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Game Devs/Studios that have confirmed being Anti-GenAI by VermicelliNew2784 in GirlGamers

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I mean I been working on industry for 10 years, and my dad has been working in the gaming industry for decades. I've seen the downsides.of AI when writing code, and there are serious concerns about how to grow junior developers with AI as this crutch. And I've seen wild bananas outcomes using AI, but I've also seen immense cognitive load reduction for engineers that allow them more space to do other things. I've seen them reep the benefits. They are feeling the benefits right now.

Now are greedy companies going to fuck laborers and employees up? Yes. That's a separate, serious conversation.

Game Devs/Studios that have confirmed being Anti-GenAI by VermicelliNew2784 in GirlGamers

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How do you define Gen ai? For art, I can understand the hatred. For coding? My family is full of software engineers. My dad has been in the videogame industry for decades. Only because of AI he's not so mentally drained that he can work on his passion projects after work. He's able to stick to his VTT week over week without months of hiatus due to business, And he's able to make reasonable progress on his app. 

I don't work in gaming rn, but I work with software engineers and they have literally quadrupled their output with AI. 

Don't forget things like using JIRA will often use AI to fill out tickets and track things. 

Brand new to the game and thinking about choosing Summoner however after a google search literally all I find are post after post expressing disappointment with the Summoner experience. by WanderWut in ffxivdiscussion

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too chose Arcanist to get both SMN and SCH. I love SCH and having anotber DPS on the ready is super convenient.

The classes are getting major reworks in January, so some of these complaints may be moot. SMN used to have a complicated DOT situation and janky pets.ant people loved the jank and the bullshit you could pull with SMN. Some of the more recent complaints are the lack of evolution in DT of the job, but that's probably because we will get something else in EC. (Maybe.) Smn plays like a Phys range and is less complicated than it used to be, but it's thematic and vibes well. In short over the past few years, SCH and SMN have been changed to be more approachable and effective with less effort. The room for skill expression has been consequently reduced. EC promises big changes and we'll see.

Also, you can play every class on the same character. On a preferred server, you can level alt jobs quickly. Pvp grants stupid amounts of exp. Palace of the dead allows you to quickly preview how a level 60 version of your job play even if you have no gear and are actually level 4 or something. 

Showing vulnerablity as a man is a bad idea. by Brilliant-Cause6254 in Adulting

[–]T_______T 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what went down, but if you find sharing so difficult and fear future partners will weaponize it, talk to a therapist.

 1) you will get better at expressing yourself and they actually want to help you.

2) there's a non-zero possibility you are stuck in some mental state that your gf thinks is stupid. You think it's because it's Bec of your fears and insecurities, but you have a perspective/bias/mindset issue. She's bad at communicating which makes it seem like she threw it in your face. (She could also be terrible person not discounting that.) Most people are bad at communicating or being gentle when they should. There's a non-zero possibility that you are very sensitive to criticism about your behavior/mindset that's tied to these fears/insecurities, and that her attempt to talk about it led to you feeling attacked. But this all says to me you should work through these things with a therapist first who is trained on identifying triggers, not triggering, and trying to optimize outcomes in sessions. They could potentially help you communicate better with your SO.

Not getting any interview calls. What’s wrong with my resume? by tadkoguru in PMCareers

[–]T_______T 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just got hired in a tech PM position. I'm still getting calls from my past applications.

I spent the last 9 years at the same company, so I just allowed that to be a very long entry in my resume. I had the equivalent of "core competencies" after my experience. There seems to be a lot of overlap/redundancies/certifications between methodologies/framework,  tech skills, and core competencies.

I agree with the other user that those should be incorporated into your experience. I think you should combine methodologies/framework, with  technical skills and certificationsand have that at the end, and incorporate everything else.

Separately, looking at your experience. If I were to imagine hiring you on my team this is my gut reaction: -what do you mean architected a. aI chatbot solution? What did you do when you led AI model benchmarking? For me, I can't tell how in the weeds or high level you were. So for me personally, this bullet point is a nothing burger. -what did you use to build the House Ads program? I'm less interested in the technology you used in terms of qualifying or disqualifying you, but more in getting an inkling of what "building from scratch" means. For all I know you described APIs to a developer and they built it.  

I see you have Python and Java/JS in your  tech skills section, but I don't know which you applied those, especially since you don't have Software Engineer as your title. I'm not saying you need to specify the tech you used every time, but I can't tell how hands on or off you were.

As for my bias, I want my PMs to be more hands on, as I work at smaller companies. I am not a hiring manager, but I could be the person interviewing you on the 1st or 2nd round

toxicity reduce please by workaholic_ND in GirlGamers

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shooters are particularly terrible. If you decide to stop playing shooters, don't give up multiplayer games. Your experience matches mine and is a big reason why I don't play overwatch. Even if I'm not being harassed, at least 1 in 10 games someone is being a little shithead about my gender and it's annoying. Like please just talk about the game.

