alyaza
@alyaza@beehaw.org
internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
- "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industrywww.bloodinthemachine.com ↗Submitted 23 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 14 comments
- Digital Sewer Socialism: What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm — and it can start at the municipal level.jacobin.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
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- Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generationwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 18 comments
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- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 week ago:
As reported by Gamemakers and GameSpark and translated by Automaton, Fontworks LETS discontinued its game licence plan at the end of November.
The expensive replacement plan – offered through Fontwork’s parent company, Monotype – doesn’t even provide local pricing for Japanese developers, and comes with a 25,000 user-cap, which is likely not workable for Japan’s bigger studios.
The problem is further compounded by the difficulties and complexities of securing fonts that can accurately transcribe Kanji and Katakana characters.
- Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+www.gamesindustry.biz ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 41 comments
- Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse 1 week ago:
the interview in question, which opens with the following exchange:
Newton: You have joined us today to talk about this new age-gating policy that Roblox is rolling out to protect kids. And I think we should start by just talking about the scope of the problem here. What has led you to this point? And how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?
Baszucki: We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well. (emphasis mine) How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together? How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we’ve been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started. And when we were — this was almost 18 or 19 years ago — when we first launched the company and we had just four of us sitting in a room, we were literally the moderators, like we would rotate all the time. And so fast-forward to where we are today, it’s just like every week, what is the latest tech? At the scale we’re at, 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward? And as you correctly note, we’ve just started adding that we’re going to be using facial age estimation with A.I. to complement that.
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- Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?www.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 15 comments
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- Comment on Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE 2 weeks ago:
Children can still protest, fundraise, and engage in other forms of direct action. Children are not helpless or incapable.
you are shadowboxing with things i didn’t say and are the only person inserting the terms “helpless” or “incapable” here, but also once again: this is a game marketed at literal children. i stopped playing Roblox at 14 and doing some research i’m led to believe that would be quite old for a Roblox player. probably half or more of the player-base is 13 or younger. do you honestly expect the average 13-year-old (or younger) to be capable of anything other than performative activism relating to the genocide in Palestine?
- Comment on Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE 2 weeks ago:
Holding a pro-Palestine candlelight vigil in Roblox, for example, whilst there are still Palestinian civilians being murdered is a woefully inadequate use of time and effort if you actually want to help.
the people holding a vigil like this are probably literal children, because Roblox is a game for and overwhelmingly played by children, so i don’t understand the criticism here–it’s unlikely they can help in any material way you could as an adult, but they can be politicized into understanding who deserves their sympathy and who is perpetrating harm that must be ended, which such a rally helps affirm
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- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
please continue to “device hoard” folks
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- The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?www.wired.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 29 comments
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- What US Tech Did to Ireland: The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.www.thedial.world ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
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- There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Businesstalkingpointsmemo.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
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- Arc Raiders review - a smartly designed extraction shooter marred by one inexcusable decisionwww.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 18 comments