Bond is also held to 1950s grooming standards so he's an attractive but fairly generic white dude, the novels seldom pay much attention to his actual appearance.

It's sort of ambiguous. Officially it's a code name and reference is made to predecessors, but death is always dodged and the hand-off never shown. So some interpret that as meaning it's always the same guy, but of course that's nonsensical in film production.

It's me I'm the other guy

The people for whom the former is true are, naturally, the easiest to pry open about it because it feels like less of a risk to do so.

Which is especially useful if you're a completely unthreatening 5'1" creature in a wheelchair. God the things people have just told me unprompted...

My experience from digging stuff like that up is that a lot of the time it's down to one or both of two things: assuming everyone else hears the same stuff you hear regularly, or the presumption that you shouldn't talk about it outside of your peers.

Then someone does and its a light bulb moment.

In shocking turn of events, guy least involved in the actual development of games feels generative AI is necessary to the development of games.

That's pretty toasty for November I'd think

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society...

The fucking WHITE HOUSE is using genAI to make propaganda against its political opponents, a single bad actor with even half as much capacity through genAI can absolutely utterly destroy someone's entire career.

It'll make faked screenshots seem like cave scribblings.

Even if ARC Raiders is ultimately wholly benevolent and doesn't make the NPCs say slurs or whatever, the existence of a project that is totally fine using genAI in this fashion will encourage others to do the same and we absolutely can't expect them to play nice as well. It's too dangerous to allow.