_cryptagion

_cryptagion, 27 days ago

well until that day, we’ll love them. one day the fucking sun will explode, but you won’t catch me saying we should stop using solar generators.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

they aren’t “stealing” from actors, you twit. the voice actors were hired to make the “AI” voices. in reality it’s not even AI, it’s a text-to-speech system and voice modulator, for those who want to use the raider voice for VOIP because they don’t want people hearing their voice. like women, for example, who don’t want to be harassed by incels for daring to play an FPS. and for disabled people who can’t use their own voice. idk you hate accessibility features, but you should maybe take a hard look on why you think life should be harder for people just to fit your own twisted morality.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

There is imo only two ethic ways

well, ethics aren’t subjective, morals are. and there’s nothing unethical about what they’re doing here.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

the voice actors were paid to create the text-to-speech system, yes. that was why they were hired in the first place.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

first of all, yes. I’m an anarchist, I don’t believe in copyright, it’s capitalist bullshit. you can’t own ideas. anything you create is as much mine as it is yours, and I’ll use it for whatever purposes I want with or without your permission.

second, this isn’t genAI, it’s no different than the text-to-speech system that’s been in use in PC for decades. don’t come in here moaning about genAI when you don’t even know what the system you’re talking about even is.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

Marketing this as “text-to-speech” is oversimplyfying at best, dishonest at worst imho.

it is literally a text-to-speech system. saying otherwise is just ignorant.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

they’re effectively paying a one time fee for the VA voice and then use it for free for forever.

yes, that’s what they agreed to and were paid for. and that’s perfectly fine, they weren’t duped and had no issues with it, so even the flimsy moral outrage people come up with over supposed rights to things they create doesn’t apply.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

I’m glad we’ll always have liberals to tell us what we should be outraged about. instead of asking those VA whether or not they’re offended by what they agreed to, you’ve stolen their voice and declared yourself the arbiter of what they should feel. you’ve decided your opinion is more important than theirs. what sort of narcissistic outrage farming junkie does that? where do you get off, stealing the voice from others who can speak for themselves?

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

it looks like you’re saying I sound mature and wise, so thank you!

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

it is. copyright is capitalist bullshit, you can copy anything anyone says because they can’t own ideas.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

you don’t have to like it. just don’t misrepresent what’s going on because you don’t have a good argument against it. it’s not your opinion that’s getting all your comments downvoted, it’s the lying and moralizing.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

they aren’t being cheated. the labor they signed up and were paid for was recording the voices for the TTS system. you might not like the fact they did that, but that doesn’t change facts. attempting to lie about it just shows your level of intellectual bankruptcy.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

I’d say you need to work on your insults, but judging from your post history, you’ve already peaked in that regard.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

you imagined your poorly thought out argument was going to be some kind of gotcha.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

But this is something that I cannot let go, I don’t want to.

that’s too bad, considering most people are looking at this with a rational mind and don’t agree with you, and you have no ability to change it by yourself.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

You do the labor, they get the benefit. Are you being cheated?

they were paid specifically to make the TTS and voice modulation system. none of the rest of your argument makes any sense whatsoever, because the core fundamental idea behind your entire argument is that they were “cheated”. they were not. they did the labor, they got the compensation. people were bitching because artists “weren’t being paid” for their work with AI, so somebody actually does pay them and you’re still whining. it just shows that you were never concerned with the artist in the first place.

The intellectual bankruptcy comes from you because instead of actually thinking about the situation you hide behind the “But they agreed to it” argument.

I’m not hiding at all. to be perfectly frank, as an anarchist, I don’t believe in copyright to begin with, and have no issue with genAI copying the work of artists. ideas can not be owned, no matter what some capitalist stans such as yourself believe, and it’s ridiculous people say it’s “theft” in the first place.

but that isn’t even what’s happening here. these VAs were paid to create the system, knowing all along that puritains like you would villainize them for their work for no other reason than you think you should get to tell other people how they can live their lives. the sheer narcissism that you’re displaying is beyond belief.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

I doubt that.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

hard to learn anything from someone who has problems stringing more than five words together.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

It’s not indentured servitude, and that’s a weak ass argument trying to spin it like that. Nobody with the brains evolution gave a snail is falling for that shit. And you should be embarrassed that that’s the best argument you can come up with.

It’s such a blatantly, self-evidently wrong argument, that I’m not even going to dignify it with a counter argument because frankly, such grade-school bullshit like that is beneath both of us.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

Once again, not indentured servitude. I’m not reading the rest of your comment because I doubt it’s more intelligent than the rest. Words have meanings, and you don’t get to just insist something and it be true. Your comments are MAGA level delusions, and I’m not interested in arguing them because you’re a zealot who has come to this thread with the certainty that you cannot be wrong. There’s no point in arguing with someone who can’t accept that reality doesn’t bend to their self-righteous whims.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

You haven’t provided any valid criticism of my argument. You might think what you’ve said is smart, but it is not and you should be embarrassed for even having tried such a ridiculous argument.

If a someone says the sky is purple, you don’t argue with them because it makes you look like an idiot. Everyone knows they are wrong, because the reality is so self evident that any engagement with that argument lends it credibility. I won’t give credibility to your ridiculous notions.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

If my argument is so wrong why not instantly debunk it

I already did. what Embark is ding is not indentured servitude. saying it is doesn’t change reality, no matter how much you wish otherwise.

