Charles Jensen Geringer
@cjgeringer.bsky.social
Hobbist account Cave-painting inspired doodles of fantasy creatures, OSR-Adjacent RPG Homebrew, photos and amateur GameDev Stuff
Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.
Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.
insidehighered.com
The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3h agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
An exceptional exploration of genAI in game development from a producer who absolutely Gets It: www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
productionalchemist.com
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
I know we talk a lot about predatory or plain obnoxious videogame monetization but Digimon Story Time Stranger shows you paid DLC outfits you don't own RIGHT IN YOUR ITEM MENU and that may be the most insulting shit I've seen from a game I spent 100€ on (the costumes are NOT included in the deluxe).
Crucially: Leg is a type of Arm. But Legs (plural) is a type of Feet. I've been staring at this all week and have come around to believing, yeah, this is the best way to do it
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
The darker side of the UK microcomputer game boom of the mid-late 80s. The Games Machine magazine ran an exposé in March 1988 on the mass, systemic abuse of teenage programmers by developers and publishers, some as young as 14, with interviews from those involved.
...faster internet is useless when the bandwidth is being gobbled up by bad actors and advertising, rather than for your needs.
Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
I hate being able to read sometimes. No way you spin this into you being a victim, somehow. Smartest YouTube science guy conveniently looked past the seven billion articles of criticism around the subject. Oh brother 😐
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.
🇧🇷Corujinha-do-sul 🌎Megascops sanctaecatarinae Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A corujinha-do-sul é uma ave strigiforme da família Strigidae. 📷 Filipe Bernardi
Of course the company that T&F outsources typesetting to for the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has misspelled my name again... in addition to fabricating a second superfluous author contributions statement out of nowhere.
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
Beyond its famous preamble, the Declaration of Independence listed out a set of grievances against King George III of England. Some of them sound quite familiar…
Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
Exactly twenty years after I drew the very first sketches of a character called "Delilah Dirk," PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY — the newest book in the series — has won a Will Eisner Award, in the Best Digital Comic category. It's a dream come true. 🏆 www.tonycliff.ca/blog/practic...
You can now manually adjust the position of hats in our game!! This solves our hair clipping issue, and also gives you the freedom to create some really unique looks ✨☺️🧢
don't let the phoned-in visuals of the Halo remake off the hook by scapegoating Unreal imo. if something looks boring it's because someone boring made it
