if you're using AI "just for placeholders" or "just for concept art" you are robbing yourself of some of the most fun and explorative parts of gamedev. you are feeble of spirit. make a silly fucking placeholder in 2 seconds. it's good for your soul to make stupid things

Whoever's using it and for whatever purpose, the stink is on the entire studio afterwards.

'Your Favourite Game Dev is Probably Using AI' well then they are not my favourite any more, it is very very simple. No loyalty to slop shops.

Oh, a video game studio used AI and got caught and lost their award? Wooooow, you don't say... Served them right. WE DON'T WANT AI. Fucking lazy shits.

im tired and i just saw more "e33's placeholder ai gen is okay actually" and i am more tired every time i see another person say it on my tl.

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

reminder:

don't want it, don't need it

I find video essays that titled like "the game that hate you" but it's just challenging or tackles darker theme a little strange but then I realized it's just clickbait title. Cuz if the game really hated me it would just throw slur at me.

creators: instead of buying bullshit ai products and showing us how fake they are why don't you buy real things made by artists and makers and show off really cool really shit that could help people?

I feel so bad for creative people working at studios whose work is now going to be tainted and questioned every time a CEO opens their mouth about using AI or praising the slop machine. People working in the gaming and animation industries deserve better.

You should be able to ask for a refund if you find out GenAI was used but not disclosed in a product.

I don't want to have to "combat the right" with every moment of my social media usage, I wanna talk about videosgame and movies I find neat and chat with internet pals, stop trying to guilt people back to a dead site. Enjoy your own company, you earned it.

Companies like to pretend that they can use AI for "concept" or "placeholder" work without shipping it. Setting aside the fact that building on a foundation of AI is still, well, AI... A company that's into that degree of corner-cutting is absolutely NOT capable of prevent it from shipping

Too many people think the issue is "ai look bad" not the stolen data sets not the workers rights not the climate change and the fact that people CANNOT AFFORD TO TURN ON THEIR HEAT because they're subsidizing data centers, let alone the misinformation and fascism

At this point if you don't explicitly say you're anti GenAI I don't trust you It's giving "oh I'm apolitical"

Remember earlier this year when I went off here about *that* game and why you shouldn’t play it? Literally had an unproductive back and forth explaining why it can’t be used to “reclaim queer joy”bc it lines the pockets of a certain someone? Yeah I’m not doing that again. I’m just gonna block you 🥰

games industry CEOs and gAI booster vastly underestimate the number of unplayed games on my list. i could never play a newly released game again and still never run out of stuff to play.

Me seeing #SecondLife "news" bloggers using AI images in their articles.

Generative AI is stealing by default. It can't not be theft inherently. A headline that says "Larian Studios uses Generative AI" is effectively telling you "Larian Studios comfortable stealing from artists". That's what that means. I really hope they change their minds about stealing from artists.

Last thing I’ll say on the matter: Considering AAA games retail around and above 70 USD nowadays it’s laughably insulting to expect someone to want to pay that much for content that’s been generated. If I’m paying these rates I want it compensating human labor

If you needed more reassurance btw or if you still somehow don't believe it

Some of my friends are using [insert word here]-slop for things they like and it honestly makes me uncomfortable. Reserve the term for AI slop, and maybe irredeemably low-effort crap that isn’t AI. I knew it was out of hand when I saw someone use the term “RPG-slop”

I think a lot of people memoryhole how fucking lowkey (and often highkey) racist videogame media outlets were in the mid-00s; especially X-Play.

Anyone posting clips of Trump speaking will be blocked - I do not what to hear that POS voice again - he is dead to me

It doesn’t matter if it is just ‘one little thing’. The moment a game utilizes even the slightest bit of generative AI in their process, that’s when I drop any interest in the game like a ton of bricks. Games are an art form, made by human hands. And it should stay that way!

Hot take, but I think if you have an audience, you are responsible for that audience because they're a reflection of you. If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.

