actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

very funny how splatoon 3 naturally phased out the ‘noob teammate that paints the walls’ joke as a byproduct of removing all of the paintable walls

I guess in my mind I theoretically knew that the guy from the small domino meme probably toppled the dominoes at some point but I'm still a little shocked to see the GIF of it actually happening

Do you NEED to make a callout post? - If they committed a crime, they need a police report, not a callout. - If they're just an asshole ex-friend, that can be solved with a private conversation or - failing that - a block button. - If they're into weird-but-harmless shit, mind your own business.

Staff Side - Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Reupload)

when you see a delicious pikmin stroll on in

feelin bulborby

I don’t think I qualify as an animator but here’s my first ever animation! I hope you like it! ⭐️

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

this feels like the crux of things, and I don't see it highlighted enough: being creative is fun! i want a machine that does my laundry so i can focus more on making art, not the other way around!!

Nyan~ 15 Over got 1st in Cats Have 7 Lives!!!! 🐈 @saiasprites.bsky.social on Dread - "I do not know what mine is" @astrafaye.bsky.social on Sword - "good question" CoRRn on ashot - "umbra lock in" me on Mini - "we just gotta lose a quick uma'mi clams" mare bear - not here winry - fell off

I think there is a fundamental disconnect between people who are on socials to Hustle vs people who are on socials to Socialize and it's that with the former you often get a lot of handwringing about which platform is "relevant" but I promise you: the average social user doesn't care about relevancy

please understand. artists don't get nearly as much feedback (praise, comments or otherwise) as you think they do. much less than years and years ago. we don't know how much you like it. we don't know how it affected you. unless you say something, or recommend it, comment, reblog. anything.

Animating on one 3DS is fun but using 2 3DS is even more fun :)

Ah, good old mind horse. Come on, draw one.

footage of my ps2 running old ass deltarune

Twenty people

Pikmin 5 please save us

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Everytime I try to join a discord server it's like this

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Gonna be happy when we finally move on from the sleeker-but-blander logo trend.

I appreciate Nintendo's exercise of trying to see if you can sustain a franchise by just making one game over and over again. Someone had to try.

15 Over got 3rd in Shark Tank: Shallow Waters #38!!!! yay! @saiasprites.bsky.social on Dread - "I have absolutely no idea" @astrafaye.bsky.social on Blaster - "corrn dont go nova" CoRRn on Not Nova - "I'm going nova" mare bear on E-Liter - "can I sit this one out" @me on Mini - "think of the bunny"

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NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

yeah, this was worth one hour of my life.

"I only use AI for the concept art and prototyping" OH, so only the most basic and fundamental parts, the parts that will literally determine the direction of everything else, just THOSE parts, cool, gotcha

tomodachi life forcing everybody to make their own miis is actually really awesome cause i see other people's miis of characters i have on my island and get to see like, what elements of the design they lean harder on or use different features or the same features for. its beautiful.

storming the wicked company #kirby #KirbyPlanetRobobot #pixelart

Happy Birthday Kirby!!

Crane Fever: 34th Anniversary Edition 🕹️⭐ #kirby #星のカービィ #fanart

If you leave nice comments on art and writing, you are a big part of why we get to continue seeing more art and writing. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to make the community continue flourishing. You, the audience, matter just as much as the creators do.

My polite and effective way of saying this is this screenshot and a heavy handed but gentle stare at…quite a few of you.

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

The side effect this has also led to is that when all kinds of rumors are flying around about a person, that person admitting to/apologizing for ANY of them is immediately taken as evidence that ALL of them are true. People who want to take accountability for their mistakes worry for what it fuels.

⭐️🎂 Happy birthday, Kirby! 🎂⭐️ #kirby #nintendo #art

おめでとう〜！！🎂 #星のカービィ34周年 #Happy34thBirthdayKirby

おめでとう！ #星のカービィ34周年 #カービィのハッピーバースデー

this is nice, but what do you mean bluesky had a person who talks like an actual developer about their product on the team this whole time. where has this guy been while poolboy crashes out

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

raiders made me lock in #splatoon #tomodachilife

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

I regret to inform you that this is me

"site that frequently breaks run by a staff that seems completely embarrassed that their space is primarily filled with queer people and not shareholders" like. that's tumblr. it's happening again

its no splatana, but when you're stranded you gotta make do with a splatchet made of scraps #SplatoonRaiders #Splatoon #Art #Sketchwave

they have finally evolved. Now meet every Kirby’s Dream Land enemy