Just wanna make those aware who may not be, the SAG-AFTRA called a strike against League of Legends on behalf of video game actors last week. For those of you who may not want to cross the digital picket line.
Good info, and fair enough for people to support the strike, if they want to.
FWIW, my view is that the use of AI-generated figures, voices etc. in video games is inevitable. As a gamer, I genuinely don't care who is behind a particular voice. I cannot imagine that many gamers do. All the strike is going to do, is hasten the shift to AI.
I guess I'm unintentionally supporting them, because Riot removed Arena last week. That was the only game type I had the stomach to play, I'm tired of whacking minions.
They want to ban generative AI in video games? Why would a company ever agree to that?
The writers strike eventually resolved, but with big layoffs and wiped $2B from the LA economy
The fully organic push might just be a bargaining tactic. There's other big wins like ensuring your likeness won't be replicated, your work used to train AI without compensation, or your work replaced with an AI sound-alike when it's cheaper.
Where can we learn more about this? The strike calls for players to boycott the game?
Here's a few links. I don't believe the union officially calls for players to boycott or anything, just for union members to strike. Either way I haven't played since the strike became official, primarily because I always try to support striking unions when possible, and secondarily because it's pretty easy to just not play a game while they're negotiating.
https://apnews.com/article/sagaftra-formosa-interactive-leag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_SAG-AFTRA_video_game_stri...
"After consulting with several other Rioters, our team settled on developing a new PRNG implementation based on XOR-SHIFT."
I wonder why?
"It’s simple, fast, and has a great distribution, which means it’s more than good enough for gameplay."
It's distribution is not flawless, but I would agree that it's good enough for gameplay.
Likely performance. You can do xor and shift operations essentially for free on a modern pipelined CPU.
Other techniques, such as linear congruential generators, require multiplication and division.