Reiner tragedy proving once again most people do not understand how hard it is to get mental health treatment for a non-compliant adult

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

Welp, Divinity is gonna be a skip for me. These days there are too many games to choose from as it is, so I appreciate Larian making the decision easy for me 🖕

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

no no. alaska cold

Me, Watching Deathstalker (2025) with the boys: "This is a fun homage, but by the standards of the franchise and genre not nearly horny enough." One Of The Aforementioned Boys: "I agree, not enough tits." *A finger curls on the monkey's paw*

Some artists dedicate themselves to the drawing of the anime girl the way a samurai might dedicate himself to mastering the deadly battōjutsu, the drawing of the blade. It's not for me, but you have to admire the technique

Remember when people were fired for *quoting* Charlie Kirk?

Watch attempts to use the horrific mass shooting in Australia as “proof” that gun safety laws don’t work Bondi is Australia’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 years Brown is USA’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 days And the 15th deadly & 389th overall mass shooting of 2025 There is no comparison

If you want to be inspired and delighted and amazed, a LOT of Jean-Claude Golvin's amazing historical architecture recreation illustrations have been digitized both on his website: jeanclaudegolvin.com and on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com/jcgolvin

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy. Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…

Christmas in SoCal

The turn to slop is something we actually have a lot of power over. We choose what art we engage with and whose art we engage with. We have the ability to choose films based on original ideas, to read books instead of just doom scroll, to talk about poetry instead of just Vanderpump.

Reeling at the discovery that Tár director Todd Field is also notable for having co-invented Big League Chew

Many are saying this

enjoy Clair Obscur but they've already got a disease that's killing 33 year olds irl and it's called being asked not to read Harry Potter even though you're REALLY anxious sometimes

Speaking of AI making the internet increasingly useless as a reliable tool to find, do, or know anything:

It's worth shaming companies and independant artists who put out AI generated content for no other reason than that they SHOULD be ashamed. It's embarassing, it's tacky, it cheapens your product. The aesthetics of image generation are the aesthetics of low effort and grift.

There's a real need for somewhat more curated storefronts for indie games. Maybe this exists already, but on big platforms like steam, itch, (even the nintendo shop!) you had to wade through swamps of shovelware to find anything decent, and AI content has only made them worse and less useful.

Once a loser, always a loser

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

The two questions I always want to ask people complaining about sex scenes being inessential to the plot: 1. Was the last sex you had essential to *your* plot? 2. If not, would you prefer to have skipped it?

"Was it good for you?" "I mean, it felt good, but I really don't think it was meaningful in terms of character or plot development."

Abuse and sexual violence doesn’t require deception at all. It happens right out in the open, and people tolerate it, because it’s a demonstration of power

Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

I've been plugging away at Dimitra, my fantasy epic webcomic for an embarassing # of years considering how little I have to show for it. Lately I've been more focused on fleshing out the lore and history of the world than making actual pages, but I hope to get back to drawing whenever time allows:

Was in the mood to make a dungeon synth album cover.

Goran has always seemed like a lovely guy in every interaction I've ever had with him here. Kind, funny, responds to everyone who isn't being a dickhead. Not to mention he's a terrific artist. Bsky has to get their moderation issues worked out because this hair trigger crap is getting ridiculous.

Also I saw a lot of portfolios where you have to click through boards frame by frame. This is the worst, I HATED these portfolios, they are slow and uncomfortable to review. Give me a sheet with a bunch of drawings at once, or give me a timed .mov so I don't get carpal tunnel trying to see your work

I'll add, if you are looking for Storyboard work, don't call yourself a Revisionist in your bio. I had to hire for something recently and I can tell you right now yours were the accounts I passed over without even a glance, it makes you look inexperienced. Dress for the job you want, folks.

Link is Belgian but we don't know what kind

Super Mario, most people don't know this. He's Italian, but he's not from the country of Italy. He's actually Swiss. Grew up in the canton of Ticino. In fact his mother's family is Romansch

At 14, webcomics seemed like the quickest route to getting fame, fortune, and girls (only the last one panned out, it's how I met my wife). Pivoted to animation in college because it seemed similar, then got a job doing storyboard revisions on a Craig Bartlett show in 2015. The rest is history.

Have we considered government subsidized therapy? No? Well okay

VERIFIED: Fundraiser for the Queens family that had their door busted down & a gun pointed in their face by ICE. The children are all traumatized, unable to sleep. Fundraiser seeks to secure them emergency housing and get therapy for the kids. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

One again, he's back... 7 pages 1 of 2🧵 #comics #comicsky also on the site: illuminatedcomics.github.io/corpseman/#c...

When I was a kid, one of the reasons we were told Communism was bad was that communist countries did not allow free movement.

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I envy the boundless optimism of anyone who thinks the president is gonna turn it around and start showing integrity any day now

Donate to your local food bank instead.

Did you know that Karl Urban played Julius Caesar in Xena Warrior Princess? Did you? Were you planning to tell me?

As Bluesky's chief opponent of blue/orange murk, I learned a lot from this video's approach; digital murk masks a variety of failures that are primarily formal rather than technological in nature

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.