“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” stressed Canavan. “This is what concept artists were made for. Why would you pollute that glorious creative movement with joyless, photocopied art?”

"but we have to use this technology or our shareholders-" "but if we don't make games faster then-" "but if our company doesn't exist then hundreds of jobs will be-" maybe the companies that will survive will be the ones who actually still make art because they'll stand out in a sea of slop

"but we need to iterate on a bunch of ideas so our artists need to-" concept artists have been iterating on ideas for decades, they're trained to do it efficiently if you as a company want to sacrifice quality for quantity then that's on you, and it WILL show in the product, it WILL look sloppy

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

i'm so tired and disappointed man

everyone invest more in human artists now

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

animated another scene from deltarune! its a little weird #deltarune www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTqU...

maybe on account that i really only tried to read it as an adult for the first time but HP are some of the most meanspirited children's lit i've had the displeasure of reading and [redacted] writing style is like chewing on a dry piece of driftwood idk why people have such a death grip on it

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

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI. We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think. stuff like this maybe

"I asked chatgpt--" Shut the fuck up. I asked the Lady of the Lake, and she said you are unworthy of the sword Excalibur. You will never be king.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, recently, on his X account, has been posting an absolute treasure trove of design docs and promotional materials from early games. These are early design docs from Final Fantasy 3.

PSA for anyone who needs it: You are still able to buy Yakuza 0 from GOG in its original form and this is the recommended way to play, the Director's Cut changes some things for the worse. See here to learn what was changed: www.avclub.com/yakuza-0-dir...

'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!' 'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!' 'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!' the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art. like. *hate* art. deeply.

it's really cool how our medium is effectively monopolized by less than a half-handful of storefronts obsessed with infantilizing and coddling an audience against anything provocative, while still somehow stocking thousands of factory-churned AI hentai slop games.

The way you can tell "AI" is the future is because one of the most popular searches is "How do I get this AI shit out of my computer"

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

this is SO WHOLESOME Someone went and tried and was brave and showed their attempt -- and then BIG TIME PROS, SOME OF WHICH WORKED IN FRIEREN, come along going "yeah bud! it hard! here lemme show how i do it!!" art doing what art does

Caduceus Clay + Mollymauk Tealeaf

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either: a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

It especially frustrates me b/c I'm gray-asexual and I am also an adult artist and writer. This stuff DOES affect us & acting otherwise erases much of the ace spectrum & reinforces the stereotype we're all puritanical prudes. In any case, something not affecting you doesn't mean one shouldn't care.

personally if i made a website that found success off the backs of sex workers and porn artists i would not continually add new rules that say “that’s icky you guys are ickyyyyyy”

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

THIS ANIMATION IS SO INSANE

-Birth Of An ANGEL- joining @/shiorisketch (on Ig/tiktok) dtiys, hope yall like it! #deltarune #deltarunefanart

James Cameron made over 95 million dollars directing the second avatar movie.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

#deltarune animated another scene!! wahoo www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCrA...

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On this and all social media platforms,all artists NEED to support NSFW art. If your ace (like me) or don't like porn it doesn't matter. The freedom to draw nudity and sexually explicit work for adults shouldn't be demonized because some people find it offensive or refuse to parent their kids.

COMING STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HOUSE

OFF is now available digitally on Nintendo Switch and Steam! Launch Trailer on YouTube: youtu.be/OcPOkexZkHA For more information, visit the official website: offtherpg.com

She was used up. You were used up. #DELTARUNE

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Parasite #DELTARUNE

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

Copying my tweet here too in case ppl are interested to know The Tumblr purge The Patreon purge The Gumroad and Pixiv purge, The Onlyfans failed purge The shitty rules on Fansly The purge on steam and Itchio It's all cause of the ppl on ExodusCry www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHH...

MARIK DUEL LINKS 2K25 WE WON #yugioh #art

how i feel every time i hear "ai is coming whether you like it or not, you're going to have to learn to use it eventually"

it's a good game

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