"If I had a raisin for every time I heard that one..."

sorry for posting twitter screenshots but good lord

the idea of Ishikawa and Yoko Taro writing together is similarly braindead, just lie duhhh smash two good things together get even bigger gooder thijng

I really wish Sandfall would issue a statement. If they just came out and said "yeah we downloaded some stuff from the asset store. Once folks pointed out some of it was AI slop, we patched it out cuz we don't want that shit polluting our game" none of this drama would have happened.

I'm not mad at any low level devs trapped in the machine or anything. I'm just not gonna buy the thing, it's that easy.

I'm also not gonna worry too much about the maybes with unconfirmed games because I know with certainty most of the games I buy are made by tiny handfuls of AI hating humans so there's no reason to pull my hair out over edge cases

raiding does not require perfection or optimal play in the slightest, I've seen savage raiders that are worse at the game than dudes that don't do anything harder than story trials

the idea that optimization is mandatory is frankly insane

even week 1 savage requiring optimization is a questionable notion and kinda depends on the tier

some like endwalker's last tier you could do it while barely even knowing your job

your target, assuming we ever get some clear info about this, is sandfall interactive, if there was a really moving moment in E33 you really enjoyed it probably had more to do with the musician they found on soundcloud, or the writer they found on reddit, unedeniably small scale human things

with E33? at the bare minimum there was an AI texture in the game that was removed, there's also an interview where a guy says they used "a little AI" but it doesn't really clarify what he's referring to there, and there are a lot of AI tools besides genai