RE Larian and GenAI: now that we know the physical impact of LLMs and the data centers they require to run, even if trained off in-house data, there is still NO ethical way to use GenAI

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"No fucking AI assets" - a reminder that many good publishers that will disqualify any prototype with genAI placeholders, and that using it is at your own peril. Hooded Horse happens to be one of the best publishers out there at the moment, so this is a big one. kotaku.com/hooded-horse...

Pallas' cat uwu

scenery experiment

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

hmmm. bnugny

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

Poor Gävle Goat. Blown over this year, at least it wasn't fire...

Cold air to an astrophotographer is a cleaning cloth for the sky! I got these stacks this evening from my yard. The creepy Horse Head and the bright Orion nebulas.

So many grand hopes for 2026. So few that I can put into words without violating Bluesky's community guidelines.

Gävlebocken got tired of standing =3=

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

God ohh god it feels like it's everywhere ohhh nnooooo there's no escaping it I guess I just whthg- dffpt-- OOPS AWHAUAOOWW!! OOPSIE I must have tripped over this LIST OF 50 BITCHIN' GAMES THAT WHIP ASS, AND GOOD THING TOO, MADE ME FORGET ALL THAT DUMB SHIT I WAS SAYIN!!! bsky.app/profile/case...

There's a billion new indie games that spit on that doomerist propaganda, and if that's not enough, there's a billion more games that came before ShitAssGPT which define the material that glorified scraper steals. We can cross our arms long as we want, and my joints are gettin good at locking up.

So look man if we're just gonna be online here watching all these big studios come out and lay down on the tracks about Gen AI going "I have to do this for some reason." then I think it's more important than ever to celebrate games from based devs who are out here openly posting "Nuh uh, fuck that."

As someone studying Library and Infoscience, where AI - or LLM:s as they actually are and should be called as such - are a thing we study, I belive I can offer an insightful thought regarding this topic and the use of such technology. Don't fucking use it at all.

Final 2 comms for the year -- Fahim-jo and Rhazhan for @rainemerryweather.bsky.social Blowing Fahim so many kisses and giving Rhazhan the finger at every opportunity #art | #esofam | #elderscrollsoc | #khajiit

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

A fuuuucking amazing pen drawing of Ammo by the cool af and hella sweet @pasteldawg.art! I can't recommend their art enough; it's so good.

Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift

Got to draw @ninawolverina.bsky.social 's Rosey! Absolutely loved doing so! #art | #dndart

comm for a good friend of his Nautolan OC - Riio - from a 4 year long Star Wars ttrpg campaign that they're finishing this week!! 😯🤯 #art | #ocsky | #starwars

not fair that everything is made for morning people

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

so it begins

it's advent you know what that means

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Just saw this and lol'd

took this stance real early on, have been paying close attention, and i have yet to see a single thing that manages to challenge that opinion even a little bit, rather than solidifying it into diamond-hard conviction

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

Lieutenant Columbo before and after I offered to help investigate my business partner's murder.

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Zadie Smith.

*inhales* STOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMPSTOMP

plz 2 b helping to pay for renewing my residency status in Sweden: paypal.me/tjiluxdays and also helping with groceries and my prescription medication and buy food. Dotts, our resident lady had a massive medical issue and her treatment has drained our savings even after insurance.

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

🖌️Okami style: Bulbasaur 🥬 During the cons, SO MANY people asked me about the #Bulbasaur in the 'Okami style'. I honestly didn’t realize there were that many fans - it makes me so happy! (I have three Bulbasaur plushies myself, so I totally get it hahaha.) Here's our favourite cabbage 💚 #Pokemon

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