The European company is currently investigating the data breach.
MSI is proud to announce that its gaming handheld, Claw, has achieved a significant performance increase of up to 30% through a new BIOS and MSI Center M update. Furthermore, the new BIOS and MSI Center M enable Claw to smoothly play all of the top 100 po
is this the one with the switch2 chip inside.?
this is Intels first try at the format
probs not though, as it's $799. so not good for switch actually
"AI is not a substitute for human creativity. We position it as a technology that supports creativity. Creativity resides in people. We will continue to contribute to people's creativity through technology," the CEO said.
...not yet but 100% within the next 10 years!
..Then Sony will use it like the drop of a hat. They're no different to the others.
They used to be 😞 sure it was always a business, and money's always the priority, but they used to have a very strong stance on supporting artists and creativity. "Dont f#@k with the artist" was a phrase they touted a few times back in the ps1-ps3 era, a philosophy carried over from their music branch PlayStation was created from. It's not COMPLETELY gone, but it's barely there compared to what it was back then, i just want them to return to that.
I am highly encouraged by their statement about human creativity. "Dont f#@k with the artist" is exactly what they are saying. But at the same time, I don't think people understand that Sony is a corporation. If they don't realize growth, they don't get to exist. When you say 'Sony', you are talking about a bunch of investors. To speak about them any other way is a illogical and incorrect. They haven't changed. They have been a group of investors since they became a public business.
Ugh, i really wish people would stop gambling people's livelihoods by turning a project/game into their political soapbox. Im all for statements and having your own opinion, but there's more people working on this than just druckman, ham fisting your political beliefs onto just seems inconsiderate for everyone elses job security when it can result in a failure due to people avoiding it for that reason.
I play games for escape, im so tired of nearly every AAA game blatantly dragging real world issues to shove in my face when I'm trying to take a break from it all. They don't even bother to be subtle about it, quite the opposite, it's blasted and force fed to you and it's just getting exhausting
People are taking a whole interview and cutting it down to clips that make him look bad and take what he actually was saying out of context. For example he also said things like this AI has "ethical issues we need to address"
@Einhander
Why defend him at this point?
It’s not taking things out of context, he said what he said.
Old ND would never talk about soulless AI taking over so many creative things they are well known for. The whole “ethical issues” is just a good PR spin people who push this crap fall back on to make their statements not seem as bad. So many AI lovers do this.
AI has no place is so many creative based things.
Well yeah, because everyone else is using it so they need to stay competitive. It's the same as paid online, they didn't want to go that route but their competition was making so much money they needed to add paid online just to keep up.
AI will never replace humans in game development in terms of conceptualizing new games. Humans still need to come up with the ideas and what they want to implement. However much of the day to day menial coding could be AI driven to reduce production time and team size. I could also see AI being used for bug testing/optimization that could lead to better quality games at launch. I'm actually very optimistic about how AI can positively impact game development.
People that aren't software developers just don't understand the benefits of AI. People who's only exposure to A.I is the Terminator movie and other related sci fi films won't understand the benefits it provides.
It's not about replacing human labor. It's about making human labor easier.
Many years ago, I had laser eye surgery done. It was performed by a robot. The doctor took my measurements and calibrated the machine to make sure it would do what needed be done. And then the robot corrected my vision in 10 seconds.
15 years later and I still have 20/20 vision.
AI in and of itself is not a 'bad'. Money is bad. Money is evil, and corporations will do whatever they can to get more of it. They will find ways to implement AI to replace as may jobs as possible. This isn't even up for debate. It is the charge of the corporation to maximize returns for the investors. They have no choice. I'm a developer and I know that my job will absolutely be replaced. Therefore, I have decided to become an AI dev. AI has a lot of potential to help us solve problem on a scale most can't even imagine. The issue, as ever is that our monetary system only ever allows us to focus on greed and fiscal growth.
But I am a pragmatist. Perhaps an AI model can be built to help protect us from our most dangerous instincts and habits. And perhaps Congress can pass laws to protect us from people who would use AI to manipulate and control us (spoiler: they wont).
Ubisoft recently shared more details about Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonists, confirming that both of them will romantically attract and be attracted to different types of people.
Feudal Japan DEI LGBTQ+ Samurai, sounds very accurate for the time period. Surely a decision made only with historical accuracy in mind.
You have no idea what you are talking about, bet you didn’t know nobunaga was bi-sexual. Or ran maru his is often depicted as androgynous was a “beautiful boy”.
So yeah, feudal Japan had tons of lgbtq and kawaii enough… A BLACK SAMURAI! All without the need of offending a Caucasian because the world is diverse.
This story has cracked me up so much! Bravo Ubisoft, bravo! 🤣. So last week everyone was upset that in the long-awaited first Assassin’s Creed: Japan game the protagonist is black. But NOW he is also LGBTQ+ ! It’s like the Ubisoft creative team sat around a table and said “How can we best impress our Kotaku/IGN/Polygon friends and antagonise gamers? Let’s make it woke x 100!’ And then they all silent clapped!
Just you wait until the Star Wars: Outlaws details come out, there better not be anybody complaining about Kay Vess’ dating preferences and the gay droid armies.
Lexreborn2 is right
Go read up on Japan's feudal era homosexuality and bisexuality was a very common thing in that time.
I just have to laugh because the same people complaining about this are the same ones crying about wanting "historical accuracy". When it's clear most of the whiners don't even know history themselves.
Facts don't care about downvotes, btw. You either claim to understand historical accuracy or you just admit you don't like the stuff people did throughout history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Japan had no Christian stupidity about sexuality.
That's where your nonsensical puritanical view comes from: the Abraham's faiths.
It's feudal Japan, they don't believe in your religion's made up nonsense.
I mean, if you're going to embrace a particular viewpoint, you should at least be aware of where it comes from. Most of the world doesn't care about your ideals.
In those days, they certainly didn't care about your religion.
Get over yourself.
All of you guys missed the point, I even said I'm very sure they did it ONLY because they wanted to be historically accurate. Stop defending this, we all know why they did it and who they want to pander, it's not out newfound respect for history.
@RpgSama
Nobody is defending anything.
People are just pointing out the fact that after they just cried about the game not being historically accurate, when they SHOW they're accurate, they cry about it because they don't like certain parts of history
Not to mention you contradicted yourself RPGSama. You just pointed out you said they "ONLY because they wanted to be historically accurate". Then turn around and accuse them of pandering and/or having an agenda. Those two things are opposing statements
Dumbest decision ever.. always online was a pass for me but now not even for free I’ll try it..
It's made by Ubisoft Montreal.
Obviously we'll be allowed to bang anything that moves.
People actually telling you that Japan had sexual deviancy which is correct however what's hilarious is that they will act as if it holds the same moral value that the LGBT community holds today, oh the things men used to say about themselves when they are attracted to other men, it's not empowering in the least bit
You are completely lost on Japanese history. Japan was one of the most liberal places in the world, and in many ways still is. You can slice and dice it from your western hubris and whatever point of view, but the reality is that history tells great stories about freedom of choice and people not being judgemental on this island. Also one of the reasons I want to raise my family here, no need to have those whatever Western woke bullshit here, because everyone just respects each other without using all that nonsense.
Oh yeah!!!! What about being inclusive???
I'm sorry
..please replace the word inclusive with stupid.
If they truly aimed for inclusivity they’d make the protagonist an Ainu tribe, this is just Ubisoft getting comfy with Sweet Baby Inc as always.
I thought you crybabies wanted "historical accuracy." Now that your going to get it, you're going to cry more.
It's past the point of retarded, everyone seems forced to do this bullshit now in games. 😑
Hell no. A good game or film is secondary now to the agenda and the 'message'.
It's not enough to be simply entertained these days, there has to be an overarching real world narrative. I mean look at Dr Who as a recent example. Disney have completely destroyed it all in the name of 'diversity'.
It's the only thing that explains the incel crap. They can't simply be angry virgins who don't get any, so then a lack of a sex life i.e. a dad of three or something, is also a good additional explanation. They're either lonely and don't get any or too busy to get any. There's a horrible news for sexual control with incels, and they're angry because they simply aren't the right people to achieve that control. They're weaker animals.
dude’s too busy commenting on other people’s sex life to actually stay on topic.
That or he’s angry but didn’t have half the brain needed to refute back so he went for the classic ad hominem fallacy.
Notachance
It's a fact that remains true. The only way it can't be true is if humans were not greedy and heavily reliant on procreation.
Your username is fitting.
Thanks… I was originally going to write Samu-Bi but then I realized it was right there already so it works better
You have to understand they’re incapable of writing a good story so this is the best they could come up with
Well, after last weeks crying about historical accuracy. Now Ubi days, " Oh, okay, historical accuracy: here you go."
Now you're saying you don't want the accuracy? Can you guys just make up your minds?
Many entertainment medias do this nowadays because in an effort to boost the so called “EGS score”, investment companies such as Black Rock stipulated contracts that obligated fund recipient to conform to certain inclusivity standards, either by themselves or consulting with agencies like Sweet Baby Inc or Gaymerx.
It's a genuine click-bait snippet to rile up people like you to push traffic.
They can't help themselves. This path leads to failure. Every single time. But there's no stopping this ESG DEI train. If you don't buy it then the developers will say everyone is racist hompohobes. They will never, ever look inwards and admit that hey, we made a mistake, we gave people what we decided they wanted, not what they actually wanted. They'll blame the fans when it fails.
Gotta get them brownie points. Now don't get me wrong homosexuality was alive and kicking in Japan during those days, and I've seen anime that have shown exactly that and been fine with it. I'm just questioning why this has to be announced before hand?
They were probably hoping to get all the whiners and complainers out of the way now in hopes that they'll tire themselves out by time the game releases. I doubt that'll work but that's the only thing I can think of
So complainers can complain now and not when they buy the game and are surprised that it's historically accurate. Essentially, they're saying if you don't like that stuff, don't buy it. Of course, most ignorantly claim it's not historically accurate instead of just admitting they don't like that stuff.
It's more fun to catch em by surprise imo, but I guess it also doesn't give em a reason to review bomb if they know in advance. Not that they won't talk about through and well after release.
That's fine, I won't buy it, and regardless of the supposed high number of pre orders, I suspect many others won't buy it either.
In the Viking Assassin's Creed you could also have different relationship with men or women. So I don't know why this is so different in this Assassin's Creed. Lots of different types of RPG's let you choose differeent relationships. They don't force you. You can tell anyone that makes a pass at you to go kick rocks. People overreacting here
***In the Viking Assassin's Creed you could also have different relationship with men or women. So I don't know why this is so different in this Assassin's Creed.***
It's the anti-woke and anti-DEI movement that is fostered on Twitter and the like. Any element of an LGBTQ or racial diversity related element is seen as problematic and an attempt to rewrite history, censor, yadda yadda yadda.
The biggest problem is that gaming journalists are expanding their platform by reporting on them at all. Journalists are idiots and in their drive to find something to write about only help to spread the things about which they complain.
@heligirl
Well said. And that's the problem for most of the complainers. They're males and are afraid someone might make a pass at them.
Women have to deal with men looking at them and hitting on them and know how to deal with it.
These people are suddenly vulnerable and don't know how to deal with it. It threatens their manhood.
I'm straight, white, and male. I've been hit on by men. It doesn't bother me like it does these insecure little man-children. Why would it?
Honestly I'm just gonna start avoid these posts but I'm grateful that some people are calling out these asshats for dogwhistling.
I just don't have the patience anymore.
It was for men. For women, the other protagonist, it was not. So everyone who is trying to say that feudal Japan was inclusive are full of malarkey. It was only common for the upper-class
I know they’re getting wet to celebrate making a big masculine black dude do some gay shi
I don’t care what a character’s sexuality is if the story and game are good. It’s just that, does anyone honestly think this is genuine, Ubisoft and the other big companies routinely abuse and mistreat their employees but we’re supposed to believe they give a genuine fuck about diversity. I’m 100% in favor of diversity but this is classic virtue signaling.
That's the problem though. The gay stuff will be front and centre. Because DEI. That's why they have to make a big deal about it instead of it just being a thing.
They did the same thing in Odyssey. I can't remember if Valhalla did, I couldn't be bothered finishing that bloated mess of a game.
Japanese culture was very frisky especially compared to the dogmatic hardline Catholic cultures of the Europeans in the 1600s which regarded homosexuality and multiple sexual partnerships as serious crimes. Interestingly enough they banned homosexuality shortly during the Meiji Restoration because of "western influence". History is full of ironies.
