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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by picadores »

pfdietz wrote: post #198
picadores wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like mcdonnell douglas made Boeing a great aircraft company..

Are you suggesting Blizzard is going to take over the C suite at Microsoft?

At the end of the day, the C suite at microsoft is just another group of humans, waiting to be hacked with lootboxes and stimuli, nothing makes you more capable & prone to apply parasitic technices then beeing in a company who develops such

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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moondev wrote: post #171
gmerc wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there’s a lot more to game development - environment textures, normal maps, foliage, gui textures, background sounds, concept art, etc and AI has been making a lot inroads to these areas People over index on the hard cases but those are not the majority of work.

Curious if there are models trained to output 3d stl (or similar) files instead of 2d png

Yes, including an open source model from openAI (sharp-e). It’s not very good but it does do it
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