Counting up my game clearing from at last the latter half of 2025, the games I beat were: Castlevania 1 Famicom (Easy) Castlevania Bloodlines JP (Normal) Chex Quest 1-3 (Medium) Shadow and Rise of the Wool-Ball (Easy) PSX DoomCE+ (NTR) PSX Final DoomCE+ (NTR) Doom 64 & LL CE (NTR) Hell to Pay (NTR)

🧵Teaching Students NOT to use AI So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to) I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit. #AI #genAI

Just beat the unofficial Hell To Pay expansion for Doom, it's a bit interesting in what it sets out to do. Mech Enemies can't infight (once you patch them properly for the ZDoom family of source ports), no secret levels (so you do all 32 levels instead!), and 2 escape levels (Like Wool-Ball's EOL)

"AI is here to stay - you can't uninvent it, you may as well join the crowd and start adapting and using it" It is the fact that it spread so wide and so fast and so deep into every single digital space that we must provide scrutiny and pushback and regulation!!!! That's why we're doing this!!!

since I had to take it out of my bio for space and since there are some new folks here, I'll say this again: this is an AI hate space. this is an NFT hate space. all this generative AI/crypto bullshit is hurting people and our planet, and I refuse to have anything to do with it

Look, I don't actually care when a company has garbage customer support, I care when EVERY company I can access (via monopoly or what have you) has garbage customer support. "Voting with your wallet" doesn't work under those conditions, which is what Wall St. has been setting up for decades now.

Y'all going to MFF have fun and be safe :>

Just a raw shot straight from #SecondLife, No AI. It's so easy I get if you want to photoshop out imperfections, I won't begrudge you that. If you're trying to showcase something in world, just take a picture in world. Generating AI Slop images of people is pointless work. Just take a picture.

#secondlife PEOPLE STOP PROMOTING THEIR CLUBS OR EVENTS WITH AI BECAUSE THE SECOND I SEE IT I AIN'T EVER GONNA GO UNLESS YOU PAY ME!!!! AND EVEN THEN I WONT GO!!! do you not play secondlife?? are you that incapable of taking a screenshot??? ridiculous lmao

i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days

Dear #SecondLife creators. We do not want to see AI people in your ads or your promos. We want to SL Avatars. Stop using AI for your announcements. You don't need to generate AI Slop pictures. Just take a picture in game. That's what we need to see.

Generative AI is such a drag to see on something that offers up so much user-creativity like #SecondLife does. Especially when its something that promotes creativity like RP Sims or Events. Even something like DJing! Seeing AI used to promote just makes it seem like lazy at best. Scam at worst.

If there's one thing I hate about PSX Doom and Doom 64 is that the Cyberdemon's alert sound is nearly indistinguishable from an imp's...yes, my gibs just hit the wall in Watch your Step, why do you ask?

Idk why people are so obsessed with a realistic style for FE. People keep saying that IS should hire me but honestly, I don’t think my work fits the aesthetic FE goes for. I also just don’t understand why people want realism so much. It’s not that interesting of an art style.

Man, I really need people to stop using Substack.

UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now #UZDoom #GZDoom #Doom #OpenSource

November is nearly over, so here's the monthly roundup (not mine - the channel is great though) of everything notable to come out of the classic Doom mapping & modding scene over the past 30 days. The video is over an hour long.

Can people please stop using that one custom status bar font in Doom WADs where the 8's look like 0's? It's massively confusing to me and it never gets any better.

I just saw someone use an A/I image to show their ‘support’ for #SmallBusinessSaturday & not even share any small businesses. That’s NOT support. If you’re a small business, merch seller, or #IndieDev who makes #HumanArt, link your store, #etsy, pay link or comms post! (NO A/I) 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

Some pictures that were taken @monster-sauce.bsky.social with @valktheyeen.bsky.social and @lukacross.bsky.social : Two of my biggest inspirations (Literally) and we're champs side by side with them. And Luka... Thank you for being one of my teachers, with lots of love to you and Valk!

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