Keikaku Josh
@phreehawk.bsky.social
I play lot of league and retweet cool sexy art
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If devs are *licensing* their own tech, sure. But a dev saying “if you don’t use bump mapping / IK / Source Engine you’re a Luddite / stuck in the past / etc.” - why would they care?
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If devs are *licensing* their own tech, sure. But a dev saying “if you don’t use bump mapping / IK / Source Engine you’re a Luddite / stuck in the past / etc.” - why would they care?
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
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speaking of Naruto, I forgot to post these doodles here
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
speaking of Naruto, I forgot to post these doodles here
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed"
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December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed"
aftermath.site/id-software-un...
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I see this going around a lot and I understand the point it’s making completely, but tbh, “your body was designed for this” is something that was told to me by a woman early in my pregnancy and it was a great comfort. To me it meant “nothing is ‘broken’, nothing is happening that’s not supposed to”
men describing pregnancy: it's not a big deal, your body was naturally designed for it
women describing pregnancy: yeah 7 of my toenails fell off, my liver and spleen switched places, my lung fell out of my butthole, and I began seeing an entity known only as "the shadow lady"
women describing pregnancy: yeah 7 of my toenails fell off, my liver and spleen switched places, my lung fell out of my butthole, and I began seeing an entity known only as "the shadow lady"
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I see this going around a lot and I understand the point it’s making completely, but tbh, “your body was designed for this” is something that was told to me by a woman early in my pregnancy and it was a great comfort. To me it meant “nothing is ‘broken’, nothing is happening that’s not supposed to”
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i can’t do tutorial sections anymore. i need gameplay right now. i need you to pile every system into my brain immediately. i need the video game tutorial equivalent of being knocked over the head with a crowbar, only to wake up in Cancun with one kidney and my venmo fully drained. just fuck me up
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i can’t do tutorial sections anymore. i need gameplay right now. i need you to pile every system into my brain immediately. i need the video game tutorial equivalent of being knocked over the head with a crowbar, only to wake up in Cancun with one kidney and my venmo fully drained. just fuck me up
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New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good!
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good!
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
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I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
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found an inking brush I like
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
found an inking brush I like
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there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins
i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day
Being nice to people is just fun. Asked young server at taco place how her day was going (fine but tired) and she asked me back. I said I managed to finish my to-do list and she unexpectedly gave me a high five! Treating people like people is always rewarding.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins
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Happy Halloween everyone!! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 #avasdemon
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Happy Halloween everyone!! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 #avasdemon
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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being an adult is like............... i got 6 hours of bad sleep and now the next 48 hours are ruined
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
being an adult is like............... i got 6 hours of bad sleep and now the next 48 hours are ruined
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“We hate tutorials, we hate yellow paint”. Exactly 30 seconds later in the Steam reviews: “this game sucks we got lost and it’s hard to play because we didn’t understand a core mechanic”
One of the most important jobs of a designer is understanding that there are some things that everyone says they want, but then absolutely hate if they get it
October 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“We hate tutorials, we hate yellow paint”. Exactly 30 seconds later in the Steam reviews: “this game sucks we got lost and it’s hard to play because we didn’t understand a core mechanic”
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the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are
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Felt artblocked for a while now so I wanted to try this challenge... drawing my OC in 8 different artstyles from media~
(can you guess them all?)
(can you guess them all?)
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Felt artblocked for a while now so I wanted to try this challenge... drawing my OC in 8 different artstyles from media~
(can you guess them all?)
(can you guess them all?)