Anzekay
@anzekay.bsky.social
Game & Narrative Designer. they/them. pfp by Kysra via NSG
shooting every missile i have and when the smoke clears im lying on the ground dead and gas costs 50% more and ive ushered in a solar golden age
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
The problem with using an LLM for some narrow use case where you think it’s actually appropriate is that you’re using it in the context of a UX system designed to make you expand your usage and change your views of what is “appropriate”
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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There's no correct way to defeat a souls boss because the games do not exist in a purely single player environment and encourage build variability. If FromSoftware doesn't want you to do something they tend to patch it out. Also, ultimately, who gives a shit what other people do in their home.
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
there's a sudden inversion: now formal, strictly correct language is seen as cheap, and vernacular-laden (and home-learned during childhood) language is more authentic
Eugene Meidinger@sqlgene.com · 5d agoOne angle too is if Africans are used to train AI how to write, they will be accused of writing like AI. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky... (oh no...)
🌛Caio Santos Art🌜@blacksalander.bsky.social · 6d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky!
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off
Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo agoAny of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year
1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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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...
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Something I like about @elazic.bsky.social's careful read here is that it points out a fatal flaw with a lot of pieces of writing that pass for "reviews" (even from critics!) because they talk about a movie: saying "this is bad!" as if it's self-evident, rather than arguing for *why* it is bad.
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · last wk.Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.
Early on in my career, this is what helped me save up money for my big move to California. $25 here. $50 there. Short blurbs for a local car seller. A VOICEMAIL for a small company. Either it bought my meals for the day or it went towards a 4-year “moving out” fund. Now the small jobs don’t exist.
Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator@owendennis.com · last wk.Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.
I forgot to include a Daeg photo with this update
Anzekay@anzekay.bsky.social · last wk.Took Daeg to the vet this morning after he'd been walking a bit funny; he's got some early arthritis now. he's on some pain meds now and they took blood for a test to see if anything else is up. hopefully it's just the arthritis! as far as old cat health issues go it's far from the worst one to have
Took Daeg to the vet this morning after he'd been walking a bit funny; he's got some early arthritis now. he's on some pain meds now and they took blood for a test to see if anything else is up. hopefully it's just the arthritis! as far as old cat health issues go it's far from the worst one to have
WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice
On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.Don’t make me write a newsletter about how Emily Wilson is allowed to be an expert, you guys
I am generally of the opinion that it's likely impossible to film a proper adaptation of the Odyssey. The best we can hope for is a flawed adaptation that is too rushed and lacks complexity, or an interpretation that is good and complex but cuts things away. To get both would require a 6 hour film.
