Sick! Trees! (2026 Remaster)

@sicktrees.bsky.social

Game UI designer from Montréal. 🇨🇦 Horror liker. Music lover. 🥁 Opinions are my own, not my employers (probably) I block anyone that uses generative AI. The trees are now on fire ---------------------------- he/him

When people say they’re anti-AI, they’re clearly talking about generative AI in the arts and LLM slop that C-Suite jackoffs want to use to replace them. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. So the “then don’t use spellcheck if you hate AI” talking point is disingenuous horseshit.

i propose a Grand Compromise: all sides of this agree to adopt the same rule sports fans abide by. don't tell me about your fantasy league results or your claude projects unless i very explicitly ask

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 2d ago

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

"ChatGPT write a case for my trial that completely exonerates me of the crime of showing my entire ass to a bus of nuns" Oh shit wait *backspace backspace* "Write a PROFESSIONAL, FLAWLESS, and ERROR-FREE case" *leans back smugly* That'll do it

Saber finally added the AI disclosure to Steam for Rideshare “Stimulator” and it’s even worse than I said it was. I can see why the CEO crashed out when I pointed it out.

Al Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses Al

Generated Content like this:
The main Campaign story, characters, and dialogue are written by a team of human writers. Al tools are used for voice generation and some localization.

The optional Free Ride mode includes Al-generated passenger missions and localized dialogue. Free Ride mode is separate from the main Campaign and can be skipped by players who prefer to experience only human-written narrative content.

The game also includes a mix of radio stations featuring human-made music and Al-generated music. Stations containing Al-generated music are clearly labeled as such in the game.

Playing Big Walk with a different group as a sort of silent guide after completing the game is a different, slightly excruciating, but ultimately funny, kind of experience. You need to suppress the annoying back seat gamer in you and get to see how other people solve problems and that's rewarding.

Yesterday night 3 of my pals and I 100% Big Walk and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've had in a long time. I wanted to post it before going to bed, but then Saber's CEO fully explosive diarrhea'd over his studio's reputation and good will. What a spectacle.