Barek
@barek.bsky.social
27
He/him
Bisexual nuisance
Unhinged and chaotic, like a moth at a rave
FFXIV, Arknights, Umamusume, Warhammer, Yakuza, fighting games, mecha & whatever im into at the moment
@BarekLongboe on twt
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He/him
Bisexual nuisance
Unhinged and chaotic, like a moth at a rave
FFXIV, Arknights, Umamusume, Warhammer, Yakuza, fighting games, mecha & whatever im into at the moment
@BarekLongboe on twt
🚫AI🚫
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if you ever see a creative achievement that seems to you impossible, there's a 60/40 chance the secret ingredient is human blood
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
if you ever see a creative achievement that seems to you impossible, there's a 60/40 chance the secret ingredient is human blood
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More than 150+ mods over this KOFXV years, I really grateful for people who supported me (in any type) on all this time.
hope to be doing a little more next year, thanks everyone who still here for it.
hope to be doing a little more next year, thanks everyone who still here for it.
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
More than 150+ mods over this KOFXV years, I really grateful for people who supported me (in any type) on all this time.
hope to be doing a little more next year, thanks everyone who still here for it.
hope to be doing a little more next year, thanks everyone who still here for it.
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You really can't minimize the use of genAI without shitting on the labor you are replacing with it.
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao
just 90% of what concept is🤣
just 90% of what concept is🤣
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You really can't minimize the use of genAI without shitting on the labor you are replacing with it.
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
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this is really NOT the important part but I keep thinking that if you are going as far as generating AI graphics for your internal studio powerpoint presentations you have lost the plot and are spending time making it look slick and not on making it informative and moving on to some other task
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
this is really NOT the important part but I keep thinking that if you are going as far as generating AI graphics for your internal studio powerpoint presentations you have lost the plot and are spending time making it look slick and not on making it informative and moving on to some other task
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🎄TEAM ARC CREATORS 🎄
Guilty Gear Fan Art Advent Calendar - DAY 9️⃣
Today we thank @wysteriagrove.bsky.social for helping Testament continue their journey of giving back, no matter how messy it may get! 🖤
Look forward to more holiday fan art to be revealed every day until 12/24/2025!
#TeamArcCreators
Guilty Gear Fan Art Advent Calendar - DAY 9️⃣
Today we thank @wysteriagrove.bsky.social for helping Testament continue their journey of giving back, no matter how messy it may get! 🖤
Look forward to more holiday fan art to be revealed every day until 12/24/2025!
#TeamArcCreators
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🎄TEAM ARC CREATORS 🎄
Guilty Gear Fan Art Advent Calendar - DAY 9️⃣
Today we thank @wysteriagrove.bsky.social for helping Testament continue their journey of giving back, no matter how messy it may get! 🖤
Look forward to more holiday fan art to be revealed every day until 12/24/2025!
#TeamArcCreators
Guilty Gear Fan Art Advent Calendar - DAY 9️⃣
Today we thank @wysteriagrove.bsky.social for helping Testament continue their journey of giving back, no matter how messy it may get! 🖤
Look forward to more holiday fan art to be revealed every day until 12/24/2025!
#TeamArcCreators
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"placeholder text" "concept art" either the temporary thing you put in matters to the process, in which case you need to get a human to work on it, or it doesn't, in which case you can just as easily put a bright pink rectangle that says PLACEHOLDER in and save everyone time and effort
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"placeholder text" "concept art" either the temporary thing you put in matters to the process, in which case you need to get a human to work on it, or it doesn't, in which case you can just as easily put a bright pink rectangle that says PLACEHOLDER in and save everyone time and effort
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the only way to write something good is to write something bad over and over again until it becomes good. outsourcing all the writing something bad parts to a machine means you didn't write the good thing on the other end (if it's even good)
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the only way to write something good is to write something bad over and over again until it becomes good. outsourcing all the writing something bad parts to a machine means you didn't write the good thing on the other end (if it's even good)
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I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption
the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption
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consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
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One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
rt'd the interview bc Jason Schreier always does good work and I didn't feel like jumping into his QRTs but bro for fucks sake MAN
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
rt'd the interview bc Jason Schreier always does good work and I didn't feel like jumping into his QRTs but bro for fucks sake MAN
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NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
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November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM