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@Americansamurai1 Vampire Survivors was held back from PS5 because the developers found it difficult to get the game running on the Sony Walkman TPS-L2

@Fiendish-Beaver

'Sony seems to think it may have a banger on its hands'

Maybe Sony has developed an obsession with sausages 🤔😊

@Fiendish-Beaver

Edit: the following is not direct from GS, apologies, I misread the articles. I won't delete it to hide my error.

Game Science has been straight with us...

"The game is reportedly suffering from a bug known as 'Memory Leak,' which can cause significant crashes that could compromise the performance of your Xbox console. Due to this issue, the game has not passed Xbox's bug detection tests and has therefore been indefinitely delayed until they manage to optimize the game for Series X|S"​

Another report GS explains, "Black Myth: Wukong has already failed Xbox certification twice, primarily due to a memory leak problem. The memory leak causes substantial crashes that not only compromise the game’s performance but potentially affect the Xbox consoles themselves"​

Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC Hopes Reingnited by Websites Reporting Rumours on Reddit

@mazzel are you one of the infinite monkeys forced into labour to prove the hypothesis that with infinite time you'll write all the works of Shakespeare?

How's it going? 😊👍

@Northern_munkey thank you for saying so.

@mazzel I think AI suplanting a few voice actors is a byproduct of the real impact AI is going to have across all of society.

"Metaphor: ReFantazio will be first out of the gate by a couple of weeks (11th October on PS5, PS4), leaving connoisseurs with a harrowing choice.."

Connoisseurs will buy both if the are both worthy, there's no angst to be had.

The harrowing choice is for regular, less discerning RPG fans who only have the budget for one.

@mkr same with TLoU Factions MP, if it had to be an online MP game.

@Deityjester it's a tactic straight out of Disney's playbook.

"I've heard good things about Jade Raymond's game. Is it Fairgame$? I've heard good things about that. So there's a few, I know people who are a bit skeptical about the trailer, but I've heard internal chatter is very positive about it."

I read that quote and it sounded familiar...and then I understood why when I reread it in Trump's voice. Sounds like his style of delivery.

"..it seems like the game is locked in a death spiral of a new and entirely literary kind"

@Khayl In what way is what they are doing directly related to literature? I don't understand the reference.

The only 'beatle' Randy has anything in common with is a dung beetle, pushing his bullsh*t along, gathering the fresh sh*t that flows from his mouth.

So, everyone except MS is a liar. Maybe MS should go into selling gas lighters. Is Amber Heard head of PR there now?

'We'd prefer not to comment on the deals made by our partners with other platform holders"

....is in of itself a comment about a 'deal' designed to cast aspertions.

Fallacy of paralipsis MS, and that's pretty scummy.

@Luigia haha! Love it.

War!... has never been so much fun....

Publishers, movie studios, networks, websites need to go back to providing content people want and not try to dictate what they think people should have. Give the people what they want and the product will print money.

And ffs stop classing all criticism as toxic fandom and blame, even moke and insult (!) regular folk who feedback their annoyance. If your product fails it's only your fault.

@Luigia Sensi is like a cherished friend from the past.

@Nalodart I'm on board with that.

@Nalodart I don't see how they can ask for regulation for that when so many trades and skills have been made surpassed by technology throughout history. Voice acting is not an essential profession that needs protecting or becomes hazardous if not humanly supervised. What does need regulating is passing off AI as human, and that's where we can hold to account companies via transparency, which will in turn allow us to choose whether or not we support human or AI products. There is where the we can show that we value human input over AI and make companies retain workers.

@Nalodart I would be saddened in the same way I've seen trades like making guitars and saddles (I pick them because they were skills once in the family generations ago) have become specialised because of the inevitable rise of technology. So now there isn't a steady stream of apprectices learning those two particular trades like there once was and forthcoming generations have migrated to other modes of employment. But there's still demand for human creativity in those two areas in my family's home town in Spain because people still value true talent.

So, in essence I agree with you, AI will replace human produced art in the name of convenience, and I am genuinely sorry that in the short term it will have a serious impact on people. However, as consumers we do have the power to influence how pervasive AI is in this field. We can choose to not buy AI-driven products and we can seek to support traditional work.

Edit: BTW I could be wrong about everything. I'm no expert.

@The_Elder hey! How do you know they are a they? 😆👍

@Nalodart that is already a thing. Computers can do what I do in regards of design. A computer can create architecture and yet architects are not redundant.

To be clear my job also involves installing all that stuff too. Yes, the tiling is by far more satisfying for the soul because it's more like art than electrics is. Nobody appreciates the 'artistry' of a house and how it got to be the way it is.

