This wolf in British Columbia took a break from eating herring roe to investigate a half-submerged object: the photographer’s camera

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So basically:

Generative AI? Absolutely not.

Functional AI tools to assist/speed up repetative technical development for devs? Sure.

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Bethesda uses it as a tool to assist on a functional/technical level, not as a replacement for human developers or human artistry.

It has been said time and time again by current and former Bethesda devs that Todd is a great person and an awesome boss. Bethesda is widely reported as a fantastic place to work and there is a good reason they have had so many long term and tenured employees.

Literally the only way that will change is if Bethesda is forced by Xbox into a situation where they are forced to replace people/art with AI generated garbage like some studios have done. I don't see that happening as long as Todd is still leading Bethesda. He'd probably resign if it reached that point.

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This is also a little known fact about Todd Howard, but hes actually an artist. He did some early concept/sketch idea work for Bethesda and he's long had an affinity and love of art. He's not a professional artist, but he clearly loves art and game development itself is an extension of artistic expression. Todd clearly believes that human creativity and ingenuity can never (and should never) be replaced

Anyways here's a cute piece Todd Howard made in Middle School that they now have displayed (along with other student artists' work)

Todd Howard was a world Artist on Redguard!

(in addition to being the project lead)

Blocking does not have to be some big gesture. I block people for being assholes but I'm also willing to block someone for giving a dumb take about my fav character. I've blocked people because I was tired of seeing their posts in a tag I'm browsing. I've blocked people who had opinions I agreed with but they were an ass about it. I've blocked people simply because I didn't like their personality or the vibe they gave off.

also idk i just can't help but think so many stories esp in recent years are about women who do NOT want to raise a child but never for a second consider abortion. and if you bring up that like well if she was horrified about her accidental unwanted pregnancy then she should have had an abortion, people love to respond that supporting the right to choose means you have to support when women choose to have the baby

and it's just like. okay but this is a story. jenna is a fictional character who was written in this way for a reason and not a real woman who has the real agency to Actually Make A Choice (just like all the other characters in fictional stories in the last 20 years who end up unexpectedly pregnant and make it clear that this is undesirable for them). and people are like well you need the pregnancy for the story to happen and jenna is also pro-choice (and thus so is the musical) because she says so when she rejects the doctor presenting that option initially she's just making her choice to keep this baby that she initially very much does not want. and yeah i'm sure sara bareilles herself is in fact pro choice and i of all people understand the need for a potentially unrealistic plot contrivance to occur in order to allow the story to occur, but why is it always this fucking story

why is it always a woman who does NOT want a baby and is not in a place in her life to raise a child refusing an abortion for no stated reason except she doesn't want one even in the same breath as she reaffirms she also doesn't want a child, and then learning to love and want her child through the process of her pregnancy and in doing so love herself. (in the less uplifting version of this kind of story, the pregnancy just makes protagonist's life worse and miserable)