@imrix.bsky.social
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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blocklists might be one of the worst features of this site just because you have to place insurmountable amounts of trust in a random person operating them to not cut you off from entire networks without notice or appeal
really the only advice I can give both new and old users is don’t sub to blocklists, because people use them for revenge and trolling and you’ll end up blocking people you like 💀
Why tf? Were you added to one of these revenge blocklists? I have a bunch of folks blocking me because of those. Alas :///
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
blocklists might be one of the worst features of this site just because you have to place insurmountable amounts of trust in a random person operating them to not cut you off from entire networks without notice or appeal
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The UK has since made some changes to their laws to downgrade them from "completely batshit draconian fuckery" to "mildly batshit draconian fuckery", but it remains batshit draconian fuckery that has a significant chilling effect, particularly on calling a raging bigot a raging bigot.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The UK has since made some changes to their laws to downgrade them from "completely batshit draconian fuckery" to "mildly batshit draconian fuckery", but it remains batshit draconian fuckery that has a significant chilling effect, particularly on calling a raging bigot a raging bigot.
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13. Tantalising Doom Arch Of The Horticultural Elfwomen.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
13. Tantalising Doom Arch Of The Horticultural Elfwomen.
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10. Idyllic Death Bridge Of The Acid Troll.
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
10. Idyllic Death Bridge Of The Acid Troll.
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3. Cave Of The Mercurial Salt Witch.
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
3. Cave Of The Mercurial Salt Witch.
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2. J.R.R. Tolkein's psychedelic lime kiln.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
2. J.R.R. Tolkein's psychedelic lime kiln.
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heard there's a bunch of new ppl again so im making everyone behold my exalted geezers some more. trawl my exalted tag for more Geezers . behold them
Share your couples art! 🌙☀️
I literally just posted them so I didn't wanna just Do It Again but then I realized who give a shit. BEHOLD THEM SOME MORE 🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻
I literally just posted them so I didn't wanna just Do It Again but then I realized who give a shit. BEHOLD THEM SOME MORE 🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻
December 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
heard there's a bunch of new ppl again so im making everyone behold my exalted geezers some more. trawl my exalted tag for more Geezers . behold them
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"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
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And if that community of people who like your work *really* connect with you, they talk to other people about it. You’re never gonna get viral word-of-mouth engagement for AI slop. Rich assholes have tried to make it happen. It just doesn’t happen because so much else happens around the work.
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And if that community of people who like your work *really* connect with you, they talk to other people about it. You’re never gonna get viral word-of-mouth engagement for AI slop. Rich assholes have tried to make it happen. It just doesn’t happen because so much else happens around the work.
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And then you’re in a community of peers, oftentimes talking to each other about the work. You’ll have panels, Q&As, meet and greets, all that. And the people who like your work will find themselves in community with each other, discussing your work and how it hits them.
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
And then you’re in a community of peers, oftentimes talking to each other about the work. You’ll have panels, Q&As, meet and greets, all that. And the people who like your work will find themselves in community with each other, discussing your work and how it hits them.
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Yeah if you make books or paintings or music or plays or whatever, the industries around them still want to show *you* off. They’ll want to tour you so people can ask you about how you went about making that thing you made. Provides reasons and space for people to talk about your work and you.
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yeah if you make books or paintings or music or plays or whatever, the industries around them still want to show *you* off. They’ll want to tour you so people can ask you about how you went about making that thing you made. Provides reasons and space for people to talk about your work and you.
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There’s lot to be said about how little AI shills know about art, but not enough is said about how little they think of fandom, of community, of all the people who bring the art to each other. That’s why it’s never gonna happen like they want. They’ll never have the adulation they crave.
December 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There’s lot to be said about how little AI shills know about art, but not enough is said about how little they think of fandom, of community, of all the people who bring the art to each other. That’s why it’s never gonna happen like they want. They’ll never have the adulation they crave.
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More of the outward anti-AI stance from big outlets please, even if it is just SEO fodder
www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
Best New Games Without AI
Only the best new games without AI, made entirely by real people who contributed their work, will qualify for this list of recommendations.
www.gamespot.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
More of the outward anti-AI stance from big outlets please, even if it is just SEO fodder
www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
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I very much don’t regret hedging my bets with my award video now.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
In order to put to rest “did they actually use it or not”, Guillaume Broche said it a recent Q&A that they tried AI when the tech was new, but they didn’t like it, it felt wrong to them. And they will not be using it in the future.
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I very much don’t regret hedging my bets with my award video now.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
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I hear there has been another influx of users, so I figured it was time to repost my quick rules for Bluesky!
If you've been feeling Bluesky is too quiet, or that you're having a hard time integrating, this guide is for you! c: ⤵⤵⤵
If you've been feeling Bluesky is too quiet, or that you're having a hard time integrating, this guide is for you! c: ⤵⤵⤵
March 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I hear there has been another influx of users, so I figured it was time to repost my quick rules for Bluesky!
