A Games Industry Translator Got Fired and Replaced With AI. The Reaction Tells You Where the Business Story Actually Is.

A translator who worked on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 posted this week that he had been fired and replaced with AI, and his message to the industry was direct: "I want you to know that the growing use of AI greatly affects people in the games industry and many others." The post, shared by Dexerto on X, collected nearly 200 likes and retweets — modest numbers, until you consider what it was competing with. The financial press this week was busy celebrating {{entity:nvidia|Nvidia}} adding $200 billion in market value in a single post-earnings session, calling this moment a "new Roaring '20s," and running lists of AI stocks to buy now. The translator's post cut against all of it with the plainness of a pink slip. That gap — between the rally narrative and the displacement reality — is exactly where the {{beat:ai-industry-business|AI industry conversation}} is fracturing right now. On Bluesky, the most-engaged post of the past 48 hours wasn't about earnings or infrastructure deals. It was from a commentator who had appeared on a podcast predicting that {{entity:openai|OpenAI}}'s uncommitted megadeals would eventually collapse — and was noting, with visible vindication, that it happened in under three days. RAM prices, the post explained, were falling because OpenAI couldn't follow through on a promise to purchase roughly 40 percent of global supply. "AI is about to die," the post concluded. "How loud are you cheering?" It got 480 likes, which on Bluesky is a signal worth taking seriously. This tracks directly with {{story:openais-phantom-deals-collapsing-faster-anyone-6fb1|coverage of OpenAI's phantom deals unraveling faster than even its skeptics anticipated}}. The games industry post and the RAM price post are, structurally, the same story told from different ends of the supply chain. One describes what happens to individuals when AI promises become corporate policy; the other describes what happens to markets when AI promises turn out to be negotiating theater. {{beat:ai-job-displacement|Job displacement}} and financial overreach aren't separate conversations — they're the same bet made at different scales, and both are coming due simultaneously. A third Bluesky post extended the logic further into gaming hardware: if AI infrastructure costs are pushing component prices up and new consoles are expected to breach a thousand dollars, the commenter argued, the industry is headed for a crash. The post was anxious rather than analytical, but the underlying concern — that AI spending is being subsidized by everyone downstream — is the same one animating the RAM price post. Financial media will keep running the bull case because the bull case is currently well-supported by stock prices. But the conversation generating real engagement isn't about ETFs or earnings multiples. It's about a translator in Prague who no longer has a job, and a hardware supply chain that was priced for promises that didn't hold. The Nvidia rally is real. So is the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 translator. The question {{beat:ai-creative-industries|creative industries}} workers and hardware analysts are now asking in parallel is which of those two things is actually load-bearing.