first you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes,

I’ll be honest, I do feel a bit silly having spent so many years of my career working hard to honour IP given how quickly all the IP owners are adopting slop and slop based pipelines. I’d have slept better, for sure.

man it makes me so happy that they aligned as fast as they did

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a fantastic game.

Unity literally announced the "AI makes a game for you" thing as an April fool's joke in 2012 - dunking on the creative bankruptcy of the whole concept - before announcing it with a straight face just the other day.

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

I have to imagine Twitch's new "Shouts" feature exists because one of their internal goals is to copy every other popular platform/service into something that runs on Twitch directly. So now streamers can push out little tweets to varying subcategories of viewers, with red-dot "unread" notifications

Recently rewatched Short Circuit 2. That movie may be a dumpster fire, but it sure nailed "lying about intentions to get the machine to ignore safeguards". Multiple times.

the comedy is too good for me to believe they're all genuine... "i've been nothing but loyal to this brand for over 🎆8 months🎆"

should be Draculae?

tangential, but i was recently thinking about how the Square Enix site was still selling physical copies of a couple of their PS1 titles within the last 5 years or so

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

hey all, just a heads up to my artist peers- this is all AI slop, I would avoid this. It isn't adobe code, it's just vibecoded to emulate their features.

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

Every time I see ragebait posts where the 80s & 90s are referred to as "late 1900s" i reflexively think "no, the bit you're doing is wrong" because i forget that most people didn't have some art history professors demanding that we only use that format for decades (as opposed to Xth century)

My initial assumption was that they merely had American Boy available and you had personally saved the lyrics in preparation to spread the good word

getting kicked out of the Legionnaire Saloon in Oakland on taco tuesday

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

I've seen multiple people complain on various platforms about seeing peppermint coffee in stores, saying it's "too early" but then the product in question doesn't have any winter theming. Yes, marketing dictates that you should associate it with winter, but consider: have it whenever