No matter how technically impressive an AI generated image becomes, there is just no getting around the fact that we all know it's a cheap imitation of effort. I don’t even mean in the plagiarism sense. I mean in the "a fake Picasso will always be worthless no matter how much it looks real" way.

you know that part in new vegas where you can get ceasar’s legion to retreat to the east and beat the game with a 100 speech check

Video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell yeah Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell yeah Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell y

MeToo feels like 34 years ago.

I don't really care whether MTG is sincere as much as I'm glad to clock her defiance as a "Trump downfall indicator." Unfortunately the hydra still has many heads.

"Vertical Microdramas" oh you mean soft core porn for wine moms who want a visual version of the potato chip ebooks they consume on Kindle Unlimited? oh you mean fetish fanfiction with original characters? oh you mean the thing they'll turn to AI for the moment self insert video gen becomes viable?

I think my more specific take on this is "humans are not inherently selfish or cooperative," but capitalism is a system that rewards sociopathy and exploitation. Collectivism rewards those most willing to be communal, so maybe we should build society on the foundation that doesnt favor ghouls.

I think Livescreamers was like, the first hard evidence to me that the cultural internet, and our memory of it, is split totally down generational lines. The response to that movie from people who somehow don't remember Rooster Teeth (7-8 years ago??) and people who were THERE is night and day.

UPDATE: The news of relief is short lived, as Trump is now appealing to the Supreme Court to block the order requiring his administration to follow the law and fund SNAP. The lengths they are going to leave Americans hungry is wild. Absolutely heinous.

If only they took the opportunity to do the funniest thing

We’re bringing back right-wing cope like nobody’s ever seen. The best cope, beautiful cope, more than anyone thought was possible, many people are saying that

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

MAGA is just annoying. Really really really fucking annoying. The transphobia collective psychosis has gotten absolutely fucking insufferable. And a TON of people are getting so fed up with it they’re going out of their way to try to get it to stop.

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

JKR well and truly needs to be deplatformed and yes, making this franchise socially and financially irrelevant is the first - and essential - step toward that.

this is awful. teen vogue has done such important work

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

really James Cameroning my way through the "waiting for Unreal to update to the point where it can achieve what I wanna achieve" pipeline

Still Tetrisposting but I went up to 44 last night 🤘

Just want to urge anyone in the U.S. eligible to vote for anything at all this election cycle to please do so. Shock everyone with the turnout. Make jaded pundits cough coffee out their noses. Make poll volunteers smile. Make voter suppressors nervous again.

Look at these fucking assholes. All these people are clearly chill and not causing a fuss. They’re not even out in the street. And the cops just come in and start beating people

I shouldn’t be stress eating, but not finding at least a part-time job is exhausting 😫 A new week/month? 😓💔 gofund.me/596fde0bf

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.

Before the month is over I figured I'd reshare this piece on screenlife horror and LIVESCREAMERS. Give it a read. I'm super proud of it and all the work I do at @certifiedforgot.bsky.social

"But is she even a REAL gamer?"

We should bombard Trump with messages and videos that he's too weak to demo the entire White House

All my author friends need to start leading with this whenever they have to promote a book, because it might be the single greatest lure to fiction we have right now.

Trying out the path traced render features in the new Light Forge 2.0. Good stuff. Especially the premade lighting setups for actors. Will save a lot of time, and path tracing has never been made more streamlined.

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

I had so much fun writing this piece. Give it a read and check out LIVESCREAMERS on Tubi.

Now on Octopunx.tv, a spotlight on one of the most visionary new directors around, @dimabarch.bsky.social 🤘 Catch both his incredible queer horror films and a live Q&A this month!

I actually quite liked Tron Ares. It feels like a fanfic I would have written at 15 (complimentary). Including making the entire soundtrack Nine Inch Nails lol.

Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them. I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.

Pretty much true of indie film as well, and another observation is how audiences have started to turn on any form of self promotion unless the movie is immediately free on Tubi et al. Pandemic fully reprogrammed people to expect movies free on release day now. They SCOFF at $5 VOD rentals.

We tried raising the issue of 'hey pretty much all of the cops in the country are both increasingly fascist and increasingly unaccountable to literally anyone, including the city/state governments they ostensibly work for' during blm but that made people too nervous soooooo

Just watched Livescreamers and I don't think I'll ever be the same. On Tubi

It is officially October so here are some genre film recs from me. How many have you seen?

When I make Livescream Remastered one thing I am going to prioritize is real time latency so that everyone who has ever whined about the chat being unrealistically fast will have to sit there in complete silence with Scott while JumpingWolf finishes his paragraph

I love the whole concept that because it was earlier stressed that Davey isn't playing the game, he becomes such a pivotal NPC character in the game! @octopunkmedia.bsky.social #IndieWatch

The Siren looks amazing!! #IndieWatch

Writer/director @octopunkmedia.bsky.social designed and built the House of Souls game! #IndieWatch

Join Jeff and friends for a Tubi watch along tonight!

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

love to portland. fuck absolutely all of this.

Fascism relies on you finding earnest enjoyment of things cringe, it relies on you being ironically detached, it relies on you suppressing that bit of you that is unafraid.