Luke Plunkett
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hi
we, uh
made a media company
Hi! Welcome to Aftermath. We (
@LukePlunkett
,
@Vahn16
,
@rcmacleod
,
@xoxogossipgita
&
@Papapishu
) are a new worker-owned, reader-supported website about games, internet culture and beyond.
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hope you all enjoyed the "wow this is neat" phase of AI art cos we're about to head into the "uh this is just compositing stolen art without compensation or credit" phase
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the cybertruck isnt available in europe because, in countries with functional governments, tesla would be sued into oblivion
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seen experienced devs saying today "why should voice actors get residuals if we don't", and it's like, my brother, you are so close
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"chris, it's your agent, have you ever watched rick and morty?"
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a huge part of the bad vibes you feel...everywhere these days is because every single aspect of our lives is being squeezed by companies shaking us down, and we're reaching a breaking point
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people didnt buy vr headsets for a new fucking half life game, theyre never buying them for work meetings and groceries
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this is so cool
the tool layers a near-invisible SECOND artwork over your original, which confuses machine learning platforms and stops them lifting an artist's style.
Artists finally have a tool to help fight back against 'AI' platforms:
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every time i see an oppenheimer screenshot i think rockstar announced la noire 2
Christopher Nolan says the Oppenheimer-Barbie cultural phenomenon 'Barbenheimer' is going to do great things for the moviegoing experience, and Cillian Murphy agrees.
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nothing but love and respect for a game launching in 2023 and looking like this
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a lot of people seem content with "well you can just filter it out", and like, thats not the problem here. the problem is that we can't trust devs to tick the "features AI" box, and we can't trust valve to be able to police the origin of every asset in every game
Valve's new AI rules will open the floodgates to a river of shit:
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gamers rise up (for two weeks)
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(a kid busting onto the stage at a gamer show and saying made-up stuff about jews may not end up being as funny as everyone thinks it is atm)
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you: how are my favourite video games made?
game developers:
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every week some other bit of trivia or piece of footage from the lotr extras DVDs goes viral, and god it really does show how much we all miss getting all that extra shit on the discs that we bought and owned
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pay
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if nfts hadnt already done it, ai art prompts would turn me into the joker
theyre keywords. its like punching in a google search term then claiming you wrote the book it showed you.
absolutely unhinged stuff
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you: i wish games writers knew how video games were actually made
youtuber:
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incredible that for all the technical and pricing fuckups, its the blue tick priority under replies that has truly killed this website
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what other big game can do this. and if it can, does it.
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you: wow how did this machine learn to paint like this
the machine: is literally leaving artist signatures at the bottom of images
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i wish every artist i see here selling NFTs could just realise the most frustrating thing isn't seeing you selling your work.
it's you falling for the very foundation of the scam, which is enlisting you as free promotion for the idea. pr laundering.
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if i got owned this hard i would never log on to this website ever again
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7.4 million subs, and it's gone.
Imagine if anyone on Reddit's board ever googled "what happened to Digg"
Official Minecraft subreddit shuts down, says 'we no longer feel Reddit is an appropriate place':
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“A union doesn’t do anything to help us produce world-class games”
you havent released a world class game in years my man, maybe it will help
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this is one of the wildest fucking things.
kotick said in july that the email was "tone deaf". HE WROTE IT HIMSELF.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick actually wrote Fran Townsend's deranged, company-wide email.
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every platform, every service, every product, every form of entertainment just keeps tightening the grip. each quarterly growth report looks good in isolation, but we're reaching a point of collective, societal exhaustion
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every one of these is embarassing to read and a shameful exercise in blame landing on developers instead of executives and management.
99% of bad launches arent because the devs suck. its because a game lacked resources and was pushed out unfinished to meet a fiscal target.
A few words from the " The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ " team
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going to clarify to stop people asking:
no, i dont care what people do with it privately or as part of a process
yes, i care about companies using ai art instead of paying artists, and the ethical/legal quagmire of what happens to the art that trained that ai in the first place
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absolutely incredible that E3 got killed off because companies didn't want to fight for attention...then still held a bunch of press conferences and showcases back to back anyway
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square enix come get your boy
Zack Snyder Wanted 'Batman v Superman' to Be Called 'Son of Sun and Knight of Night'
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The whole internet loves Milkshake man, a lovely man that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the man is a nazi
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It's pretty fucking ironic too, I worked on 2 shipped titles from Bethesda, not credited in either one, thank you Bethesda, for making it virtually impossible to find another job in the industry.
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"Epic's core mission is to build a metaverse, and that remains unchanged"
fire all billionaires into the sun, no exceptions
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me: man, i feel like im save scumming every 90 seconds, is this necessary?
baldurs gate 3: *does something catastrophic every 65 seconds* oh absolutely
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stationary camera vs sea legs is my new favourite genre
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why did reddit, of all places, need to do this? there was no need to do this.
but hey, growth and control, baby. now the site i watch nba highlights and check fits on has to shake me down just like everywhere else. more money for worse and fewer products.
im exhausted.
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for all e3s flaws, and they were many, folks in these replies celebrating its demise and "replacement" by a show that is pure, unfiltered advertisement is dystopian.
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another fun side-effect of games media collapsing is that there are fewer and fewer sites left to champion games like this.
10 years ago there'd have been writeups all over the place about a game like this.
Arco has +150 reviews, 98% being positive ✨
Sadly, we are struggling to make people notice about the game itself, being considered already as a "hidden gem"💎
Our gameplay trailer shows how Arco works, and hopefully it will catch your eye 👀
A RT will help us A LOT🙏
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major entertainment and media outlets, im begging you, hire and support dedicated video game desks.
you can avoid stupid posts like this!
