Aaron 🦔
@sonic-hero23.bsky.social
(Formerly https://bsky.app/profile/sonichero23.bsky.social)
Video game enthusiast. Fan of Sonic, Spyro, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, & many dead franchises. Generative AI's #1 hater.
Bad at posting, too good at liking and reposting.
Video game enthusiast. Fan of Sonic, Spyro, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, & many dead franchises. Generative AI's #1 hater.
Bad at posting, too good at liking and reposting.
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Everyone loves AI so much that companies have to quietly smuggle it into our lives and hope nobody notices.
That’s definitely what popularity looks like!
That’s definitely what popularity looks like!
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Everyone loves AI so much that companies have to quietly smuggle it into our lives and hope nobody notices.
That’s definitely what popularity looks like!
That’s definitely what popularity looks like!
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Jim Ward, the voice of Doug Dimmadome, Chet Ubetcha, Captain Qwark and more, has sadly passed away at the age of 66, his radio colleague Stephanie Miller confirms.
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Jim Ward, the voice of Doug Dimmadome, Chet Ubetcha, Captain Qwark and more, has sadly passed away at the age of 66, his radio colleague Stephanie Miller confirms.
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Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
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Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie as well as video game Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75. https://bit.ly/3XCtBD4
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie as well as video game Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75. https://bit.ly/3XCtBD4
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A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto
Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.
www.dexerto.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Anyone posted this one yet?
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Errors in program and code? Ah the perfect job for a bunch of program and code to fix!
Fucking idiots.
Fucking idiots.
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC
The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Errors in program and code? Ah the perfect job for a bunch of program and code to fix!
Fucking idiots.
Fucking idiots.
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Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division, sources tell Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Plans to Cut 30,000 Corporate Jobs, Reuters Reports
Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut corporate jobs in several key departments, including logistics, payments, video games and the cloud-computing unit, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division, sources tell Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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And if you're a voice actor who consents to AI voice over in a project like Arc Raiders, please know that your colleagues will always remember you decided that actually being an actor was not why you became an actor.
If your company cannot hire any voice actors, don't put voice acting in your game.
This AI voice acting crap is bad.
This AI voice acting crap is bad.
Beyond disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders, like The Finals before it, uses AI voice acting.
So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care.
I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.
So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care.
I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And if you're a voice actor who consents to AI voice over in a project like Arc Raiders, please know that your colleagues will always remember you decided that actually being an actor was not why you became an actor.
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[hospital]
SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: are they
S: yes, they’re still an asshole
SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: are they
S: yes, they’re still an asshole
July 5, 2023 at 4:51 AM
[hospital]
SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: are they
S: yes, they’re still an asshole
SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: are they
S: yes, they’re still an asshole
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It's wild how much it feels like people are desperate to memory hole this entire phenomenon, to me. How viciously everyone who pointed out the emperor had no clothes were criticized. How content they all seem to be to let the biggest wealth transfer of the decade just fade out w/o REAL examination.
-gross fork in a sink food disposal like laughter- I REMEMBER PUTTING THIS THING OUT 3 YEARS AGO WHEN I STARTED THIS JOB AND IT'S STILL HERE, WITH DUST AGED PAGE EDGES LOL
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It's wild how much it feels like people are desperate to memory hole this entire phenomenon, to me. How viciously everyone who pointed out the emperor had no clothes were criticized. How content they all seem to be to let the biggest wealth transfer of the decade just fade out w/o REAL examination.
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Me: Pokémon as a series is archaic in ways that aren’t excusable for such a huge franchise and it deserves a lot more criticism for its complacency and long-term flaws.
Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.
Me: I am a bitch.
Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.
Me: I am a bitch.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Me: Pokémon as a series is archaic in ways that aren’t excusable for such a huge franchise and it deserves a lot more criticism for its complacency and long-term flaws.
Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.
Me: I am a bitch.
Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.
Me: I am a bitch.
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A company with decades of single-player experience pivoting to multiplayer? Well, it worked for Anthem, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, FBC: Firebreak, Redfall, Marvel's Avengers, and all those PlayStation games
Quantic Dream announces they are developing a competitive multiplayer game
Star Wars: Eclipse development still continues
blog.quanticdream.com/writing-a-ne...
Star Wars: Eclipse development still continues
blog.quanticdream.com/writing-a-ne...
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A company with decades of single-player experience pivoting to multiplayer? Well, it worked for Anthem, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, FBC: Firebreak, Redfall, Marvel's Avengers, and all those PlayStation games
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People will wanna justify it, but we have to at least acknowledge that if any other game pulled just half the shit they pull with Pokémon, it’d be eviscerated.
Somehow it’s fine for one of the most lucrative franchises in the world to have significantly lower standards.
Somehow it’s fine for one of the most lucrative franchises in the world to have significantly lower standards.
idc if it is y'alls sacred miltank no voice acting in pokemon in 2025 is wild
u do know u deserve better than to sink 50+hrs into a game that keeps u in near silence (arceus had grunt cues too) only to jumpscare u in the credits with whatever this year's ed sheeran is right?
u do know u deserve better than to sink 50+hrs into a game that keeps u in near silence (arceus had grunt cues too) only to jumpscare u in the credits with whatever this year's ed sheeran is right?
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
People will wanna justify it, but we have to at least acknowledge that if any other game pulled just half the shit they pull with Pokémon, it’d be eviscerated.
Somehow it’s fine for one of the most lucrative franchises in the world to have significantly lower standards.
Somehow it’s fine for one of the most lucrative franchises in the world to have significantly lower standards.
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"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan
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Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has paid tribute to Dan Forden, the sound director who worked on the entire series and has retired after 37 years.
Forden is best known to players as the 'Toasty Guy'.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sound-d...
Forden is best known to players as the 'Toasty Guy'.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sound-d...
Sound director Dan Forden, best known as Mortal Kombat’s ‘Toasty’ guy, has retired after 37 years | VGC
Ed Boon says he “cannot overstate the impact” Forden made on Mortal Kombat…
www.videogameschronicle.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has paid tribute to Dan Forden, the sound director who worked on the entire series and has retired after 37 years.
Forden is best known to players as the 'Toasty Guy'.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sound-d...
Forden is best known to players as the 'Toasty Guy'.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sound-d...
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james sunderland seeing a horrifying mannequin monster: ahhhhhh a monster aaaaahhh I deserve this for killing my wife aaaaah I'm in hell aaaahhhh
hinako seeing a horrifying mannequin monster:
hinako seeing a horrifying mannequin monster:
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
james sunderland seeing a horrifying mannequin monster: ahhhhhh a monster aaaaahhh I deserve this for killing my wife aaaaah I'm in hell aaaahhhh
hinako seeing a horrifying mannequin monster:
hinako seeing a horrifying mannequin monster:
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