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As you browse Next Fest, please remember to check the store page to see if developers used GenAI in their work.

We should all be ignoring these titles to prove that continual use of this garbage will not earn them anything from us. WE have the ability to hurt their numbers on this platform.

More important than ever to support your favorite twitch streamers Off-twitch.

There is no real alternative. Most cannot leave in protest of this. Some folks livelihood will continue to depend on Subs and Bits, even subathons.

Please do your best to support them through Ko-Fi's and Sponsors.

Nooo they did that super misogynist ad naauuurrr -rolls you up into a burrito-

If you don’t like that Twitch is utilizing Persona, the company Discord recently faced backlash for utilizing, upvote this UserVoice and comment. Persona stores your biometric data for 3 years in some cases, has ties to Palantir via Peter Thiel, and even stores the backgrounds of provided selfies.

Reminder for folks bc I've seen people talking about it today in light of NextFest: a lot of games that use gen AI don't have a disclosure in steam. Unfortunately there is no easy way to find out, other than doing a lot of research, which is what devs who use gen ai are hoping for.

AND she's almost naked! Where are her pants?? Why was she purposefully made to look like a feminine child? They designed her like that. 😡

Reddit Bans Pragmata Fandom That Kept Sexualizing Robot Kid A moderator recently stepped down in protest of the 'pedo shit'

Reddit Bans Pragmata Fandom That Kept Sexualizing Robot Kid https://kotaku.com/pragmata-diane-reddit-ban-loli-capcom-2000670696

If you are sexualizing that little android girl from Pragmata I think you should [TOS VIOLATION]

😠 I really hope we can demand twitch stop this

Shia LaBeouf used homophobic slurs while assaulting New Orleans bar patrons, police say Actor Shia LaBeouf has been charged with battery and is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people at a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras.

For context: first read this

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Text on Twitch's website saying "Verify Your Identity" "Submit proof of identity and location to receive your payout" "In order to receive your payout, you need to verify your identity through Persona, Twitch's identity verification service. You will have 3 tries. Please be ready to provide both of the following: 1. A picture of your government-issued identification card, such as an identity card, passport or driver's license. 2. A "selfie" (i.e., a picture of your face), taken using a webcam or phone camera. By clicking "Start Verification" below, you understand that you will be leaving Twitch and will be redirected to Persona's service, and further understand and acknowledge that Twitch may send Persona limited personal information about you to facilitate the identity verification process, in accordance with Twitch's Privacy Notice. Information you provide to Persona will not be used for any purposes other than to verify your identity and will not be stored for longer than necessary to fulfill this purpose. Need Help? See our detailed onboarding guide." "Start Verification"

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

Can you opt out or not do it?? Or you wont get affiliate? What the fuck

An illustration of Link and the light dragon in tears of the kingdom

Happy 40th anniversary to Legend of Zelda, the game series that has my whole heart. It is the reason I fell in love with video games, RPGs, and art as a child. It's one of the main reasons I became an artist in adulthood. 🗡️🏰

illustration of a girl in a dirty white dress, surrounded by greenery, putting a rusted broken sword into a pedestal. her shadow casts a familiar silhouette.

happy 40th anniversary the legend of zelda 💛 #art #zelda

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Digital art showing a white horse laying in a field of green grass and blue flowers with its eyes closed. Text on the image reads: "May this year treat you kindly"

May this year treat you kindly, little horse #lunarnewyear #yearofthehorse #digitalart

Keep canceling your nitro and KEEP IT CANCELED

Ramadan has started, and the World Central Kitchen has a program to distribute food aid to people in Gaza. Each kit for Ramadan contains nearly 30 pounds of halal—enough for up to 70 meals. If you have spare funds, please consider a donation of $60 to assist the people still struggling in Gaza.

A collection of illustrations of crocodiles and alligators against a soft green and yellow background. They are playfully either swimming or loafing around, playing with fish, taking care of their young and chilling in the water. The crocodiles and alligators are mostly green and yellow, save for an albino alligator. They’re so loving and fun, these toothy friends!

River puppies 🐊 #art

And if you don't use Gen-AI some of you still make problematic/controversial ass games.

But seriously how do y'all expect folks to play more Indie and less AAA if some of y'all are just as bad as AAA?

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

Timeline check since apparently folks are forgetting too 📣

Follow BDS boycotts (Mcd0nalds, Disney, Marvel, Microsoft titles, Xbox, etc) Support those under genocide!
No gen-ai anything, not even for coding or placeholders
Normalizing /or okay with eugenics - games like mewgenics

...well he's also zionist. Denouncing the israel boycott among other things soooo "wow" /s

White cishet gays trying to be fence sitters or apolitical seems to just the default with them atp tbh

Yes, you will protecc the land and sea together uwu

Painting of Link with a million little gadgets and weapons from across the games. I worked harder on this in a 5 week period than any other thing I’ve ever painted. I think I almost died working on this lol

Happy Zelda 40th anniversary!

friendly reminder that I am very anti genAI and if you post about playing games that use genAI or you share images created by genAI I will unfollow you

glad someone is actually covering this!!! i've pretty much vacated (moved my ref library offline to Eagle last year when it became clear to me that the site was on fire lol) but whenever a search takes me there again, i always have a bunch of "violation notices" of stuff that was already cleared 🙄