incredible that for big companies, this is gonna be considered the 'uncompromising take'

This is bullshit. "absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground. "how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.

lowkey one of the worst aspects of genAI being shoved into things is that I am constantly sceptical when presented with unknown art and artists. 'can I like this, or is it literally made of art theft?'

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

"It's inevitable, get used to it." Honestly I see that as a challenge. I'll be the last dev on earth who doesn't use genai and I'll be proud of it.

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

Ep. 415 - The Demonschool Episode Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke. insertcredit.com/show/415 Wishlist Demonschool! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... Releases Wednesday!

My schedule for this week! Special stream on Thursday as it'll be one of THREE Trans Lifeline streams I'll be doing with big raids & charity fundraising ♥ Also moved my day off to account for Runescape's launch of Sailing & I'll be hitting 99 magic on Wednesday!!

"No one is angry about games not containing gen AI" is such a hell of a good point. It is incredibly off-putting to many customers, an absolute deal-breaker, yet there is no flip side to that, no consumer base clamouring for it, no demand. They can only try to wear people down into accepting it.

I can understand asking for nuance in these discussions, but deliberately muddying the water by bringing up automation tools that people understand are not generative AI and asking for a middle ground is disingenuous. The nuanced position is that people are roundly rejecting the tech, respect that.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Since Sacred 2 turned out to be so horribly broken, I started replaying some Halls of Torment to scratch the itch. It’s such a good game. Crossing Vampire Survivors with Diablo is still an inspired choice.

do not give labour a single vote under any circumstances

The Washington State University Cougar Marching Band freakin' played Trogdor at their halftime show this weekend! And made ME! My husky head finally gets its due! 50 freakin' yards high man!

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Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

The full count as of today: YouTube suspended Twitch banned 3x Patreon suspended (temporary) Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi) Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?) Buy Me a Coffee suspended Vice reporting censored Pornhub censored 3x times Fansly censored 1x

Kinda wondering if the steam boxes release and are popular enough, if that would help popularize linux use/releases a bit more after how rancid Microsoft/windows is these days

oh my goddess this hurts so fucking bad please please help her if you can. please let her leave without this last worry. fuck i'm crying so hard right now

Rebecca's GFM can be found here. If you're able to help with funeral expenses she's in the home stretch of meeting her goal

Heartbreaking news. Burger Becky has contributed so much to gaming history and is one of the coolest trans women to ever do it. Please donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

They should do a YouTube where every piece of content is carefully considered for publication and produced by a team of skilled professionals represented by labor unions, and the titles & thumbnails are designed & marketed in a variety of styles, depending on genre & target audience.

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I don't know how to put this, but... Glen Powell looks like a lesser Michael Wincott. Like, not quite full Wincott, but same genre of face.

I'm really happy for Poncle getting to have the first Vampire in Vampire Survivors be Dracula

Foundational figure in PC games. One of those load-bearing creatives where things would look very different for entire genres if she wasn’t around. Please help her out

we need to come up with $300 by Monday or they're going to auction our storage space we're two queer, forty something transsexual, SA surviving, former sex workers and we're active community members in meat space and the internet™️ love you whether you give or boost or ignore entirely xoxo

Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.

Been having a damn good time with Silksong, I've been going through it rather slow, to make sure I'm giving time to other games that have been coming out. Delightful game, and staggering huge, can't believe I only hit act 2 today

Abo jamel has been fundraising for his family for a long time, on here, talking to folks and trying to protect them. Now, with the rains and wind, it's become harder than ever - friends, if you have the means, can you help him out?

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

NEW Renegade Cut about Return to Castle Wolfenstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vn...

www.twitch.tv/squidpunk THE LAST VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE STREAM??? MAYBE???

Garth Marenghi does a *really* good impression of @commandersterling.bsky.social doing an impression of Willem DaFoe www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlU...

Playin more Digimon today! Come on by around 2pm Pacific! twitch.tv/patstaresat and youtube.com/patstaresat

Ambrosia Sky is now VERY POSITIVE on Steam! If you like: - imsims - space yuri - accidentally setting an entire asteroid colony on fire while trying to cleanse a ferocious alien fungal infestation Then Ambrosia Sky might be for you! store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

Watch a goth sloth puppetting a hornet through grasslands.

Defeated Phantom!

Hey folks, live now! 🔴 Come join me for a Sunday Silksong stream! www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail

"I asked Grok, and..." Okay, well I asked a gonk droid, and it went gonk.

Please, Gromit.

So proud to announce that Sliding Hero's coming out soon! The unique Puzzle-Metroidvania is coming on STEAM on November 20th: get ready to slide out of a Carnival Hell! WL 👉 bit.ly/SlidingHeroW... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Metroidvania #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban

Anybody wants to hire me to make an isometric pixel art gothic tactical stealth rpg?? Or hire me as a pixel artist in general. #pixelart

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