MurrayL @ MurrayL @lemmy.world

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This. There's a legal distinction between redundancy and other forms of termination that creates some important practical differences.

You can't just fire people without cause (e.g. gross misconduct) in the UK; it has to go through a redundancy process, and those affected get a compensation package from the company.

Depends at what stage of development you get the recordings done (although for larger projects it's likely to be across several sessions).

The later you start the process, the fewer lines you'll have to toss out. But big studios don't mind throwing money at recording sessions, so losing 50%+ isn't that big of a deal as long as there were still some usable results.

As mentioned in the article, these are all union VAs and their new agreement explicitly protects them from AI being used without their permission.

If it turns out they really did use AI to rework some of the voice lines, there could be a major lawsuit coming...

I mean, that's basically the main character's arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.

Generally, it goes to the US Treasury.

I still remember the first time I saw the demo video where they flip a window around and write a note on the back of it. Blew my mind.

A lot of the old Trek games are available on GOG, but sadly A Final Unity isn't one of them. I assume there's some kind of licensing problem holding it up?

Starfield

As a dev who has worked on mobile games:

1. The stores have a serious problem with discovery which makes it unreasonably difficult to find the good original games in the sea of shovelware, but the good stuff IS out there.
2. People say they hate free-to-play and that they'd happily pay once for access like a normal game, but the stats say otherwise. Almost no one pays for premium mobile games, and that's why no one bothers making them.
3. People who use 'mobile game' as an insult are usually wilfully ignorant about the platform and just have an axe to grind.

Modders don't have to run functionality and regression testing, fully localise any new text, pass platform certification, or any of the other hundreds of things that prevent AAA devs from dropping patches whenever they feel like it.

Not saying they couldn't have had this stuff ready sooner, but comparing it to how quickly modders can release is apples to oranges.

If you don't finish Y6 (or at least watch the cutscenes on YouTube or read a story summary) then the setup for MWEHN won't make sense. Judgment and Ishin are standalone spin-offs so they can be played at any point.

You're being downvoted because it's a stupid question. It's not happening currently in NA; they're making a comparison to the historical colonization that happened there.

The Scunthorpe problem rears its ugly head

Hard to say for sure without any gameplay screenshots, but:

"allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster’s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads"

So I would expect something that's definitely an upgrade over the vanilla version in terms of compatibility and basic visual fidelity, but nothing much beyond that. (And, for the record, I think that's fine?)

I think you mean 'after the GameCube'.

And even then, the GC only sat as a middle-ground between the original Xbox and the PS2. Nintendo hasn't explicitly tried to make a graphical powerhouse since the N64.

Personally, I'm not® sure™ if this: TITLE* has enough* special characters* in it

There's no such thing as a zero-effort port

Not to suggest that Disney is innocent or couldn't have done more to avoid this, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the marketing art materials were outsourced to a dedicated studio who decided to use AI (possibly even without telling Disney).

Lots of outsource-focused art studios overpromise and overstretch to win their contracts, and then the artists end up having to cut corners to meet the crazy deadlines they've been given.

Yeah I wouldn't use EA Sports as the yardstick here as they keep them coming long after everyone else has given up on a platform. FIFA 14 came out on the PS2 in 2013; the same year the PS4 launched.

You didn't answer the question. I'll answer for you: no, there's no mention at all in the article of chores being required before check-out.

It's a valid discussion about airbnb in general, I guess, but it's otherwise irrelevant to this specific news story.