I get that we’re gonna get a few cycles of backlash against the criticism of the plagiarists, much of it in good faith, but ‘angry people lack the linguistic specificity to dismantle the intentionally labyrinthian terminology of thieves’ isn’t a particularly interesting take, to me

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

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Welcome back to the stage of history

also heartbreaking: discover a song that's great for 70% of it's runtime, but with a guest performance that's physically painful to listen to

heartbreaking: discover a song with a great sound to it, but it's lyrics consist of just mind-numbing dime-a-dozen ego stroking

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

fw my festive flannel

[cw: nsfw, anal vore] warm stuffed buns (animation with sound)

moan for me boy(without the camera movement)

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

i stared into the void and the void said :3

I still really like this awien old drawpile doodle

A celestial body they call it ✨

Thinking a lot about Pat and Woolies remark on how that one kid from school that tried to pass off shit they traced as if it was their own art are basically the only kind of person being rewarded systemically right now

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

forgot to post the announcement here but Eternity Egg releases into early-access on December 10

The clarification from Larian seems to be "we don't use it to *create* concept art, we just use it as an alternative for gathering references" which just feels like such a weird use case to boast about

I think execs going "don't worry guys, we only used AI to come up with ideas for us" really gives the game away that they just don't get it I don't want to play a game filled with regurgitated ideas that you couldn't be bothered to come up with

The fact that the games industry is so dead-set on disregarding Concept Art as being part of the game it helps make is eternally frustrating to me. If the slop machine extrudes a design for you that you then force an artist to make "real", that still means there's AI generated content in the game.

taking a moment to call myself out

POV: she caught you slackin

ah, no, i'm fine with an indie definition that says "no publisher," actually

Its really important imo for citizens to push back when some senator starts mouthing off about how section 230 needs repealing, or other blatantly bad ideas But its also good to have perspective re: the actual chances of a particular gambit going through!

a visit from lilith

I just don't know why folks even bother the Game Awards these days. It's so obviously not fit for purpose It's not even a great advertising receptacle - you'd be much better off watching one of Alpha Beta Gamer's 'Games to Get Excited About' Fests

Playing with my Scythe doll!

Officially finished Silksong Act 3 with 100% Once in a decade type game. It's up there with the greatest games of all time for me easily.

while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! www.badinternetbills.com

Ok youtubers, putting "I promise this is interesting" in the thumbnail was cute the first time - don't make me take this away from you

Hey if youre considering watching the game awards, your time would be better spent making some phone calls that may actually help things

fighting for my life

Listen, I love animals, but I can't help but feel like there's a certain kind of evil expressed in the act of donating to charity - not to help the starving or vulnerable or to protect the environment or fight for people's rights - but to help some donkeys that have been worked a bit too hard

Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would

so insanely fucking real for this

Comm for @mitreaed.bsky.social and a friend~ 💙 A little brat breaking in one lucky catgirl 🙏 She looks so much better being marked and bred like a total bitch..~ She probably didn't need those levels, anyway. Or that title~ Or that cute free will~ 💛

I very much have a type, and it's characters which occupy a superposition between "They're just a lil guy :3" and "lil guy has broken containment, sitewide lockdown is in effect."

Catmaid doing what she does best: wearing anything but her actual maid uniform!

Fun fact Second Life was only a $25mil (not bil) investment to start, became profitable in five years and is still profitable today Meta did really really bad lmao

I’m going to go crazy i was looking for something and found this YEARS old character lineup that I was going to use for my NSFW acct before i. forgot my password. Showing them to the world bc I highkey fw them and i aint a coward anymore

people like Ana and others are doing their best to get the news out on topics like paypros discrimination, censorship etc, but we have limitations as individuals and our own platforms arent infinite one way YOU can make a huge impact is by helping get the word out via contacting journalists!

There are few things more lame to me than characters in media gushing or fangirling over the protagonist as if they're a fan of the franchise they themselves are a part of, why do videogames keep doing this?

I realise this is kind of old news and not a big deal, but why is every social media website run by fucking aliens? Like who does this? Who sees someone follow them and then, without so much as checking their bio, immediately follows back? What is the matter with the people that run these websites?

Sometimes going for a walk around the city at night can be good idea. You might run into a young entrepreneur in need of a cash infusion. www.patreon.com/InCaseArt

folks that still jork it to big dick anime girls whilst being scared of the idea of gender identity are truly some of the weakest amongst us you have glimpsed beauty but are too frightened to allow it into your heart

The Lightning Sage ⚡️