Randy Schouten

God, I love Gustave.

I am honestly so jealous of the team at Sandfall Interactive for being allowed to create exactly what they wanted with Clair Obscur.

I wish the large majority of the gaming landscape was like this. Sick AA games that know what they want to do and take some risks in the process.

Go play this game!

yes

Rove from Monster Hunter: Wilds

This is about as far as my skill level is going to push me, pretty pleased with him :D

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

A painting of Rove from Monster Hunter Wilds

Put my lunch break to paint the BEST BOI instead

(I hate AI as it is applied to everything now, for the record)

It is applied to and achieving amazing results to things like protein folding, but unfortunately they don't get any of the limelight

What the hell did I just lay my eyes on

I only read 1 but enjoyed it a lot! :)

Diabolical skeet

i wish my trade wasnt taken over completely by the biggest absolute fuckheads

Please let the Skywalkers be done. Please leave the backwater planet Tatooine alone.

I dislike this nostalgia baiting so many long running shows do now, not everything has to be related to 20+ year old media.

Final Fantasy 16's version of this is stunningly good, where inside the entries dig into relevant entries. For example, in a character bio, their homeland would be added as a relevant entry, or close bonds.

Wait what's toxic about Master and Commander?

Fuck it, sharing this again for the CEOs in back

Yes, and even on top of that, there are obvious valid uses for ML such as in the medical field, but talking about "AI" has poisoned that too if all you hear about is ChatGPT and such. Not a reach to say that the majority of people only think about those things when AI is mentioned.

This is easily my biggest gripe about LLMs barring the usual complaints.

The whole word AI is now cursed to be equal to slop generating models, it's ridiculous.

I understand LLM doesn't roll off the tongue well and AI is more relatable, but damn...

Can second this.

We have "depressing talk" (doom channel) and a "real talk" (doom but personal). The latter is for responding to those that have emotional bandwidth for it.

"Get over it," he spits from his ivory tower as he pushes the drowning person down until the water climbs from shoulders to chin, "it's for national security."

Why are there so many tenses that have vague specifics in when to use them in Spanish 🫠

I'm just trying to write something and I need to think if we're talking about emotions, or whether the thing we're talking about happened before or after another thing... My brain implodes!

Empathy - You know you're right. But they can't handle the truth. It would turn them onto you like rabid wolves. Ignore them for your own sanity and theirs.

(Anyway I'd be a great burn hahah)

It's saddening how we can't just say we dislike something without having a good chance to be absolutely mobbed. It's ok to have different opinions, it shouldn't be so hard to accept this.

A tattoo of Phoenix from Dota with geometric design around it

About time I got another one!
This one references my several thousands of hours in Dota along with feeling related to the concept of a phoenix :)

The only way this sounds in my head is "sweeEEEEEEEETCH" and I'd have been totally down for that

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Yeah it's a scary future if LLM keeps evolving to the point where we can genuinely not differentiate it anymore between ourselves 🙃