#The gamer

[amphibianaday]

day 1725

[therogerclarkfanclub]

"Your Favourite Gaming Actors Want You To Stop AI Generating Their Voices"

"Yuri Lowenthal, Roger Clark, and more speak out against AI stealing their voice and image."

Excerpt from the article:

...It isn’t just voice work either. Roger Clark, who portrayed Arthur Morgan through performance capture and voice work in both Red Dead Redemption games, says some studios are already trying to “amass a massive library of motion and performance capture data”, all without the actor's knowledge. “Many gaming actors have already had to deal with and address having their facial data and mo-cap footage used in perpetuity by gaming studios, even for another game at a much later date,” Clark tells me. “Consumers deserve better than some Frankenstein’d performance.” Clark doesn’t approve of AI work generated by fans either. “Purposefully misrepresenting another person’s work without their permission to suit your own wants or preferences is highly unethical,” he says. “It is at best defamatory and at worse theft.”

Link to full article:

[my-artsy-world]

gaming doodle

[wormdramafever]

10 Best Underrated Games You Might Have Missed in 2023

3. Goodbye Volcano High. For some people, the end of High School felt like the end of the world. Goodbye Volcano High juxtaposes that feeling with a group of Dinosaurs trying to survive their final year of school while a giant meteor heads toward Earth. You play as Fang, who is stuck navigating the end of school, friendships, dreams, and the world. Playing through Goodbye Volcano High almost feels like watching an afternoon cartoon with its beautiful animations and quirky humor. You will make choices throughout the game that affect your relationships, providing you with scenes that vary depending on how close your group is before the end of it all. The soundtrack is another highlight, full of melancholic tunes that sound like they belong on a Phoebe Bridgers B-Side.

[couldtheycatchkira]

[thankchaosforspellcheck]

I love webnovels.

More specifically, I love webnovels where one of the MC's starter skills is literally just the fancied up equivalent of "disassociate on command", because if that doesn't tell you right out the gate this dude's gonna get fucked up I don't know what will.

[wu-sisyphus-gang]

@rgm0005 to me when I'm rereading the games we play:

Now that's how you write a crossover!

[waechterin-der-nacht]

Art for @chaosisorderao3's fic shoe-fueled realisations!!!

[godinvent]

Hi there I can’t take it anymore this rant must escape my discord

This is one of the worst articles I’ve ever read, and here’s why as someone who’s actually played and beat Whitney in Soul Silver

Also an explanation to people who haven’t played it of why Whitney is infamous for a good reason

This article never actually gives any reason why it’s easy to beat her if you’re “good at playing the game” or what that even means. This is just a glorified tutorial of ways to beat her

All the way it shows to beat her are literally just “try to grab this other Pokémon”

How does this make you “good at playing the game” or show that she’s not hard? As the article itself says, Whitney’s difficulty is in that she plays completely differently from any other gym leader, requiring you instead of using a good strategy to instead just grab a Pokémon of a certain type and praying you win or it’s not affected by Attract

Whitney’s moveset is extremely frustrating and unfair and she’s one of if not the most difficult Pokémon gym leader in the entire franchise. Mainly just because of Miltank of course, and there are dozens of reasons why she’s extremely hard even for those who are good at the game

Miltank has super high stats for a Pokémon at only level 19-20 when you get to her, and by this point there’s barely any Pokémon who get even close to her base stat level of 490. She has high HP and defense and absurdly high speed considering she’s a fatass cow, faster than Arcanine somehow because fuck you. It’s even worse that Miltank is her ace Pokémon as it’s not unlikely you’ll be whittled down at least somewhat by her other Pokémon before you even get a chance to beat her.

Miltank knows Attract, Stomp, Rollout and Milk Drink. Attract basically makes you unable to actually hit Miltank if your Pokémon is of the opposite sex and hit by it, so if you have zero female Pokémon congrats you likely immediately have to go and find a female Pokémon. If that doesn’t stall you, then stomp will while also hurting your ass. Rollout gets more powerful the more it’s used which it will be because of how much you’re stalled, and considering how stupidly fast she is she’s likely always gonna be ahead of you. Finally FUCKING MILK DRINK

It took until SCARLET AND VIOLET for Milk Drink’s PP to be reduced from 10 to 5. She can just heal herself with a large amount of HP TEN. FUCKING. TIMES. IN ONE BATTLE. WITHOUT EVEN USING A POTION. Meanwhile she already has a crazy amount of HP and defense already, so the little amount you are able to hit her when you’re able to, she’ll just heal and make completely invalid.

Also a reason I brought up Soul Silver as what I played specifically is because it undermines this article even more! So as it says, you can grab a ghost type Pokémon to fight against her, or a fighting or rock type. However in Heart Gold Soul Silver, the developers decided you don’t deserve happiness by not only giving her Scrappy, which makes her able to hit Ghost Type Pokémon with Normal Type moves like Stomp they’d usually be immune from, but also gives her a Lum Berry which lets her heal all status effects once per battle. So using any ghost type Pokémon is now completely non-optional, as well as making strategies of status effects also not likely to work. The only way I was able to beat her was by trading a Drowsy with an NPC for a Machop, where I barely won.

Does this sound like a fair challenge to you? How is this “not hard” or playing the game incorrectly? It’s not really hard wired much into the brains of people to get new Pokémon when they lose, it’s usually to play a new strategy such as deciding when to heal or what moves to use or whatever.

This title and the little sentence underneath I guarantee is just 100% clickbait because all this guy actually makes is walkthroughs which is basically what this is. When people say journalism is dead this is what they mean. It’s just lying about what your article is even about, why not just label it as a Whitney walkthrough? Considering how hard she is that would get just as many clicks!

Anyways rant over bye I hope Scott’s pillows have been warm on both sides since 2020

[thatfantasylovingdork]

This isn’t the kind of movie you might fall head over heels in love with or get a blorbo from or even write fanfic about (well, maybe you would, only because there’s really not much of an explanation for anything).

But that’s ok. We need movies like this one. Something wildly creative and unusual and visceral and nothing like you’ve ever seen before. And this article does a fairly good job at articulating that:

[i-miss-breathing]

Hey hey so I know the gamer (webtoon/manhua) fandom is teeny but I would loveeeee an angst fic about Han jihan thinking too hard about his ability and gamers mind and gamer body specifically and experiencing depersonalization because is he even a person if he doesn’t experience fear like one and he doesn’t get injured like one and are his memories of being normal even real or has it just always been a game

[amphibianaday]

day 1295

[theoneofwhomisblue]

Social welfare, and mental health services in hell rule

[chaosisorderao3]

Because this ship needs some love. Inspired by @bluepupu's art. Seonil falls on top of Jihan, resulting in Jihan having a pretty major realisation.

[tamapalace]

TheGamer Ranks Top 10 Tamagotchi Releases

Can you guess which Tamagotchi earned the top spot? You probably won’t be shocked, and we won’t give it away. TheGamer, a website with video games news, in-depth interviews, and surprising stories has ranked the top 10 Tamagotchi’s, including models that were previously released and unavailable, and current models including the Tamagotchi Smart & Pix.

With each ranking they provide further explanation as to why that model earned its spot. Be sure to check out the full article here to see who earned the top spot!

[utaitemusic]

【鏡音レン】THE GAMER【オリジナルMV／キッドP】