"hi everyone, our protagonist is a black samurai cause inclusivity, will be attracted to all sorts of people because having a member of the lgbtqia+++++ is super representative of feudal japan and quite honestly, we are super narrative friendly, but dont expect the game to be good, thanks :)"
-ubisoft
Remember gang; The history consultant was someone who wrote a paper about little boys in relationships in Japan.
when you run out of ideas and talent , this is what you get. i doubt even lgbt people want to deal with this nonsense in a feudal japan based samurai game
Going for that juicy ESG money eh Ubisoft?
The more I hear about this game the more I am being turned off.
I like how all the bigots are offended by something included in a game where the main quote is "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." I also don't doubt that these same people were playing as Femshep and hooking up with Liara.
As for historical accuracy, do you actually think homosexuality is something new? If so, how do you explain evangelicals constantly saying that the Bible - written over 1,000 years ago- is filled with passages denouncing homosexuality?
Why get upset about the always online and $129 cost when you can whine about a black samurai who may be gay?
Does this sway a single purchase? I don't think there's much reason to talk about it ahead of time. It just comes off as pandering without any context.
Sweet Baby Inc has crapped all over this game! A Japanese setting where an African man and a woman are the heroes of the culture and support gay rights…and for some reason the architecture looks more Chinese than Japanese. Assassin’s Creed is no longer for me!
Didn't expect anything different, on AC Valhalla a viking lesbian general lead her troops while men where cleaning the houses, we all know historical accuracy is Ubisoft greatest strength.
Hell yeah! Why do you think the game is called shadows? Who lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to abduct an underage person?
I love how people think of sexual deviancy in Japan in the past in the same way they look at LGBT community now, it's absurd, it's so different in the same way that Japan have had Boy love and girl love as entertainment genre in manga for ages now but LGBT standards are different, there's a reason why when LGBT people read the old "inclusive" Japanese works they call it bigoted, same thing for the sengoku peroid, they treated it as deviancy and just did it anyway
All these companies include DEI for the funding opportunity. But, sadly, it's really nothing more than a branding exercise. When the rubber hits the road, they will compromise the artistic vision of their product to make all the money. Any uncomfortable concepts in countries that are less libertarian will be removed in favor of profits. It's the height of hypocrisy.
Surely, there's more to the game than your sexual preferences? What a silly thing to focus on especially as they are usually an optional feature.
Nothing is new under the sun I'm sure back in those times in real life alot of horny shhi was going on 🤣 its funny tho cause I rarely use romance options in games I play, I knew they'd do this cause in valhalla the arc where you do the quest with the guy about the dying father, the son wanted to romance my male eivor I declined🤣🤣
? All BioWare games did it. Baldur's Gate 3 did it. AC Odyssey did it. Not sure what's the issue exactly
This is standard RPG romance mechanics. Not sure why people are making it a big deal??
They advertise it as if it's a plus. To me, it's one more reason not to buy it. What a joke.
"Let's just hope that such a decision won't result in another round of backlash from some "fans" as we already have plenty of questionable opinions online regarding the game's black character Yasuke."
Did a little digging and there were indeed Black Samurai in Japan. Interestingly enough, only one white Samurai...Tom Cruise. I joke, but it's only recorded to have had one white Samurai.
What I don't like about the article is how he uses the word "fan." If this wasn't set in Feudal Japan then I don't think you get backlash about a Black man playing the protagonist. I mean. Put the shoe on the other foot. Would it of made sense to have a Japanese man as the main character of Assassins Creed Syndicate set in London in 1868?
Romancing characters...Just don't romance your opposite sex if you're not wanting to! Crisis averted lol.
Throughout the whole game your goal as a black female lesbian samurai, is to get the feudal government to sign the Paris agreement and to replace feudal Japan with the hood and Antifa, at the end of it there's graffiti and rap music everywhere at the same time there are white female social warriors ready to cancel you in case you choose bigoted dialog options, in doing so can cancel your ubisoft account, not allowing you to play the game anymore.
Guess that means no spoilers for far cry 76
Ignore the thugs and never pay them ransomware. Keep rewarding them and they will keep doing it.
They wanted to play Skull and Bones early
Who says they didn't extract any Data? Ubisoft, the company that was hacked. Sure, I believe everything you tell me. 48 hours and nothing was stolen?