Everybody's ネエサン

The Kong is dead, long live the Kong!

Oh, thank you!! I think I know how you feel, I (currently) tolerate he but those days are numbered!

Hey, Kate. I don't see any pronouns listed here, but I vaguely remember them from the Old Place. Was it they/them? ^^

This is a thing at some places. Teams are led to believe one thing so they'll work to make deadline, only to be "gifted" more time in the 11th hour. By then, it's too late to really capitalize on it because your assets are locked or recorded.

Underappreciated pun.

me in job interviews

If you've ever said, "It won't be that bad" or "The courts will stop him," just know: this bill makes it so they can't.

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.

I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.

Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

People keep telling me that Gen AI is inevitable and we have to adapt, but nothing is inevitable. We can push back against it. We can make it unprofitable. We can make the public aware of how bad and untrustworthy it is. We can fight for human creativity.

We can reject AI, and I believe we must.

Screenshot of a poem called 'Are you on your period | bullshit? You're acting like your mother | You're acting Gaia freed from her cage You seem a little crazy, just calm down | You seem a little feral, just let yourself rage You're cute when you're angry | You're powerful when you're angry You're strong for a girl | You're strong when you're unleashed You should try smiling | You should try unmasking your feelings You should try losing weight | You should try gaining some boundaries Sweetheart | Warrior Honey | Herione Just stand there and look pretty | Just keep fighting and be

Big Friday energy this week.

L.E. Bowman, from their book SHAPESHIFTER.

The Video Game Writer's Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You Amazon.com: The Video Game Writer's Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You: 9781032972619: Dansky, Richard: Books

So this is a pre-orderable thing…

Nah. I’ve been a professional writer for 15 years and AI has allowed me to amplify my productivity and leverage my creativity to create something better than I or AI could have on our own. The thing is you can’t just outsource your brain to it. There’s an effective way to use AI and a lazy way to use it. The thing is, that genie isn’t going back in the bottle, so adapt or die.

I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

average comment section in 2025

I saw the translations that @saffronapplepie.bsky.social
did for my Birdo piece made it into @samanthalux.bsky.social's video on trans characters in video games. Check out the full article:

www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/birdo-g...

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Felt this in my sole.

Give yourself a few days to get used to it. My anxiety spiked in the first 24-48 hours and my lame ass got sick. Congrats and good luck!

chart with three columns: Indie, AA, AAA and seven rows: Development budget, marketing, team size, publisher, graphics and technology, target audience, development time. Each cell has a funny but also pretty much true content

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

When you're writing comedy in games, some things are left on the cutting room floor. ✂️

@writnelson.bsky.social & @shawndoublea.bsky.social & @afnarratives.bsky.social chat about the process of selecting which jokes stay or go.

Check out the whole panel below 👇
📺 youtu.be/yhXcKcYUxPo