It'd be like if we never made gasoline UN-leaded. There are a ton of choices about how to engage with technological advances, but suggesting there is no agency there or that change isn't possible is kinda absurd.

forgive me i'm gonna get moderately annoying about basic (not even advanced bc i'm not that guy) performance-aware programming again, because our current state of affairs has only been enabled by crazy power-per-dollar hardware improvements that are being HAMMERED rn

what a... terrible analogy lmao

I'm happy to concede the point about art vs artisan. That's fine.

liberal propaganda? that genAI is theft and used to manipulate public opinion while attempting to remove people from expressive roles or valuing labor?

at this point I don't know what you're trying to explain with all the pedantry.

No? lol

Artists still made the fonts, made the press machines, wrote the text, etc. You don't need a monk rewriting the book to still have artistry.

My entire point is just that genAI was optional and a poor choice given the bigger picture.

Using genAI is what the fascists want. It's algorithms they can control and remove artist and community. It's also absolutely optional.

Not saying it has no message, but it's weaker as a result of not just asking an artist or using stock images with a poster filter.

The point is using AI removes the humanity of the protest, and uses the tools of the oppressor, lest we be reminded who is funding and lobbying for the current US fascism.

It's so fucking easy to ask an artist or to draw stick figures, and it would give community and humanity.

AI is created through theft, trained through exploited people's labor, and biased toward the desires of billionaires who have been stealing and overdeveloping land

That all sounds fairly relevant.

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

"just get a better job, forehead" was literally not the point of what OP was saying.

CEOs should be paid less and be willing to take pay cuts rather than lay off staff, which hurts company culture and creates knowledge vacuums that further deteriorate future projects.

That's nice, most people in the US don't get severance when they are fired, when I was laid off my last job I got... Two months?

Tell me, who has greater risk, the guy who made millions and left with millions, or the average employee under him trying to make rent?

The guy who got a 2 million dollar severance package? Who is still a board member for another company?

Anecdotes are everywhere, fella, and even then you picked one that quite literally proves the point he was making about golden parachutes.

I think 2015 was the second time I met you... And the last time I went lol

2/2

Even ignoring the ethics concerns of training data requiring mass scale theft and emulation, I've not seen GenAI produce a single thing that matches the diversity of human work or the quality of a professional.

It's too heavily biased, and takes too many iterations to get useable output.

I know a few people who have to take Dramamine for anything first person, can't imagine what they'd feel like in a roll-out in that game.

It was the first game I tried learning speedrun strats for b/c going fast was the whole point anyway.

Mirrors Edge

What a beast. Absolutely eye searing bloom, motion sickness inducing player movement, but the first true first person parkour game I think actually felt like a game that put movement before combat