Nightshade ๐Ÿ‚

@nightshadeowl.bsky.social

Artist. Aspiring accordionist. Adult, they/them. Hermitcraft and SM3 fan.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you donโ€™t want to.

There's a discourse that basically goes:
Alice: But I want to use Al to do art
Bob: Just do it yourself
Alice: But I am not good at it
Bob: Just be bad, and post it on the internet, it's fine!
And Bob is lying, it sucks, you will get savaged as anyone who has taken a picture of their dinner knows.

Did everybody forget that creating art is a beautiful organic cycle because other people will look at your art and be inspired to create their own. Using GenAI to generate references instead of going to look for them yourself is poisoning ur own mind. U will be stuck in your own echo chamber

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?" The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.

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Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

Me, every time I have to read something in a language I only had a couple years of formal training in two decades ago: "Dangit, I could have spent twenty years preparing for this moment."