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Indeed! Verily, I say... Ergo! --- No 🚫 Generative AI, NFTs, etc --- 🐘: mas.to/@tonch

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · yesterday

We almost started a war with China because our "analysts" now just sling chatbot slop

In this particular instance, the analyst queried a chatbot about some intelligence reporting on the ship's manifest that originated with US Special Operations Command Pacific, based in Hawaii. It was not clear whether the chatbot was a commercially available one or a US government product.
The bot fused together open-source intelligence with secret signals intelligence in government holdings and reached its fateful conclusion about the material the ship was carrying.
The analyst then used Al again to package the findings into a standard intelligence report - the kind that is trusted by military officials - and disseminated it.

CNN@cnn.com · yesterday

Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. https://cnn.it/4y9MBJO

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · yesterday

Boy am I sure fucking sick of getting letters in the mail telling me my medical/dental/social security/credit/etc information was once again breached and posted on the black market What the fuck can I even do at this point, it's all completely out of my control and no one gives a fuck

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · 2d ago

This game rocks (man)

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2d ago

30XX is $8.99 on US eShop buff.ly/PEssist

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Universal Pictures, owned by Comcast, appears to be moving toward canceling the upcoming international release of the Musk documentary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The documentary’s director, Alex Gibney, recently told the AP that the Musk doc left those who know Elon terrified. /1

TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 3d ago

this was the awards show equivalent to “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding" and it dying because there weren’t enough creative people followed by an ominous speech by one of the greats should be a canary in a coal mine situation

Nintendo Life@nintendolife.com · 3d ago

Sakurai Believes Industry Will "Slowly Die" Without Innovation As He Discontinues Game Designers Award (Repost)

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · 3d ago

(Re: that horrible James Pond AI travesty) loooool those chodes can get fucked If you can't be bothered to put actual effort and care into your product, why on god's green earth would I consider spending my money and time on it? Get bent, asshole

Tom Rogers@tomrogers.bsky.social · 3d ago

“If people think we’re going to redraw, re-render to that quality, and have 20 or 30 people working two years on it, forget it: It’s not going to happen. […] I couldn’t justify having 20 artists for a year create all of that in that way.” 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷@alexrochonva.bsky.social · 4d ago

KIRBY (Commissions are OPEN!)@dkirbyj.bsky.social · 4d ago

Advance Wars x Metal Slug

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gravity Rush 2 is $9.99 on US PSN buff.ly/3ZvSYYW Free Gravity Rush 2 DLC buff.ly/4gglEui

Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 5d ago

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"

坑坑 @kengyoulei.bsky.social · last wk.

Samus

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · 6d ago

Spin Rhythm is really cool and works well on all kinds of different control schemes. I even once played it on a PS1 JogCon

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6d ago

Spin Rhythm XD (Steam) w/ 1 more game is $8.99 on Fanatical Build your own Play on the Go BundleFest Edition buff.ly/yqwYp0A #ad add more games to save more

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · 6d ago

FYI this still just worked for me. Redeemed the code and everything, no take-backsies (I had the Wii U version & never justified re-buying it until now)

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 7d ago

Run to this deal before it's corrected

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · 7d ago

Seeing tons of people starting their journey into the Metroid series after the excitement in the Ravenous trailer (which is really awesome to see!), and also people starting the Professor Layton series after Level-5 torpedoed itself (uh, welp... those past ones will always be great games!).

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · last wk.

So convenient, every dev and publisher you need to block on one page

Duck AI Slop!!@duckaislop.bsky.social · last wk.

Steam hosted an "Ai Gaming Fest", a free block / ignore list. We've updated our mega spreadsheet too Thread of the games with NO disclosures🧵 included! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628... steamdb.info/sales/event/...

maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · last wk.

ok here’s my oot remake link doodle

A doodle of child link from oot remake, from the pov looking down on him

he asks: “do you have any games on your phone?”

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · last wk.

Every week this story gets better.

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

I'm gonna need Level-5 to fucking stop 😭 Wishing Hino a very "go out of business"

daryl "dino-damage" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · last wk.

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

Mii Maker music added to Switch 2 (via _danpar)

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

Nintendo Switch 2 FW 23.0.0 released - "VRR output is now supported in TV mode." JPN translated patch notes support.nintendo.com/jp/switch2/u...

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

RIP Mike McFarland (Funimation Master Roshi & Yajirobe, among many others) He got the lead in Odd Taxi relatively recently, which is on my watchlist. Cancer sucks. This year sucks.

Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · last wk.

Sony saw "phys-" and didn't bother to read the rest of the word, they just knew they needed out ASAP.

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

"Our relationship remains strong" Ya sure about that? After this, I wouldn't want to work with you

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

PlayStation is stepping away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT

ラリアット/rariatoo @rariatoo.bsky.social · last wk.

Ravenous and World Beyond

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

I was considering buying the special edition like I did for Dread but fucking YIKES never mind!

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

Metroid Ravenous Special Edition (Switch 2) up for preorder at Nintendo Store ($119.99) buff.ly/ghDqIpL

Justin Stewart @seymourdtoid.bsky.social · last wk.

This is as good a time as any to recommend you disenfranchised peeps check out Detective Instinct. It plays good, sounds great and is made with love! #blutoid

Save 30% on Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam

A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventu...

store.steampowered.com

Jon Cartwright@jon.gvg.io · last wk.

What are my Famicom Detective Club devs doing

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

I like Kirby as much as anyone, but overall that Direct was a snooze other than Metroid which is a day-one buy I've been waiting to play Pikmin 4 for a Switch 2 update and they don't even upgrade the framerate 😫 And the Age of Calamity "discount" for the new SKU I'm sure will be barely anything

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

prospect.org

Tonch @tonch.corneria.city · last wk.

Pikmin 4 Sw2 update :D Same framerate :(