ShyBits
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In my life I’ve always been predisposed toward forgiving a fuck up and I extend that to game dev too.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Curious what your stance is on companies that used it and then realized it was a mistake (not from backlash) after the fact and removed it. Im personally a proponent of supporting people that are willing to reevaluate and change. Several small indie projects I've enjoyed had this kind of trajectory.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In my life I’ve always been predisposed toward forgiving a fuck up and I extend that to game dev too.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
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Pass It On X complete! Super Metroid Samus (and Baby 🥺) made with panic, sheer determination, and like 900 display screens in Satisfactory - all in 2 hours!
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Pass It On X complete! Super Metroid Samus (and Baby 🥺) made with panic, sheer determination, and like 900 display screens in Satisfactory - all in 2 hours!
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The AI hype cycle is even better than the blockchain or metaverse hype cycles because any functionality can just be rebranded as AI. Background erase in a photo editor? AI. Procgen tools for environ art based on copious pre-made assets? AI. Reactive NPC dialogue? That's an AI. BETTER INVEST NOW
May 29, 2024 at 6:07 AM
The AI hype cycle is even better than the blockchain or metaverse hype cycles because any functionality can just be rebranded as AI. Background erase in a photo editor? AI. Procgen tools for environ art based on copious pre-made assets? AI. Reactive NPC dialogue? That's an AI. BETTER INVEST NOW
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If you care about me and people like me please watch this video it goes over the vile hatred black people receive in nerd spaces just for be black. A black cosplayer took her life recently over the bullying she received and it needs to stop. Never again. youtu.be/aFKwSB58Y4M?...
Nerd Spaces HATE Black People
YouTube video by CorinXV
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December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you care about me and people like me please watch this video it goes over the vile hatred black people receive in nerd spaces just for be black. A black cosplayer took her life recently over the bullying she received and it needs to stop. Never again. youtu.be/aFKwSB58Y4M?...
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Using generative AI in gamedev is a major issue, enough so that now the *accusation* of using generative AI in gamedev is becoming its own separate problem
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Using generative AI in gamedev is a major issue, enough so that now the *accusation* of using generative AI in gamedev is becoming its own separate problem
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Amiga Computing Magazine (1988)
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Amiga Computing Magazine (1988)
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Not now, 68-million-year-old egg!
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Not now, 68-million-year-old egg!
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The most important thing in the world is when you're cooking a meal for someone you love and they come and cuddle you from behind, we peaked as a species when we invented that and nothing else has come close.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The most important thing in the world is when you're cooking a meal for someone you love and they come and cuddle you from behind, we peaked as a species when we invented that and nothing else has come close.
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You know what you can use to generate ideas? A brain.
I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.
I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.
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.
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 7:01 PM
You know what you can use to generate ideas? A brain.
I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.
I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.
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Two things:
1. As a writer but only infrequent/hobbyist artist, there is nothing cooler working in games than someone taking a brief you wrote or a shitty sketch you drew to suggest composition and then turning it into real, finished art…
1. As a writer but only infrequent/hobbyist artist, there is nothing cooler working in games than someone taking a brief you wrote or a shitty sketch you drew to suggest composition and then turning it into real, finished art…
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Two things:
1. As a writer but only infrequent/hobbyist artist, there is nothing cooler working in games than someone taking a brief you wrote or a shitty sketch you drew to suggest composition and then turning it into real, finished art…
1. As a writer but only infrequent/hobbyist artist, there is nothing cooler working in games than someone taking a brief you wrote or a shitty sketch you drew to suggest composition and then turning it into real, finished art…
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
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Both games media and the retro scene are very small and insular so I am going to choose my words very carefully as to not unknowingly jeopardize my career in the years come...
"Everyone involved in this can eat shit."
"Everyone involved in this can eat shit."
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Both games media and the retro scene are very small and insular so I am going to choose my words very carefully as to not unknowingly jeopardize my career in the years come...
"Everyone involved in this can eat shit."
"Everyone involved in this can eat shit."
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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💫 Holy stromboli - the retro-thon has reached STREAM FIFTY!!! 🎉🎉
Which is today! And is Metroid Prime [GCN]! Yippeee!! Stream's up at 2et (7utc).
[Also it's big stormy today, so if I'm delayed or suddenly vanish: I lost power and/or got blown away! Will return when I can.🐰💕]
Which is today! And is Metroid Prime [GCN]! Yippeee!! Stream's up at 2et (7utc).
[Also it's big stormy today, so if I'm delayed or suddenly vanish: I lost power and/or got blown away! Will return when I can.🐰💕]
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
💫 Holy stromboli - the retro-thon has reached STREAM FIFTY!!! 🎉🎉
Which is today! And is Metroid Prime [GCN]! Yippeee!! Stream's up at 2et (7utc).
[Also it's big stormy today, so if I'm delayed or suddenly vanish: I lost power and/or got blown away! Will return when I can.🐰💕]
Which is today! And is Metroid Prime [GCN]! Yippeee!! Stream's up at 2et (7utc).
[Also it's big stormy today, so if I'm delayed or suddenly vanish: I lost power and/or got blown away! Will return when I can.🐰💕]
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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
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We beat da flippin' game - on what turns out to have been Mega Man Legend's 28th(???) anniversary!
This game ROCKS, by the way.
This game ROCKS, by the way.
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
We beat da flippin' game - on what turns out to have been Mega Man Legend's 28th(???) anniversary!
This game ROCKS, by the way.
This game ROCKS, by the way.
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Absolutely banger comic; really excited to get some mileage outta this panel -
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Absolutely banger comic; really excited to get some mileage outta this panel -
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I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
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What do you mean everything’s too expensive, nobody has money, and growth-obsessed corporations vacuuming up all the wealth is bad?
Video game hardware US sales this November (peak period for Xmas) were the lowest since *1995*.
This record low makes sense given the continued Xbox sales crash and PS5's 5th year, but lower Nintendo sales than last year despite SW2 launch is not great.
(Read more at IGN)
This record low makes sense given the continued Xbox sales crash and PS5's 5th year, but lower Nintendo sales than last year despite SW2 launch is not great.
(Read more at IGN)
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What do you mean everything’s too expensive, nobody has money, and growth-obsessed corporations vacuuming up all the wealth is bad?
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