Happy International Asexuality Day, for all of the tired, exhausted and overhwhelmed ace and aro folks out there. The best way to celebrate your ace and aro-ness is by taking good care of yourself. Take a nap, go for a walk, take your meds, feed yourself, and drink water. Be good to yourselves.

Another exercise. Some fruits and vegetables 💚 #pixelart

Nami suffers from a well known condition among orange cats: SSBC (Shared Single Brain Cell). We just caught her in the downtime waiting for her turn. Wishlist Commitment so we can afford to upgrade her to a dedicated single-braincell plan store.steampowered.com/app/4498630/... #indiedev #gamedev

We've got a new artwork from yesterday. All I asked him really was to draw each of an old/middle aged/young/child man and woman to use as generic NPCs (for now) and he's giving me great stuff.

– Esta puta mierda que nos aflige debería poder hacerse mejor. De hecho, durante la mayor parte de la historia de la humanidad esto no ha sido así y todo ha ido bien. Podríamos darle una pensada, a ver qu – ESTÁS LOCA QUÉ TE PASA TÚ VIVES EN LAS NUBES EN EL PAÍS DE LA PIRULETA LA VIDA ES SUFRIR

Nunca me he tenido a mí misma por una persona creativa o con mucha imaginación, yo tiendo casi siempre a echar a andar por los caminos ya trillados. Pero basta con escuchar un rato la concepción que tiene la mayoría de la gente sobre la vida y el trabajo para darme cuenta de que soy 🌈una soñadora❤️‍🔥🌪️.

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

Una tecnología que quema recursos naturales, precariza puestos de trabajo, debilita el poder cognitivo y creativo de la humanidad y roba sin permiso datos, sólo por los lols. Y si la usas mal, es culpa tuya, lo dicen sus propios términos de uso.

Este es el arte de verdad, el que sale de nosotros, de nuestro esfuerzo, dedicación e ilusión, no escribiéndole a una máquina una ristra de palabras. ¿No os parece impresionante lo detallado que está? Qué maravilla

There are plenty of studios and tons of devs that want to seriously harm their own well-being in order to bring you great games. But they can't if you won't just try to look and think about other games just a little bit.

The world as it is now has almost no room for indies to survive, while big devs are pumping games full of slop, killing franchises and studios, and burning out and discarding devs like candy bar wrappers. This will not change if the players won't just look a little tiny bit into their choices.

Let me put it bluntly: Gamers, if you keep buying giant AAA games only, and you only play games made by people who can afford to shove it in front of you, games as you know it will die. As a player I know it doesn't feel like it, but games are dying, and it's because you only support the big boys.

PC prices too expensive? My game runs on my laptop I got when I went to college in 2009. It runs on this Microsoft surface with 4 gigs of ram and 128 MB of video ram. It fits on a CD. Not a DVD, a 700 mb CD. There are thousands like me. Just play indies and enjoy games made out of love.

Quick drawing of Luffy ✨ #pixelart

For years, people with actual skills have been told to “adapt or die” to something they refuse to use. Now that one of those tiny sad services is closing, the internet is flooded with dudes crying about how “their ability to create is gone”. Guess what? That’s because you weren’t and you had none.

Please folks, remember to donate to the Wikipedia Foundation if you can

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

2024: "The future of film is SORA. Is here to stay. It's inevitable. SORA vs Hollywood. Embracing tomorrow with the future of AI video. How SORA is changing the rules. ¡Adapt or Die!" 🤡 2026:

wouldn't be the first time disney killed sora

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

how many of those 1000 will ever work in the industry again. how much development knowledge did we just lose again

CEOs should be required by law to take a reduction to their compensation package equivalent to the percentage of employees laid off.

Layoffs are not just “how the industry is going” They happen because pieces of shit who care only about themselves are put in positions of power Pieces of shit who have ruined this industry Never forget what these people have done. This industry is devastated, and their bank accounts are bulging

I don’t know man, I like it when people can do the thing they’re trained for and afford to eat at the same time.

I really hope we get back to some sort of normal where it’s desirable to have boring but necessary stuff stay boring and just be done reliably well. How is this my dream for the future it’s so stupid

Small note. Mass layoffs like these are also a tactic to devalue the work because workers become more desperate while companies create false scarcity. Do not, ever, forget your worth. Don’t let them win. You make this industry exist. They don’t.

I love the phrasing here. "Man up! Man up! All the REAL big boy butch manly men like me want shit art 💪💪💪" what

Cada vez que usáis una IA para reivindicar algo matáis a un artista de hambre, y no digo ya joder el planeta. Y si, los artistas estamos por aquí luchando por sobrevivir a una herramienta que se ha lucrado con el trabajo de todos, así que estáis usando una herramienta que es poco pro-trabajador.

OJALÁ. Las casas son para que la gente pueda vivir, no para especular y forrarse robando el salario a los trabajadores.

"Oh i dont have any budgets, that's why i used AI as placeholder voices, images and musics" ❌WRONG❌ Slay The Spire 2, the MOST anticipated roguelike deckbuilder of the year, uses these silly scribbles as placeholder arts, and they are 1000 times more charming than any slop those will ever produce.

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

I played like 100 hours of Trails in the Sky games without VO and it was transcendent — if they sounded like AI idiots, I would never have continued! Giving your game characters lifeless temp voices and selling it is literally worse than just having nothing! Settle for self respect.

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Critically analyzing what's in front of you and projecting/imagining a future described by a team are the only prerequisites to reviewing any of this stuff and if you can't do it you are worse than worthless: you are actively damaging and should either rubber stamp everything or get out of the way.

I've only had to deal with a few people like this in my career and I have enormous sympathy for everyone who has to deal with them regularly. It's fine to not have the talent or experience to do the work but if you literally cannot imagine a finished asset in place of a temp asset, please exit.

One common comment we'd get from Management/Ownership was "I know it's temp, but why is it so bad?" My memory of video game dev is: the dev team being surrounded by people trying to make the job of game dev harder, take longer, cost more.

good job, you tried to steal the free paintings that everyone ignores at the museum, and then you even stole it wrong too

lol there's already high-res public domain photos of this exact type of painting and subject matter, like it's already free, all you have to do is to look and think about art

I have again been asked if AI was used to make my game. For transparency, my minions used generative AI to make all the parts of the game that didn't benefit from a human touch, were too boring to make or not important enough to craft by hand. In other words, we didn't use any generative AI.

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

If there is one thing I miss from the past it is when search engines searched for the words you typed

Ni no kuni - Ding Dong Dell This is free of Gen AI ✨🦆 #pixelart

I just want all artists to succeed and make cool shit. I want a world where all artists could just make so much art that every story can find its audience and every audience can find its story. I just want to live in a world where we can all bask in the joy of getting to make and participate in art.

I've read so many articles in the past year from developers talking about how much more productive LLMs have made them at work. You know what I can't recall a single one of them mentioning? Getting a raise because of it.

Lol, the kids are alright

Vuelvo a decir que necesitamos más historias así en los videojuegos:

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