pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.

This was a joke thread but no lie I copped two great fonts from it that are designed to be more accessible for people with low vision / dyslexia / visual processing issues so hah, another victory for woke ✌🏼

"We have to break this poverty mindset, that all we can get, all we deserve to get, is the best possible consolidation under the circumstances. Illegal deals are illegal deals." prospect.org/2025/12/10/w...

o wow that's my writing :o

Y'all remember how fucking cool it was when Robot Unicorn Attack came out?

I've been playing with this today & it's a pretty great tool for game devs to find creators interested in similar games 🙇‍♀️

like, the *foundational text* of Western literature, the Iliad, is about a ten year war with huge numbers of deaths over... which man gets to have sex with this one hot woman. that's what that myth is about. Aphrodite defeats Athena and Hera. sexual desire wins over wisdom and societal norms.

THIS. EVERY FUCKING WORD OF THIS. They caused measurable environmental damage, took twice as long as they would have done with actual humans, didn't give a legion of gifted creatives a payday (That we all always need all the time) and then have the fucking audacity to whine that people don't like it

I just don’t get it. I just don’t get why ‘do a rehearsal, talk to people with names you don’t recognize to see how it should be pronounced, do your best, and apologize if you screw up’ is some bizarre arcane wisdom that’s somehow impossible to remember or do consistently.

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

This is great. I love hearing post-mortem style stuff in general, and this is a great perspective to come at it from.

if you've got 5 minutes this is a very good little video game

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

PSA to y’all that now is a great time to start wearing KN95s or N95s in crowded public spaces again if you aren’t already! Not only will it prevent you & yours from being sick/protect your face from the cold, it’ll keep viruses from having chances to mutate & form worse variants!

📢 1000xRESIST + UNBEATABLE Bundle!! 📢 It’s hard to BEAT a bundle this good, sisters… We’re so excited to have a launch bundle with our friends at @dcellgames.com , who have just launched UNBEATABLE! Get the games together. And remember: RHYTHM IS RESISTANCE.

The day this fucking planet realises 'entrepreneur' is not a fancy way to spell genius is the day we evolve as a species.

Embarrassed to say that someone pointing out that these are just slim fast marketed at 20 something men was genuinely a Kaiser Soze moment for me. Oh, it’s techy science that makes this objectively less satisfying than eating a stick of celery? Sign me up. Hoo rah.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

Ah good. Wouldn’t be home without another bout of severely inclement weather

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "With Her Serpent Locks" by Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com! You can read it here! buff.ly/p19ZDvX

Hey all Lost my job today. I know it's hell out here for everyone, but if anyone needs an experienced mid (or hell, even junior) level concept artist or illustrator, please consider me. Full portfolios are at www.dakotacurry.com if you're interested in perusing Thanks for everything <3 <3 <3

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

The hostile bid Paramount is launching to get Warner is backed by the Saudis, Abu Dhabi, and Qataris (and Jared). www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...

Hey folks, the Irish games steam curator page is looking to hit 1K followers before Christmas, why don't we all help 'em out? I bet we could hit that goal.

These deals are only good for bankers and executives, who make hundreds of millions. Audiences, artists, and employees all get screwed.

"art is inaccessible/artists are gatekeepers" is the biggest self report in the world that whoever is saying it is, at best, buying in to incredibly tedious learned helplessness or, more likely, is just a huge fucking loser.

Because I just looked it up for someone else and realized some of y'all might not have ever seen this absolute genius: A Complete History Of The Soviet Union Through The Eyes Of A Humble Worker As Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris: youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...

This could just be people looking for engagement or it could be someone building a disinformation network with feel-good stories. If we are distracted from reliable sources of information, or start being overly suspicious of everything, it undermines our ability to inform ourselves.

Great to see something written about this by an actual teenager. And this 15yo makes so many good points. Including, "If tech companies have the capability to delete accounts for people under the age of 16, they also have the capability to delete accounts that bully, harass or cause harm."

My feelings about the EU are the same as the BBC. They do terrible things and could be improved so much but it remains that they CAN be improved. They have paths for democracy. So much better to exist and improve than the alternative. Being right is no use if no one hears us or can do anything.

🏷 crop Rye ears. Inspiration Vincent van Gogh: almond blossom.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

insomnia sucks, and being unable to flip your sleep schedule back to "normal" because of it is a nightmare... otoh the world's really quiet before 5am, i kinda dig it.

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Every time I hear about Tarantino, I remember Fiona Apple’s anecdote about why she quit cocaine

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

voting ends tomorrow!! there is a you that votes, that votes and votes for 1000xRESIST...

As we're cleanin' up shop we keep uncovering extra stock tucked away here and there, including notably a few of the popular FFXIV ones! ALL of them still 50% off! ☄️ sarahdotexe.com/collections/...

I'm sorry for the things I've done (I'm not sorry 🤭) #Destiny2 #gamedev

I set up the shader to have 3 different power levels that increased over the season as you restored all of Rasputin's systems. In this clip you can see some of the code and details on the monitors more clearly

This took.. a lot of time to set up and a lot of math lol. Rasputin watches you through the central monitors as you move around the control room. Probably one of my favorite set pieces I've worked on.

I was lucky enough to be on the same project as @ninehydras.dev for a bit and she's one of the best. Her work is always inspiring

Well in light of the Netflix-WB deal, I did get a laugh when I saw this.

I think one of the hardest parts about drawing is caring. I have struggled to find a good metaphor for this but my partner has been doing crochet, and sometimes you will realize you made an error a few rows back and need to rip out the work you did to fix it. Or you can just press forward, but –

Not just that, but they also seem to hate shared experiences Talking about movies and games is fun because *we experienced the same thing* We take one thing we share and the endless enjoyment is from all the different experiences we bring to it together

Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.