Honestly give it up to Gencon this year they finally found a way to make everyone take a fucking shower.
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this note should be read with the understanding that I was metaphorically throwing up my hands as I wrote it
Alex Augunas | The Everyman Gamer (He/Him/They)@alexaug.bsky.social · 5d ago@alexspeidel.bsky.social I CAN SIZE UP THE MOOOOOOON! #GenCon26 #SFS #Moonbusters
Silver for Aid - Digital goes to Pathfinder 2e and Starfinder 2e on Foundry VTT, Pathfinder 2e / Starfinder 2e on Foundry VTT Development Team
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Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d agoOh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
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Seems like AI slop
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debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so
![D-CELL Games
Games: Unbeatable
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“Even if I’m just looking at this in the cold mercenary MBA freak way—the ‘I want to generate income as much as possible’ way—you can’t make a thing people want to buy if the thing you want to buy is the same thing everyone else has. And that’s what you fucking get with AI models. It’s definitionally part of how they work.
So all using [AI] will do is make you compete worse. You have to do laps on a hamster wheel to arrive at the opposite conclusion. Because the only way to actually make money on this shit besides a pump-and-dump is to be the guy selling the shovels. And even the shovels are starting to rust.
Even the stuff that sounds good or looks good for a given value of ‘good’ (i.e. it convincingly looks at a glance like it wasn’t generated with a machine, it’s ‘professional’) is only capable of spitting out inputs that existed before. You can feel it in the ‘choices’ it makes, because it doesn’t make choices; it chooses a value with a weight given by a model patched from every work at once on fast forward. The nutritional value of AI work is approximately identical to watching a 2000s horror movie trailer compilation at 4X speed while second-screening Maury transcriptions. It might be fun to look at, but it will kill you on the inside."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreigiufrt3kp7efextkls2lz25nctkkjrso6ya4vbap7y72wkytlkem)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
@paizo.com always has the coolest space in the Sagamore! @alexspeidel.bsky.social has great taste, he even put ChkChk and DAE together because they’re besties.
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For the record, everything I've ever said about how awesome the PF2e/SF2e Foundry system dev team vo... Read more: https://longer.blue/posts/tQTFGUSv-y
Today, Wiki Workers United US/CWA demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and sister projects! We are hopeful that the Wikimedia Foundation will honor their stated values and quickly come to the table.
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GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
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objectively the answer is probably The Maze Runner, but I spent most of that making out with my new boyfriend runner-up is one of the later Transformers movies, which I also saw on a date but did *not* get to make out with said date during
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
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Paizo fans, #ttrpg enthusiasts, union supporters. We need to build a LOT more energy for our laid-off United Paizo Workers members’ crowdfunders. Both of the two people crowdfunding are in Indiana where the safety net is nonexistent, healthcare is through the roof, and options are limited. 🧵
The bosses are stealing our game industry, and we aim to take it back! We’re calling game workers, allies, and fans alike to join emergency rallies on WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th! Check this thread for times and locations as they’re established: 🧵
Paizoverse: the Golarion Mapping Project (under Online Content, I believe) is put together by the team who does the Pathfinder Wiki! Throw them a vote too!
Shan Wolf@shanwolf.bsky.social · 4w agoEnnies Voting is live! If you can? please toss in a vote for Starfinder 2e: Alien Core, and PF2e and SF2e Foundry Module! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/
You're laughing. Just moments ago, a velociraptor pushed Rachel Reilly into a volcano where she met her untimely demise, and you're laughing... #bb28
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Lynne is a laid-off Paizo editor and needs our help. Please share and donate if you can!
Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire@lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 4w agoBecause people have been asking (and because I know it's necessary, as much as it pains me to admit it), I've launched a crowdfunder to help with COBRA, rent, meds, and more. spot.fund/LynnePaizoLa...
There are only two choices on the table for the game worker right now: give up or get organized. And giving up repeatedly has only led us to this absolute shitshow, so let's take a look at what organizing really means (uvw-cwa.org, btw)
They are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! This is the way it ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
They are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! This is the way it ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
According to trusted news from a known Pathfinder Society reporter, it appears a team of goblins is looking to make their debut on the major league stage... 👀
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You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath
People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.
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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.
Because of our One BGS union, we have the right to negotiate over the impacts of these layoffs, helping secure stronger severance packages and better support for those leaving the company. We will do everything we can to make sure our friends are properly taken care of.