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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

I just got laid off in the Battlefield Studios layoffs this morning. If anyone knows of any UI Programming jobs available in the Seattle area (Or remote), please let me know. I have 7+ years of experience in the industry, and I helped ship Battlefield 6.

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Speaking of, if anyone needs a ui/ux person let me know, someone very dear to me was caught in the layoffs today and is looking for work

very evil thing to do, i knew something was up too: i saw assassin’s creed unity jump from $3.49 (a week ago) to $9.99 (yesterday) on sale. this also comes right after the game got a 60fps patch

you don’t hate greedy companies enough

Kanna & Ogami's combination attack animation from "Sakura Taisen: Atsuki Chshio ni" (PS2).
[サクラ大戦]

Bump for today! I've also included here some progress screenshots of various projects I've worked on in the past. Check the alt text for some context beyond the pretty shapes. #lookingforwork #lfw #commissions #gamedev #retro #programming

I could do a whole post that's just direct-translation cliches lol

I'll be honest, I think even if the segagaga team hadn't admitted to using machine translation people would have figured it out pretty fast based on what I saw in the first 15 mins of play

first screenshot i see having polivitan (blatant parody of an energy drink called lipovitan) turned into "polyvitamin" and "harisen" left untouched isn't a great sign

The Segagaga AI translation situation fucking sucks and I hate it, this feels downright SPITEFUL.

The "dedicated fan" in question:

I'm so fucking mad, Segagaga finally getting translated should've been a landmark moment. One of the white whales of translation should've had more care given to it than to outsource the bulk of the work to fucking ChatGPT. With a game of this legacy, you either do it right or don't do it all.

I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.

FYI, AI was used in the development of the newly released Segagaga English patch: github.com/ExxistanceDC...

Rat Wife ext.

I hate how quickly the fascists are absorbing every media company they can get their mitts on so that there's nothing they don't control, it's going to make undoing all this shit so difficult, both legally and culturally

I have no idea how WB managed to be bought out by worse monsters every time, but they keep finding a way.

I just wanted to watch Animaniacs, this sucks...

Rouge :) #SonictheHedgehog #RougetheBat #ArtsyRCart

The WB buyout bums me out so much, I just wanted to watch cartoons but now Trump's fascist buddies are gonna own them, too

Eight panels, each depicting a selfie-style snapshot of Tangle the Lemur interacting with characters from sonic: drinking tea with Vanilla the Rabbit, hugging a very stiff Kit the Fennec, running away from Surge the Tenrec, working out with Gemerl, bothering Jewel the Beetle as she does paperwork, posing with Belle the Tinkerer, sticking her tongue out at Clutch the Opossum, and putting an arm around Lanolin the Sheep, who struggles to muster a smile.

Here's a better look at the Tangle selfies I drew for today's Tails Tube!

there is a lot still to go on this fundraiser and these women need your help. deporting a married trans woman to the US right now is not going to end well for anyone.

if you can help, please help.

a picture of a Konami Python 2, which is composed of a literal, entire, retail PlayStation 2 console, case and all - exactly the same unit as you'd buy at a store. the PS2 is surrounded by some custom boards, and framed inside a metal box (meant to go inside an arcade cabinet). it looks ridiculously funny.

the Konami Python 2 will always be the peak of mid-2000s arcadejank to me

imagine being an arcade tech back then, and you finally receive the kit to upgrade your cab from DDR SuperNOVA to SuperNOVA 2, so you open the case to get at the disc drive, and you're met face-to-face with this:

morning bump, no movement last night. please help <3

Screenshot of Glycine, Erica, and Coquelicot from Sakura Wars 3 disappointedly-staring at a time bomb on a prison cell floor

Me and the girls trying to open the bag of Doritos after we all already had an edible

It should be noted that RAM prices are astronomically high because RAM is being bought up by companies for use in data centers that haven't been built yet to support AI models that are impossible to formulate

Please don't. Please make the AI bubble explode. I don't want any of this shit. And if there are people who wants this, I don't care, fuck you.

ASAKUSA: "kanamori... i know it saves COSTS 'n' all... but won't we get in TROUBLE for animating in PIRATED SOFTWARE?" MIZUSAKI: "i could get my parents to pay for an ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD subscr—" ---- KANAMORI: "FOOLISHNESS. don't y'know all the REAL studios just share the same 20-year-old cd of MACROMEDIA FLASH 8 between all the animators?" ---- MIZUSAKI: "wait... is THAT how you got..." KANAMORI: "i threatened to TELL."

ethical dilemmas with #eizouken 🔎

Closeup of Lost Judgment liquor bottle with some "lorem ipsum" type text on it.

I spent way too much time look at liquor bottles in Lost Judgment yesterday and the whisky's having been manufactured understands and it doesn't understand for the first time when where it was.