Should this come to pass, I certainly hope every single person in the entertainment industry who's promoted/employed this technology is financially ruined forever as a result.

I litigated cases against giants that fell when the tech bubble burst and I have seen this coming from miles away. It’s going to be a bloodbath.

We, the plebs, have known this was a scam all along, but I am looking forward to who among the elites thought that all of this was real the entire time.

a year ago, AI companies were promising "superintelligence" that would make 40% of workers redundant and fundamentally reshape human productivity and the economy. now, they making slop versions of tiktok. altman is cooked

Sometimes the most obvious clip is obvious for a reason.

emulator filter called gameboy advance at night which looks like this

Another laserdisc came in today. This time it's the first episode of Giant Robo from 90s outfit LA Hero.

I've probably made this exact post before, but a weird game that does something unique (or, you know, is an interesting take on an otherwise tired genre) will resonate with players much harder than some indisputable masterwork of a game ever could.

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me. blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

i had to dig this up again to honor one of the greats

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

Chat, is it bad when a retailer removes the stock counter for a limited edition so people can't see how many units are still in stock?

This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl

I vicariously enjoy Toby's ascendancy still because every early aughts indie circle jerk participant who shit on Japanese games to some extent would fucking kill to be in this picture. Who would've thought the guy that openly loves his inspirations would be the successful one? Go fig.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

[2023 Art] Happy birthday Shiki! 🎂🍭🍬🐈‍⬛ #TWEWY

Silent Hill f Producer Says Industry Won’t Evolve If Big Companies With Money Don’t... #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

Do not let that Duol*ngo anime announcement cause you to forget that they laid off almost all their contractors and replaced them with AI :)

just to add my two cents about physical media - your favorite website, streamer, or online archive could vanish tomorrow due to any number of deliberate or accidental actions on the part of any number of people or organizations. Physical media? You have to destroy it YOURSELF

Hearing about the early days of Anime/Manga localization/distribution/publishing has always been fascinating to me like yeah it's obviously insanely mainstream but then back then you show some white executive from the 90s Sailor Moon and they'd be utterly gobsmacked because GIRLS WON'T LIKE THIS

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

Halo Studios art director Glenn Israel (Halo 3 ODST, Infinite): "No illusion of security nor promise of wealth or fame or power is worth trading away your health, your dignity, your ethics or values - and no one can force you to. Stay strong, take evidence when necessary, and find where you belong."

Ah, yes, the eternal battle: Elemental Gelade vs. Erementar Gerad

The Villain

the moment you learn that they didn't show the cutscenes to the XC2 voice actors as they were dubbing them everything about it makes so much sense

The collapse of the AI bubble will give us the third bubble driven recession of the century deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-magnif...

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

'Long xbox' seems like a good term for it. Microsoft REALLY wanted to kill the Japanese industry/take it over and they just spread that vibe everywhere. God, remember how fucking bizarrely angry (and often obsessively homophobic) things got about stuff from Japan?

It's the industry still recovering from Long Xbox. Turn based was what Japan did so that was outdated. RPGs could now be first person shooters, first person action games or even third person shooters. You know, real genres.

Oh lord, remember when Phil Fish told that poor Japanese journalist that Japan needs to stop making games that suck? And then he spent way too long on a gimmicky sidescroller and had a meltdown?

while touting yourself as a creative, *especially* amongst other creatives who are using their brains, their imaginations, their skills and talents, whether honed or amateur, to create something real and human.

The whole point of fanart, fanfics, fanworks, is to make it yourself, as a fan, out of love, passion, spite, horniness—whatever drives and inspires you, as a human, to create. GenAI has no place in fandom, and it's gross and disingenuous to include the usage of it, especially without disclosure,

Some previews are rolling in! Check out what Destructoid, XDA, Monstervine and IGN have to say about the Bubsy 4D demo we JUST dropped!

It's fascinating. We had like years of 'so called gaming press' dudes absolutely certain that they were taste-making correctly that turn based games were bad or old or something. Where did this come from? Like who are this people?

i’d argue that us artists are needed now more than ever.

Guillermo Del Toro is 61. Here he is on the Weinsteins:

This stuff is such poison. And there are so many talented artists struggling right now (partly for this reason!), and they’d no doubt love the opportunity to work with a fledgling game studio. With genAI imagery, everyone loses: you, your would-be players, labor. “Not worth it” is an understatement.

really disappointing to see game devs so close to home trying to justify using genAI. maryland doesn't have a lot of studios and the scene is small, so we notice. shit sucks!!

FRIEND: Long week? MY WEEK:

Leapfrogging off of lrp but this conclusion is also wildly bleak and something I was immediately worried about - the role of video games as an explicitly national project doesn't make for good art in times of war

THE DEVILLL LIVES IN HELLLLLL

AI jackoffs will never understand the joy of creation. They don't care about the artistic process, they only want ownership of the finished product.

They fired everyone to replace them with ai to make a dogass fuckawful anime about a meme from a decade ago Duolingo is doing just great y'all

@hidive.com is on Bluesky, but here's a screencap from their Twitter account where they state what should feel obvious when it comes to the idea of using AI for anime translation & timing... but in today's world it's unfortunately not so obvious. Good on Hidive, regardless.