@ciciluna.bsky.social
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don't give up
fat tanuki
fat tanuki
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
don't give up
fat tanuki
fat tanuki
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I'm trying to keep my temper in check but the "just the tip and we pulled out right away" technique with regards to using gAI is not the palatable excuse people think it is
people are already linking the statement. yes I read it. yes I am aware the gAI textures were removed. no I do not think it makes it better. yes patching out gAI in the game is actually a big deal. yes I am glad there's consequences.
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm trying to keep my temper in check but the "just the tip and we pulled out right away" technique with regards to using gAI is not the palatable excuse people think it is
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jake paul entered a boxing match wearing the logos of a irl massive racist and then got his jaw broken by a black man.
i think that's beautiful
i think that's beautiful
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
jake paul entered a boxing match wearing the logos of a irl massive racist and then got his jaw broken by a black man.
i think that's beautiful
i think that's beautiful
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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A huge part of the book-banning project aims to make work that provides a public good feel impossible and unsafe! It targets authors, absolutely, but it’s also trying to add unreasonable administrative burdens to the work of teachers and librarians.
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
www.advocate.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A huge part of the book-banning project aims to make work that provides a public good feel impossible and unsafe! It targets authors, absolutely, but it’s also trying to add unreasonable administrative burdens to the work of teachers and librarians.
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I used to argue that gAI appeals to the mediocre idea-guy but I think I've moved on my position because I've concluded there's no such thing as an idea-guy because that presumes their ideas are actually interesting and worth pursuing. gAI appeals exclusively to the anti-social.
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I used to argue that gAI appeals to the mediocre idea-guy but I think I've moved on my position because I've concluded there's no such thing as an idea-guy because that presumes their ideas are actually interesting and worth pursuing. gAI appeals exclusively to the anti-social.
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This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao
This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.
This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao
This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.
This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.
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Drop Fortnite
"Rowling will undoubtedly receive substantial royalties from the Fortnite skins… That money will likely be funneled into her hate campaign against trans people.
"… over a third of… funding for the [U.K.] case came directly from Rowling…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/fort...
"… over a third of… funding for the [U.K.] case came directly from Rowling…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/fort...
Fortnite dragged for collaborating with JK Rowling after canceling Pride celebration - LGBTQ Nation
An upcoming Harry Potter x Fortnite collab got leaked.
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Drop Fortnite
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The very first lecture I had at art school, told us that we weren't there to learn to make beautiful images. We were there to learn to communicate ideas. (That could sometimes be beautiful but also not.)
If we wanted to make "soulless beauty" we were pointed to the door.
This was 20 years ago.
If we wanted to make "soulless beauty" we were pointed to the door.
This was 20 years ago.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The very first lecture I had at art school, told us that we weren't there to learn to make beautiful images. We were there to learn to communicate ideas. (That could sometimes be beautiful but also not.)
If we wanted to make "soulless beauty" we were pointed to the door.
This was 20 years ago.
If we wanted to make "soulless beauty" we were pointed to the door.
This was 20 years ago.
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"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
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So look man if we're just gonna be online here watching all these big studios come out and lay down on the tracks about Gen AI going "I have to do this for some reason." then I think it's more important than ever to celebrate games from based devs who are out here openly posting "Nuh uh, fuck that."
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So look man if we're just gonna be online here watching all these big studios come out and lay down on the tracks about Gen AI going "I have to do this for some reason." then I think it's more important than ever to celebrate games from based devs who are out here openly posting "Nuh uh, fuck that."
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
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I figured out a mutual was a terf some years ago when some nonbinary people were expressing that Sailor Uranus kinda resonated with them, and she got so mad at them for trying to “erase a lesbian icon” or something to that effect
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I figured out a mutual was a terf some years ago when some nonbinary people were expressing that Sailor Uranus kinda resonated with them, and she got so mad at them for trying to “erase a lesbian icon” or something to that effect
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look if a writer can't literally explain their idea to an artist, literally their one job to use words to communicate an idea, they aren't a writer
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
look if a writer can't literally explain their idea to an artist, literally their one job to use words to communicate an idea, they aren't a writer
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"I just use gAI to get a sense of the visual--" you hack. you inept soul hosting a graveyard to existential entropy. you useless blackhole of creative will. disappear and do not reappear until you have discovered shame.
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"I just use gAI to get a sense of the visual--" you hack. you inept soul hosting a graveyard to existential entropy. you useless blackhole of creative will. disappear and do not reappear until you have discovered shame.
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Every day, I lose some respect for people who continue to casually use this garbage. I wonder if they’ll finally pause when our whole state goes dark. www.wbez.org/environment/...
Illinois running low on power as AI data centers spike electricity demand
The news is a blow to Gov. JB Pritzker’s climate change-fighting goals too, as demand from AI data centers soars while wind and solar development stalls.
www.wbez.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every day, I lose some respect for people who continue to casually use this garbage. I wonder if they’ll finally pause when our whole state goes dark. www.wbez.org/environment/...
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Iits not enough.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Iits not enough.
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Yeah I only use AI for the fun part right at the beginning where we're kicking ideas around and not worried about budget or expectations. Just the best part of any group creative endeavor, me and my team challenging each other with our most visionary ideas, I'm looking to automate that
"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Yeah I only use AI for the fun part right at the beginning where we're kicking ideas around and not worried about budget or expectations. Just the best part of any group creative endeavor, me and my team challenging each other with our most visionary ideas, I'm looking to automate that
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I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art