I am absolutely delighted to be on this list. 😂

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Without stating your age, post a movie that released when you turned 18.

I had to look up what movies came out that year and I was surprised how many I actually remembered. This is the one that still haunts me, though. 🦢

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

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#anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev

Animation by Akihiko Yamashita, Atsushi Tamura, Masaru Oshiro, Masako Sakano* | Spirited Away (2001)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

This is the difference between lettering, and lettering with a designer's eye. A character is waking up after nearly drowning. The top balloon is okay. It gets the job done. But the bottom balloon really SELLS the watery lungs.

If you're a writer who uses generative ai for your cover art or promos, you're a bum. "I wrote it all myself though." Nah, I can't trust that now. And I do not give a fuck anymore. How would you feel if an artist drew a cover, then generated a whole novel?

Be better.

*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

So after many years of saying I would, I finally played Final Fantasy I. I finished it yesterday, and damn, what a fun little game. It was a lot shorter than I was expecting, but it was delightful. I'll definitely replay it sometime. (Also, now I have 4 new OCs, oh no, woe is meee.... >w>)

Top image with Jerry saying, "You're crying because of Artemis II?" Bottom image with George saying, "The spirit of space travel got to me." Jerry then says, "Alright."

Imagine if ToTK used your BotW save data to decide how people knew/ remembered him - wouldn't that be awesome? It already lets you keep your horses, so why not?? Ahh, well. A gal can dream... 🫠

free-to-download poster for printing
sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

❌DON'T: Shame artists for using Ko-Fi

✔️DO: Shame Ko-Fi for allowing Gen AI content

You cannot in good conscience say that you are a platform for all creatives when you ban NSFW content but allow this

Have at 'em, folks.
ko-fi.com/survey

Advocate: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

I made a papercraft just for this

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop.

Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything.

It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

A drawing of my femsona sitting very cutely on top of a brick wall. She is wearing a white sleeveless sweater, highwaisted jeans, a purple bracelet, purple shoes, and glasses. Text is laid over the image that reads: "Repost if you like boobs or if you desperately crave for the AI bubble to burst and consequences to happen to certain men in power." My watermark is also over the image at a lower opacity.

Felt cute today, might delete later. 💅

#OmArt #art

"Avoid difficult language"?? What, is the goal to polish the wrinkles out of everyone's grey matter? I bet there's an unskippable ad at the end of each chapter, too. Pureed literature... ugh.

ReBoot Season 1 Episode 1 - The Tearing (HD) YouTube video by Mainframe Studios

FYI Mainframe is starting to air the restored HD versions of the original Reboot series on YouTube.

youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

More folks are getting their discord accounts hacked and their computers compromised. It happened to me just last month. Here’s a thread of what I learned and what to do in that situation.

A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

don't we all

#art #cuteart #comic #cat

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

Yessss! Blank or with faceup?

I know (or I think lol) it's from the first set of cards released in the 90s, it's ridiculously valuable, and some poor schmuck cut the flower out of his to use as a D&D token once. I could not tell you a single thing about what it actually does except it might be kinda OP? 😂

It's the expensive game with the pretty art and lots of rules and something to do with some kind of token or point system I think...? Kinda beyond me, but I'm also not into card games. Hobbies are expensive but Magic seems like one of the pricier ones. Also, I know what a Black Lotus is. :P