Thundal Archsys
thundalarchsys.bsky.social
Thundal Archsys
@thundalarchsys.bsky.social
He/Him | Enby (Fluid) 🏳️‍⚧️ | Poly/RA | Omni | ND | 36yo

My spaces are 18+ assumed, safe spaces.

Worldbuilding, gaming lineage/BTS/context, transhumanist with particular interest in morphological freedom.
You appear to be utilizing and supporting AI in your advertisements and campaigns.

How, exactly, are you pushing to be ethical in your works?
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
You appear to be utilizing and supporting AI in your advertisements and campaigns.

How, exactly, are you pushing to be ethical in your works?
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I believe it's to merge the various language versions for bug tracking/version control; e.g. German and English versions (both different skus) both update to the universal version now.

Dunno why it costs; guessing that's managerial/administrative/investor horseshit
December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My boyfriend, looking over my shoulder, said "Somehow, Elon Musk agreeing that I'm a dude makes me uncomfortable. Being able to make people that uncomfortable is an impressive superpower I'm quite sure I don't want."
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This game is so much more fun than it should be
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Somehow even more stupid that the fake WMD hunt, they're basically treating "drugs" as WMDs, and there's none of that either.

IraqWar & Dumberer
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I'm a hardass about it, and that's me; it's the data for the decision that bugs me most.

For contrast, EGS doing the AI thing is shit, but EGS has always been shit and surveillance/malware happy; I'd really hope people would know that by now, but eh

They suck, but they're pretty open about it…
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
See, and that's the thing, especially. "There are no AI assets in our game" is very different from "We refuse to use LLM tech in any capacity, and do not partner with or utilize tech which does, either."

Benefit of the doubt, it was a freelancer or contractor: name names and sort it out.
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

It's pretty blatantly AI, and how specific it is doesn't really lend any support for it being a generic or stock image...

But hey; if it doesn't kill it for you, you do you, I guess.

I'm just pissed it's not in disclosure. Would be easy.
December 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
What was proven was patched out, but that would explicitly mean it had been used in production.

Too, if they are fine with using it and lying about it, where else might they have used it?
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Which is all to say that I spent a few hours detailing the history and mythology and satellite orbits related to months and days of the week, a couple major historic treaties, and the particular motivations of a sheep farmer, along the way to writing a 90s-style manual for my game.

Fuck yeah, me.
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's on both sides, too. Like, I have a tendency to excuse obtuse design because it appeals to the masses. And I feel like I shouldn't. I understand the whole paycheck thing, but that's maddening too. And that I'm then trying to apply that internally? Fuck me.
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Fully agree. Everyone I've told about it including AI has told me they didn't know, and that's somehow more frustrating. I've had people argue because it doesn't have a disclosure on Steam.

It's maddening.
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I'm really hoping it's just that people don't know, or the goomba fallacy...
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
*Americans nodding along, wishing Bush had been as bad as it got*
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I was picturing directly lowering the value of the company to delete the wealth that's actually owned.

Was picturing the haliburton HQ with sad salarymen walking out with demolitionists tapping their feet impatiently
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Even from the far side (Collectively, we shouldn't sell food to Nazis), the "cancel culture" thing has always been about sanitizing acceptability by claiming victimization.

They've never cared about the method, they only care about the target.
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM