Daz Watford
@thatswhatugets.bsky.social
Former Bithell Games (Volume, Subsurface Circular, John Wick Hex, TRON: CATALYST), Colour Theory Specialist, & the Citizen Kane of Intercom voices
Many a night in the early 90s we'd un/intentionally annoy the DJ at the Nightclub by asking them to "play the Apple Pie Song" :D
ian.fenrisgames@fenrisgames.com · 9h agosometimes Shuffle just serves up exactly the fucking banger you need on a Wednesday afternoon
Literally my life would get easier, because the energy I have to put in to AVOID genAI tools is actually disruptive. This sounds like paradise.
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 17h agoI have one answer.
This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!
If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.
“It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%.” Well who could have possibly seen that happening.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
The urgency and fervor around building data centers should have been how we responded to climate change 20 years ago.
This cartoon really highlights how all the "AI democratises art" stuff is bullshit. The point of LLMs is to generate profit (content) If they cared about art, they'd have been funding art already
Bill Amend@billamend.bsky.social · 3d agoTonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Exactly 10 years ago I posted this drawing and it became very viral and got a lot of people to notice my work around the world - though I had been working professionally for almost ten years at that point. Thanks, drawing!
Artists when the existential threat of generative ai dawns on another profession
'Games development' and 'games business' are two seperate things. The sickness lies in the business side. And it is catastrophically sick. In all meanings of the word.
In addition to removing their latest report into the links between ‘gender critical’ transphobes and the far-right anti-rights movement @amnestyuk.bsky.social ALSO deleted this previous report to appease billionaire bigots! 😣 But you can read it here… 👉🏻 drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...
I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING TAKES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-