This is exactly the kind of thing I want! Perfect!

This is just gutting to hear about. I’m so incredibly disappointed. I genuinely, and naively as it turns out, thought the EU “leadership” was better than this. :(

That moment you’re reminded that, oh yeah, this guy was a comedian back in simpler times.

Remember, if you see someone stealing from a data center… no, you didn’t.

Heck, at this point it’s just amazing that their air defense brought down anything.

Hey, man, I don’t think you can park there…

1,582 days as of this morning.

"Fuel tankers and other Russian logistics vehicles will go up in flames!

Ronin, Ivan Franko Group, and Signum are destroying everything that gets in the way of the drone’s flight path from Lyman to Zaporizhzhia☄️

Russian logistics must be eliminated across the entire front line. To make this happen, donate to Digital Rusoriz!"

Just to clarify: MST3k did the sequel to this. Season 3, Episode 1 “Cave Dwellers” (aka “The Blade Master”, “Ator 2: L’invincible Orion”). Rifftrax later went back and did this movie, the first in the series.

Let me fix that for you: “When an AI bubble pops…”

My experiences with these kinds of headhunters has been “mixed”, trending toward “poor”. Most were useless. They would show up with “opportunities” then I’d never hear from them again. These people/companies typically, as I understand it, work “in bulk”. They’re just harvesting as many resumes as they can, throwing buckets of them at employers and hoping something sticks. They aren’t really going to put any meaningful effort into helping you.

That said, a rare few have really stepped up. The last one I worked with back around 2012, really went out of his way to get me in with a company and secure me a good offer. So they do exist. But, in my experience at least, they are rare.

You’re in a tricky position. You’re looking for a relatively senior position. You’ll be up against a fair amount of competition for somewhat rare roles with very specific requirements. There’s just not going to be a ton of those director+ level roles out there at any given time. But don’t give up and don’t give up hope. Those recruiters do exist, as do those jobs. Good luck!

Not a lot is standing out to me as a must-buy (in part because I already have a lot in my library). Kind of thinking about Last Train Home, 9 Kings, and Knights in Tight Spaces. A part of me has also been thinking about snagging the old Guild Wars trilogy. GW1 is ancient by gaming standards, but still has a lot to offer.

I’m starting to think we need to reframe this a little. Stop referring to “artists”. It’s not just lone, artistic types that are getting screwed here, it’s literally everyone who has content that’s been exposed to the Internet. Artists, programmers, scientists, lawyers, individuals, companies… everyone. Stop framing this as “AI companies versus artists” and start talking about it as “AI companies versus intellectual property right holders”, because that’s what this is. The AI companies are choosing to ignore IP law because it benefits them. If anyone, in any other context, tried to use this as a legal defense they would be laughed out of the courtroom.

I haven’t worked with it myself as I’m not working on Japanese right now, but I had a recommendation recently for Satori Reader.

No way this kind of disconnected-from-the-users attitude will backfire. This game is sure to be a great experience! /s

Well, that would explain a lot.

I’m also guessing that at “up to 30%” of the company’s leadership decisions are being made by AI too.

I remember running into this as well. It’s because Plex installs itself with its own user. So post-install, you need to add the Plex account to your user Group and restart the service.

sudo usermod -a -G <yourUserName> plex
sudo service plexmediaserver restart

Two commands and bam! You’re in business.

ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/458547/i-cannot-get-plex-server-to-see-any-directories#1472193

Three things based on other comments here:

(1) <name of game engine> is free, try that!

Be wary with this. They may be free for students or small deployment situations, but may have increasingly agressive demands as your user base increases in size or your seek some kind of profitability. I wouldn’t panic about, but do make sure to carefully review the licensing terms for ALL tools that you use in your process.

(2) Learning/Tutorials

Depends a bit on how you learn best. Youtube almost always has some good instructional videos. Most of the major tool/engine makers have large libraries of tutorials to draw from as well. Even very experienced programmers routinely have dozens of browser tabs that start from web searches that read “<name of my game engine/platform> how to do <specific thing I want to do>”.

(3) If you look to hire or contract out some of the work, just realize that you will very often only get what you really pay for. Quality work costs more. One option you have is to spend the next year or three doing everything you can yourself. Get as close to complete as you can. Then go to something like Kickstarter and look for completion funds. “Look at how complete the game is. If I can just get a little bit of money, I can hire a professional <whatever> to do that one part that I couldn’t do myself”. This is especially usual for getting access to skills like art, music, voice acting, etc.

Doing my second play-through of Stalker 2. Really enjoying the game (140 total hours), but it does still have quite a few bugs. Most of the bugs are minor, but a few have been pretty serious.

Anyone considering attending a protest of any kind should probably at least skim over some of this guidance:

https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest