I love how journalists asked OpenAI executives if they stole every single video on YouTube to train their stuff and the execs said “huh, I dunno” and there’s been no follow up or clarification and apparently we are all fine with that.

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Hello fans of nonograms/picross games!! Introducing my latest game, Walfie's Nonograms, a free Game Boy Color game featuring 150 puzzles! Play in browser, in a Game Boy emulator, or on a real Game Boy (via flash cart)!

(Parasite Eve, 1998)

Nine Inch Nails on Friday

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Happy Valentine's Day

Only we can steal everything our company sells, how dare you steal from us.

The upcoming EP from @marinahascoffee.bsky.social is already stuck in my head from our mix review session, and I haven't even mastered it yet.

WHAT

Age verification? I used to erase betamax and cassette tapes with a big plug in electro-magnet when I interned at a recording studio. I also used to fly alone as a kid to see grandma and my parents could escort me to the gate without a plane ticket.

Hey y’all, the Jedi team at Respawn is hiring up with open temporary positions for Senior Sound Designer, Dialogue Designer, and a Music Designer that will be working with me! If you think you qualify please apply! jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Are you kidding me with the AI music in Olympics figure skating? So you want the world to respect your art but don't give a shit about the art of music that helps you do it?

We have to treat people better than this.

The tape is in his head it’s so good

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

Nerdy beat tape from @domdeshawn.bsky.social here in Columbus. I had nothing to do with it, just think a lot of folks on here might be into it. domdeshawn.bandcamp.com/album/trinit...

The baby boomers in my extended family asking why I don't own a house while they: own two houses, one vacation home in another state, and some rentals. It's a real head-scratcher I dunno if anybody can solve it.

Bandcamp Friday.

I have just an unbelievable pile of video games I haven't played. Even with all the shit in the industry, as fans we have such an embarrassment of riches. Cairn and Pathologic 3 are out, I've been looking forward to both, and I may not get to them for a WHILE. I'm still playing games from 2017 ffs.

Yessir, do that.

First table read for The Apiary by Kate Douglas last night. It's 22 years in the future, and honeybees are nearly extinct. When an incident in the lab leads to a boost in the bees' numbers, how far are they willing to go to keep the population growing? www.avlt.info Poster by Whitney Thomas Eads

Behind the Scenes on the Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity OST with lead composer Bryan Atkinson (IG: bryanatkmusic) Working with this team is such an honor and a privilege. @guildwars2.com

Things that are really good that I am coming at too late: 1) Brockmire (now on Netflix), holy shit Hank Azaria is everything, still, again, always. And the script! 2) Dragon Quest XI DE - exactly what I needed right now, amidst the horrors. Runs great on the Steam Deck at 40FPS. Beautiful game.

I desperately wish I never had to look at Facebook ever again. It is full of misinformation, everything is genAI, and the people who still use it regularly leave the most vile, ignorant comments imaginable. I don't wish to observe the brainwashed, it makes me despair.

Happy to have another excuse to write about Final Fantasy 11, which recently broke in the exact right way to force its Games Masters into doing something extremely funny:

Immaculate Heart College rules for teachers and students by Sister Corita Kent (and one from John Cage). Rule #8 is MASSIVELY important for art making, and a pillar for me. "Don't try to create and analyze at the same time, they're different processes"

hahahaha

(Trying to spend time with a whole album every week this year.) Disambiguation by Underoath. Songwriting is like you took all the best parts of ETID + Norma Jean + Circa Survive and blended them up. I like the production a lot of on this one as well. (And of course the whole screamo history)

The Epstein files continue to get more and more horrifying. The sitting president is complicit in rapes and murders and everyone keeps saying "we'll get em in the next election, don't worry" (meanwhile my state is so gerrymandered my vote doesn't even count)

Absolutely gutted about Catherine O’Hara. Total hero of mine.

LIFE OUTSIDE by Wibes (IG @wibes_musics) Produced by Avery Bick Mastered by me tidal.com/album/490630... "This song makes you feel like you’re dancing even when you’re sitting still." WIbes is: Hansine and Avery @proteo_av @hanzinakz Cover Art: Galleri Steen and Avery B

"using ai in a leftist way to achieve communist fully automated luxury perfect utopia" you are literally boromir drooling over the idea of using the One Ring. it's a little imp that's destroying the very concept of Shared Reality and you're like "what if we can use it to automate emails better"

"The percentage increased to nearly half (47%) for those who identify as LGBTQ+"

I needed this song today

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? R: No

They do NOT look like a pickle. Don't tell them that! It was an accident!!!

The video games industry is a lot of doom and gloom these days because of the c-suite, so it's good to be reminded to be silly. Great thread/story.

LIFE OUTSIDE by Wibes (IG @wibes_musics) Produced by Avery Bick Mastered by me tidal.com/album/490630... "This song makes you feel like you’re dancing even when you’re sitting still." WIbes is: Hansine and Avery @proteo_av @hanzinakz Cover Art: Galleri Steen and Avery B

:: stares at Izotope RX, the indispensable industry standard tool that Native Instruments bought, open on my other screen ::

Making sure they get no rest, feel shamed, and unwelcome in society does work.

The theatre company I have been a part of here in Central Ohio for the past 18 years ( @avltheatre.bsky.social ) is bringing our original show about John Cage and Merce Cunningham to the Wexner Center For the Arts this week. wexarts.org/performing-a...

For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank! linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

This is all there is to it.