Martin Dubuque
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Martin Dubuque
@martindubu.bsky.social
Artist and TTRPG Designer. he/him.

https://pigysus.itch.io/
Can't agree more, evocative mood boards have been so useful to setup the initial "spirit" of a project.

I still laugh every time I see this quick image I made for a WIP G2e hack.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Remade a TF2 Workshop hat I originally made 12+ years ago.
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Patriot by Steven Conrad. A depressed spy who sings is sent on a covert mission.

If you like Fargo, Barry, Breaking Bad, very similar tone.

Conrad's writing and directors is incredible, he's got a new show for HBO coming soon called DTF St Louis, starring David Harbour and Patrick Bateman.
October 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This one? It's when he was running away from the Jan 6 rioters, even after he saluted them earlier.
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Mood board for a Galactic 2e "hack".
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Both shows by Steven Conrad, both amazing.

He's got a new show coming out with HBO soon, DTF St. Louis.

He's one to watch, he's on par with Noah Hawley in terms of writing and direction.
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
August 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This was around the time I switched from console to mainly PC.

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Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases

Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down
August 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I feel like if we dropped one of these bad boys at a tech company or political office, they'd be worshiping it like a deity by end of month.
August 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Can't wait for my man Mark Piper to show up in Strange New Worlds.
August 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm all for dunking but that's just a cosplayer or something, the actual bot is "real". Check the hips.

It's just another remote controlled one though, like the last time with the robot bartender.
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yeah, there was a real person here.
July 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Geralt of Rivia canonically pro-choice
July 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Studio needs to comment on the GPT flavor text (I'm curious how many times they used it, so far all I can see is a single background panel in the ship.)

Looking at Maxwell side by side with the other renders, it is odd how differently he's lit and rendered.
June 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Absolutely, when I found the panel ingame that had that GPT flavor text I was convinced, the fact it's tucked away only proves they used GPT.

I think the uncanniness comes from just the nature of those types of renders. There's quite a number of CG renders, so they had the ability to do them.
June 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You're right! That is odd, it seems like it's a different version of the full size image, but it doesn't prove it's AI. I really think it's just CG renders.

The ChatGPT text example someone else posted is infinitely more plausible if not definite, I'd want a studio comment on that.
June 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
All of those listed reasons are because you're staring at a tiny photo, the full size image has none of those problems.
June 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm not convinced. The full size image looks like real CG. Giveaway are the clothes, if this was AI they'd be hyper polished.

Doesn't help your photo is a hyper compressed photo of a monitor, instead of an actual game screenshot.
June 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These games probably aren't too obscure, but they've stayed in my memory for ages.

Alter Echo though, can't quite remember, but I remember it being sick aesthetically.
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
June 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I haven't 3d sculpted in awhile as I've been focused on other projects, but I know a bit.
May 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Heard something above me outside, made eye contact with this fellow
May 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Then maybe don't shoot from the hip for a major accusation. If you look at the larger banner version of the art, it's clearly hand-drawn.

All the things listed by the original poster for it looking "AI", they were all clearly "artistic" decisions made by a real artist.
May 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Very clearly not AI if you look up the larger banner of the cover, but even the low res cover doesn't look like AI. It has too many hallmarks of a real artist, handpainting elements, same with the other cover.
May 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Not sure if this is what you mean, but;

Go to your itch page, at the top it says "Edit Theme", the option is in the Layout dropdown boxes.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM