Joakim & i were chatting about game OSTs, i put us on the topic of how fuckin good the Agent Black battle themes ALL are, & recalled how i fought some of the final Iconoclasts battles in the backseat of my parents’ car on the way home from the airport.
i had headphones in (1/2)
… and so my folks just saw in their rear view mirror me making panicked faces & wiggling my Switch around as if jumping/dodging depended on it.
and the panting 😭 the cursing & the panting lmao.
they had to ask if i was OK.
in WHAT UNIVERSE would Epic think this would be a fun thing to share with the public? it’s such a bad look for them 😣🤢
it’s super tacky when folks are trying to excuse their studio’s use of AI by claiming it is “only JUST used for things like localization” 😤
localization is an art, i’ve seen how terrible it can be when a studio just plugs the game’s dialogue into something as simple as Google Translate.
the worst part is when they’re like “don’t worry, we modify the AI-generated concept art design portions when it’s too obviously lifted from other existing games!!” 🥲
meanwhile most of that AI database has been built by scraping past, current, & future Epic Games employees’ ArtStation portfolios.
AI could NEVER.
Hire real artisans, and you’ll get REAL art.
Love how many creatives they brought on board to make this music video come to life 💗
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