Alanna Smith

@alannamode.bsky.social

🧬 Co-Founder, Lore + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca 🎮 Producer of video games 📜 Archivist + Caretaker of dnacreative.notion.site/codex ✨ Notion template creator ⚔️ Semi-retired #cosplay lady 🖤🩶🤍💜 she/her

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

Reading a fanfic, enjoying it... until some bits start to smell like AI And now I'm mad cause even if it isn't, the potential is sullying how I interpret the entire text. Did someone write this themselves and share the love of it with us? Or did they RP with a bot that steals from real writers?

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

If a woman's got a plastic headband on (the horseshoe-shaped ones) stay outta her way, she means business. She has traded her cute hairstyle for the practical functionality of the war-band. That is tactical headgear. She could fight a bear and win. You're so much smaller than a bear.

Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.

A thing I hate very much is folks getting into things they don't actually care about and just think could make them money or get them attention You can work a job you aren't terribly passionate about to make a living sure but don't START VENTURES for stuff you ACTIVELY DON'T RESPECT good lord

Try to make sure your casual gamer friends, or core/hardcore ones who assume that sales just weren't enough to keep employees, are seeing coverage like this I'm finding that the masses truly just don't always see the dissonant reality: that there's PLENTY of profit but wages are straight up stolen!

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last wk.

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

Having one of those days where the state of everything just weighs on me and the furious desire to fix it all kinda rattles my bones Please do something kind this week. Hold a door open. Give a compliment. Help a neighbour. Idk just light a little candle in the dark they wanna suffocate us with

One thing I’m noticing is that one rogue person not embedded with the team (or on the team but not empowered to drive decisions) will do or say some bullshit with genAI, even if it doesn’t reflect the team’s practices. and it is MUCH harder to dispel that narrative once it’s out there.

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Just your regular reminder that there are other #TTRPG alternatives to #D&D that aren't leaning on AI. You really like 5e, but don't want to support AI? Tales of the Valiant or Level Up 5e. Looking for an old school vibe without the headache of ThAC0? Basic Fantasy. Like crunch? Pathfinder. 1/3

Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · 2w ago

Man, thankfully no one is playing or making stuff for this bad game run a billion dollar company that's putting AI into everything! www.geeknative.com/225567/hasbr...