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Premium – 339. Reality is Downstream from the Unreal Engine (Patreon)

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2024-05-11 22:51:20
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In what feels like a curse of eternal return, we discuss the news that Softbank is leading a $1 billion funding round into what is now the premier UK AI startup, Wavye, which has a generative simulation model for driving data. We then transition to talking about a long piece of reporting on video game engines like Unreal and Unity, the dream of creating perfect simulations of reality, and how everything is now downstream from video games.

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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Kat Berkley

Oh man. As someone who was coldly mass laid off by Tim Sweeney before I have thoughts. So glad y'all are talking about this. Gamedev is not only in bed with the defense industry but it's absolutely at the forefront of the exploitation and breaking of artistic labor.

Kat Berkley
>>137807328

Within game companies themselves there is often a split between the culture of Engineering teams vs the culture of Art teams and then both get got by the Finance culture types at the top

FracturedEther

Lol at 14:23 🤣, can confirm that the UK under Sunak is definitely a 'backwater'. I would add that its a crazed backwater, suffering from the eternal return of delusions of xenophobic imperial grandeur...