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Takashi
@imtakashi.bsky.social
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(sometimes) artist
Lead 2D Artist at Komi Games
Previous: Art Director at 13AM Games: Runbow/Double Cross/Dawn of the Monsters
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hangongetready.bsky.social
Our planet is being sold out from underneath us. All for the low, low cost of human creativity and artistic ingenuity. I weep for the talents that AI use will cause to wither on the vine and fail to bloom. Future generations will curse us.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
imtakashi.bsky.social
today is a good day, i have destroyed my *other social media account
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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ocsttiac.bsky.social
a megaman x fans enjoying their favorite game is shown
Alt: a megaman x fans enjoying their favorite game is shown
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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lizaledwards.bsky.social
it's all bad but it's disgusting to imply that using genAI for concept art is comparable to placeholder text
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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devonwiersma.bsky.social
The majority of the negative reviews on my games are by people who are mad that I'm a queer person who made a game and/or put queer stuff in it. They buy, leave a review, and refund.

I always report these reviews and Valve never takes action unless they're explicitly threats (and even then..)
mikerose.bsky.social Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 10d
We had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in

Why does Valve allow this?
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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geneljumalon.bsky.social
Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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aidenr0.bsky.social
motivation left me on read 😔
a two panels comic strip by Spindle of a random pink-haired character (persona i guess? not me but also represents me, self-insert? idk what it's called) with two hair buns wearing a black hoodie, sitting in front of a desk that has a "Wacum" tablet on it. Behind the character is a faded screenshot of an empty canvas on Clip Studio Paint. The first panel the character is saying "Time to draw!" at 11:00AM The second panel, same as the first only night time, and a circle is drawn on the canvas. 10:00AM on the clock
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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ginnydi.com
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵

I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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jgryph0n.bsky.social
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
Language information for the Banana Fish anime on Amazon Prime, it lists the english dub being AI beta
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mochimona.bsky.social
I think eveyone should read this: www.facebook.com/groups/14041...
A message to people flirting with the idea of cosplaying as an artist through AI: I am an artist, I have also been art directing off and on for over 30 years. I guess I am best known for art directing Magic: The Gathering for its first release and many expansion sets afterwards. I work primarily in gaming. A am friends with many art directors who still work regularly. We talk. I can assure you that the general thinking on the matter is that if you present a portfolio with AI images in it you will not be hired. You will in essence be black-listed and lose any opportunity to work in the industry. As I said...we talk. We do not want to waste our time with someone who thinks that they can skip cultivating a personal artistic style. We do not want to deal with the headache of accepting work that cannot be copyrighted. We do not want to offer jobs to people who think stealing from our peers is an OK way to do business. And it only takes one image to sink your future. Only one. If you are hired and turn in AI work you can kiss any thought of a future in illustration goodbye. I know a lot of AI bros are out there telling people it's the future, what they are not saying is that using AI to replace a skill you should already have insures you will have no future. People who respect art and artists look on AI as a joke and an insult. When you include it in your portfolio you are mocking people who spent years learning a skill and collecting influences and a unique way of translating the way they see the world into 2d images. Nobody wants your crappy machine made theft collage. If that is all you have to offer then you are offering less than nothing. You are litter on other people's career paths. You are a distraction and a great waste of time. You are clutter. Think really hard before you decide to pass AI off as your "artwork". Many, many eyes are watching. You will be judged and in a market where there are already so many great real artists why would anyone want to waste their time on your cheap shoddy goods? The answer is that they won't and they will let their friends in the industry know to avoid you. Those are the facts.
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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debjitduttaart.bsky.social
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
talkin' about the AI bubble
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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mashidesu.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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floidberger.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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linesonwhite.bsky.social
I saw Marge with Piccolo's cape and I couldn't stop my hands from moving.
A drawing of Marge from The Simpsons wearing Piccolo's cape from Dragon Ball. She's hunched forward just like Piccolo does, charging up energy for firing the Makansap... Makakakkasapap... Makakapottamus... ... ...The Special Beam Cannon.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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adrianbauer.bsky.social
www.twitch.tv/dpadstudio
Starting in about ~20 minutes. Give the account a follow!
November 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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gofrankgo.bsky.social
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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elierlick.bsky.social
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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papaninja.bsky.social
It’s funny because it’s true …
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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molly.wiki
fixed that for you
CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered" Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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bpavuk.neocities.org
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
joshuaholland.bsky.social Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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realgdt.bsky.social
Cinemas playing FRANKENSTEIN right now!! frankensteingdt.com
Frankenstein | Official Website | October 17 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Frankenstein on the official site. In theaters October 17 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Guillermo del Toro. Starring: Oscar Isaac, ...
frankensteingdt.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM