Skelenaut
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Jonathan Sims - SKELENAUT®
Iowa City, Iowa
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Professional Art Ghoul.
No A.I. bullshit.
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Professional Art Ghoul.
No A.I. bullshit.
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Skelenaut
@skelenaut.bsky.social
· Aug 23
If you show me anything A.I. generated, a ghost kills you within a week.
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That man's name must be in every third sentence...they getting OT redacting his name
Breaking: The Trump administration announces that they will not be complying with today’s deadline to release the full Epstein Files.
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
That man's name must be in every third sentence...they getting OT redacting his name
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Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.
Elon Musk's SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can't sell
As demand for the Cybertruck can’t reach more than about 10% of Tesla’s planned production capacity, Elon Musk used his...
electrek.co
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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Speaking as someone who was responsible for hiring actors in 3 big AAA video games, VO is one of the cheapest assets in the game. Gargantuan bang for buck. I think we spent as much on a single character model as we did on all the VO for the whole game.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Speaking as someone who was responsible for hiring actors in 3 big AAA video games, VO is one of the cheapest assets in the game. Gargantuan bang for buck. I think we spent as much on a single character model as we did on all the VO for the whole game.
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Surprised there's only ever been one killdozer.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Surprised there's only ever been one killdozer.
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NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Surprised there's only ever been one killdozer.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Surprised there's only ever been one killdozer.
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I support this
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I support this
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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:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
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It’s still disappointing seeing leaders in the industry boast so brazenly that they use ai. But if you are making your own art without it then that just proves that you are stronger than them. It proves that you saw the temptation to let it do valuable work for you and you did not give in.
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It’s still disappointing seeing leaders in the industry boast so brazenly that they use ai. But if you are making your own art without it then that just proves that you are stronger than them. It proves that you saw the temptation to let it do valuable work for you and you did not give in.
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Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.
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The difference between a concept artist and an illustrator is that they *conceptualize*, - they are thinkers with illustration skills, ideation is exactly the part we don’t want to replace.
sigh
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The difference between a concept artist and an illustrator is that they *conceptualize*, - they are thinkers with illustration skills, ideation is exactly the part we don’t want to replace.
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
So... Are we all going totally berserk today?
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So... Are we all going totally berserk today?
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The tech billionaires that have already rigged the economy for themselves and bought a generation of corrupt politicians are now trying to drive up our utility costs, dirty our water, buy up our land, and take our jobs to further consolidate their power and wealth.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The tech billionaires that have already rigged the economy for themselves and bought a generation of corrupt politicians are now trying to drive up our utility costs, dirty our water, buy up our land, and take our jobs to further consolidate their power and wealth.
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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“Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just over here titling my book ‘The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.’”
July 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just over here titling my book ‘The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.’”
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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VERY depressing seeing so many board game publishers and kickstarters fall down this hole. if you can't afford an artist you can't afford to make a game, if you don't have time to make art you dont have time to make your game.
Fantastic video by Pam Walls on the increasing use of AI in board games, and the need (more than ever) to support artists, illustrators and graphic designers in the industry.
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
We need to talk about AI slop in board games
YouTube video by Pam Walls Game Design
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
VERY depressing seeing so many board game publishers and kickstarters fall down this hole. if you can't afford an artist you can't afford to make a game, if you don't have time to make art you dont have time to make your game.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