Are the developers actually woke enough to do something like that for political purposes? Who at the company made the decision? Surely the black video gaming market is not big enough to do it for the sake of making money.

Is seventeen square miles of prime Georgian farmland turned into grassland enough space for a herd of elephants?

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I'll make this an effort post since I know you zoomies know nothing about the Internet or gaming before 2015.

Dyack in the middle

Silicon Knights

Silicon Knights was a Canadian developer who made a few decent games, like Legacy of Kain and the Gamecube remake of Metal Gear Solid. They're mainly remembered for the classic Gamecube horror game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is quite good for its time and is notable for being the only rated-M game ever published directly by Nintendo. They were lead by a guy named Dennis Dyack, a whiny manchild who doomed his company to fail.

Zoomers: This was considered scary in 2002

To give you an idea of their management, here's an image of games in production, games that were cancelled or abandoned before release are marked in yellow. Note the staggering ratio of unreleased/released games:

Anyways, Dyack's passion project for decades had always been a game called Too Human, but every effort to make it had been abortive. After the successes of Eternal Darkness and MGS, Dyack decides the Wii doesn't have shiny enough graphics and makes the bold choice to unshackle his company from a lucrative position as a Nintendo third party so he can truly fulfill his vision on the superior XBawx Please Fix Me. Silicon Knights shacks up with Microsoft and Epic Games and produce an E3 demo (zoomers: people used to go to an annual convention for video game trailers) which is received overwhelmingly negatively.

Dyack is NOT HAPPY and goes on the IGN forums to whine about how the critics will regret their words and deeds:

Unedited clip from Too Human

NeoGAF

Once upon a time there was a gayming website called Gaming Age, with their forum called the Gaming Age Forum (or GAF). Eventually Gaming Age imploded, but the top two jannies (Evillore and Bishoptl) were able to move their community to a new forum, appropriately called NeoGAF. You wouldn't know it these days with GAF being a shambling corpse and its spinoff ResetERA being what it is, but pre-G*merGate GAF was chill and a place where industry figures would show up and sperg out while everyone laughed at them.

Dennis Dyack makes a bet

Once such figure was our hero, Dyack. With his new slop getting trashed by GAFfers, he makes a thread to bet on how it'll turn out:

Right now the man just appears confident in his project. But his next post is a bit more... unhinged, and seems to be setting the bar rather low by making alreay-forgotten games Lair and Haze the standard to beat:

He then goes for an interview on 1up (Zoomers: Now-defunct gaming journo site) and whined about how people saying mean things online is ruining America and how if the NeoGAF mods don't start respecting Denis Dyack and Too Human he's going to call the Internet Police and shut them down!

Dyack then does another interview where he declares that not only is NeoGAF the worst forum in the world, but forums in general are evil and this is why the US military no longer uses writing:

Too Human comes out and scores lower than Haze. In classic GAF fashion the top janny punishes Dyack for losing the bet by writing lots of words and then perma-banning him. Dyack copes by saying g*mers are too stupid to understand his genius.

By this point the capital-G G*mers are pissed at Dyack in a way that prefigures G*merGate in a way. Seething articles are written speculating that angering the G*mers has resulted in him not just being banned from NeoGAF, but divorced from his wife, kicked out of the house, abandoned by his employees, his car towed, banned from every website ever, banned from the city of Niagara and tossed over the waterfall.

He messed with g*mers. G*mers.

The Saga Ends

Denis Dyack has brought Silicon Knights from one of the more respected devs in the industry to basically a joke. Following the failure of Too Human Dyack blamed the Unreal Engine and Epic Games and made the genius decision to sue them. This didn't go their way and by 2012 they owed Epic millions of dollars, had less than five employees, and were legally obligated to destroy all of their unsold games and source code.

In the meantime they had six more projects (including two sequels for Too Human) which were cancelled before they finally released another game, the absolutely awful X-Men Destiny, which turns out to be their last. In desperation, Dyack crawls back to Nintendo and pitches a sequel to their last hit, Eternal Darkness. NeoGAF insider reveals that Nintendo is agreeable until SK loses the lawsuit against Epic, and they decide they'd rather not fork over $10 million in legal fees so SK can survive, which Dyack denied. Former SK staff reveal that this was the case and part of the reason the X-Men game sucked was because Dyack was taking money given by Activision for that game and instead putting it toward Eternal Darkness II.

Years later Dyack attempts to kickstart his own Eternal Darkness successor and makes $300,000 out of the $700,000 target. He has yet to make another game. The end!

Dyack, left

tl;dr

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1cv3pja/ai_godfather_says_universal_basic_income_will_be/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/1cv3uoj/ai_godfather_says_universal_basic_income_will_be/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1cv9cuu/ai_godfather_says_universal_basic_income_will_be/?sort=controversial

The guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather'

The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”.

“I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said.

He said while he felt AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that's going to be very bad for society”.

Professor Hinton is the pioneer of neural networks, which form the theoretical basis of the current explosion in artificial intelligence.

Until last year he worked at Google, but left the tech giant so he could talk more freely about the dangers from unregulated AI.

The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.

Critics say it would be extremely costly and divert funding away from public services, while not necessarily helping to alleviate poverty.

A government spokesman said there were "no plans to introduce a universal basic income".

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After this exchange, he replied to me 30 times, posting my memes in response to my tweets going back a full month

Each screenshot below is a unique post. These are no duplicates lmao

Calling people r-slur cute twink peepee-lickers is funny. Never forget what they took from you. Also a goth/metalhead Amy Sedaris type would be my ultimate waifu. I know you have to be out there, where are you?

OP of the thread is 73 years old and constantly stalked and harassed by his wife

This will be the last surviving hole. Including all the gussy and bussy holes which will be ripped to shreds by @CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM.

5300 comments of seethe over the fact that none of these r-slurs know what a bird hotdog is.

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I don't know why you guys think that the premise described is outlandish. That's literally just Yasuke.Edit to add: Oh you sweet summer children. I thought we all liked facts and logic?Yasuke was a real dude. Did some cool stuff. I don't know why your first impulse is to downvote a neat historical figure. (-44)

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The assassin is a master of disguise! That hangs around the only black man in all of Japan. Whooooooo could this assassin be, I wonder. Sorry, shitty plot is shitty plot. No culture war here. (2)

Darn ! what a brilliant comeback !but id like it the other way around :The assassin is a master of disguise! that hangs around the only WHITE man in all of japan !WHOOOOOOO could this assassin be, I wonder.(its not like the assassin cant stop hanging with him 24/24h or that the enemy cant instantly know who the "anonymous master of disguise" is hanging with even without an intel or that they work separately or the reality that the assassin could blend anyway or find a disguise for his buddy so it wouldn't even matter but what am i even talking about i didnt even read anything about the game in the first place and im coming from a Twitter post made by a man-child screaming WIST HAS FALLIN ! )"B... bu...but noooooo ! its game logic and game writing you stooooopid uncultured shmuk who would care for sush a minor detail ! its all because WYT MAN BAD you filthy **** you are destroying western entertainment!"Yep , probably what we will be hearing from the "other side" , just the same argu... (1)

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Pandering to whom?And you'd have to explain the hypocrisy of including a notable historical figure who was really there. (1)

Pandering to the "woke" crowd and "minorities."And the hypocrisy lies not in including a guy that was there, but in the fact any and every time there's been a white character being portrayed where you wouldn't expect them, the same people who get up in arms are the ones that act like anyone who criticizes the same thing with a non white character is a racist and stupid etc.You used the mermaid as an example, let's go with that. First off, just write a new character into the same universe and boom, you take away any argument people have against it. It's not Ariel, it's her sister or some shit. But they changed an established character, people didn't like it, they're condemned as racists and ignorant and "it's a fictional mermaid why do you care."But I can promise you, do the same thing in reverse, let's say making Blade white, and those same exact people saying it doesn't matter you racist etc would be crying whitewash from the mountaintop. (2)

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yea just like you fricking weirdos complained about how you couldnt blend in ac valhalla because youre a fricking viking oh waitnone of you complained about it then. I wonder what the difference is this time? (3)

Same people that you wouldn't hear a word when nioh 1 came out. I hate this type of racism because it's concealed and it shows up in nasty ways I'd rather have someone just bluntly be racist than go and pull 13 random excuses outta they asses just so they can hate on a black man being the main chracter (3)

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I'm leaving this gay site I'm seething frick you Aevaan

One of the girls that killed this man in 2022, was rearrested for stabbing another man at a Subway station just 2 months ago. This group needs to go away for a long time. A danger to society.

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!fellas you can't be afraid to stab a hoe just because she's a kid