The #Overwatch2 Team has unionized 🛡️
Nearly 200 Developers across Art, QA, Engineering, and Design have joined the CWA. Key reasons include pay gaps, remote work limits, and a push for clear protections around crunch, time off, and severance in case of future layoffs.
Overwatch workers are daring to see the world for what it could be -- by organizing. ✊
They will join nearly 2,600 video game workers at Microsoft who have formed a union to create a better industry and better games. https://t.co/x19PjayqwD
“pronoun jokes”
and it’s literally calling LGBTQ+ people “degenerates”, reading a queer story and saying everyone involved in it should die, insisting that trans women are men and spreading white supremacist rhetoric.. AND THAT WAS JUST 30 MINS OF ONE STREAM LMFAO
🚀 Breaking New Ground in AI & Pixel Art! 🎨✨
I've been developing a brand-new Deep Learning architecture for my thesis—completely different from Transformers, UNet, GANs, or Diffusion Models.
#AI#DeepLearning#PixelArt#MachineLearning#GameDev
@ItzVibez21 Art is expression. Robots cant express. What puts us apart from AI is emotion. What makes the difference in real art and AI generated images is that there is expression in art. In gAI images there is only theft and imitation, the same as a human tracing art.
Unpopular and controversial opinion, but as a person who has been on the internet for more than 10 years and as an artist, it's annoying how there's a rising trend to add a 'commercial fee' to everything that isn't commercial.
Commercial fees are supposed to be for products sold en masse or used as physical advertisement like big posters, but people are adding it for things that shouldn't have it.
Commercial fees for a vtuber model? You're drawing a design someone else made and it's for personal use. Commercial fees for a starting soon/ending soon stream? It's a display of work with credits. What's the point of commissioning a simple artwork then if you can't display it in any way without having to pay more fees?
And I repeat, I'm an artist myself who got and gets commissioned a lot, but I will put a commercial fee exclusively if the person wants to profit by selling my artwork in mass. They get all the rights to use my work to display on streams, twitch banner, profile and shouldn't come with any extra commercial fees of sort. I will put a commercial fee on a vtuber model only if they plan to sell premade models.
Hopefully I don't get lynched for expressing my own opinion, but wanting to commission someone and seeing 200% of the price extra if I want to display it on my stream is a horrid turn off, especially when up until 4 years ago this wasn't a thing I ever seen and many people still don't do that.
A disabled woman and a black man being on the top of Twitch should be cause for celebration, not division on "who deserves it more". They're paving the way for other marginalised people to rise to the top equally.