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Kimberly Parker

@thatkimparker.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Character concept artist @ EA ✦ prev. Phoenix Labs ✦ A/I hater ✦ UVW-CWA ✦ views are my own portfolio: kimberlyparker.ca

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Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · yesterday

Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.

Nate Bethea@inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 6d ago

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Claire Hummel@shoomlah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Getting to design characters for a murder mystery visual novel set in the Myst/D'ni universe was such a blast, I hope this also sees the light of day someday:

Sprite sheet of Ishek in the Who'Dnit game prototype from Cyan, set in the Myst universe.Sprite sheet of Kadish in the Who'Dnit game prototype from Cyan, set in the Myst universe.Sprite sheet of Tvesh in the Who'Dnit game prototype from Cyan, set in the Myst universe.
Harrison G. Pink 🔜 DragonCon@gilespink.bsky.social · 5d ago

The other (much smaller) game @shoomlah.bsky.social and I worked on near the end of our time at Cyan is shown here (@ 28:07). "WhoD'nit?", a Myst visual novel / Phoenix Wright style murder mystery (and yes you would obviously be able to flirt with all the suspects!) I still really want to make this.

nico@nicodelort.bsky.social · 6d ago

here's another throwback from 2016 a private poster commission inspired by Moby Dick honestly still really love this one, both the concept and execution i worked on pre-inked scratchboard for this one (so fully black) instead of the usual white claybord that i ink myself 30x40cm

a black and white scratchboard illustration inspired by Mody Dick. It depicts a giant white whale about to collide with a whaling ship. The scene is viewed from a bird's eye view, high above the scene. Seagulls are seen orbiting around the scene. The ship and the whale create waves in the water that reinforce the tension between them.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @ BAD OMEN ᴰᴱᴹᴼ@gcbaccaris.itch.io · 6d ago

For just $10 you can get over 100 games (including one of mine that was previously unreleased) and, most importantly, benefit game workers impacted by layoffs. Support the Game Industry Hardship Fund‼️

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 6d ago

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics.bsky.social · last wk.

Went to the library last week to see if they had any helpful books on trees and I checked out a few and this was by far the most useful as a drawing-the-woods reference. Added it to my own library and recommending it for yours!

Photo of the cover of a large hardcover book: the trees of North America, by Alan Mitchell, illustrated by David More BildBild
Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w ago

For the avoidance of doubt: the video games industry absolutely is in a major investment and labor crisis. This is the view of basically 100% of industry professionals, journalists who cover the industry, and specialized market analysts.