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Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.

More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev

Light it up, let's go! 🔥

A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV!

Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

I have tried many times since then. I don't know if it is a Pavlovian response or what, but I get severely depressed while reading that I question why I'm doing it in the first place. It's really hard, and I wish it weren't.

"True," I thought. "Oh, that includes me," shortly after.

I think the last book I read from start to finish on my own was probably over 20 years ago and I don't remember what it was. Having a history of forced reading kinda killed any interest I had in reading books. Audio books haven't worked too.

Moguta asks you "Do you like Quest 64?" You answer "Not Really" Moguta says "I hate you"

this is how it feels to present unrelated evidence in Ace Attorney

The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.

We need a law that clearly states, "No electronic may be sold where, in default mode and with no additional input from the user, advertisements are displayed." This extends to televisions. Everything must default to an ad-free setting.

A quoted tweet from a user named Sam that reads: "How Twitter is rigged Type in all caps because you're excited? Lowers your reputation. Include links? Your score goes down. It's like the Credit Score system from Hell. And given Cisgender is treated as a slur & MAGA boosted, you can guess what's categorized as 'offensive'" The tweet they quoted is from user SADIQ and reads: "Tweepcred is X's reputation system Based on your behavior, you get a tweepcred score It determines your reach Break the algo rules, you score goes down and your reach disappears What are the rules of the X algo tho? Glad you asked." SADIQ includes a photo of Twitter's algorithm code that calculates a user's reputation. SADIQ continues: "Post 'offensive text'? 80% reach reduction Offensive username? 80% reach reduction All caps tweet? That's seen as 'shouting. Major penalization. Include links? Yup, penalized"

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Denuvo is being removed from Hi-Fi RUSH. Denuvo support scheduled to end on Jan 16th. All PC players will be required to install the latest patch by Jan 16th to continue playing store.steampowered.com/news/app/181...

Me when I'm speedrunning

Amazon Streamed AI English Dubs on Banana Fish, 'No Game, No Life Zero,' Vinland Saga, Pet Anime Voice actors speak out against AI dubs, Kadokawa & Sentai Filmworks respond

Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.

Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

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Doing a third playthrough of Trials of Mana for fiesta because I'm still having fun, but trying English dub again.

The second I heard "Trials of Man-a" (as opposed to mah-na) in English, I remembered.

I'll do my best!

now that spotify wrapped is out it's worth reminding people that this friday (december 5th) is bandcamp friday! perfect time to spend your money on the music you'd be streaming anyway to make sure it all goes to your favorite artists :3

This part of the update feels really passive-aggressive.

Just did a test of the new Mario Kart World patch and I think Nintendo really outdid themselves this time.

Mario Kart World Ver. 1.4.0 update released en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/...

is the gingerbread gamecube my magnum opus?

Twitch Recap for Doicm (me) Lots of hours watched with lots of Final Fantasy XIII stuff.

It was pointed out to me that my top-viewed channel has a much lower count of hours compared to total hours watched (<250 hours vs 4.26k hours). I realized that I watch a lot of different channels rather than stick to a select few, and I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but it's fine.

Please note that Twisted Tails is the planned escape room for SGDQ 2025. While they're MUCH more furry and might not be everyone's cup of tea, literally every interaction with them has been wonderful. I continue to support them <3

Oh, I learned this just now, but one of the designers of the escape room at AGDQ is the same person who bragged about using AI to cheat on their final college paper (and using AI to cover up the cheating).

Take that as you will.

a 3d piece depicting the character Vivi from FF9 with Bobby Corwen the chocobo

a 3d piece depicting the FF9 character Quina with a pot of frog. Steiner and Zidane watch from afar.

i finished playing final fantasy 9 for the first time recently! wonderful game

@jonbois.bsky.social watching football

maybe we could use another splash screen.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

I remain convinced that Amazon did not get permission to do this and as soon as the licensor got back into the office, some strongly worded emails were SENT

December-themed official "Super Monkey Ball 2" (GCN) wallpaper.
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