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Nathan Labun
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Artist. Writer. Game developer. Yes Yes Very Good Productions. Currently working on 2D/3D mystery/adventure game #TheBarkerAndMustardFiles. He/him.
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rincewind.run
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this

there are other, better franchises - let this one go
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
This is bullshit.

"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.

"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
videogameschronicle.com VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 27d
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ko-op.com
No.
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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writnelson.bsky.social
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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headwaregames.bsky.social
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Happy 1st bday to Hollowbody🥹
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A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
store.steampowered.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 23
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
yyvgproductions.bsky.social
This is some very solid advice for pretty much all creative folks
merlinogames.bsky.social Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · Oct 17
working on a talk i'm going to give

thought you might appreciate this slide
Principles of Creation Feed your brain healthy food Experience nature and social interaction Experience art, especially outside of your medium Minimalism Find your work’s essence Remove elements until you can’t remove any more Make it for yourself Audience comes last Audience doesn’t know what they really want Release Art doesn’t exist until other experience it It can never be perfect, so don’t try
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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hannahposts.bsky.social
Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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technocratgames.bsky.social
I know I'm flippant about cyberpunk dystopia fiction being overtaken by reality, but...
ashhiggins.bsky.social Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · Oct 4
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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danthat.bsky.social
I can answer this!

EARTH MUST DIE is about a dumbass authoritarian dictator, and the whole game is deeply, unashamedly anti-fascist in nature.

The GOOD news is, if you're a fascist, most of the jokes will go over your head and you can just look at the pretty colours? 👍
Steam forum post for EARTH MUST DIE. The question is raised "Is this game political? or will I be able to enjoy it and escape from this dire reality for a moment?"
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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headwaregames.bsky.social
Hollowbody is 40% off over on Steam 🙌

go grab it and leave a nice lil review if you wanna support more games from meeeee

store.steampowered.com/app/2123640/...
Hollowbody screenshot featuring a church Hollowbody screenshot featuring Mica shooting a spooky fella Hollowbody screenshot featuring the cassette futurism inspired inventory Hollowbody screenshot featuring Mica walking down a British street in ze rain, it looks chilly
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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sallybeaumont.bsky.social
Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices,
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.

If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
September 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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coil.bsky.social
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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gamedeveloper.bsky.social
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
www.gamedeveloper.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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threeohfour.bsky.social
This is what the game I'm making looks like.
A scene with a traveller on a cliff with balancing rocks and cairns, and a strange man sitting on one of the cairns. A traveller in front of a large, round door that says "Vault door" in a science fantasy style environment. A close up of a hooded, bearded elderly man saying "Step forth, take this phial of sacred oil." A traveller in a science fantasy room with arched windows, hanging banners, a net over a bed and various ornaments and devices visible.
July 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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hannahnicklin.bsky.social
If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · May 26
A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland.
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
wrd.cm
May 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Fourteen Thousand.

The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Hey folks, the Crips for eSims for Gaza bundle is very nearly hitting a whopping $100K raised, sitting at just over $99.5K raised, do you think we could make a little last minute push and get it over the $100,000 goal?

itch.io/b/2965/crips...
Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle by Crips for eSims for Gaza and 176 others
Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle: 237 items for $16.00
itch.io
May 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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dukecarge.bsky.social
Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
May 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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amonjerro.bsky.social
Itch is one of the most important resources on the web right now to get started as a games developer, if not _the_ most important resource. To see it struggling to provide its services because AI companies don't want to respect the boundaries of the internet makes me extremely angry.
itch.io itch.io @itch.io · Apr 28
We're back online. Note: We have been experiencing elevated slamming by AI crawlers and bad bots which is why you may have seen the 429 "Too Many Requests" Error. Working on mitigation.
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?

anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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wadjeteyegames.bsky.social
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April 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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alwayscoffee.bsky.social
Stop using AI.

Yes, even just for fun.

AI is built on STOLEN images and text.

That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI.

Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment.

(Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)
April 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM