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#1

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 12:48:23 PM

Qatar and Ukraine sign defense cooperation agreement

https://x.com/AJENews/status/2037872306391789662

 

#2

Off the Record / Re: Quick Quagmire Poll (Iran,...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 12:41:23 PM

It's really hard to assess because I have so little experience with writing scenario lines for TV shows, which appears to be the best way to predict administration actions.

So will do my best . . . Sending that number of Marines doesn't send spec force only vibes.  That suggests either 1 or 4. Either they are being sent as a precaution to respond against an unexpected move, or they are being tasked to grab one or more islands.  If they invade it can't be limited because the Iranians get a vote.

Common sense says 1.

Therefore I pick 4.

#3

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 12:38:12 PM

The USA has one ally left, the leader of their alliance, Israel.

And it's trapped in an early release Paradox game and can't peace out.

Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected . . .

Careful, it will crash soon if you manage to propose peace in less than the theoretical interval. (Bug and WAD I guess).

#4

Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 12:31:37 PM

The translation to English of the next game of the Kingdom Come Deliverance studio might be of unknown quality.

Terrible idea to rely solely on AI for such translation work. Everyone knows if you want to get a good translation, you must double Czech.

#5

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 12:27:48 PM

The USA has one ally left, the leader of their alliance, Israel.

And it's trapped in an early release Paradox game and can't peace out.

Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected
Propose White Peace.  Rejected . . .

#6

Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...

Last post by Syt - Today at 10:51:41 AM

The translation to English of the next game of the Kingdom Come Deliverance studio might be of unknown quality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kingdomcome/comments/1s5vgt9/other_fired_from_warhorse_studios_and_replaced/

[OTHER] Fired from Warhorse Studios and replaced with AI

Hey everyone,

My name is Max H, and I've been working at Warhorse Studios since July 2022 as a Czech>English translator and editor. I primarily worked on KCD2 and its DLCs, including dialogues, quest logs, item names, and various other things, as well as some occasional marketing materials here and there. Simply put, if you've ever played KCD2 in English, you've quite likely seen my work.

Yesterday, March 27th 2026, with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to "make the company more effective" and "save finances", as of next month, my position at the company would become "obsolete" in favour of using AI for all translations going forward. This came as a huge shock to me, as though the discussion about using AI for translating had frequently come up in the past, something I was always strongly and vocally against, but never to the extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future. It had, of course, crossed my mind many times, but I naively thought my work at WHS was valued enough that I might not be at immediate risk.

I feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I've come to care about greatly these past almost 4 years, and am heartbroken I won't get to see my friends and colleagues at the office every day.

I want you to know that the growing use of AI greatly affects people in the games industry and many others, and I thought you should know how much the company that makes the games you love value the work of their employees, not to mention the environment.

To any of my now-former colleagues reading this, I wish you all the best, and strongly hope none of you finds yourselves in the same position as me.

To all management at Warhorse, I won't be breaking my NDA, of course, nor am I looking for my job back or to start legal issues, but you can be damn sure I won't keep quiet about my experience.

To anyone else reading, thanks for making it this far, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer them if I can.

EDIT: This got a lot more comments a lot sooner than I thought. Many thanks to everyone showing their support, it's a bit overwhelming to tell the truth, but just know that I truly appreciate <3 To those who doubt the truthfulness of this post, all I can say is I understand it's hard to believe everything you read online, but everything I said here is true. I've verified my LinkedIn with one of the mods here, and would post my firing contract thing here, but I'm not sure if it's legal to do so without breaking my NDA, so I'll err on the side of caution. While I can't legally confirm or deny whether or not Warhorse is working on anything at the moment, I will say that while much slower than usual, I did in fact have work to do, and was laid off near the end of a normal work day during which I was completely oblivious to what was coming. I'm going to go out and touch some grass for a while, but will check back in later and answer some questions. Thanks for reading everyone and all the best <3

EDIT 2: PLEASE don't harass anyone from WHS or review bomb their games on Steam, that isn't my intention at all. All I want is for people to be more informed about what's going on it the games industry behind closed doors.

#7

Off the Record / Re: Iran War

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 09:50:01 AM

Source?

Just a hunch. Trump likes his military spectaculars done on the weekends.

Well, that would have to be an invasion that occurs only in the imaginations of Trump or others because as already noted just yesterday, the amphibious Marines are still about two or three weeks away from arriving.

#8

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 09:48:09 AM

That's also why you hear so few Canadian CEOs, who are federally regulated say anything publicly. Very few of them are bilingual.

As always, the best and brightest rarely end up in positions of power. A very simple requirement to be able to speak French at a toddler level is too much for these incompetent morons.

You are paid millions a year and you can't do this elementary school easy bullshit that any 8 year old could do? What a disgrace.

They mainly come from the US or were educated in American universities.  And federally regulated companies rarely pay their CEOs millions a year.

Look when I interviewed to work for Samsung here in Austin (I did not get the job just FYI) I was told that to go very far in that company I was going to have to learn Korean and they would supply Korean lessons. They had a special Korean language classroom in the building and everything. All the managers, all Americans, had taken the time to learn Korean to the point they could communicate with upper management in Korea. If our monolingual Texas asses can learn fucking Korean for the sake of our middle management careers surely it shouldn't be hard to teach us French. Once money is at stake it is amazing how bilingual we can become.

This just shows Canadian companies don't really care.

I see so in the US the company tells the CEO what to do. I'm not sure that that's how it works but if it makes you feel better to think that way then OK

I feel zero percent better seeing more confirmation morons who lack the ability to do even the most menial simple tasks are given enormous power. I am not sure why it fucking would. These guys are held to no standards, it is pathetic.

At least you are coming closer to understanding where the blame lies.

When we are educate are business elites in US universities it should not be surprising to us that things like Canadian bilingual priorities are not important to them.

#9

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 08:45:23 AM

Calgary zoo got a polar bear from a zoo in qc. Polar bear does not understand training commands in English. Nobody at the Calgary zoo could be arsed to learn like 10 commands in French. They're flying in a QC trainer as, I quote "transitioning the bear to learn commands in English ".

Canada: where we're so francophobic that it's easier to teach a polar bear English than an Albertan 10 sentences in French.

In Belgium we call that mentality: "Et pour les flamands la même chose". Mainly encountered in Brussels.
Just saying that it sounds very familiar.

[between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets.]

#10

Off the Record / Re: Iran War

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 08:20:19 AM

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down

https://www.france24.com/en/france-confirms-oil-crisis-says-30-40-gulf-energy-infrastructure-destroyed

I don't think there will be many airlines around next July.