InstallWiz
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It is a staple mantra in the games industry, "Our pay for [X] is comparable to the industry's average wages," to which I would reply, "when you're raking in record profits, it's pretty lame to justify substandard pay with, 'that's what everyone else does.'"
Even on projects that don’t feature AI, it’s often difficult to justify how little voice actors get paid for work on projects that sell in the millions
So it’s fascinating to see folks say “they were compensated fairly” repeatedly on this occasion where we don’t even have the voice actors credited.
So it’s fascinating to see folks say “they were compensated fairly” repeatedly on this occasion where we don’t even have the voice actors credited.
The argument I'm hearing about it is "the voice actors got paid for it so it's all good"
We don't know how much they got paid, or if they get royalties every time those lines get used.
It's a slippery slope being brushed off because "game good"
if Arc Raiders had plagiarized art, would it matter?
We don't know how much they got paid, or if they get royalties every time those lines get used.
It's a slippery slope being brushed off because "game good"
if Arc Raiders had plagiarized art, would it matter?
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It is a staple mantra in the games industry, "Our pay for [X] is comparable to the industry's average wages," to which I would reply, "when you're raking in record profits, it's pretty lame to justify substandard pay with, 'that's what everyone else does.'"
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If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
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Check out the new Escalation Magazine, a tribute to the Orc Lord who is deceased as of 13th Age 2e. I wrote a mini game for it that will help each table tell their own story about what happened to their Orc Lord.
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge
Escalation Issue 11 is Available
I'm pleased to announce that Escalation Issue 11 is now available! You can find it on the Vault of the 13th Age . This issue's theme is the...
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Check out the new Escalation Magazine, a tribute to the Orc Lord who is deceased as of 13th Age 2e. I wrote a mini game for it that will help each table tell their own story about what happened to their Orc Lord.
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge
I wrote an article for this! 🤩
Check it out if you want to see what orcs would be like if they were antimagical bioweapons!
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge #13A
Check it out if you want to see what orcs would be like if they were antimagical bioweapons!
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge #13A
Escalation Issue 11 is Available
I'm pleased to announce that Escalation Issue 11 is now available! You can find it on the Vault of the 13th Age . This issue's theme is the...
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I wrote an article for this! 🤩
Check it out if you want to see what orcs would be like if they were antimagical bioweapons!
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge #13A
Check it out if you want to see what orcs would be like if they were antimagical bioweapons!
escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/10/esca...
#ttrpg #13thAge #13A
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Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
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This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things
Oh hey, cool, my question got featured! 🤩
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Oh hey, cool, my question got featured! 🤩
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Loved it as a kid, love it as an adult.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Loved it as a kid, love it as an adult.
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Loved it as a kid, love it as an adult.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Loved it as a kid, love it as an adult.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
This was already good, but the moment it hit the traditional Kojima segment of "transition to live action stock footage to talk about history", I totally LOST it! 10/10, no notes! 🤣
Finally we (@tomschalk.bsky.social, me) can put this one in here, and it fits in a single skeet!
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This was already good, but the moment it hit the traditional Kojima segment of "transition to live action stock footage to talk about history", I totally LOST it! 10/10, no notes! 🤣
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Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
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I just unsubscribed from @roll20.net and will not be spending another dime on @drivethrurpg.com until you reverse this decision. Antifascism is not a "slippery slope," it is a moral and civic duty incumbent upon all humans, a duty which your company has failed today.
#ttrpg
#ttrpg
Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics
Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.
www.rascal.news
June 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I just unsubscribed from @roll20.net and will not be spending another dime on @drivethrurpg.com until you reverse this decision. Antifascism is not a "slippery slope," it is a moral and civic duty incumbent upon all humans, a duty which your company has failed today.
#ttrpg
#ttrpg
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Collecting/saving nice comments is a great coping skill because it forces us to engage with, remember, and catalogue positive interactions, which helps override our brain’s usual impulse to fixate on negative interactions.
It’s important—healthy, even!—to give more weight to our positives.
It’s important—healthy, even!—to give more weight to our positives.
