When you try to monetise your local grassroots FGC.

yo dudes, you don't have to stop and debate the insane and evil claims of mad evil losers; imagine how long the Indiana Jones films would have been if he had to stop and debate the Nazis every 5 minutes

My vinyl soundtrack collection grows a little larger after a trip to a local indie music store:

Wish I could internalize this

Nobody really wants a beginner friendly fighting game, they just yearn for a time when online play didnt exist and they were the best and most specialest kid on the block for mashing with Eddie Gordo better than the other kids for whom "counterplay" just sounds like quitter talk

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Slapped the sketch into Procreate so now I’m gonna experiment.

As my wife bought me a record player for Xmas, I ordered some interest-appropriate vinyl. Annoyingly, I ordered the SF3 soundtrack on Xmas day and that hasn’t arrived yet. I ordered these a week later and they came first.

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I can be annoyed by the way Liverpool played in the first half, but I can’t be mad about Fulham’s last minute equaliser. Worldie.

Slapped the sketch into Procreate so now I’m gonna experiment.

It's a neat trick to say "get beyond the argument" when implicitly you mean "by accepting my position"

Someone in the replies used the term ‘Microslop’ and I think everyone should know about that.

Trying grey scale with copics. Lessons learned: - Should have left more white space for highlights. - I also fucked up the shading on the face and had to change the angle using whiteout to fix it the best I could, so don’t fuck up shading, I guess.

Trying grey scale with copics. Lessons learned: - Should have left more white space for highlights. - I also fucked up the shading on the face and had to change the angle using whiteout to fix it the best I could, so don’t fuck up shading, I guess.

I really hate fireworks.

Far from my favourite game in the series, but the soundtrack still whips.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Warm-up sketch, experimenting with copics, which I couldn’t blend because wrong kind of paper. I can *never* draw Spidey consistently. I always change the head and lens shape. I have no idea how comic artists do this panel to panel. #art #drawing

I liked this ages ago but I’m going to staple the screenshot to my forehead.

Starting Xmas leave with a Lego build I’ve been sitting on since October.

I did well!

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Finally free.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Last day at work. Thankfully WFH, but also:

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

I’m suffering massive burnout atm. Like actually feel dead on my feet. I feel *nothing*. However, I have half a day’s work left, then a month off to unclench and try recover from a very shitty 18 months. I’m gonna read, play, draw, paint, write (for me). I can’t fucking wait to heal, honestly.

Simply Having A wonderful

More dinosaur drawing with the niece today.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

it's what happens when you take the common frustrated-aspiring-artist misunderstanding "people are directly transferring images in their mind onto paper" - they aren't - and put that guy in charge of a creative project. here're some old blog comments about that www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI

These people are clowns.

omg

Got 84 assets we need the art team to whip up textures for before we ship; to make things simple I covered the assets in mimics that *look* exactly like textures but will hurt our company if they aren't found and replaced

Thanks to the FGC, I am a 44yo man that uses terms like ‘fw’, ‘sick’, and ‘peak’.

More dinosaur drawing with the niece today.

Thanks to the FGC, I am a 44yo man that uses terms like ‘fw’, ‘sick’, and ‘peak’.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Al supporters by and large are people who look at all the things surrounding us in life and never once think "this is someone's job, someone had to create this" and because it's beneath their notice they can't conceive of anyone enjoying it as a job or deserving pay for it.

If you want a web browser that doesn’t fw shitty AI that makes your browsing experience worse, I highly recommend Vivaldi. Not only is it a very good browser, the devs went pretty hard on anti-AI messaging and their mission statement is great. vivaldi.com/for-a-better...

Gonna be the curmudgeon: I’m fed up with ‘wrapped’-style, year-end stat presentations on apps. LinkedIn just hit me with one, ffs. If that’s not the death knell I don’t know what is.

Apple Music threw this at me in the middle of a punk playlist and I’m honestly not even mad. Big band music whips, actually.

Your annual reminder that Klaus is an amazing movie.

Having my trip to the office slowed by the worst sport ever invented is very infuriating.

Generative AI: worsen your reputation and mildly lower your productivity in one easy step.

If you want a web browser that doesn’t fw shitty AI that makes your browsing experience worse, I highly recommend Vivaldi. Not only is it a very good browser, the devs went pretty hard on anti-AI messaging and their mission statement is great. vivaldi.com/for-a-better...