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Zak Simmonds-Hurn

@monstrouscomics.bsky.social

Comic Book artist at The Phoenix Comic! 🌱

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Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · last mo.

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

gamesradar.com

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

Zak Simmonds-Hurn@monstrouscomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm on my way to London for my first book signing tour! It feels very surreal, I still have to pinch myself when I remember that I have a book in the world. If you're in London and fancy a signed copy of Legacy, hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to find one after today! 🤞

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can confirm this absolutely destroyed in our house. My son handed it to me with a shit-eating grin and I confess that, yes, I did MOMENTARILY think it was some sort of genuine mix-up before realising it was a beautifully executed prank. 10/10. Subscribe to thephoenixcomic.co.uk

Home Page - The Phoenix comic

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Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ok I have seen a GOOD APRIL FOOLS JOKE in the wild. My kids comic (Phoenix - home if @jamiesmart.bsky.social) comes in an envelope every week, we open it, had a fake cover for a soup review mag like we’d been sent the wrong thing. Genius!

Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THIS SUNDAY, The Sunday Times has brought back The Funday Times as part of their reading campaign and The Phoenix is involved! The Funday Times was a weekly comic supplement, all big and newspapery, an absolute joy to read and an instrumental part of a lot of our childhoods 🤩

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Zak Simmonds-Hurn@monstrouscomics.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Does anyone have any albums or playlists that are their go-to 'Work Faster' music? I just realised today that when I need to pick up my drawing pace I play the Ridge Racer Type 4 soundtrack and my output increases. I'd listen to it every day, but I worry that it would lose it's power if I did 😂

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

theguardian.com

Steve Lieber@stevelieberart.bsky.social · 3y ago

Every artist wishes they could go back in time to deliver a swat to the back of their own head and say, “Don't do that!” None of this is universal, but here is a protips thread of some things I (and many of my peers) would try to stop ourselves from doing.