If you've been feeling Bluesky is too quiet, or that you're having a hard time integrating, this guide is for you! c: ⤵⤵⤵
If you've been feeling Bluesky is too quiet, or that you're having a hard time integrating, this guide is for you! c: ⤵⤵⤵
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book is absolutely lovely so far, but this little section stood out to me.
"Drivers and pedestrians said they typically broke laws to save time. Cyclists, however, said they typically broke laws to stay safe."
ridiculously true. at no point on my bike do i think about The Law. i think about safety
"Drivers and pedestrians said they typically broke laws to save time. Cyclists, however, said they typically broke laws to stay safe."
ridiculously true. at no point on my bike do i think about The Law. i think about safety
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
book is absolutely lovely so far, but this little section stood out to me.
"Drivers and pedestrians said they typically broke laws to save time. Cyclists, however, said they typically broke laws to stay safe."
ridiculously true. at no point on my bike do i think about The Law. i think about safety
"Drivers and pedestrians said they typically broke laws to save time. Cyclists, however, said they typically broke laws to stay safe."
ridiculously true. at no point on my bike do i think about The Law. i think about safety
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The First of Kings.
The Body of War.
Speaker of Woes.
Judge of Hells that Were.
GHADANA THE COLLECTOR
The Body of War.
Speaker of Woes.
Judge of Hells that Were.
GHADANA THE COLLECTOR
December 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The First of Kings.
The Body of War.
Speaker of Woes.
Judge of Hells that Were.
GHADANA THE COLLECTOR
The Body of War.
Speaker of Woes.
Judge of Hells that Were.
GHADANA THE COLLECTOR
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While the plagiarism and anti-labor aspects of AI are obviously super bad, this is an aspect that imo we really need to push more re: anti-AI messaging.
its propping up climate-destroying industries and is a MASSIVE resource drain at a time where our resources should really be used more wisely
its propping up climate-destroying industries and is a MASSIVE resource drain at a time where our resources should really be used more wisely
“They only use genAI for internal use”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
While the plagiarism and anti-labor aspects of AI are obviously super bad, this is an aspect that imo we really need to push more re: anti-AI messaging.
its propping up climate-destroying industries and is a MASSIVE resource drain at a time where our resources should really be used more wisely
its propping up climate-destroying industries and is a MASSIVE resource drain at a time where our resources should really be used more wisely
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Also in the mix, Cindy Thornburg’s wildly popular “How to Host a Mystery” series starting in 1983, which arguably builds more directly on the earlier parlor role playing games of the 15-1800s than D&D does.
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Also in the mix, Cindy Thornburg’s wildly popular “How to Host a Mystery” series starting in 1983, which arguably builds more directly on the earlier parlor role playing games of the 15-1800s than D&D does.
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So: *yes* there is a direct line we draw from chess variants to Kriegsspiel to wargaming & D&D.
But also *yes* women cross-dressing as satyrs, or applying complex rules to dance games (as in 19th C. shtetls), were also engaged in story-and-rule-based role-play worthy of our analysis.
But also *yes* women cross-dressing as satyrs, or applying complex rules to dance games (as in 19th C. shtetls), were also engaged in story-and-rule-based role-play worthy of our analysis.
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So: *yes* there is a direct line we draw from chess variants to Kriegsspiel to wargaming & D&D.
But also *yes* women cross-dressing as satyrs, or applying complex rules to dance games (as in 19th C. shtetls), were also engaged in story-and-rule-based role-play worthy of our analysis.
But also *yes* women cross-dressing as satyrs, or applying complex rules to dance games (as in 19th C. shtetls), were also engaged in story-and-rule-based role-play worthy of our analysis.
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Artifacts such as the Brontës' Angria merge child's play with the seriousness of sub-creation and fictive histories. The girls + Branwell were able to toy with new imaginative horizons post-Napoleonic era. But of course women had been "building worlds" since Beatriz Bernal in 1545.
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Artifacts such as the Brontës' Angria merge child's play with the seriousness of sub-creation and fictive histories. The girls + Branwell were able to toy with new imaginative horizons post-Napoleonic era. But of course women had been "building worlds" since Beatriz Bernal in 1545.
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Parlor games with role-play elements were part of French aristocratic culture already in the 1500s. Such evening entertainments would spread as leisure time & literacy spread, with many such game outlines in publication by the 1800s when the Prussians "invented" the masculine preserve of wargaming.
December 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Parlor games with role-play elements were part of French aristocratic culture already in the 1500s. Such evening entertainments would spread as leisure time & literacy spread, with many such game outlines in publication by the 1800s when the Prussians "invented" the masculine preserve of wargaming.
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Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...