone this one

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/1EiEu7VWqj
Merry Terfmas! 

[Jansen]

So much for eliminating crunch culture huh Neil.

Never trust a zionist, ever. They lie more than they breath.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-5#post-149091232

Considering their post history this is quite the heel turn

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[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/

I wonder if they could leverage AI to help with this?

[malfoyking]

These are the assholes that will say Harry Potter because it has goblins... They have become so extreme lately. It just feels a notch higher than its ever been.

[benji]

Thread is hilarious with people saying that nobody should ever check on the work of their employees and everyone should stop buying games except indies as if there's any indie developer that can just suck down millions upon millions for years on end.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/

I wonder if they could leverage AI to help with this?

While not defending it, I really think people should watch the Grounded II documentary to see how Naughty Dog do these kind of demos.

The E3 demo they made was one of the most pivotal parts of the entire TLOU 2 development.

[Jansen]

I'll never cease to be amazed at the level of attention these things provoke in the gaming industry. Everyone in my circle, working in diverse fields like finance, big law, medicine, non-video game software development, consulting etc, has periods where they have to put in long hours.



I can't imagine a journalist having an audience for an article like "Clifford Chance associates required to work long hours to finish due diligence on X client" - because that's what the job is. Like, how is this newsworthy? You occasionally get some visibility into this issue at investment banks, but only insofar as some junior analysts have been overworked to a much, much different scale than what gaming journalists call "crunch" (not 60 hours)



You are free to work somewhere chill, and probably make less money or work on less important things; or chase the money or status typically found in high-workload environments. Gaming might be unique in drawing this level of attention to this issue, and I'm not sure why that is.

Better stone this one

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-naughty-dog-has-enacted-mandatory-overtime-for-staff-to-finish-an-internal-demo-of-their-next-game-intergalactic.1387576/page-7#post-149093005

You know, perhaps ironically, I actually have a very similar circle. Which is why I know that, just as an example, a 6th-year associate on the Cravath scale gets a total comp of $520k/year while a senior character concept artist (6-8 years experience) is listed on ND's website at a range of $143,700—$179,600. That's just one of the differences between the gaming industry and the fields you mentioned, but it's probably the biggest one.