I get it that the economy and development of big video games is complicated BUT Skyrim came out almost 15 years ago and it's one of the best selling video games of all time. How do you not follow that up with another Elder Scrolls game within 10 years?

A friend recently was reflecting that they felt art direction in games has gotten generally worse. I think it's a good use of our time & energy to celebrate the fact that while there are a lot of whiffs in the world today, the recent era has also seen some of the greatest of all time

Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.

As an enjoyer of animation, I find this trend insulting. I know this isn't really a hot take but I just saw a poster for the new Moana movie and had to shout this into the void. (I liked Maleficient but it's telling a different story. So were the Alice in Wonderland ones.)

Serious question: is there a more expensive nap than Trump's $10 million snooze at the Knicks game? If you can think of one, let us know! #raygun #knicks #trump #sleepydon

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

this is like teaching someone to read with pogs

Calling all comic book readers. My new book WICKERSON: Tales from the Grove is now on Kickstarter. 🤘https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dereklaufman/wickerson-tales-from-the-grove?ref=3f145c

When you get to the point where you’re building worse things to make ads for even worse things, you really deserve a swift kick to the nuts

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

genAI is poisoning our water and planet you should hate it all indiscriminately even if it "never touches" the final product

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

A lot of y'all owe this man your whole sense of humour; go drop a dollar: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...

"Robin Hood and Little John, running through the forest Jumping fences, dodging trees and trying to get away…"

Personally, I'm bummed out that the majority of video games are trying to look photorealistic. I don't like it. Stylize that shit.

So now Instagram is asking me if I want to take a break from the app after I've scrolled past like 12 pictures. Are they low on bandwidth? What is this? Eh, I'll happily close their dismal app.

Time to go completely berserk

Slipknot Orders Trump To Stop Using Their Masks During Rallies https://theonion.com/slipknot-orders-trump-to-stop-using-their-masks-during-rallies/

I love how this dumb fucking Open AI television commercial has nothing to do with their product - it just shows people learning and doing intelligent things like they've always done and that they don't need AI's help to do.

Nancy 6/4/26

Read a book!

The Machine Stops.

Fantastic blog post by @strange.website about the death of the web and how we should push back against it. Also: this is some of the most insane web design I've ever seen, absolutely wild website

Do you ever find notes you’ve written to yourself but you have no context

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

"Sorry boss I can't be creative and visionary today, the Regurgitator™ is not working"

I LOVE LIBRARIES. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

Can conservatives make art? Yeah maybe, but not so long as one of the core identity markers for "conservative" is open contempt for art, the artists who make it, and the craft they employ to make it, nor as long as their interaction with art is reduced to a desire to either crush or commodify it.

A tree fell on his parents. Commission from Tremendicon '26.

You can finally buy my new comic book online! www.indyplanet.com/skelenaut If you buy it from Indyplanet, they print a copy and send it to you. #indiecomics #comicbooks

Hey! I'm an artist and illustrator. These days, I'm mostly working on comic books, zines, and drawings of RPG characters. Here's my Pathfinder character, Retch the batfolk rogue. I'll be drawing the rest of our adventuring party in this style. www.skelenaut.com #art #comicbooks #pathfinder #batfolk

You know what? I forgive him, instantly & completely. It sucks that he did that, but I have literally nothing else against Jorge besides this one ai decision, and now that he's reversed it I'm left with nothing but a faint sense of "did you really think that was going to go any other way?"

The first time I saw this, I almost cried. It's the title sequence for The Bear season 3 episode 2. youtu.be/Re2eSItf6n4

Those were the days.

WTF is up with this new Toy Story movie? I saw the trailer over the weekend and it's a real bummer. 1. It hits the viewer over the head really hard with the movie's main conflict: kids are getting addicted to screens and are leaving their toys behind.

The best way to fight against AI industry projects is put your money into human made things. Like I dunno… support indie comic creators who put out professional quality books? Totally not biased in anyway suggestion. 👀 😁

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

Hey! I'm an artist and illustrator. These days, I'm mostly working on comic books, zines, and drawings of RPG characters. Here's my Pathfinder character, Retch the batfolk rogue. I'll be drawing the rest of our adventuring party in this style. www.skelenaut.com #art #comicbooks #pathfinder #batfolk

Same old spiel I've heard a hundred times now. All of this is an attempt to salvage their destroyed public image. AI is not a dangerous tool to use carefully, it's a system of theft done by people who do not care. Why do these people think we don't know how AI works??

yikes :(

You can finally buy my new comic book online! www.indyplanet.com/skelenaut If you buy it from Indyplanet, they print a copy and send it to you. #indiecomics #comicbooks

These new Google icons are so bad! They're making me angry.

WICKERSON is live! Please SHARE, comment and like for the sake of the dumb algorithm nonsense!🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/der...

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”