During Reach's early development, I made the original proposal to have George sacrifice himself in orbit and then have the covenant fleet show up, giving the unspoken implication that "You sacrificed your best guy and barely made dent. You can't win this war".
But my original pitch was "You leave Jorge in the Covenant bridge, he locks the door and is defending this room to ensure the ship stays on course, and the player runs back to the hangar and jumps" (all in game), we'd then transition to a first person cinematic while the player was falling.
The story team pushed back with a counter-proposal insisting Jorge get this monologue. I didn't agree at first so we debate/argued/etc. That happened a lot. In the end, it was the right choice (I was wrong), and it made the moment so much better.
That was the cool thing about old school Bungie. All the best moments were an amalgamation of proposals and counter-proposals, to ultimately arrive at the best version of the idea.
The “She needs to look more robotic”comments are ironic.
In Overwatch lore, omnics are heavily discriminated against, so an omnic choosing to appear more human is actually a logical response to the world they live in. Blending in is a tactic people use when standing out puts a target on their back
The criticism is almost proving the point: if people find it distasteful with an omnic looking human, that’s exactly the kind of attitude that would motivate an omnic to hide what they are in the first place. Expecting them to make their robotic features more obvious ignores the narrative reason they might want to disguise them
I will never stop banging the drum that AI plagiarizes by default.
You can literally never be sure it isn't ripping something else off when you generate an image, asset, or video.
This is from Zelda if you didn't know.
están haciendo que un día en donde velamos a nuestros seres queridos sea solo para divertir a los extranjeros que nada tienen que ver con nuestra cultura
mi casa si es su casa pero no cuando se aprovechan de ella
With NVIDIA and Windows syncing teasers, feels like it is going to be something objectively awful like a subscription to rent compute from a datacenter while your computer is basically just a dumb terminal.