Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

Tifa Lockhart #FinalFantasyVII #FF7

Tim Sweeney not understanding (or more likely not caring) that AI (something he loves to glaze) is gobbling up ram worldwide, which is the main root cause of hardware price hikes, is so very Tim Sweeney.

There is a guy in this cafe who keeps taking important work calls from a laptop and all he's saying are variations of "top 100 markets, top 100 cities, top 100 metrics" over and over again to the point that it has ascended beyond parody & become educational as to what doing business is actually like

*and another thing* let’s assume this is correct, everyone just decides “fuck LA, i am moving to fargo, they have a major airport now”, and fargo somehow builds it out — do they think, in this farcical scenario, those states stay blood red?

A thief believes everyone steals.

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

So close to tic-tac-toe. Let's go C and/or C.

Listerine Leaves 0.1% Of Germs Alive To Spread Message Of Terror Throughout Microbial Community https://theonion.com/listerine-leaves-0-1-of-germs-alive-to-spread-message-of-terror-throughout-microbial-community/

UK-based Rockstar game workers formally announce union: aftermath.site/rockstar-games...

✨ Shop Update! ✨ 'Fishy Business: Chili Rasbora' This piece began as a color study of these beautiful small fishies, and is now available on my print shop! 🐡🖼️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydh... #art #artists #SciArt #fishArt #bsnm #SupportArtists #SupportHumanArtists

Nature is so amazing. It is always interesting to illustrate the huge variety of life, in this case, a brownsnout spookfish with its unusual barrel eyes for ABDO's Seeing Their Prey. #kidlitart #sciart

"So you're a software company" "That's right Dave" "and you spent $500 million on AI tokens in a month?" "Yep" "and you're using AI to...replace employees?" "that's right" "that's more than your entire annual SG&A, isn't it?" "uhuh."

I love me some animatronic dino exhibits, but indoor ones with low lighting and colored gels make it next to impossible to capture colors on site. So I end up with a lot of painting homework afterwards...

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

Stories of how Hollywood couples met up

Luigi's Mansion originally included a Pikmin movie, which was removed in the NSO Switch 2 version. This was to save space; with 63 MB, the Pikmin movie is half the size of Luigi's Mansion itself. The original disc had plenty of empty space so the movie was just thrown in.

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

S for SUPERMAN

Please watch and support the release of Mexico's first stop motion film so that you can both prove that your love for animation as an art form is true and stick it to the industry's equivalent of Benedict Arnold.

"I was there for the birth of Sonic the Hedgehog... I watched them pick the winners. I watched Yuji Naka steal credit for it" "[Naka] is literally the most miserable person I have ever worked with in games or anything else in my life, just a horrible human being, and you can quote me on that"

Onions you say... so that's why it looks like a pen--

Very important mod

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Good news! @holleringelk.bsky.social is on Bluesky now. Elk was a big part of getting Gator Days rolling and has been putting out some amazing work. Please check her out if you're a fan of graphic and mature horror.

I was seized with a strong urge to draw Lae'zel in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics.

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

Clavicular Wakes Up As Hideous, Jawless Monster After Rating Old Crone A 4 https://theonion.com/clavicular-wakes-up-as-hideous-jawless-monster-after-rating-old-crone-a-4/

It's always the alcohol specialists that gave the Iron Chefs a hard time. Kobe lost against a sommelier and Morimoto had to fight an overtime battle against this sake enthusiast before he cinched the win against the Ohta traditionalist heel stable. :V

lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now

Ingrid World Tour artwork featuring characters from Capcom Fighting Evolution & Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max.

Once again - it becomes a lot easier to understand this modern iteration of fascism if you remember it is constructed by many absolutely terminally online edge lord losers filtered through GamerGate and 4chan. People who have never been funny trying to tell the same in jokes & memes with dead eyes

"Everyone is beating their dicks with hammers. I know i beat my dick with a hammer every day, and so everyone is doing it." Thats what every AI artist sounds like

Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

Hey, somebody who didn't get booed at his commencement speech. Look at that.

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

People on the right went wild over James Talarico saying that God is beyond gender, saying god is nonbinary or w/e. It reminded me of the time Charlie Kirk got backed into a corner by this college kid.

achieve this electoral politics dynamic

Oaklahoma onion burgers are delicious and devoid of the fatty heavy sauces and ingredients that keep dominating other regional burger styles.

Home Depot and the estate of Stan Lee have announced a new partnership to bring Lee back through the incredible power of a shovel

Face LILY'S WRATH, Ingrid!

Today we mourn the loss of hideo kojima and jorge gutierrez who tragically died on that hill

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.