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"slay the princess is a love story" "slay the princess is a horror game" you fools. it's both
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"slay the princess is a love story" "slay the princess is a horror game" you fools. it's both
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if I can send this post-it to a world-class artist and not be embarrassed WHAT'S STOPPING ANYONE ELSE
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if I can send this post-it to a world-class artist and not be embarrassed WHAT'S STOPPING ANYONE ELSE
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![Fan art: Nemo[Santa] sitting on the roof of his amphibious vehicle](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4ml5rqbywawcksu4ge4mqkx/bafkreie3xqmpmdwysp7lzot5usxmwexpraceo6fcwuvcnlunehxsuxbqqu@jpeg)
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
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"oh hey, my tribe got mentioned by the Avatar guy! I wonder what he said abou--🥹 🥹 🥹 🥹 🥹"
and not a penny to the Lakota, who’s story Cameron exploited to create a pseudo-pan-Indigenous alien fantasy that helps no one but his own pocket.
This world’s priorities are all wrong.
This world’s priorities are all wrong.
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So Avatar's James Cameron referred to the Lakota as a "dead-end society" that should have
"fought harder"
"I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation," he said. "This was a driving force for me in the writing of Avatar - I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future... and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation... because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society - which is what is happening now - they would have fought a lot harder."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3niwkals3quzvig6aztwbd2/bafkreiahua3fctol6m66z2udcau6umj5yiwybca2ikupbrz2xghl5qfnli@jpeg)
December 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"oh hey, my tribe got mentioned by the Avatar guy! I wonder what he said abou--🥹 🥹 🥹 🥹 🥹"
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fuck james cameron and his stupid victim blamey white savior fanfic movies
and not a penny to the Lakota, who’s story Cameron exploited to create a pseudo-pan-Indigenous alien fantasy that helps no one but his own pocket.
This world’s priorities are all wrong.
This world’s priorities are all wrong.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
fuck james cameron and his stupid victim blamey white savior fanfic movies
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Cw: racism, transhate, sexual assault
Cw: racism, transhate, sexual assault
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Cw: racism, transhate, sexual assault
Cw: racism, transhate, sexual assault
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Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
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at Polygon, someone once floated the idea that one person would research a video, then pass that work off to someone else to write. And I was like No?? The research is the writing?
Like, the writing originates in ideas that are develop through research. So what the fuck does this even mean??
Like, the writing originates in ideas that are develop through research. So what the fuck does this even mean??
The thing that makes me insane about this and Vincke’s comments is why would you trust AI to make a reference? They’re notoriously bad at doing that and produce banal results! Go buy some art books, they’re great. How is it empowering concept artists to have them not do that?
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
at Polygon, someone once floated the idea that one person would research a video, then pass that work off to someone else to write. And I was like No?? The research is the writing?
Like, the writing originates in ideas that are develop through research. So what the fuck does this even mean??
Like, the writing originates in ideas that are develop through research. So what the fuck does this even mean??
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Oh don't worry, it's just the core base concepts upon which the rest of the game will be built. I don't see how using gravy as the foundation will effect the rest of this house.
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oh don't worry, it's just the core base concepts upon which the rest of the game will be built. I don't see how using gravy as the foundation will effect the rest of this house.
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"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao
just 90% of what concept is🤣
just 90% of what concept is🤣
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao
just 90% of what concept is🤣
just 90% of what concept is🤣
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So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
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"This shit isnt going away" is such a moronic thing to say. They are pushing ai in every part of our lives because they NEED their investments to work. The billionaires need ai to work. It's wildly unpopular, they are hoping we roll over and take it.
this shit, despite its faults, is not going anywhere and people are going to have to pick their battles
Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN
This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes. The backlash has been swi...
www.ign.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"This shit isnt going away" is such a moronic thing to say. They are pushing ai in every part of our lives because they NEED their investments to work. The billionaires need ai to work. It's wildly unpopular, they are hoping we roll over and take it.
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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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Most people don’t lack ideas. They lack resources. What we’re living through right now is a constructed reality of people who have inflicted themselves with the opposite problem. They have all the resources, more that any single person could blow through in a lifetime. And utterly no imagination.
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Most people don’t lack ideas. They lack resources. What we’re living through right now is a constructed reality of people who have inflicted themselves with the opposite problem. They have all the resources, more that any single person could blow through in a lifetime. And utterly no imagination.
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you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
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FFS. I'd rather see a bright green image with "PLACEHOLDER" text plastered on it than GenAI. I am so tired.
Expedition 33 shipped with GenAI assets (that they quietly updated) plus they literally just admitted to using it.
If Sandfall gets a pass, but Larian doesn't then what the fuck are we doing here?
If Sandfall gets a pass, but Larian doesn't then what the fuck are we doing here?
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
FFS. I'd rather see a bright green image with "PLACEHOLDER" text plastered on it than GenAI. I am so tired.
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Just want to say, people who try to conflate generative AI with shit like *enemy AI in old video games* are either willfully attempting to muddle the two to downplay the issues with GenAI or *actually don't know anything about how fucking video games work.*
Be for fucking real.
Be for fucking real.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just want to say, people who try to conflate generative AI with shit like *enemy AI in old video games* are either willfully attempting to muddle the two to downplay the issues with GenAI or *actually don't know anything about how fucking video games work.*
Be for fucking real.
Be for fucking real.
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Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.
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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: