Agreed, the assets did make it to production, but were replaced in a patch 5 days later. That definitely seems like it was placeholders that just got missed. Which happens, especially for a new small studio releasing their first game.

GenAI being used for temporary placeholders is arguably a correct use case for it. Especially with a smaller development team. If you have a limited number of artists, having them spend time crafting unique placeholders that will be replaced is a poor use of their time and talents that would otherwise be spent working on final art that will actually be in the released game. That is a 100% valid use case scenario for it, as long as the assets are replaced for the launch. And missing a few and fixing that within a week is entirely understandable, not something they should be indicted for.

There is some concern about the exact wording I’ve seen in various articles. Some say that Sandfall told the awards that GenAI wasn’t used in the development, but the articles don’t use a specific quote on their side, and then later saying it was used for placeholder assets. They seem to imply that Sandfall lies about the use to qualify, then later came clean. I’m wondering if that is simply miscommunication, potentially language issues, about the final game not using GenAI. Just because people speak multiple languages, that doesn’t mean that they understand nuanced differences in meaning when not using their native language. I can see the difference between the final game release and overall development being misunderstood depending on the exact wording used.

Meh, just a hard floppy. Although I really did appreciate my Zip 100 drive for that storage space before writable CDs came along.

Every time I see posts like this I wonder what devices or software you guys are using that don’t support these newer formats? Because I have never had any issues opening or sharing any of these formats in any way on any device. The format is backed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, among others. That doesn’t leave much out.

One could make the same argument about creating a more complicated solution when a simple one solves it for 99% of users. Especially when the remaining 1% will know the difference based on what they’re doing, regardless of the icon used.

There’s a good reason that these two icons are currently different.

Not really, it’s just legacy, the same reason the save icon is still a floppy disk in most programs. That’s what it’s always been.

You may make the distinction between saving a document and downloading a document, but most people don’t pay anywhere near that amount of attention, and don’t care about specifics.

Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.

Why does it need to be separate? The end result is the same, the file on your device. Where it is coming from makes no difference.

99% of users won’t care at all.

It’s infinitely more accurate than a floppy disk icon.

For 99% of users, the specifics make no difference at all.

It’s closer to reality than a floppy disk icon, that’s for sure.

I’ve always had mixed luck with Bluetooth file sharing on Windows. Sometimes it works perfectly, other times it just doesn’t seem to work at all. Even with the same exact devices.

Microsoft has Phone Link for both iOS and Android

Google has Quick Share for Android.

Not only the setting off, but any sort of behind the scenes stuff related to it disabled as well. No automatic updating, no background processes to “keep it ready, just in case”. Do that when it’s enabled.

It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.

Surely the 50+ year long embargo preventing them from commerce and trade with half the world had absolutely no bearing on that whatsoever.

Gotta have the dog whistle on there somewhere Surprised they even bothered other than to make this point.

Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.

It’s a start but doesn’t fully address the problem.

Eh, I’d say it addresses everything that matters.

The root of the problem was that deleting the account was an exploit to avoid limit admin research and further actions, and federation of content removal. That’s the only reason they were bothering to do it. The fix allows admins to research properly, and for federation of removal actions.

It doesn’t solve the root of the issue with bad actors, but that’s a much larger issue well beyond the scope of a couple bug fixes.

Animals haven’t been able to go war and prove that they can beat us. With the notable exception of The Australian Emu.

Not really… According to Pew Research Approximately 45% of Republicans report owning a gun, compared to about 20% of Democrats. Considering the parties are often roughly equally sized when it comes to these statistical models, that’s not actually a massive difference. There are plenty of armed Democrats, they’re just not vocal about wanting to worship their tools.

Does the Louvre actively refuse all attempts to retrieve original works and tell the requestors the fuck off the way the British Museum does?

From my understanding that’s more of a British-specific problem, not most museums in general.