Aideyn
aideyn.bsky.social
Aideyn
@aideyn.bsky.social
30+ ||| bi AF ||| writer ||| 🔞 please no minors ||| same username on Ao3/Tumblr
LRT: Love HM/SoS adjacent stuff forever and ever because Nostalgia, so I'm giggling thinking about one of the ladies becoming the farmer's friend and he gives her strap tips so she can seduce one of the twelve bachelors she's had a crush on forever .
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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isekai where a dude is transported into a farming sim game a la harvest moon and obviously all of the 10 to 12 marriageable young women expect to be romanced by him but he's just actually really chill and gently rebuffing their expectations of romance while he leaves every bachelor in town gaping
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Fun fact: a number of games - including one I did AI for - use what we call "classical AI": everything from planning, to pathfinding, to even having small ML models to adapt to player behavior, etc.

None of these are generative models, or the product of generative models.
tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
Weird weekend, huh? Took a crack at breaking down the whole Clair Obscur genAI situation, and its bizarre fallout, as best as possible. My main takeaway right now is that people really need to figure out exactly what they're criticizing or it's going to get messy. www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media.

Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc

Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”

And

I hate to say it

But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas

Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Y'know if there is a silver lining to genAI infecting everything it's that I am getting so much time freed up to play my backlog by these studios letting me know ahead of time not to bother with whatever they make next.
December 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Option B: It opens on Goofy and the slop blender in one panel, then cuts to Mickey's reply in the second panel.
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year.

It's for a science + art event.

We can offer $500 for the gig.

Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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For anyone thinking of downloading this:

(Credit: www.tumblr.com/lohboh/70879...)
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Help us, we're poor, we're so poor, we can't possibly greenlight new projects or keep from laying off employees by the thousands :( :( oh wait nm, we just found $100 billion to try to buy Warner Bros :)
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Sometime i remember shit like this and feel like lisa_simpson_staring.jpg
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM