Travis Taylor

@thearkitekt.bsky.social

Experience Designer by day. Neurodivergent nerd always. Aspiring Writer working on a sci-fi duology. Casual Gamer sticking with FPS. Amateur Mario Kart Competitor. Metalhead with a side of most everything else.

Decided to look through Art Station for some fantasy background imagery to reference for company meeting backgrounds and all the AI imagery is first… can’t exclude it because they don’t use that tag… That’s depressing. Anyone have art sites that prevent AI artwork from being featured?

Seeing coworkers run my rendering work through AI to “show how it’s more efficient” really hurts I don’t do my work to be efficient. I do it because I ENJOY it. I don’t wanna turn my Viz work into a prompt exercise and sit for 8 hours a day writing thousands of prompts.. I wanna actually CREATE.

It’s not really something to joke about but… All of us neurodivergent people in the work camps are gonna mentally destroy the overseers by bouncing our respective vocal stims off each other 😂

When you operate with extensive burnout you start gauging how many productive hours a day you have. I usually can get 5 if I feel good - but if it’s intensive work my brain absolutely crashes afterwards

I learned a valuable lesson with THC seltzers last night. One potency in one brand does not mean the others are the same lol Don’t go to a stronger potency AND switch brands. One that affects you like CBD doesn’t mean the other won’t get you violently high 😅

Sometimes I get sent GenAI recommendations - tools to use in my work - by coworkers who’ve embraced using AI in their jobs. I like my work. I like the steps, the process, and I already strive to make it as efficient as possible. Why tf would I want to use GenAI to does the parts I love to do?

I have a lot of things I enjoy to do - but the consistent problem I’ve had my whole life is that every skill I’ve developed is underlined by a “I don’t exist without this” mentality. It creates pockets of creativity and happiness, that are equally balanced by slumps of self loathing.

What law of the universe is it that anything that will cause you pain has to hit right as you go to bed. Currently up feeling like a few of my teeth are being pulled and the night is still pretty young.

Was putting in a few hours after work to get some Unreal Engine learning under my belt, but I hit a wall with material editing (datasmith material instances and parent materials) Deleted something, which broke everything, couldn’t undo, closed to revert to last saved thing, auto save didn’t save…

Loaded #MW2019 for the first time in a long time.. too long. That game was phenomenal and anyone who hates on it is kidding themselves. The UI is simple and legible. The gunplay is engaging and tactical. The skins were great - best gold camo by far. And I can discern players from backgrounds