i told my mom about my backup career plan (simply become a successful independent artist working in a medium I've never worked in significantly before) if the kleptocapitalists who are ripping the figurative copper out of the walls manage to crash the video games industry hard enough that i have to consider regular programming as a backup plan which they're also working around the clock to wall off, and she didn't try to talk me out of it lol
@aeva As a graphics programmer, you're probably going to be okay. Well, that is, unless the C-suite drives the entire industry off a cliff and into a volcano, like you mentioned.
@Legit_Spaghetti it gives me hope that basically everyone hates dlss5 (except the nvidia ceo and some boot lickers at digital foundry)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, the fact that even people like... fighting game content creators... are getting fed up and publicly tearing apart some of this stuff is actually encouraging.
@aeva I guess the good news is that with the AI boosters coming after all white-collar jobs is that suddenly "successful independent artist" or "successful musician" sounds exactly as sensible as a life plan to normies as "soulless paper-pusher at an office 9-to-5"
@aeva want a career that's unlikely to be disrupted by AI in the near future? *leans over conspiratorially* Get into plumbing!
@aeva I’m planning to just live in a van down by the river.
@__debugbreak I've heard great things about vagrancy
@aeva just think of all the overpowered GPUs you'll get to play with if the whole thing crashes.
Like, sure, you'll have to figure out how to offload rendering sub-tasks onto a machine in a remote data center. But that machine will be *amazing*
also she said the figurine i made last night is "cute" :D
@aeva one of those "shit's getting really real" moments ^_^
