Nick Makura | COMMISSIONS OPEN

@nickmakura.bsky.social

Pixel Artist | Bisexual |

My life has fallen apart before and will almost certainly fall apart again, but this is a nice break. For these past few weeks, I've genuinely felt very peaceful. Angry about EVERYTHING, of course. But I'm okay right now, and I can help people a little with what little I do have. And that's cool.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

New Ghost in the Shell is very good - but I feel like occasionally -some- deviation from the source material would have been good? I know the goal is to -directly- adapt Shirow's work, word for word : But a couple minutes of silence instead of prolonged explanation would really make some scenes pop.

'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons isn't a fan of generative AI "If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would" "Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me"

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Super excited to show my latest VRChat world: a 1:1 recreation of Mario Bros. Plumbing from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ⭐️ Not only can you hang out in a Brooklyn basement like a true plumber, but you can also watch every single episode of the show, including Super Show, 3, and World!

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(