Come back with a real argument.

make a real one to begin with. you haven’t made an argument worth responding to. you’re claiming something is what it isn’t. that’s not an argument, that’s wishful thinking. you’ve completely failed here.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

they signed a contract so nothing else matters.

and you’ve decided that since you object to what you think is AI, that what those VAs feel doesn’t matter. you’re strutting around like the typical liberal peacock, telling other people what they should be offended by. you’re not bright enough to see that you’re totally removing their agency from them and stripping them of their right to self determination, something which you accuse Embark of doing. of the two of us, who is the bigger narcissist here? of the two of us, who is the one treating the workers like they’re worth nothing and their opinions don’t matter? me, who says they should have agency in how they work, or you, who you should get to decide how they work?

you’re not a good person. and you’re not a smart person either, with the arguments you’ve been making. you’re a typical capitalist, who thinks you should get the final say over the rights and self determination of people you obviously see as worth less than you. how utterly shameful.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

You’re literally making up statement I did not make

you’re not even capable of understanding the deeper context of the arguments you’re making. truly shameful. not only are you placing yourself on a pedestal and stripping away the rights and agency of others, you’re not even capable of realizing what you’re doing. you think you’re an ally, when in fact like most liberals you’re just perpetrating the systemic problems with capitalism. you think your opinion is the only valid one, thus reducing everyone else to mere objects for you to decide the proper fate of.

here’s my advice to you. stop telling people what’s in their best interests. they are the only ones who get to decide that, and you don’t have any right to say what is best for another person.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

your point of view is abusive to the people who took this job, so no, I don’t care about it. furthermore, it’s important that I call out people who act like you are, because the way you’re acting is absolutely incompatible with my anarchist lifestyle, where an individuals right to self-determination is sacrosanct. I’m focused on building a society that values the individual, you’re interested in building one where people can only support themselves so long as you approve of their work. that makes you no better than any right-wing religious nutjob, and absolutely an enemy of working class people everywhere.

not all viewpoints are equal, and yours are shockingly bad.

_cryptagion, 28 days ago

you zealously disrespect my beliefs and push your own onto me.

if by “pushing my beliefs” you mean telling you shouldn’t infringe on the rights of others, then sure. add not understanding what irony is to your list of shortcomings. I don’t respect the beliefs of racists or religious nutjobs either. some viewpoints do not deserve respect. if you want to practice those beliefs, do it to yourself and nobody else. don’t demand other people abide by your abusive ideology. because if you do, then you’re gonna get pushback, and it will be well deserved.

self-determination doesn’t mean you get to oppress people because you don’t like their work.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

Lmao get fucked Nintendo

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

Tell your cat I love them

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

everything is AI generated these days, especially the artists whose art you don’t like

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

It was a child doing pony play, riding a naked adult man-horse. The dev claimed it was not sexual.

I don’t think gaming needs CSAM to be a “unique art form”, but you do you.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

GOG and Itch sell mostly windows games.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

CSAM is literally why the game was banned from Steam.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

if one of the builds for your game contains CSAM, then I don’t really give a shit what alternative builds you have, I don’t want to play anything made by you. kudos to Valve for not dealing with pedophiles.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

it’s literally legally defined as CSAM in most western countries. and I probably wouldn’t be arguing otherwise, since it looks like the other dude who did that got all his posts deleted by the mod.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

whether he is or isn’t, they saw a chance to create a huge amount of good PR for Valve while doing and spending absolutely nothing. I mean, look at the amount of upvotes this post has. all they had to do is take what appears to be a principled stand.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

you’re gonna have the vim users grabbing their pitchforks if you don’t watch it.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

what a shame.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

Yeah, I like the game but have the same problem. I’m just not good at the avoiding damage part.

But at least you can still enjoy the lore. There’s Mechwarrior books as well.

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

how bout u

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_cryptagion, 1 month ago

why do you think it’ll be crippled?

_cryptagion, 1 month ago

I think I might want to get one of those controllers. the trackpads on the Steam Deck were way better than I was expecting.

_cryptagion, 2 months ago

I’m just shocked any publisher is still doing QA at all, with the state AAA games release in these days.

_cryptagion, 2 months ago

GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders

that’s not exaggerating anything. it’s merely saying it has happened at least once before.

_cryptagion, 2 months ago

Is implying plurality exaggerating things to begin with in this context? The headline is pretty vague, it doesn’t overtly exaggerate. It makes a pretty simple statement without embellishing anything.

But if we’re going to get into the weeds, we don’t know how many private investigators work at whatever agency they hired, or how many were involved in tracking this person down.

_cryptagion, 2 months ago

that could refer to an agency. when somebody says they “hired a plumber”, it isn’t an incorrect statement if that company employs multiple plumbers, despite the quote being singular.

_cryptagion, 2 months ago

I mean, we’re all being pedantic, aren’t we? honestly, I don’t even know why we wasted the time we have on this lmao. for me it’s probably because I’m working and bored to death.

_cryptagion, 3 months ago

That’s, uh, a bold play.

_cryptagion, 4 months ago

A two second google search shows cheaters were showing up in ranked games less than a year ago.