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technical designer @sleightofhand.game ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa fuck AI https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa

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I forgot

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 2h ago

hashtag game dev @radiatoryang.bsky.social

Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 11h ago

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 12h ago

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 5h ago

vapes in coalmines new name of my band

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 5h ago

Queensland mining health regulator issues warning over vapes in coalmines

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 6h ago

Long Term Sauce Per Nugget Yield Curve Flashing Red 4 pc = 0.25 SPN 6 pc = 0.167 SPN 10 pc = 0.2 SPN 20 pc = 0.15 SPN 40 pc = 0.1 SPN

Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · 9h ago

ATTENTION: SAUCE POLICY

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 6h ago

i'm going to need people to develop an iota of skepticism about random people making claims on twitter, a platform you can't even fucking read

KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam!@ko-op.com · 16h ago

An important update from KO_OP.

With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives.

KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements.

As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations.

Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible.

In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.

Mallorie Malcontent ✨@sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 16h ago

Doodle I made to piss off chuds over on Facebook. It worked. They commented a bunch, got me up in the algo, more eyeballs on my page, and a couple of Patrons. It's depressing this is how the world works now.

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tilly Norwood has passed away

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 17h ago

in a normal world, i would be screaming from the moon about this. but we live in Slop World where level-5 is a shitty fucking slophouse that ruins their delightful game series with gen ai horseshit and we can't have anything nice

Gematsu@gematsu.com · 17h ago

Professor Layton and the Curious Village Remake announced for PS5, Switch 2, Switch, and PC LEVEL-5 has announced Professor Layton and the Curious Village Remake, a remake of… http://www.gematsu.com/2026/09/professor-layton-and-the-curious-village-remake-announced-for-ps5-switch-2-switch-and-pc

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2y ago

Peter Falk's self-portraits as Columbo

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 18h ago

this hasn't subsided

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · yesterday

i am on the verge of losing it crazy style

SeverLink - Wishlist NOW!@severlink.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Infiltrator is always just around the corner 👀 #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #stealthgame #lowpoly #y2k

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20h ago

got to play this recently. some really cool shit in there. definitely one to put on your steam "wish list"

SeverLink - Wishlist NOW!@severlink.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Infiltrator is always just around the corner 👀 #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #stealthgame #lowpoly #y2k

My birthday is Friday @moosebigelow.bsky.social · yesterday

Lenny from the simpsons changing a sign that says 365 days without charlie kirk saying something racist

HYPERFIXT @hyperfixt.neocities.org · yesterday

Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 20h ago

That extended look was great too

Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 22h ago

Loved the announcements yesterday

Logos of Metroid: Ravenous and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon with their subtitles swapped, since they look so similar.

Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 2d ago

🎂🎂🎂Happy 27th Birthday, Dreamcast!🎂🎂🎂 I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were

An illustration of Sonic holding the Dreamcast Twin Sticks next to Ulala from Space Channel 5 Part 2 holding a Dreamcast controller with a Seaman microphone, with Beat from Jet Grind Radio behind them holding a fishing controller. They are all intertwined by the cords of their peripherals, while behind them is a giant Dreamcast glowing gently over them. In the background are floating Chao, Light Chao, and Dark Chao, Amigo from Samba de Amigo, and a Chu Chu and Kapu Kapu. Also Seaman looking upset at Ulala, maybe Ulala said some crass words that he didn't enjoy

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · yesterday

dookie residents relieved 😮‍💨

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

Dookie residents relieved as government walks back renewable zone plans

Keith Stack @keithstack.com · yesterday

In response to today’s Nintendo Direct, Sony has announced -1 video games.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

PlayStation is stepping away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT

jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · yesterday

speaking as a zine guy who started blogging in the ‘00s because it felt like a natural outgrowth, none of us have memories of this because it DIDN’T FUCKING HAPPEN

James Van Fleet@horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 2d ago

You know things are going well when you’ve entered Day Three of Posting Through It.

Paul Frazee: Feel like we've all memory-holed the era where blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were considered the equivalent of slop

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · yesterday

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · yesterday

what's the normal amount of times per day you're supposed to think you're gonna lose your shit and go completely insane

carly rae jepstein @die-hardman.com · yesterday

for whom the smell tolls

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · yesterday

i am on the verge of losing it crazy style

Flip Satan@teawithphil.bsky.social · yesterday

Not only was this made using AI, but the creator seemingly tried to keep it quiet and even say they aren't familiar with the term "genAI" before admitting they used Claude. Exhausting.

Miss Big Tail @taildoll.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 2d ago

kirby is always a delight but i fear for open world when forgotten land's levels were so fuckin good

Erin Returns!!@woodaba.bsky.social · 2d ago

OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying

ari velazquez 🌯@ari.velazquez.fyi · 3d ago

god i love it. people hating it, people loving it, people hating loving it, people loving hating it, people hating people loving it, people hating people hating it, people proudly indifferent but making a point of saying it, etc. this is what being online is about. this is the town square