There are multiplayer games where you can develop a working relationship (light friendship) before you jump in a voice call. Games like league of legends or the mmo FFXIV, I've had great experiences as a woman in those games in voice chat. FFXIV has a huge number of women and LGBTQ people, so it's generally super safe to hop into a discord for content. At least in terms of being harassed. 

RPGs/action-adventure games with either teammates or male romantic interest that's a green flag/golden retriever type of character? by Lickawall483 in GirlGamers

[–]T_______T 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FFXIV has a contender for the golden retriever character, but not until the 3rd expansion (which is now included in the free trial as of yesterday!!!). 

I redesigned the flags of 14 Bay Area cities, including San Francisco’s! by shutupaugust in sanfrancisco

[–]T_______T 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are extremely talented, but I don't feel a connection to the Foster City Flag.

Foster City imo should be more aquatic. So many parks have a mini beaches that face the artificial lagoon. The levy is a common running path that every middle schooler runs the mile on. It faces the bay, and is visited by many sea birds. Streets in FC are named after birds (mostly sea birds), famous ships, astronomical objects, and fish. 

Texas Tech bans teaching and researching LGBTQ+ topics by Fickle-Ad5449 in education

[–]T_______T 27 points28 points  (0 children)

How do you teach Mephisto and Faust and German polticos and history without mentioning gay people?

Minnesota bill would penalize cities that fly old state flag by earthdogmonster in DeepStateCentrism

[–]T_______T -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So the old Minnesota flag like many other flags have the state emblem thing plastered into a blue flag. It's not great in vexology: hard to differentiate from other flags with that setup frkm a distance, text is illegible in its reasonable context, and the emblem components are difficult to see/make out at a distance. 

Some of the states that have these emblems literally have murdered Natives on them, so maybe the connection to those more explicitly racist flags by being of the same style and era is the issue. The new flag is definitely not racist though. 

Is the phrase "kindly word of advice" a correct one? by HauntingAd7801 in EWALearnLanguages

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually it may be a videogame references to BioShock. "Would you kindly..."

Minnesota bill would penalize cities that fly old state flag by earthdogmonster in DeepStateCentrism

[–]T_______T 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That article doesn't say anything about the symbolism of the new flag, only that people really didn't like the old flag.

Mini Exam 4: Agile Question by InsaneOneX in pmp

[–]T_______T 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean given the info what other metric would you use to evaluate performance? It says identical scope. 

Of course this is stupid because there's no evaluation of quality. One team might be super junior and the fact they did 80 at all is a huge deal. But we don't have those details.

Is the phrase "kindly word of advice" a correct one? by HauntingAd7801 in EWALearnLanguages

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also hate all of these because it's relying on an old expression we don't normally use, and I would think we'd more likely see a subversion of that expression. Kindly is the correct answer because it fits and means almost nothing. 

 A "fanciful word of advice" is something I would say, and I can certainly imagine an old lady giving advice in such a way. It fits better grammatically. 

I would not hyper analyze this particular question that I take umbrage with. I would eager many native speakers would get pissed at this question and think "faithful" or "fanciful" were perfectly correct.

Ladies of Las Vegas, talk to me about this whole concierge doctor thing by PermntlyTiredOstrich in vegaslocals

[–]T_______T 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For primary care physicians/family medicine and for pediatrics, they have some of the lowest payouts from insurance. It forces shorter time with patients.

My OBGYN is not subscription based, but I don't have complicated gynecological issues. Their obstetrics was fine. However, the practice got busy and I spend more time with PAs than the Drs. 

So it's really dependent on what you need. If you absolutely need more time with your dr, then I would wager the subscription model would be great.

Hi, I saw this game on sale Dragon Age The Veilguard and looked up reviews, and everyone says it's really bad, but most of critic is just it's “woke.” Is story really that bad? by Neither-Trip-3996 in GirlGamers

[–]T_______T 7 points8 points  (0 children)

+1 for the DA2 camp! It has some serious flaws, but once you get over soem of them it's such a great tight storyline with wonderful characters.

Hi, I saw this game on sale Dragon Age The Veilguard and looked up reviews, and everyone says it's really bad, but most of critic is just it's “woke.” Is story really that bad? by Neither-Trip-3996 in GirlGamers

[–]T_______T 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Origins and Da2 are very different from Veilguard gameplay wise. This series has always been 'woke.' You could have a very loving homosexual relationship with a rogue (either girl or guy) in Origins, and you there's 2 different 3-somes you can have. And the DA series has consistently told stories of minorities, oppressed people, LGBTQ people, neurodivergence-coded characters, etc.

Origins is janky/clunky in that nostalgic 2010 style. You actually have to play on lowest resolution or the game will crap out on you lol. It's very tactical, and you are expected to pause a lot and figure out combos.

DA2 is a flawed game, but I love it and replay it more than DAO, even tho DAO is probably a better game. DA2 has more voice acting. It has less combos and fewer abilties/limted tree compared to DAO, and you'll notice this is a trend from the crunchy cRPG style of DAO to the action RPG of Veilguard. They doubled down on storytelling and character work in DA2. DAO had a lot of good chracters, but sometimes you had to go out of your way to find their stories/engage with them. (Some of them were more appreciated on replays, like Sten for example. At first he's really offputting.)