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it is absolutely not, and fuck every company trying to make it happen
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today is my last day. 2006-2023. it's been real, Kotaku.
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everything a white man wrote about video games before 2012 needs this up top:
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pls support local journalism
Someone on Nantucket bought a cybertruck and the local newspaper has been following them around making fun of them
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i am once again asking large entertainment and media publications to hire SOMEBODY who knows ANYTHING about video games
“Playing games is such a visceral experience,” Activision Blizzard CEO Kotick explains. “We’re getting to the point that the game itself is able to create its own content in real time. That will be exquisite.”
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saying the quiet part out loud
“With the cheap labor of a developing country, you could use people in the Philippines as NPCs (“non-playable characters”), real-life NPCs in your game"
NFT psycho advocates turning players from 'developing' countries into NPCs:
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looks like absolute dogshit bro, everyone involved should be deeply embarrassed
The folks
@CorridorDigital
combine Stable Diffusion, Dreambooth, and Davinci Resolve for their AI powered anime and the results are incredible!
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if you're paid millions for your success you should also be held accountable for your failures.
Executives should be facing the music, not laying off workers
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worst advice imaginable
nearly everyone laid off in games writing was doing this already
i was doing all this AND doing it incredibly successfully and my deadshit owner STILL didnt value it
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v disappointed in the polygon piece here too, which tries to "both sides" the argument and essentially launders the director's take that can best be described as naive, and at worst disingenuous
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OK wrote this up. Epic say AI companies "may be infringing the rights of ArtStation creators", and that they are "in the process of giving ArtStation users more control over how their work is shared and labeled":
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a fun thing i am thinking about today is that john riccitiello and his team made a major announcement that was so poorly conceptualised, researched and implemented that it staggers belief.
yet he is paid millions, and will face no real repercussions for this.
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good reminder that ai ghouls are who they are at least partly because they have no idea how design or intent works
Once this becomes real time that cash shop will go brrrrrrrrr
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ah yes, the culture he *checks notes* oversaw for over a decade and *rechecks notes* even at times worked directly to protect from scrutiny and punishment
Report: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will 'consider' quitting if he can't 'fix' company's culture.
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there is no piracy without ownership
It is somebody's moral imperative to leak Coyote vs Acme to the world.
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feels weird to be writing one of these finally but...after almost 17 years it's time for me to say goodbye to the very good website kotaku dot com
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do you know what happens when you devote a huge amount of space in a review to PC technical problems?
1) you get yelled at anyway.
2) your review is shit. who talks about NV's bugs now? it's an all-time classic, but this review reads like a reddit post.
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everything sucks because everything has become commoditised, and people like this don't know any other way to live or experience art
taken from the first review on the page for cult of the lamb
WHAT THE FUCK
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10 years of tech journalism licking every boot it can in return for the feeblest of access leads to people sincerely writing tweets like this
the product is dogshit. that it took a reviewer to point it out, and not a single person involved in its development, is damning.
easy to dogpile, much harder to build.
yes, the software is not where it needs to be — full stop — and that's entirely on us.
the overwhelming negative sentiment — what happened to optimism? what happened to pushing things forward?
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*places finger to earpiece* im being told this guy is an enormous asshole, the guy behind the "murder the suffragettes in red dead" yt video, which only makes this funnier
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welcome to today's episode of "this fucking sucks!"
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you: so what's crusader kings actually like
crusader kings:
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this is both the grimmest and funniest video game movie news i have ever seen
The Uncharted movie has been in development hell so long that Mark Wahlberg, once cast as Nathan Drake, is now playing Sully instead.
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(he managed to work jews AND a clinton in there? prob not a coincidence!)
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really getting that sinking feeling that ive devoted an entire career, the bulk of my adult working life, to the idea that games can be covered honestly, with equal parts joy and disdain.
and its been a losing battle. the walls are coming in.
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r/games is the only major subreddit left on my subs list that hasn't gone dark, and their reasons for it suck:
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glad to finally get this out the door!
ai art sucks, and the companies behind it suck, and the people championing it suck
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if you were wondering, did I really email the hacker and post this cybersecurity/crime story on a video game website just because it had a pokemon plush in the photo?
the answer is "yes"
The No-Fly List has been leaked, TSA investigating 'cybersecurity incident':
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like, this doesn't stop the platforms STEALING the art.
but when they do inevitably scrape it, they don't know what the fuck to do with it, which is such a funnier outcome.
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this game did the rounds already when it was first announced, but the pitch of "cop game where your bodycam shows you shooting people" in 2023 sure is a decision
First trailer for the Unreal Engine 5-powered bodycam FPS
#Unrecord
Looks like real footage 🤯
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IT WAS STILL GROWING
YOU CAN NEVER SATISFY THESE GHOULS
If you're wondering why Microsoft made deep cuts in its gaming teams last week, one explanation might be that gaming, without the boost from the Activision deal, would be one of the slower-growing parts of Microsoft
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to be absolutely clear here i am being serious, theres a legacy of this genre looking like this, it works, stick with what works.
this and grigsby games are the undertale/ps1 demakes of the strategy world
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@doctorow
goes into much more detail on this here, which has tiktok in the hed but is really about everything, from FB to amazon
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Vic 3's greatest achievement is telling you the single most important thing in the world is the economy...then showing you in excruciating detail how horrible that economy is
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