Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

"Poly Fighter was far and away my favorite game I played at PAX East. The fighting game roguelike starts off pretty simple." This absolutely made our day. LET’S GO!!

This motherfucker doesn’t agree to self-ID for trans people but identifies as Catholic while constantly beefing with the Pope. You know who disagrees with the Pope? PROTESTANTS!!

Game workers do not receive any residuals/royalties on shipped titles and shipping bonuses are increasingly rare. There's also no guarantee that your name will even be in the credits if you leave before ship, and studios will use this to keep you compliant. All of this can and should change.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

sorry if you're a creative in any field who has used GenAI in place of asking a peer or doing it really shitty yourself until you can pay professionals... i will think less of your work and of you as an artist. using it "just for prototyping" or by feeding it your own work is still using it idc!!

Some of the creatures that reside in the Australian Daintree Forest 🌿🐸🐊 Which is your favorite?

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Had an amazing school visit this morning. Asked a bunch of 4th graders if they think me or other professional writers or illustrators use AI and got a resounding "NO!!!!!" and then a gaggle of delighted voices telling me why AI is bad for learning and creating. The kids are alright.

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Your options for placeholders: - Make them yourself (difficult, takes time) - Slop (monthly sub, kills the planet, enriches oligarchs, bad assets, everyone hates you and they're right) - Incredibly made game assets by @kenney.nl ($19.95, one-time, supports give-aways to those who can't afford it)

And as other have pointed out, this is the trick the AI-obsessed miss. That the value of the art is in the making of it, and the decisions that go into that, and the choices a creator made. Art without choices, without labor, without a concern about form and composition? It ain't shit.

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

"The food bowl, father. Why is it empty?"

Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify. If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it. There's really no third option.

Machine learning is a solid tool. This is not talking about that. We're seeing entire companies across so many industries get entire teams dumped for this "simpler" cost-slashing tool and promise efficacy as the reward. But that promise is a lie but the damage continues to be done t.co/lfA1niX40O

it is my personal obligation and civic duty to remind you that you can get EVERY strange scaffold game on steam for 65 bucks right now enjoy the reviews, and the concern they have inspired in my parents store.steampowered.com/bundle/35090...

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

Afroman won a jury verdict clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by police who raided the rapper's home, then sued him after they claimed he defamed them by ridiculing them on social media www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

This is Duke. He may or may not want to go for a ride. Really hard to tell though. 13/10 (TT: orginal_pringles2)

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

a while ago I saw a video of alexander skarsgård getting into costume as murderbot and there's like a one second clip in there after he finally gets all zipped in where he just goes AAAHHHH!! like this and it fucking got me. murderbot deserves to Yell #Murderbot

Never too much "fyre in my soule." Loved the first run of these comics, very happy to see the artist doing more!

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

Cops plant guns, the IDF plants rocks.

WE’LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT

I am even happier to have supported these folks recently. Absolutely thrilled to see this.

"We are not powerless, every action matters" - Indie studio Speculative Agency returns Microsoft Xbox funding and urges others to boycott www.eurogamer.net/speculative-...

My teacher friend informed me that one of his students came up with insults for people who use A.I. and the best one by a mile was “botlicker.”

fuckin shoutout to @apthomson.bsky.social for using his grand prize speech for this www.twitch.tv/gdcfestivalo...

Hey look, religious fanatics.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

I love chances to advocate for Adam! They met me where I was at, took into consideration all of my goals, worked to build a training plan that pushed me in all the right ways, and most importantly, demystified strength training in a way that permanently changed how I think about my body.

I was one of their clients for a brief period, and I highly recommend them! Excellent strength training and fitness guidance, I learned a great deal and I look forward to signing on again in the future.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Anyways.

so AI is bad for countless reasons but I personally was not yet aware that "draft a man into a fictional conflict and stage a mass shooting" was one of those techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/f...

Watching US folks talk about any illegal war the US is war criming at the moment is a lot like being the interviewer in this scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk3l...

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)