Just reminding you for no reason that our game doesn’t use any gen AI or LLMs at all and neither do we. Any devs trying to justify their usage by claiming it’s widespread is being dishonest.

Someone give my friend some money to make this happen.

This is unbearably funny

Someone said "they're running out of stuff for us to buy" and it made me realise, yeah, that's a big problem. All the current trends and fads are built on bullshit, because making something NEW is hard, and expensive, and risky. What if we could re-hash old stuff or sell lies instead? 🤔

Shoutout to my friends who are in this!

I find that there’s usually a direct line between people who habitually post unattributed artwork and AI boosterism. Like, if they already act like images just appear out of the ether and have no provenance, they’re also very likely already openly hostile to artists.

"AI is a tool." No. Empirically not. A tool empowers people; helps people. It solves an extant problem. Generative AI in creative mediums is being used as a cudgel that diminishes and eliminates people, and the only "problem" being solved is fiscal. Stop validating it, even in passing.

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)

This gets to the heart of something I will not shut up about: Making art is a COLLABORATIVE exercise. People keen to cut corners and use AI aren't interested in collaborating or creating. They just want to make a product. The harder they push to cut humans out, the worse it will be.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

On her birthday, we'd like to remember special effects makeup artist Milicent Patrick who famously designed the Gill Man suit for Universal's CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

God damned right, Eurogamer.

Reuploading my reel for reasons. Hi I'm Ashley and I voice act!

STREAMING! NOW! Playing some games with @caitybair.bsky.social over on Twitch. First up is the demo of YapYap by a Canadian indie dev Maison Bap! twitch.tv/NillBewton twitch.tv/CaityBair

To the people in the replies to this joyfully explaining "It's JUST for the voices, they didn't use genAI for the art!" Go fuck yourself. Sincerely, a professional voice.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Good morning

Is there a setting to mute/block posts with the Zohran text generator? It's half my feed all day 🙃

The rich: “if you want to help the poor then have you considered making the rich richer instead? We promise it will trickle down this time”.

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid 🧍‍♀️

Thinking of rebranding my entire Twitch channel to "MustardFart" What do we think? "WHATS UP CHAT, ITS YABOI MUSTARDFART" kinda rolls off the tongue 🤔

⭐️ MY TWITCH DEBUT PARTY ⭐️ Join me today as I play #KirbyAirRiders for my first ever solo #twitch stream! 💫 Details 💫 Kirby Air Riders - City Trial Nov 8 @ 4pm PT | 7pm ET I main Starman & prefer gliding events🪽 Want to be notified when I go live? Want more #Kirby content? Follow me on Twitch! ⬇️

HarmonyCon, y'all got a GREAT one. @nillbewton.bsky.social is always a pleasure to talk to, with his incredible sense of humor and the stories he can tell. Have fun in Texas, Bill! 😁

Come see me at @harmonycon.bsky.social in 2026!! 😁 #convention #mlp #harmonycon #voiceactor

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum

KOKO: Chatgpt, good chatgpt, vibe code app ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile KOKO: jealousy cynic

My favorite comment on the FT story

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

Go check this excellent show out! Free trial! BINGE THE GOODNESS

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 thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.

I boosted this months ago when @gailsimone.bsky.social and Bill first wrote/produced this magical thing, but it deserves another round of appreciation from #comicsky #queersky and #pervertsky

Gail... Something has happened. youtu.be/IjAuJXG7wfI?...

#ai #bubble

Bahahahahahaha

#ai #bubble

I'm doing research for an article about post-op care for folks who have travelled for gender-affirming surgery, and I would love to include the perspective of some other trans folks beside myself. (I travelled out of state but recovered there for 2 weeks after.)

In this age of darkness - of insecurity, hatred, and despair: New York has lit the torch of hope. Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - and to the movement that secured this historic triumph.

“Your struggle is ours too.” This is the meaning of solidarity.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

The rotgut bastards are fucking terrified because they know all of us fucking hate them. Every sniveling fucking wretch posting Nazi propaganda from behind a keyboard, every Dodge groyper lanyard wearing dipshit, every two bit stormtrooper too scared to show their Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Aaaaand there it is!

I love how the most universally-despised people in the world were like "we full-throatedly endorse this race-baiting rapist" and "don't vote for brown guy or we'll leave the city!" & now establishment Dems are panic-pretending this isn't also a clear referendum on their shriveled up quisling asses.

Or Pritzker, or anybody who doesn't stand for human rights for all