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In Light Of The Recent Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 News

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In Light Of The Recent Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 News

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 apparently got some flak for using AI-generated voiceovers, and the gaming community's reaction is basically "nobody's cool... except indie devs who somehow resist the siren call of AI automation." It's wild how we've reached a point where NOT using AI is the flex. Like, imagine telling a developer from 2015 that in the future, manually doing work would be the chad move. The bar has literally inverted itself – we went from "look how much we automated!" to "look, we actually paid humans!" It's giving very strong "I use Arch BTW" energy but for game development. The indie devs out here hand-crafting dialogue like artisanal sourdough while AAA studios are speedrunning the AI pipeline.

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