Samantha Harris

And *then* we see the pivot to scrawny waifu with dumb proportions.

Initially, Japan wanted her to look more like Mother Russia from Kick-Ass 2 (which I guess is keeping in with the comics). She was so butch! It was cool. But Retro was like "uh no, nobody will want that" and the Prime concept artist based her off a girl he was seeing (a model? She was beautiful)

It's interesting watching how she physically changes over the games too. On the one hand, she gets a sexy, slimmed down anime waifu redesign that you could point to as being Japan having very narrow definitions for attractive women. But Retro Studios pushed for the femme presentation in Prime.

Metroid is a fascinating study of fandoms vs shifting official presentation, clashing visions of what and who a character is, and also of a franchise that is way more popular overseas than it is in its home country.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

THEY DROPPED THE CHARGES

But according to you, your own research said that using genAI wouldn't improve your workflow. This is a tool that literally wasn't helpful for you. Why would you want people to embrace a technology shift that isn't improving either the production process or the product itself?

"You have to adapt people. Kodak should have embraced digital cameras. Any digital camera that isn't integrating AI in their systems will be in position of Kodak too. Adapt and evolve." <- This makes it sound like you think game devs should use genAI but you're not integrating it into your game.

So.... To clarify: Your "adapt and evolve" strategy here was research AI-generated imagery and then choose not to use it in favor of human-generated and painted models. Huh. Sounds like you came to the conclusion that AI-generated imagery wasn't something a game needs or something you wanted. Right?

Can I request information on if and where you used AI in your game development?

Yo, you literally wrote a pitch for your own game wherein you say everything is easier & simpler in Asili Forest, & it will only take 20-40 minutes to play as if those are selling points. I want to play games that are fun & creative. If you can't make that, I have a huge collection I can replay.

Happy Veterans Day to everyone that's answered the call to serve our nation.

Happy Veteran's Day!

Female enlistment went up last year, and my present to myself this Veteran's Day is imagining that Pete Hegseth is melting down over recruitment numbers like a male author getting Big Mad after finding out that women read his Very Important Novel.

oh my god

I think even for people who aren't artists, there are many who enjoy art as a human feat of skill and expression even if they are doing no art creation themselves. Even if AI art was better then human art, and it's not, no one gives a shit that a forklift can carry more then a weightlifter.

“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

the first what now

We amended the Constitution so that we can't impose new taxes, so property taxes will now continue to rise, as that is the only avenue to fund anything. Fuck.

Obviously he tucked this borrowed shirt into his thong in his haste while getting dressed.

A black journal with the words "Novel Notes" printed on it under a sticker of a bottle with plants, mushrooms, flowers, and a rabbit inside.

Guess it's time to figure out what's going in here....

Not me getting emotional over the prospect of being able to continue my NaNo tradition in the new "NaNoWriMo is dead, long live NaNoWriMo" era🥹

I guess I don't understand what it is you want him to do. I've heard him address the shitty stupid things he's said, I've heard him apologize for his ignorance, and I've heard him talk about how his views are different now that he knows better. What else is there for him to do?

But is it actually disturbing that the non-service member isn't offering their view on sexual assault in the military? Because when I'm sitting next to my spouse, and someone asks me a Service related question, I don't expect or want him to answer.

Alex, someone mentioned that it mostly affects the Discover feed for a user, and I was wondering how Bluesky is ensuring that this doesn't become like a Meta echo chamber. Just because I dislike something doesn't mean I should never see it again. Sometimes I need to be confronted with my own bias.

That's a good point about people with large follower counts; I hadn't really thought about their use case, since I'm not in that camp and I mostly interact with other small fry lol

Does knowing more people disagree with your post without knowing which part they're disagreeing with or why add to your social experience in some way?

So I think I see what you're saying, but my point is that this doesn't mean there are fewer comments because of the ability to vote like or dislike. It just means there is a low effort engagement option for lurkers. The commenters still comment.

I mean, that sounds insightful if we're talking about marketing and building brands and stuff, but seems kind of at odds with the "have online conversations that are more like IRL ones." I will admit that I had a knee-jerk reaction to more metrics to obsess over, because I am prone to obsessing :\

I would like to know what you mean by implementing correctly, though! Have you seen a downvote/dislike system that added value to online conversations out and about? Please tell me about it.

I'm not sure how it would reduce negative comments, as the kind of people who leave negative comments instead of just scrolling by would still be leaving comments. A lower effort way of disagreeing just lets more people disagree without affecting the people already willing to type out comments.