Dreaming In T3chn1c0l0r

It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

He and Adam Adamowicz were the two primary concept artists for Skyrim and Ray did extensive concept work for Fallout 4 and Starfield and did work on Fallout 76 as well.

Ilya Nazarov (primary Fallout 4 concept artist) made a very good decision when he decided to move to a different company a while back.

An even more insidious interpretation is that the concept work on TES VI is done (we know Ray was working on it as of early last year) and now that the concept art is finished Microsoft has no need of him anymore...

Lied and said he was non-verbal

Lied and said he was incapable of communication

Lied and said he had not gotten the surgery of his own accord

Lied and said his "guardians decided [he] was trans"

Got MGT to call a procedure done on a consenting adult "criminal" just because he had cerebral palsy

Mass reported his video and his account, which he ran, until facebook terminated his account for "child exploitation" despite it being his account, him being an adult, and him not being exploited

Ableism and transphobia are inseperable. Just like ableism was used to prop up bigotry throughout history, now it is being used to deny transgender people bodily autonomy the same way it is used to deny disabled people bodily autonomy. It's not a coincidence that so much of the rights transphobic rhetoric is focused on labelling us as "mentally ill". They don't think any disabled people, let alone mentally ill people should have independence or liberation.

How deep does it go? The answer may surprise you. Or not.

Ram/CPU/GPU shortages + price hikes

AI being used more and more in gaming (*ahem* NVIDIA)

Console price hikes

Bottom line market price for most newly released games these days being $70-$100 or more

Xbox lay-offs and studio sell-offs

Sony lay-offs and studio shutdowns

Sony ending disc manufacturing

Etcetera......

I can't tell if this is the lead up to an eventual full-on market crash (relative to gaming) in spectacular fashion or if we're witnessing the gradual but ever increasing decay of said gaming market which will eventually reach a point in that it will just crumble in on itself, maybe.

DONT BE A FUCKING SCAB

NOT EVEN DIGITALLY 🫵

Fill out this Microsoft survey to leverage your voice as a consumer. Phrasing that will help is mentioning you are concerned the layoffs will impact the quality of future games.

And if you're in one the five cities they have headquarters in it looks like members of the public are encouraged to show their support

But the Montreal March has an RSVP here