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To celebrate #FinalFantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles, different Square Enix departments shared new artwork!🎨 In order: Original artist Akihiko Yoshida, the #FF14 team, #Harvestella artist Yasushi Hasegawa, and #FF16's Kazuya Takahashi.

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This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

Detail of the heroes in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. One hero is a human man with blonde hair and shining armour, blue magic blasts from one hand, while the other hand holds a glowing mace. The other hero s a female elf with a flowing cape and a sword made for swashbuckling.

Detail of the horde of goblins in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. They bear arms and are rushing towards the heroes from all sides.

Detail of the villager tied up and watching on helplessly in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover.

I wanted to thank you all for the overwhelming positive response to my cover art for The Delian Tomb! Your kind words left me speechless number of times!

Here are some details of the painting 😉

#mcdm #drawsteel #thedeliantomb
#heroes #goblins #blacksmith #fantasyart #ttrpg #fantasypainting

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

No, Google, I do not want to summarize this file you absolute horror of a company. You can get in the fucking sea with that Gemini nonsense.

Huge congrats to our friends at MCDM for the launch! It’s been an amazing journey. We’re printing the Limited Edition books as we speak - and the stunning box set Ajax Edition of Draw Steel is close behind and looking really gooooood :)

How I feel in every games media convo these days 😅

Pretty sure that's an errant bit of moustache rather than a nose hair, but who can really say. I adore this podcast, have been thinking about what I'd pick if I was invited on since the day it launched. Whittling 40-odd years of games down to just five was, nonetheless, absolute agony. Go!

Enjoyed that. We should grab a pint in Bath next time I’m there and swap Edge stories! And OutRun stories (I took a tape recorder to the arcade to record the soundtrack when I was 14 - turns out there’s quite a lot of noise in an arcade so my tape was rubbish!) I also had the Master System version 😬

Here's my gift to true #MetalGearSolid fans: a full scan of "Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes Survival Guide In The Darkness of Shadow Moses", published in Japan in 2004. It is one of the most unique videogame guidebooks ever created. Archive link and book highlights below ⤵️

When you strip away humanity

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

What's fucked up is any ONE of these things is sufficient for some sort of consensus on how evil & insidious this shit is.

"Error-ridden outputs, environmental damage, potential mental health impacts for users, & the concerns about copyright violations when AI tools are trained on existing works."

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A good cause - and a necessary check on the likes of Bezos :
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BEHOLD!

Heroes Art: epic and cinematic. Monsters: Peril with a side of an invitation to adventure. 🔥

Cover of TTRPG “Draw Steel - Heroes” by Billy Christian

Cover of TTRPG “Draw Steel - Monsters” by Nino Vecia

I am so excited to finally get these soon!! The art is sick for the covers for @hellomcdm.bsky.social’s new books.

S-soundtracks... :O

These look fantastic :)

Me reacting to @teamlabouruk.bsky.social every day - and I voted for them.

We bought Giant Bomb.

📸 @dabe.bsky.social

One of my dnd groups switched over to draw steel and its been pretty fun!

The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas!

New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com

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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

Jenna Stoeber Welcome to my video essay channel! I have a master's degree in media and culture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I researched horror media and video game culture. And I make video ess...

tbh I'm still reeling from the Polygon news but I must do the responsible internet thing, and say:

If you're going to miss the kind of video essays Polygon was known for, consider watching and following my work

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Some recent bangers:

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I am absolutely floored seeing all the support signal boosting/donating to the Polygon layoff fund. T___T Sometimes I forget how many people our work touched and it's just so nice to see the names of so many people who donated. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...