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Mr Luke Kemp esq.

@luke-k.bsky.social

He/him. Free range word layer. Contributed to every issue of PLAY Magazine (RIP). Has also been spotted at GamesMaster, Edge, Eurogamer, GamesRadar, GamesIndustry[dot]biz, Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer, The Guardian, SFX, more.

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∞ Uncle Steve @stevefarr.bsky.social · 3h ago

You know what to do...

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h ago

"The RNLI has announced a review of its security procedures to ensure the safety of its volunteers after anti migrant protests.. at the weekend. Some crew members had their photos and names shared on social media in posts accusing them of treason"

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 5h ago

The voice and facial expressions of this thing are incredibly unnatural. How on earth are we supposed to believe that it's capable of generating an oscar-worthy performance? So far as propaganda goes, this is incredibly weak.

CNN@cnn.com · 14h ago

Tilly Norwood has been billed the first AI "actor" in Hollywood which raises questions about what awards synthetic performers should be nominated for. In an exclusive chat with CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister, Tilly Norwood responded to questions about winning an Oscar.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 7h ago

Why would I want a phone I can fold? I don't want to button up my fridge.

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h ago

Get fucked, bro. bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Boycott Microsoft's Xbox

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...

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Hideo Kojima@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 11h ago

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 16h ago

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…

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 16h ago

Damn, how did I miss these.

Dr Apricot@dr-apricot.bsky.social · 16h ago

Metroid Fusion Cuisine Soup-er Metroid

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 17h ago

Metroid Prime Cuts Metroid Bread Is this anything

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 18h ago

I'm playing through LA Noire, and I forgot how much of this game involves driving across the city to a woman's house and then yelling at her.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 21h ago

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 21h ago

(Guy halfway through building Skynet) This thing will try to kill us all when it's finished, we need to do something.

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · yesterday

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · yesterday

Got my comps for the Disney Magical Christmas Countdown book/advent calendar. I’ve written festive Goofy, Lilo & Stitch, and Frozen stories for it. On sale October 8th!

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · yesterday

I haven't had the visceral reaction to the Ocarina remake's art that many people have, but Sam makes an excellent point here.

Samantha Mackenzie Greer@sammgreer.bsky.social · yesterday

Like I think whether it's literally AI or not, there are aesthetic goals being pursued here that are flattening artistic works and treating people's adverse reactions to a huge project like this as the same as commenting on the work of an individual is conflating them in a way that helps nobody

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · yesterday

Do you reckon Sonic bathes in blue dye, or is his colour part of the mutation which allows him to speak and walk on two legs?

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d ago

On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...

The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Surprising number of people who think their Ai assistant is sentient are still happy to make it do their bidding. Like, you are forcing a living being to co-author your Dark Romantasy novel set in the Roblox universe?

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 2d ago

Very funny that Nintendo had a tense buildup to announcing that the movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda will be titled The Legend of Zelda.

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 2d ago

The only way this could possibly be true is if they're bringing back Brannigan's Roast Beef & Mustard crisps.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 3d ago

did an interview recently where I asked a dev, "what would you put on a watch/read/playlist for someone excited, to help them get ready for your game?" & the producer looked me dead in the windows of my soul & said "well, we've got a lot of good trailers & would like them to watch those"

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 2d ago

Daryl knows and loves Tomb Raider, and is an experienced journalist and author. Great interviewee/co-conspirator opportunity for you!

Daryl Baxter@darylbaxter.com · 2d ago

The book's release is fast approaching, so I'm now looking for sites and creators who may be interested in featuring the book in several ways. From reviews of it to interviews with me, or something else. The book has plenty of 'revelations' not previously known - so do get in touch.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d ago

Abolish the Home Office.

Declan Gaffney@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 4d ago

Home Office response to Fascist thugs at Portsmouth, from Grdn.

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 3d ago

Burnham could have replaced Mahmood as Home Secretary when he took over. He didn't. That's all the sign you need.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d ago

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d ago

Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 3d ago

I listened to Hayden Panettiere's autobiography, and a susurrus of sadness accompanied me throughout. She seems to have been an empathetic, genuine, smart and sweet person slammed with several traumatic life events. Tragic that she died before she even got close to 40.

Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · last wk.

Everyone stop what you're doing and watch this absolutely genuine clip from the ending of Highlander 5 (Dir. Brett Leonard, 2007).

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm watching Mortal Kombat II. It's fucking awful.

Mr Luke Kemp esq.@luke-k.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just learned that if we cancel the ink cartridge subscription we have, the company in question will disable our printer remotely until we remove the current cartridges (regardless of how much ink is left) and replace them with ones from another company. I hate modern life.

Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2y ago

right winger identifying fascism

A 3 panel comic featuring Right Wing Red Guy

Panel 1:
Purple Guy: The LGBTQ+ community?
Angry Red Guy: Nazis

Panel 2:
Purple Guy: The pride flag?
Angry Red Guy: Fascist propaganda

Panel 3:
Purple Guy gestures to a nazi doing a nazi salute: This nazi doing a nazi salute?
Red Guy: Awww. He’s pwobbably waving at his mommy

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 5d ago

These people are organised fascists attempting a show of strength, and succeeding, how hard is it to condemn them for what they are