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Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQI+ people. But Sex Matters is in...

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I don't go here (LiS) but this article speaks a lot to the attitudes I see from fans these days. "The devs did so-and-so dirty, they didn't get their happily ever after/redemption arc/love story/etc". Sometimes the point is not everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow!!

comic: when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns. if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind. if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind. I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

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Adult creators and sex workers are going to continue to be picked off, one by one, unless people stand up for them.

please call your representatives. demand they oppose censorship bills like the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and demand protections for Section 230

Irony Poisoning implies Sincerity curing.

Never forget that these "genuises" had to spend billions and billions of dollars to build a Machine that can sort of do what you can do with a cheap pencil, a piece of paper, and your own imagination.

Really, ChatGPT is just giving you a luxury experience that is normally only accessible to the rich and powerful -- the experience of filling your life with butt-kissing and sycophancy until you completely lose touch with reality.

For anyone following me for #lupiniii who doesn't already know about Lupin Central, I can't say enough good things about it. Lee is an extremely kind person who works hard to centralize Lupin news and has done so diligently since long before I even became a fan of the series. Check it out!

it's so crazy how striking this game looks. how often does a videogame make you go "wow, that's a cool shot!" let alone do it so many times in a row. mediterranea inferno has really got some fuckin' IMAGES and SCENES in it

a drawing of arsene lupin iii, snickering while he smokes

#lupiniii

Hey if you for some god forsaken reason still think you have an audience on Twitter, now is the time to reconsider.

Don't give uncreative fuckass grifters any chances to be let into your heart and soul.

Leave Twitter. Now.

If gender was so self-evident they wouldn't have to stand on a platform and scream at you about it. They wouldn't have to spend millions of dollars enforcing their false binary. They are not the arbiters of truth, they are anti-intellectuals, and proudly so. Fuck them.

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

Y'all do know that places like VRC needs a 'public safe image' because of credit processors, right? Any other platform that needs to monetize will end up doing the same damn thing.

You're aiming your anger at the wrong place. Keep up the focus against the payment processors.

There is no overstating how bad repealing Section 230 would be for the Internet. If you are a US citizen and have ever enjoyed one of our games, or any other piece of queer or "controversial" media, then please consider contacting your representatives and encouraging them to not support this.

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

various unfinished graphics from my game Formless Star, with hideous palettes

you should make placeholder graphics look incredibly shitty!! making a game is a long and complicated process and if you use ai to make placeholders that look finished at a glance you'll probably forget some of it, and then people will scour your whole game and you'll look like a fraud.

"I know AI generated content isn't allowed, but I'm using AI to make tools to make content" opening the trap door under you and sending you into the shark-infested moat, bye

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

the good that you do persists in this world

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

You guys you will get exposed to so many more games that will permanently alter your brain chemistry and inspire you if you look beyond "critic's choice" and blockbusters, and start digging into the "6/10s", the random itch.io game with no reviews, the thing with all the jank and wild ideas.

There is no "safe" place for niche kinks or darker content until paypros change their policies. This is why the call/letter campaign is so important-- sites like Patreon, Itchio, Steam, etc, have to bend the knee because they companies are SO HUGE and control the entire money flow. It's a mess.

🎵Mal aimé
je suis le mal aimé ...
Les gens me connaissent
Tel que je veux me montrer.

The unloved one
I'm the unloved one ...
People know me
As I want to show myself.🎵

Petit fanart :)

Post from Gaius from tribunate There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

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