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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 1d

Are conjoined twins always identical? I'm all for a trans twist but I'm not sure that's needed in this case.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 4d

I missed this until today but want to share it because it’s great.

I’ve been increasingly conscious of anti-AI witch hunting, as well as the conflations and equivalences tarring legitimate creative tech with the same brush. It’s gonna hurt the fight against Regurgitative AI.

Reel that shit in.

illusory wall @illusorywall.bsky.social · Jun 9

My latest video is live!

I explore allegations of AI use in the concept art of Elden Ring. But it's really a jumping off point to complain about people "hating AI" in very dumb ways that are hypocritically, anti-artist.

No, the Elden Ring Concept Art wasn't made with AI:
youtu.be/0NYZX_aVOqA

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 4d

My apartment just tried to introduce the same nonsense, it's ludicrous!

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 5d

Facebook's "memories" tool is perfectly designed to make you feel like you're crumbling to dust. What do you *mean* my attempts to make a court intrigue game is a dozen years old q_q
🎲✂️

A screenshot of a facebook memories post from 12 years ago about an autumn board game testing event highlighting a custom prototype of an unreleased indie board game called "The Long Game".

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 29-31: Lesson, Vacant, Award

Inktober 25 Day 29 image, "Lesson": A young woman splayed out and snoring on her chair. In front of her, a table and a book. At the end of the room, an unimpressed owl teacher by a whiteboard.

Inktober 25 Day 30 image, "Vacant": An undisturbed individual's bust with a view fo the inside of his head: there's nothing there but an animatronic monkey with cymbals, banging away the seconds.

Inktober 25 Day 31 image, "Award": A huge musclebound man looking uncertainly at a teeny trophy held between thumb and forefinger.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 25-28: Inferno, Puzzling, Onion, Skeletal

Inktober 25 Day 25 image, "Inferno": Satan trapped in a frozen lake, chewing some sinners. In front of him, a small demon skates without a care.

Inktober 25 Day 26 image, "Puzzling": A sapient jigsaw puzzle standing upside down in a non-euclidian space, hand on chin, clearly trying to figure out their next steps.

Inktober 25 Day 27 image, "Onion": An old onion man out on his daily walk, leek stick in one hand, the leash of his garlic puppy in the other.

Inktober 25 Day 28 image, "Skeletal": A perspectivr shot of a skeleton the site of a house. Skele-tall indeed!

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 21-24: Blast, Button, Firefly, Rowdy

Inktober 25 Day 21 image, "Blast": The good third of a planet blasted away in a single, giant explosion.

Inktober 25 Day 22 image, "Button": The upper half of a tired man's face looms over a giant button that stays "don't". His finger hovers an inch above the button itself.

Inktober 25 Day 23 image, "Firefly": A firefly standing on its hindmost legs, enganged in animated conversation, a cup of some liquid perched in one of its hands.

Inktober 25 Day 24 image, "Rowdy": A group of adventurers at an inn are interrupted by a hughly strung lizardman standing on their table and lifting their fighter overhead.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 17-20: Ornate, Deal, Arctic, Rovals

Inktober 25 Day 17 image, "Ornate": A man on a throne adorned with jewelry on each finger and a fine lion cloak, but what draws the eyes is a crown so large and oppulent it's distorting the man's head by the weight alone.

Inktober 25 Day 18 image, "Deal": A polite, well dressed demon bowing and presenting a legal document for you to sign.

Inktober 25 Day 19 image, "Arctic": A massive ice-berg with a suspiciously ursine looking mountain at its center. The northern lights hover above the scene, and a lone polarbear is but a tiny dot on the top of the mountain.

Inktober 25 Day 20 image, "Rivals": Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla (+his favored pigeon) face off in dramatic poses reminiscent of JoJo's bizarre adventure.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 13- 16: Drink, Trunk, Ragged, Blunder

Inktober 25 Day 13 image, "Drink": An unkempt man holding a stein above his head - a torrent of dark liquid runs endlessly flows from the mouth of the mug, running down the man and creating a pool of liquid on the table he sits by.

Inktober 25 Day 14 image, "Trunk": A traveling trunk decorated in the style of the Dragon Ball Z character Trunks.

Inktober 25 Day 15 image, "Ragged": An animated scarecrow using both hands to keep its hay-strewn guts from spilling out of its torso.

Inktober 25 Day 16 image, "Blunder": A bald, black clad man in a state of silent panic as a knife spins from his grip. In front of him, his intended target appears to have heard something.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 9-12: Heavy, Sweep, Sting, Shredded

Inktober 25 Day 9 image, "Heavy": A celestial giant, its head a black hole, creating scale weights in his open grasp that appear blacker than night.

Inktober 25 Day 10 image, "Sweep": The perspective shot of a highly alarmed dust bunny as the end of a broom hurdles towards it, the imposing janitorial figure towering above the scene like a specter of death.

Inktober 25 Day 11 image, "Sting": A wasp wearing piloting gear and holding onto a small harnes wraped around the base of the thorax. Its abdomen is sharply pointed ahead, stinger displayed and ready to strike.

Inktober 25 Day 12 image, "Shredded": An intense looking metalic kitchen shredder running a block of cheese against what would be its abs were it a living thing.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 5-8: Deer, Pierce, Starfish, Reckless

Inktober 25 Day 5 image, "Deer": An anthropomorphic young stag, antlers still soft, staring ahead. He wears a turtleneck and cloak, one ear pierced with a research tag, small crown on the top of his head.

Inktober 25 Day 6 image, "Pierce": A tiny figure with a spear plummeting towards the singular huge eye of a monster.

Inktober 25 Day 7 image, "Starfish": A starfish dances on a highlighted stage. Underneath, a swarm of anchovies watch the spectacle.

Inktober 25 Day 8 image, "Reckless": A woman in a skinsuit gleefully throwing herself up the side of a seaside cliff without any protective gear.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 6d

Well, that's my final #Inktober done. I had a great time but Nlnext year I'll have to find a set of challenges that don't come with the kind of baggage this one has.

So, without further ado, here's my collection of doodles from November!

Day 1-4: Mustache, Weave, Crown, Murky

Inktober 25 Day 1 image, "Mustache": A count Orlok looking figure from the movie Nosferatu 2024.

Inktober 25 Day 2 image, "Weave": A spider-like creature using a hand loom to turn spiderwebs into a scarf.

Inktober 25 Day 3 image, "Crown": A soft but imposing member of a royal court displays a crown which rests upon a pillow.

Inktober 25 Day 4 image, "Murky": A giant alligator swims through a reedy swamp at night, attached to her is a small research bouy/bobble via a harness.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 7d

I felt like Marsters didn't do the dry wit terribly well in the early books. Color me curious!

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · 14d

In an effort to not be the ultimate lurker, I'd like to share some good news.
The latest game I worked on just closed its crowdfunding campaign on ~1.5 mil!
To see so many fans respond to our hard work with not only joy but by trusting us with their hard earned cash neber ceases to amaze me. Thanks!

A gamefounder campaign completion screen detailing the achievements of the campaign.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Sep 24

Can we talk about how companies are now actively making it harder to give them money? Whose clownshow of a business decision resulted in this nonsense? Let me just buy gifts for my friends abroad! I'll pay extra, I literally do not care, Steam!

A steam error message stating "Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region."

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Sep 22

From a designer PoV, it's always going to be the part that is not related to design - I avoided business school for a reaso. ;P

Within the field itself, I find making the engine/"skeleton" of systems pretty easy; filling it with actual *stuff* is soo draining... 😩

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WeepingBelle @h0ku541.bsky.social · Sep 20

pretty sure the french revolution was totally bloodless and the reign of terror was called that as like. a joke

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Sep 13

Being inspired by Zebra Girl used to be the lynchpin that indirectly connected a bunch of artists, but that was ages ago - I don't even know if that webcomic held up.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Sep 6

Would Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series (annihilation et al) count?

Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Sep 1

Small Gods was my first discworld- and while the cover scared me away from it for basically a year, the actual book made me the hardcore fan I am today. Stand-alone, hilarious, humanist - it's Pratchett at his best. Why, which book was your introduction?

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Marceline Leiman 🔜 Indie Games Night Market @ PaxU @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you ever run into a game that very clearly uses LLMs on @boardgamegeek.com, the best way to combat it is to tag it under “Family” as “AI Generated Illustration”

It would be great if we had a category for generalized LLM usage—but at the least we can kick all of the garbage to the same space. 🎲✂️

Boardgamegeek website, submitting a correction for a particular game (unimportant). You can submit the “family” of the game as “Components: AI generated illustrations”

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ending of Hadestown - there's always someone in the crowd who, by some cosmic miracle or amazing feat of ignorance, doesn't know the ending.

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Deloctyte @deloctyte.bsky.social · Aug 23

In a case of "In order to make an apple pie from scratch", you sometimes you just have to make little guys in order to test out your board game idea.

An eclectic bunch of sci-fi character doodles, mostly aquatic and robotic in nature.

Sci fi characters imported into Tabletop Simulator as stands.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Aug 16

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · Aug 15

Here's a video that I think we can all agree, says nothing controversial.

Plucky Lil' Israel

YouTube video by Thought Slime

youtu.be

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