Whiny shit-babies: "Waaah we need genAI, it's too hard to make good art without it"
Iain McCaig with 256 colors AND A FUCKING MOUSE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE STYLUSES YET, THIS WAS DONE WITH A FUCKING MOUSE:
I still think about how amazing the Iain McCaig Monkey Island character portrait revisions were.
Whiny shit-babies: "Waaah we need genAI, it's too hard to make good art without it"
Iain McCaig with 256 colors AND A FUCKING MOUSE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE STYLUSES YET, THIS WAS DONE WITH A FUCKING MOUSE:
Imagine owning Double Fine and even *considering* closing it. The history of Double Fine is the history of the games industry itself. This is a crime.
it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou
Skybrush Threepwood
Hatok
Dan Marshall
Skybrush Threepwood
I still think about how amazing the Iain McCaig Monkey Island character portrait revisions were.
The logic, even into the 2010s, was that being part of a big corporation - as an employee or smaller company - came with a safety that balanced out a lot of potential downsides. They're shit, but relatively stable. And now it's like, "Hey, let's close a company or just fire 5000 ppl randomly"
I still think about how amazing the Iain McCaig Monkey Island character portrait revisions were.
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off.
Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening.
Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this???
In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now
DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