Wow. That's unprecedented isn't it? They've really got to look at why the game failed in the most spectacular fashion I've ever seen for a game that is NOT broken, unfinished or unplayable.

This game failed because people did not want I play it, they hated the characters, and the publisher needs to be able to accept harsh realities when getting to the root of the problem and not make excuses or blame those who criticised it for whatever reason.

The game failing to sell has nothing to do with criticism or external influences. A product was made that the public immediatley declined in the most devastating way; with their wallets.

@Nalodart imagine you have an empty building....design how that building it going to be lit depending on requirements of each room, personal preferences, requests, taking into account the functionality of the lights, decorative or perfunctory, type of light, hue, capacity and so on. Then add in power outlets and the parameters a customer may want there. Then calculate optimal routes, sizing, placements, loads. Then think about doing all that again with controls, access, security and data, fire prevention. Then design the exterior's lighting and power.

It's not art but it all has to be done with aesthetics as a top priority. Oh, and I'm also a time-served tiler specialising in granite, porcelain and marble because my father was a stonemason. I've tiled temples in marble so beautiful it's fills one with awe to see it finished.

If children want to protect themselves from AI, I recommend that one way is to learn a trade.

@Nalodart I do have a creative job. I design electrical installations. The revolution I speak of is AI in general as it permeates into all levels of society. I think the ultimate expression of it will be to enable greater control. It's the balance between beneficial advancements and more State interference in our lives, for example social credit systems, that I worry about.

@IamJT good points, well made and it would make for a good discussion.

@Flaming_Kaiser I haven't advocated for any platform. Its censorship that im concerned with. I'm sorry FK, I'm not going to expand on it as we've been asked to stay on topic. About AI, I agree with you that it is going to change everything and I am worried about it. We are already seeing how Google and others are influencing how AI responds to input from the public in a fashion that isn't balanced or objective. And I agree that it could make human interactions hard to trust.

@Nalodart electrical engineer.

Yes, I agree with you, it will have far reaching consequences and will revolutionise many industries not just the one Hale is in. To me it will be as far reaching as the industrial revolution and it will bring in a new age.

@Ilyn ha! That's excellent! It must've been a difficult wnk 😆

@Ilyn good times indeed. When computer game magazines had actual cassette tapes of some homebred game on it sellotaped to the cover! Innocent times 😁

@AhmadSumadi thank you Ahmad.

@SwissCheese we've been asked to keep it on topic so I have. I would be happy to discuss with you where I think we differ in what I am saying, and your views, but that will ha e to be another time.

@Titntin very kind of you to take the time to say that.

@themightyant eeek! There's loads of Rogan ones I've seen.

I do feel bad for the voice actors and actresses, don't get me wrong. The less famous ones will lose work, no doubt. And I don't think Hale is wrong for pointing it out, but for me it's fatalism she exhibits that I don't agree with. Things will change, the cat is out of the bag, so I think her energies would be better spent preparing for it then trying to demonise it because it'll be her Moby Dick.

I could be totally wrong about all of this, I concede. I'm not an authority in anything, but AI is definelty our generations 'industrial revolution' that will transform civilisation at a fundemntal level and voice acting is just a single symptom of the cytokine storm we are about to face.

@DreamlandGem totally fair. I shall cease.

@Frmknst
Edit: wow! When you replied to me you only wrote two sentences. Now it's about five paragraphs!! Talk about moving the goalposts 😆😆😆

what tool was upgrade before the printing press? The steam engine? The computer? Those things represent a massive shift in society because of the impact they had. For example, before the printing press oridnary people were uneducated and the only people who were allowed to read were the Clergy, and that was enforced by the death penalty. The printing press marked the end of oppressive ignorance and total subjugation to the Church for all matters.

@WhiteRabbit I'm not fear-mongering. Stop saying that. I am having a discussion with you that you don't agree with. I think I will leave our discussion because it isn't evolving into a healthy back and forth

@DennisReynolds thank you, good points that I agree with. And definelty food for thought.

(Edit: What you said about Hale is something I will definely consider. Thanks again)

As for Trump, its happening on both sides. Kamala's campaign is busy creating 'endorsements' from famous persons by clipping together phrases and editing them in a way that promotes here. She's being sued by various personalities over this. Both sides of the aisle is behaving badly but only one side is looking to use censorship to deny the other exposure.

I think its a bad idea to root for a political party like as if it were a football team. I am neither right wing or left wing. For some things I'm Conservative, for other I'm Liberal. To be fully on one side is to be captured by a single ideology which I think is more dangerous to society than having a brand range of political views.

@Rich33 absolutely agree. I don't think any constitution in any country allows total freedom of speech, not even the American constitution which goes further than any. There are abuse laws in place for that kind of thing.

No, I'm talking about it in a broader sense and the overreach of authority using extremism as a sledgehammer to punish the vast majority of people who get caught up in the wake of the censorship.

@themightyant no, you're right...it was a paragraph I added to the end of my actual point but it seems to have had an effect i didnt anticipate.

@WhiteRabbit see, I respect you but you don't extend that to me. You say I'm fear-mongering when I'm not. I'm expressing an opinion and in no way am I trying to spread fear.

Why are you behaving that way? Why are you ok with doing that to me when I'm trying to talk to you like someone who's point of view I don't agree with at all but respect? It's not a good look for you and frankly it the kind of action you accuse me of doing. Don't you see the hypocrisy?

@WhiteRabbit

I repsect that you feel that way, its not uncommon to see, especially these days since Covid where politics seems to have insinuated itself into most things.

My counter to that is free speech isn't there to protect what you agree with. When you use censorship like that the day will come when your speech will be declared 'wrong-thought' and you will be silenced and cowed.

@DennisReynolds no I'm not. As usual with me you're missing my point and reducing it down to some gotcha moment. I'm not advocating anything, I'm highlighting the parallels throughout history of tech being seen as the end of an industry....and I went on to elucidate the real danger or AI, a point you totally ignored.

Seriously, if you want to talk to me why not engage maturely instead of the faux outrage? If you don't agree that's obviously fine and welcome but have the decency to ask me to clarify my point if you don't agree, or rebutt it, rather than go for a strawman.

What are your actual thoughts on the matter, forget what I think, what is your opinion on what is happening with AI and the broader implications of its inevitably pervasive introduction into our civilisation?

@themightyant agreed, what you say is what has happened every other time there's been a paradigm shift in tech and I don't see this as being anything different.

I don't begrudge that these actors and actresses are worried about their future, that's normal and consistent with precedents set, like the ones I've mentioned.

What's really worrying is the attack on free speech in the name of protecting society from exposure to ideas and thoughts that don't align with one set of political ideology citing minority extremism being enough to justify it, contrary and a flagrant breach of the country's own constitution.

Brazil suspending X and criminalising its population if they access it is a real threat to personal freedom across the world. The 6th largest nation in the world has issued a totalitarian measure, mass censorship, and the rest of us need to be worried because we have already felt the creep of the restriction of expression entering our society.

@lindos all use of words is context driven. Using 'addictive' in this environment where there's communal understanding of the subject matter, a community of like-minded individuals, a broad spectrum of ability grammatically expressing oneself in prose, and an implied acceptance that the vast majority is here in good faith to express views, is in now way pejorative or harmful to do.

Words do not exist outside of context. That line of thinking is far more dangerous than someone saying they are 'addicted' to a game as a measure of how much they are enjoying it and ignoring the broader point they are making.

By all means be prudish about language, I am. I can't stand Americanisms, poor grammar from professional writers, compelled speech erasing feminine terms, such as the word 'actress', there's plenty to get our teeth into. But, being prudish about a word when you take it out of context is not right.

@Kidfunkadelic83 fit it with a commode and you're set for life 😁

I seem to remember from my history lessons that in the 15th century the printing press was going to destroy jobs for the entire industry of scribes, when in reality it was what paved the way for a revolution, uplifting society around the world.

There was a backlash from the entertainment industry about CGI replacing real sets and less work for trades, but instead it opened up new opportunities in the digital realm, and tradesmen still had work on sets anyway.

There was a backlash against steam trains. There was a backlash against robots in factories. There was a backlash against computers.

History shows every time there's a significant technology introduced there's fierce resistance from someone who thinks its the end of their particular trade, and while there obviously is an impact on it, the common trend is that it opens more doors than it closes.

Personally, I'm more bothered about the politicisation of language, compelled speech, and a future where calling a woman an actress is somehow wrong so we need to say actor for fear of not conforming.

AI I'm sure will be abused by a minority, there are unscrupulous businesses, that's inevitable. But the danger of AI isn't in the realm of voice acting, it in the dissemination of information and the bias it will introduce from companies like Google, which we've already seen overtly.

@babybilly he probably doesn't think Man in the High Castle exists, such is the power of his brainwashing 😆

@Kidfunkadelic83 electric scooter?! You've changed. Too good to push? You're just like all the mums in the maternity wards up London 😆👍

@Bez87 by definition this game is great if people are saying it is. What other metric could possibly compare to the measure of greatness than people having that opinion?