The one benefit of genAI: behind the scenes footage of real people making things will become abundant once again!

Imo you shouldn’t claim this for free, and instead wait to buy it full price and then also gift your friend a copy. Paradise Killer is GOTY forever!!

"Our usage of AI is only the productivity areas" oh thank god i thought it was somewhere important like the c-suite

Welcome back to the stage of history

Vince was always kind and supportive, especially at the times when I was really on the ropes. RIP. And condolences to everyone who loved him.

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

The Avatar movies say “You can murder your colonizers in cold blood, it’s always morally correct” and the sequel proceeded to say “And guess what if they come back YOU CAN JUST KEEP DOING IT” they rip, but people love to act like the first movie’s popularity meant it was shallow, unfortunate really

this is what diglett looks underground like to me

Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.

The Beatles - GameCube

truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”

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Under Trump, OSHA has issued the fewest amount of penalties for workplace health and safety violations since 2009. Still believe he’s the “pro-worker” president? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8

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Had the pleasure of editing the script for this video from the inimitable @gamearray.bsky.social a while back and I'm very excited it's finally out there in video form. Many points when reading it where I thought "YES! YES!" Truly excellent writer, super fun structure. Well worth your time.

You know what you can use to generate ideas? A brain. I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.

Waltuh. Put your deck away Waltuh. I’m not gonna play Magic the Gathering with you right now waltuh.

Update: id Software producer Andrew Willis tells Game Developer that the union has "protected a pretty beloved IP from the volatility that the games industry has been through in the last few years." He added that this volatility may have been avoided if the industry were more "developer-led."

“Oh we’re only using GenAI for inspiration and concept art” So you’re outsourcing maybe the most crucial part of art, and won’t be able to credit a cool artist, movie, actor, landscape, or ANYTHING in the multi-thousand-year-old chain of artistic influence to WHY you actually designed it that way?

just make shorter games dude, most of us don’t have time to play those 5000000hrs things anyways

the disdain for workers losing their livelihoods just drips off of this whole fucking thing like mud off a pig. The smug confidence of a man who has convinced himself that HE is definitely uniquely irreplaceable, only LESSER work is under threat.

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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

It's always the people who think their job isn't the one affected by this saying it doesn't matter. I'm a concept artist and illustrator ans this is one of my most important battles and one of my biggest fires

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Honestly I think as an artist I'm going to pick the battle to fight against the machine thats stolen from us while trying to replace us with a pale imitation. Thats a hill worth dying on.

Art is for humans. Making it, enjoying it, critiquing it, it’s all for us. Even when we’re the only ones who will ever see it or read it or hear it or wrestle with it - it’s still just as vital. The only thing that is inevitable about any of this is that humans will always create art.

I don't even get why people have to make way and accept using AI when it being treated as the future is entirely manufactured, there hasn't been any actual presented use case to even devil's advocate for, it's all just existing stuff but worse

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is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this

the only way to write something good is to write something bad over and over again until it becomes good. outsourcing all the writing something bad parts to a machine means you didn't write the good thing on the other end (if it's even good)

I don’t understand how people’s brains don’t immediately feel like they’re rotting when they look at or read stuff made by gen AI. It’s the exact opposite of what I feel when I read great writing or watch a well crafted film. GenAI makes me feel hollowed out. Well made stuff invigorates me.

The process is the fun part. Throwing shit at the wall with your colleagues is where the growth happens. The journey of distilling many ideas and iterations into something tightly focused and beautiful is what I enjoy. The frustrations are part of the growth. AI strips you of that.

Thinking about how mad Hans Zimmer got when directors kept giving him temp tracks and asking for it “exactly like that.” Having all these talented artists just to hand them 90% of what you think is finished work is straight up an insult. Concept art isn’t a step you fast-forward - it’s the BEDROCK!

this video has become very important to me

so far the only concrete thing ai has done is make the entire tech market worse and every consumer facing tech product less usable or accessable

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there will never be total divestment from the game awards as long as it continues to do this so the better conversations right now are 'how can we pressure him to do better' versus 'stop paying attention to it damn you'

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

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It's the callous disregard and contempt for talent and the audience that I keep coming back to. Using AI says "fuck you, you all deserve soulless artrot" to everyone.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well I asked Patches and he said "There, that hole. Take a closer look."

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

This really is an era where we dont understand the value of art because we dont recognize how it has impacted our lives. Its eroded so much in the capitalistic culture that its shamed out of us unless we are using it to make money. Leaving resentment for those who do it for the joy.

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go