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i do not wish the game industry a "shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less." i wish the game industry a "unionize and redistribute capital equitably"

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This! Just this! It's so fucking simple! You ever wonder why I never ever say anything about House of the Dragon? I don't like any of the Thrones stuff! So I just ignore it and go on about my day! I just had a tea cake instead of an unnecessary opinion and highest POSSIBLE recommend for that!

I love this image from Conor McPherson, about writing a play: “I always think it’s like the stick that they use for candyfloss in the funfair. There is nothing there, and you just put it into this spinning sort of container, and gradually you see all these little wisps of something attaching to it.”

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Mandatory question for any reporter who gets a chance to talk to him: "What has this experience taught you about health policy for ordinary Americans suffering from the same illness you are?"

Anyone know someone ? VA that speaks Mandarin ? Sally's searching.

Every day I think about how people who don’t make games utterly hijacked the videogame industry and then told everyone who makes games that the videogame industry no longer needs them. For all my rumination, I still can’t quite convey the scale and parasitic vileness of the medium’s appropriation.

"They dug up his corpse and paraded him around in his old costume, but it's okay they got permission from the estate" not literally what happens when they use dead celebrity AI voice, but c'mon

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My Mom when I tell her the animal video she sent me is AI

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On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

Her delivery is 😘👌

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Your regular reminder that Ayn Rand, who was a stupid person with hateful and selfish ideas, died on public assistance that a government social worker helped her sign up for. In the real world, when Atlas shrugs, innocent people die.

I think it’s important to keep talking about children and social media, but I also think that debate is a cover for what these laws are really about: surveilling the entire population online

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When you have to repave the Reflecting Pool at 6 but kill the Batman at 8.

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After Barbie Execs: Toys! More toy movies! Not more women directors & leads. TOYS After Kpop Demon Hunters Execs: Singers! More movies with singers! Not women of color directing & starring. SINGERS After Backrooms Execs: Reddit stories! More Reddit stories! Not young people with new ideas. REDDIT

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

Audio drama desperately needs its gold-rush-triggering adaptation. We just need like "We Fix Space Junk: The TV Show" to surprise blow up bigger than Off Campus to give us another shot as a professionalized field.

They don’t want kids online because online is where kids discover other people like them and hope for a future where they get to be themselves and be loved.

Self-proclaimed centrists, as a class, seem far more preoccupied, not to say obsessed, with the flawed attempts to do good on their left than they are with the open, naked, ugly determination to do evil on their right. I would just like them to grapple with that fact, a little bit, for once.

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

you must understand, xbox's goal is not to make video games, nor to make consoles, nor to create anything. their goal is to find an infinite money glitch for microsoft behind the wall like the backrooms for capitalists

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When someone asks "does your art use Generative AI" I don't want the answer to be "well we utilized it at an early stage of development trained on ethical datasets internally used by our team of VERY respected human employees" I want the answer to be "No."

There will come a day, not too far in the future, when your child will no longer want you to read to them, to cuddle them to sleep, to play with them at all. When that time comes you will not think to yourself, 'thank goodness I saved so much of my time to do work instead of be with my child.'

It’s perfectly socially acceptable to interrupt people who start to speak positively about AI and correct them by saying, “AI? OH you mean brain softener.” Keep interrupting them and repeating “brain softener” every time they start to say “AI” Do this until they walk away.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

The number of dipshit writers thinking they are being clever or profound by interacting with AI and then writing about it is getting a bit much. Not a single one has been non-stupid. You sound pathetic. Just do not use it, full stop.

Please Use AI

screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

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Unironically one of the funniest jokes in Star Wars history is literally that bit from Empire where an asteroid smacks into the bridge of a Star Destroyer and just flat-out kills a guy in the middle of a call with Vader, and everyone just ignores him

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

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It really is so unfortunate that every time a horror film is released, a non-horror movie is retired and thrown into a vault forever. If only this didn’t have to happen. 😔

when industry professionals say shit like "we're just using AI to generate concepts and ideas, it won't be in the finished project" all i hear is "we think concept artists are worth nothing and we do not value their time or insight" but also you are building a house on rotten foundation jesus christ

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

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