#this includes EA I think

[felassan]

SAG AFTRA news update:

"SAG-AFTRA Members Who Work on Video Games Go on Strike July 25th A.I. Protections Remain the Sticking Point SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, acting under the authority delegated by the SAG-AFTRA National Board, and with the unanimous advice and counsel of the Interactive Media Agreement Negotiating Committee, called a strike of the Interactive Media Agreement, effective July 26 at 12:01 a.m. Today’s vote to strike comes after more than a year and a half of negotiations without a deal. The convenience bargaining group with whom SAG-AFTRA is negotiating includes Activision Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts Productions Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc., Llama Productions LLC, Take 2 Productions Inc., VoiceWorks Productions Inc., and WB Games Inc. Any game looking to employ SAG-AFTRA talent to perform covered work must sign on to the new Tiered-Budget Independent Interactive Media Agreement, the Interim Interactive Media Agreement or the Interim Interactive Localization Agreement. These agreements offer critical A.I. protections for members. Negotiations began in October 2022 and on Sept. 24, 2023, SAG-AFTRA members approved a video game strike authorization with a 98.32% yes vote. Although agreements have been reached on many issues important to SAG-AFTRA members, the employers refuse to plainly affirm, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their A.I. language. “We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse A.I. to the detriment of our members. Enough is enough. When these companies get serious about offering an agreement our members can live — and work — with, we will be here, ready to negotiate,” stated SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.   “The video game industry generates billions of dollars in profit annually. The driving force behind that success is the creative people who design and create those games. That includes the SAG-AFTRA members who bring memorable and beloved game characters to life, and they deserve and demand the same fundamental protections as performers in film, television, streaming, and music: fair compensation and the right of informed consent for the A.I. use of their faces, voices, and bodies. Frankly, it’s stunning that these video game studios haven’t learned anything from the lessons of last year - that our members can and will stand up and demand fair and equitable treatment with respect to A.I., and the public supports us in that,” said Crabtree-Ireland. “Eighteen months of negotiations have shown us that our employers are not interested in fair, reasonable A.I. protections, but rather flagrant exploitation. We refuse this paradigm – we will not leave any of our members behind, nor will we wait for sufficient protection any longer. We look forward to collaborating with teams on our Interim and Independent contracts, which provide A.I. transparency, consent and compensation to all performers, and to continuing to negotiate in good faith with this bargaining group when they are ready to join us in the world we all deserve." said Interactive Media Agreement Negotiating Committee Chair Sarah Elmaleh.  For more information and to search whether a video game is struck, please visit sagaftra.org/videogamestrike."

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[virsancte]

me in the studio writing 50 pages of lore for the ts4 vampires over the course of a day

[iamthepulta]

Also I just have to say. Loan documents with 1/6th shekel interest are just as boring as today's .025% financing.

[unopenablebox]

Tell me more about the worst things about the rationalists? The point about “you are experiencing a feeling as though you’re having an insight” (sorry don’t have your exact wording in front of me) is sort of giving me a light bulb moment re: their whole thing

so... the answer is at least kind of "yes, i can do that", but in attempting to answer your question i found myself writing several thousand words of explanation about who i think "rationalists" even describes anymore/ever, why i've encountered them and what my background is, etc, so if you'd like to write back clarifying your own knowledge of/level of interaction with internet rationalism that might help me cut out some of the thousands of words of historical context. regardless i'll think about it and try to figure out which takes i think i'm actually qualified to air in public/which will be meaningful to anyone less immersed in weird rat history inside baseball than i am

[chronurgy]

Erg part of the problem of putting pre-game timelines together is just the sense that Larian didn't really want the spellplague and the second sundering to have happened that close to the game if that makes sense. Like you can look at the published preexisting lore and put together dates and all of that but I can't help but think things flow much better if you just kinda ignore it - for Durge especially

[official-rolli-und-rita]

trying to keep myself from buying the new sims expansion pack which gets the most unbelievably bad reviews on every platform and is generally regarded as an overpriced load of bullshit that adds absolutely nothing of value to the game and has a very good chance of rendering your game completely unplayable bc of how badly it's produced. but on the other hand i want to build apartments...

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

MY DAD HAS STARTED CORRECTING HIMSELF

LIKE HE WAS USED TO JUST SAYING "GIRLS" WHEN REFERRING TO MY MUM AND ME

AND NOW HE'S LIKE "GIRLS AND UH LGBTIA+ PEOPLE"

I AM SOSOSO HAPPY AHHHHH

[dykeogenes]

“it’s so sad you can’t save karlach” you absolutely CAN save karlach and i have a paper to write about why nobody thinks you can

[riddlerosehearts]

i have heard so much about how EA wyll was different from full release wyll and i've been so curious to see that for myself. and well. this is how wyll used to react when you encountered the goblins that had barcus tied up!!

and this is for if you tell him to stand down:

and then this is what he says after the fight if you let him have his way:

[the-faultofdaedalus]

every day i think about howard and maria’s deaths in the 2004 draft script

[bogunicorn]

I'm not in the market for BG3 vs DA comparisons because I find most of them - most especially the negative ones, as if these games are in competition (they are not) or made in comparable circumstances (they weren't) - obnoxious.

What I will say is that playing BG3 felt like my memories of playing DA:O for the first time. And that's kind of a gift.

[piquira]

Do you think Shak is gonna sing Acróstico at her next tour? I've been thinking, it's been so successful, and she definitely likes to include a ballad or two in her tours.

It's also gonna be her first world tour that's gonna focus on just 1 recent album. (Eversince she went worldwide she toured for every 2nd album.) I wonder if that means that she's gonna sing more tracks of the new album, or if she's gonna take more time for classics. I hope she'll sing some songs that she's never done live before!

I would be extremely surprised (and disappointed tbh) if she didn't sing Acróstico. My assumption is that all of her recent singles, released for her album will be performed in her new tour (TF, Monotonia, S53, Acróstico) with the exception of TQG because that's on Karol's album. I'm also pretty sure she's going to scrap most El Dorado songs from the tour just like she did the SES & SW songs, which imo is a win. From ED, I only expect Chantaje to make the cute. Beyond that, nothing else impacted or were significant enough for her to sing again, especially with recent developments.

[grimgrinnr]

Hi I have no other space to talk about this so just lemme say (spoilers under cut)

Tears of the Kingdom owes me fucking child support. You give me a daughter in the form of Josha and a son in the form of Tulin, and then don’t even begin to compensate me for it???

Giving me a wife in Purah almost makes up for it. But there may be more children in the future. I need to be compensated for that too damnit

[andromedasummer]

Good morning, today im going to pirate 5-7 videogames made by small indie game devs who are heavily dependent on sales 😚✌️

in WHAT world is the sims 4 or fucking crusader kings 3 an INDIE GAME

[vivalasthedas]

looking at the difference between the base game and the deluxe edition and wow. So not worth 20 extra quid. Here's a handful of cosmetics with nothing else. Enjoy.

[yhkz]

I lovd. The sims..