Thoughts and prayers for this yassified AI Frida Kahlo dreas
Sam Santala 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇪🇺
@samsantala.bsky.social
👤 Creature/Character Concept Artist in Games 💼 Prev: Rare, Ubisoft, SixMoreVodka, Volta ✉️ samsantala@proton.me Socials: https://bio.site/samsantala Discord: https://discord.gg/GJRQC5Cukc Store: https://samsantala.gumroad.com/
Realizing I can't have a Kei Truck in Finland because they can't go the speeds needed on the motorway... and Finland is like, ALL motorways ;__;
The urge to own a cute little Kei truck
My wife squeezed my bum whilst I was holding this card and I said this was my face when she did that
© Elena Wuest. 'The Tangerine Hour.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 80 × 60 cm.
Started doing French on Duolingo because I was bored and realising MAYBE I would have enjoyed learning French in school if my school didn't focus so much on things like the rote memorization of genders of objects like pencils.
Signing up for anything as a Brit is like Check Nationality dropdown: UK? (Nope) United Kingdom? (Nope) Britain? (No) Great Britain? (No?) England (Yes, finally)
At the point now where I'm like, should I support a UK football team? And if so, which one? And I have to say seeing this about Tottenham does appeal to me 😂
When Argentina finish a game vs when England/France finish a game
So nice to see the love between the French and England teams. Could never see this from Argentina who felt like they were doing MMA the first half against England
In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏
Bellingham one goal away from getting the highest England goals scored during a World Cup. Gives it to his teammate Saka to allow him a hat trick. Bellingham gets highest goal record as the last kick of the game anyway. This is the sportsmanship and kind of role models my soul yearns for 🙏 legend
The pain about suddenly finding football interesting is I've very few people to send memes to :P
I really miss the UK. I feel like it's usually a deluge of depressing politics and racism. But the World Cup & the supporters, the multiculturalism, everything has been the most positive vision I've had of my home country in a long, long, long time.
> Memes for if England win against Argentina tonight
The racism of papers like The Daily Mail seems utterly alien to me and my understanding of my home country the UK I don't get it now, I didn't get it during the fury at the Olympic ceremony for having a story of a young black couple as part of the show We should celebrate successes like Bellingham
I only just learned today that Japan plays Rugby. And not only do they play Rugby, but its their third most popular sport
Three South American countries in the semis then :P
The death of Sony as a console company will not come from a lack of physical discs (something that feels pretty inevitable in this current market), but because they started selling their *exclusive* IP on PC Marketplaces, removing the entire function of their console for short-term profitability.
I am more and more of the opinion that trying to be a salaried employee in the games industry is a dead end. Big companies don't care about you, the product, the customer or anything making games should be about. Stop hyper specialising to become a small cog in a big uncaring machine.
BREAKING: Xbox boss Asha Sharma announces 3,200 layoffs, including 1,600 today, with 4 studios leaving for new management. https://bit.ly/3Rittcc
Farage finally gets one iota of scrutiny after decades of stirring shit in UK politics and they find so much corruption he has to face a by-election and has a tanty live on national TV.
What a waste, think of all the data centres this water could be used to cool down.
Just me making a visual diagram of my programming nodes in Godot so I can make out what the fuck is happening.
I feel like my own online presence is dwindling, and in some ways that's sad, less eyes on my art, less community in some respects. In others, I'm glad. No more constantly chasing numbers, no pressure to fit whatever the current zietgeist is or have villain of the week in my face. I just work 💛
I think the easiest way to show to someone *they know* AI can't do concept art because it cant design, is just to say Okay, ask AI to design you an airplane and really ask yourself if you'd actually fly in it.
Absolum is so good. Such lovely art, animation and VFX