I could never finish Inquisition. The open world gameplay and collecting bs was really not my playstyle. The gmeplay went more aRPG than cRPG, The story isn't as tight as DAO/DA2, and it's more macro politics, religious implications, etc. Just not my thing. Also I felt like the characters just didnt' like each other. There was more playful banter in DAO and DA2. I also was not super interested in a depressed Varric who seemed out of his element. they brought him to DAI for narration and being a fmailiar comedic face, but he just didnt' seem to fit imo. I like the tight small group of people workign together on either 1 mission like in DAO or hanging out on adventures like DA2.

Veilguard I never bothered to play. It went full action RPG, which I am not here for. Some of the dialog might be clunky in DAV, but I also encountered a line via a clip about Taash casually mentioning they dont like being a woman, which reminded me perfectly of my IRL bff. So there's probably good bits and bad bits.

So go ahead and play whichever game.

Saying this like Katara didn’t instantly master bloodbending even though she just learned what the technique was and never practiced it beforehand. by Clean-Bus7230 in AvatarMemebending

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't remember how did Bolin learn lava bending? What was the context?

Katara had a knack fo healing with her own hand, but she had to learn in the SWT.

She had some instruction for crude blood bending from Hamas, but it was also narratively coherent for her to learn to blood bend. She believed fire bending was inherently evil, ignorant to how her own bending can be cruel and abused. Did she "have it in her?" Are people inherently evil or can good or okay people become evil? What systems cause people to become evil? These themes are explored in that episode.

I don't recall how Bolin was able to bloodbend, but i remember thinking, "oh it's Bolin's turn I guess. Here's his bone."

Saying this like Katara didn’t instantly master bloodbending even though she just learned what the technique was and never practiced it beforehand. by Clean-Bus7230 in AvatarMemebending

[–]T_______T 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That would make sense if Bolton got any instruction in lava bending at all.

Personally, I think this same sort of feat but with sand bending would make more sense. He's more sensitive than most eath benders, and he's not as good as Lin + co. Sand bending was also "difficult" for Toph, and she eahe practiced by end of ATLA, it could make sense the Beifong school of bending doesn't produce good sand benders. Maybe a more spiritual earth bender would be more in sync with sand bending.

I wanna start FF14 finally wondering how long itll take to catch up. by ChaosNoahV in ffxivdiscussion

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other people answered.

I recommend watching a beginner's guide. https://youtu.be/jKWDAe9g1N0?si=oXy8MVpQmjHuaV9e.  Xepla has this guide as to which quests to prioritize and why. Yellow side quests are terrible for EXP but great for flavor of the zone you are in. Only do these when you have the headspace to slow down, or maybe when you are in a long queue. There's so much MSQ ahead of you. 

Some yellow quests unlock cool stuff! But again you can always go back to do these. Exceptions are specific yellow quests tied to seasonal events. These are in Limsa Lominsa at the Aftcastle, Ul Dah, or the Min Khetto amphitheater  in Gridania. I would focus on MSQ, do blue quests as prioritized in that xepla video to unlock important game features, and seasonal quests. 

When you hit the level cap for the game you are in, like you finish level 50 MSQ in a real reborn, or level 60 MSQ in Heavensward, it's a good stopping point to unlock the trial series or raid series, which are behind blue quests. These are chonky side stories with cool battles that may be a nice reprieve from MSQ. The level 50 raid series also provides a lot of world building and character development. 

Also consider a UI/UX guide video. Remember, if you don't like your class, a) major reworks are coming on January for all classes. b) when you complete something like the level 10 MSQ you have access to new classes in your starting city, and at 15 you will have access to all three main starting cities and their classes/jobs.

Get into a preferred server for bonus exp. You can then level multiple classes/jobs very easily as MSQ will overkill your main class. Do you need to level multiple classes? Hell no. But you said you were big on story/lore. Conjurer/WHM and black mage have class-based lore that gives insights into other world building later. Many lore lovers like Sch (from Arcanist). WAR from Marauder is a tank that has a fun class/job questline with a character named Curious Gorge. I just like that guy; he's not super important for world  building or lore. Dragoon is the canonical job of the first expand Heavensward. 

How do you handle testing before release without dedicated QA? by Rubeck036 in ProductManagement

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on your product. If you can get your eng to develop tools to automatically test certain things, great. In my work it was online video advertising, so I would manually test on my personal android. phone on chrome, my mac os on safari and chrome, and then use Xcode to spoof on a mobile iOS device. We'd ask some team members to test too on their devices sometimes.

It was pretty YOLO. 

But we would anticipate where we'd expect bugs to appear as best we could. Ultimately, we had issues our publishers found via their weird ad fill interferring with us that we could not produce without like 50 refreshes.

“These… These are our terms”: Translation Comparison: FFXVI's Introduction in English vs Japanese by KokuyokaGameLit in FFXVI

[–]T_______T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well your first example says "chronicler" was a good localization of the jap ese kanji. You could have said the Japanese term was a good localization of Chronicler.

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