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Rekkin, On The Internet

@gmstrangestars.bsky.social

Author of Under, Beyond, and From Strange Stars. I paint miniatures and sometimes I make videos too. 100% human-wrought results.

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John Romero@johnromero.bsky.social · 2d ago

32 years ago today, we held the launch party for DOOM II at the Limelight in NYC, a former church. Happy birthday to DOOM II, but also, happy birthday to the Super Shotgun, the be-all and end-all of many a monster.

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Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d ago

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 6d ago

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Maddy Thorson@maddymakesgames.com · 6d ago

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · last wk.

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

zac@10amlunch.bsky.social · 2w ago

random encounters exist because the combat is fun you are supposed to enjoy it, if you dont enjoy it you should be playing a different video game, i dont understand how this conversation keeps happening

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

Rekkin, On The Internet@gmstrangestars.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every so often, someone will comment on one of my videos with something to the effect of "I don't get it, this is just a bunch of your opinions," and I have to say that I am truly honored to be the one to introduce them to the concept of a review.

Rekkin, On The Internet@gmstrangestars.bsky.social · 4w ago

People need to start having more problems with authority. If a computer ever presumed to tell me what to do I would simply not listen to it. "You have to press the button or I will be sad" Then be sad you sack of bits, why is the RAM I bought 18 months ago $500 now?

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4w ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
andy [known agitator]@meltedmasks.me · 4w ago

oh your art is messy and full of mistakes? it doesn't mirror properly? the proportions are weird because you grew up on a mix of anime and 3D platformers? you drew on the wrong layer and now the highlights are weird? that rules, dude, show me more; a horrible computer could never make that

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4w ago

If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.

Cute Monster Props@cutemonster.bsky.social · 4w ago

A week ago at Dragoncon I met Richard Garriott at a panel about his new Ultima game. Long story short he wants to use AI. He already has for concept art and ChatGPT generated fantasy language. I wrote an account with the hope that this could spread to the right people. Please pass this along.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · last mo.

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last mo.

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Rekkin, On The Internet@gmstrangestars.bsky.social · last mo.

In a time of videogames never shutting up, finding something that's such a dedicated throwback to Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 was great. Lords of the Fallen 2023 really delivered and I hope I can help get a couple more eyes on it.

Rekkin, On The Internet@gmstrangestars.bsky.social · last mo.

I took a chance on a videogame a while back and was so pleasantly surprised by it that I was compelled to make a video. #lordsofthefallen youtu.be/Kbg_mY0k-MM

Fiona Creates@fionacreates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I guess a PSA for newer creators, if you get what seems to be a legit offer, you are totally ok to go to the agency’s real site, and email them directly in a new email “hey i just got an offer from you? Is this real?” And they will answer yes or no. They are just as pissed by the scams, I imagine!