I have rejection sensitivity, so I started a folder on my PC called “Nice Things,” where I keep screenshots of compliments, good-news emails, fanart of my OCs others made, etc. So now when my imposter syndrome brain tells me I’m Bad at Art, I can pull up evidence to the contrary. ☺️
November 8, 2023 at 9:22 PM
Collecting/saving nice comments is a great coping skill because it forces us to engage with, remember, and catalogue positive interactions, which helps override our brain’s usual impulse to fixate on negative interactions.
It’s important—healthy, even!—to give more weight to our positives.
It’s important—healthy, even!—to give more weight to our positives.
The anti-capitalistic Wiegraf memes were always real, I knew it!
June 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The anti-capitalistic Wiegraf memes were always real, I knew it!
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May 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I have 3 types of #TTRPG characters:
- Middle-aged dad with severe self-esteem problems and an epic midlife crisis
- Teen (usually half-elf) torn between two cultures&identities
- A seemingly normal guy who has an overwhelming obsession to one very weird thing/belief
- Middle-aged dad with severe self-esteem problems and an epic midlife crisis
- Teen (usually half-elf) torn between two cultures&identities
- A seemingly normal guy who has an overwhelming obsession to one very weird thing/belief
I have 3 types of #TTRPG characters:
- Disgruntled autistic who hates people and is just here for the vibes
- Confused autistic, just wants to have a nice time
- Over educated autistic, just here to take notes
- Disgruntled autistic who hates people and is just here for the vibes
- Confused autistic, just wants to have a nice time
- Over educated autistic, just here to take notes
I have 3 types of #TTRPG characters:
- Expert at something they feel morally obligated to never do
- Nearly useless character that accidentally becomes Plot
- Bookish magic user who heals
- Expert at something they feel morally obligated to never do
- Nearly useless character that accidentally becomes Plot
- Bookish magic user who heals
May 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have 3 types of #TTRPG characters:
- Middle-aged dad with severe self-esteem problems and an epic midlife crisis
- Teen (usually half-elf) torn between two cultures&identities
- A seemingly normal guy who has an overwhelming obsession to one very weird thing/belief
- Middle-aged dad with severe self-esteem problems and an epic midlife crisis
- Teen (usually half-elf) torn between two cultures&identities
- A seemingly normal guy who has an overwhelming obsession to one very weird thing/belief
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The Helsinki Airport warns you about Finland before you even step foot in the country.
Here's to 15 years of fans in Nordic countries torturing me with this candy...
Here's to 15 years of fans in Nordic countries torturing me with this candy...
May 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Helsinki Airport warns you about Finland before you even step foot in the country.
Here's to 15 years of fans in Nordic countries torturing me with this candy...
Here's to 15 years of fans in Nordic countries torturing me with this candy...
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I'm obsessed with #armor as a subject. This is a variation on #lamellar of my own design called bronzeleaf, for a #faerie aesthetic. Bronze and turquoise work so well together.
2022
#Art | #digitalart | #krita | #fantasyart | #sketch
2022
#Art | #digitalart | #krita | #fantasyart | #sketch
April 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm obsessed with #armor as a subject. This is a variation on #lamellar of my own design called bronzeleaf, for a #faerie aesthetic. Bronze and turquoise work so well together.
2022
#Art | #digitalart | #krita | #fantasyart | #sketch
2022
#Art | #digitalart | #krita | #fantasyart | #sketch
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If, like me, you aren't particularly smart, follow people who are!
@gamerstavernshow.com identifies how to keep your #TTRPG #AI free on @drivethrurpg.com #drivethrurpg
@gamerstavernshow.com identifies how to keep your #TTRPG #AI free on @drivethrurpg.com #drivethrurpg
You can. If you're using the new site (which you can do just temporarily to get this setting up), go to Settings - Account Settings, and in the lower-right is Additional Preferences. You can turn off both Adult Content and AI.
Won't work on sublicensed sites like DMs Guild, but will on DriveThru.
Won't work on sublicensed sites like DMs Guild, but will on DriveThru.
April 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If, like me, you aren't particularly smart, follow people who are!
@gamerstavernshow.com identifies how to keep your #TTRPG #AI free on @drivethrurpg.com #drivethrurpg
@gamerstavernshow.com identifies how to keep your #TTRPG #AI free on @drivethrurpg.com #drivethrurpg
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"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
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Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium
Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise
www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...
Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise
www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...
March 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium
Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise
www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...
Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise
www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...