Bandcamp and Metacritic both publically announcing "AI not welcome here" on the same day? do I dare to dream for a turn of the tide

His new power comes with an expectation of care and responsibility. He's wild, and just as dangerous as the creatures he fights, and his carelessness literally kills people during this episode. I loved it.

Zambo-Ace towers over a crowd of people

Zambo-Ace comes "face to face" with Kouzuki, illustrating the size and power difference between them

Kouzuki is visibly unsettled

Zambo-Ace, piloted by Kappei, delivers a fake-out punch that stops right before Kouzuki's face

This scene early on where Kouzuki confronts the Zambo-Ace is great. It's clear that, despite seeing himself as the hero, Kappei doesn't understand what the people need or how they relate to him. He doesn't understand that the power balance has swung massively in his favour, and it's kind of creepy.

a cartoon boy and girl hold onto each other as red wind blows towards them

the cartoon hand of an older boy holds a younger girl tightly

a very small cartoon boy stands atop a cliff overlooking a bayside town with a spaceship resting in the bay during a sunset

I've been enjoying Zambot 3 but episode 5 really felt like something special. Kouzuki Shingo and his sister, Kaoru, are really great representatives for the town's anxieties and vulnerability. Shows like Getter have huge body counts, but no Super Robot show has made me feel as invested as this.

If it’s not worth your time, it’s not worth mine The other day I was browsing around the small web, ostensibly a selection of websites run by real people about their own interests with no profit motive. It sounds like a really cool project in this i...

For my inaugural Bluesky post (marking my tentative return to social media after almost three years): my thoughts about slop, value, and the internet future I hope to see.

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Sea angels are so cool. Easily a top 5 sea creature, and there are too many good ones to count.

Hey Librarian sorry to reply to an unrelated post, but I'm trying to find the clip where NL refers to Jimmy Carter's death with a phrase like "he was just a boy". Having no luck with NLQuotes and wondering if you knew when or where it appeared in your clips.

congratulations!

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

opened google chrome to try to get a web form to work and my home page was a super-early cache of my website. There's something very cozy about it.

It is time! Cattle Crisis has been just released on Itch. Thank you for sticking with me for such a long time. Enjoy!

🕹️ https://krystman.itch.io/cattle-crisis

#pico8 #shmup #stg #arcade #indiedev

◻️◻️◻️ Void Lord B̷̫̲̿͘͜͠/̷̠̱̊/̸̜͕̀́͒/̵̡̮̰͋.̶̯̟͐̎ , ◻️◻️◼️
This game slaps, I had to draw someone from it c:

#voidstranger #fanart @system-erasure.bsky.social
#art #DigitalArt #illustration

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Type display that contains white text over a black background. The center reads "Rose-Tinted" in italics and includes a pixelated rose. The bottom reads that this is a pixel type family with 210+ glyphs per variant. Also included is my portfolio website (https://www.wendymurphy.online/), and my handle @wendyleftmealone.

Type display with a pink background, inspired by the Windows95 interface. The window reads: Rose-Tinted is a pixel-based type family. It’s inspired by retro games such as Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, which approached pixel typography with the appearance of italics to add personality. While many have experimented with pixel type over the years, there’s a unique challenge that comes with developing a type language that also accounts for bold, italic, and bold italic variants while respecting the limitations of the grid system. Rose-Tinted includes the following for each variant: • Uppercase Letters • Lowercase Letters • Numerals • Ligatures (Standard and Discretionary) • Symbols (Punctuation, Formulas, etc.) • Accent Marks (Uppercase and Lowercase)

Type display with a pixelated Queen of Hearts card over a pink background. The type reads "Queen of Hearts" in the 'Rose-Tinted' font (Bold Italics).

Out now! My project ‘Rose-Tinted’ is a pixel-based typeface (x-height: 6px, cap height: 9px), that accounts for Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants.

I hope you enjoy!

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New post: blocklist for AI music on youtube

#text

https://surasshu.com/blocklist-for-ai-music-on-youtube

Congratulations! Such a great manga to be able to work on as well

The personal space of Ruby Rawlins

I also wrote about my experience reading it (including some of the games and other media I engaged with during and afterwards) in my weekly reading reports I post on my website. Link here: rubyrawlins.com/reading_repo...
(Late August to early October include this book)

I read エロゲー文化研究概論 this year. It covers the key technological, social, and game design turning points for eroge succinctly. I ended up playing and reading about a dozen games and books mentioned in this book.
Really recommended if you can read Japanese.

FYI: Little White Lies is entirely anti-AI, and we will never allow our writers' and illustrators' work to be used to train AI models. This is completely against what journalism and art should be and should stand for and it's disheartening to see other publications being taken down this road.

Nearly 100 years later, 痴人の愛 (Naomi) is proof that foot guys have always and will always exist.

Curious why the art on the GBC has Super Mystery Dungeon art.

Specific, obvious arguments in favour of their actions end up expressing a weakness in their thinking.

The "dear reader" expression is interesting to me because its absence might position the reader to observe the events neutrally, but including it places the reader and narrator at opposites - encouraging scepticism towards the narrator, and their motives.

Reading 痴人の愛 (Naomi) by 谷崎潤一郎 (Tanizaki Jun'ichirō). For a book published 99 years ago (30 years before Lolita) it's surprising how readable and familiar the writing style is. The narrator/MC even talks directly at the reader (like in Lolita) to stress his perspective.

Ultimately the book was still readable and (as far as I know) the story was intact, but something about print-on-demand seeds suspicion. It feels somewhat dishonest, and I start to wonder what other aspects of the purchase are not made apparent for the customer.

The final page of The Enchanter with text reading "Made in United States. North Haven, CT. 13 November 2024".

However, when I finished the entire book I reached this page at the end. Printed on the same day the book was ordered. Admittedly I don't know much about made-to-print books, but if I had to pin the low quality on anything it'd be this.

The publication information for The Enchanter.

I suspected it might have been a print-on-demand-type situation with some low-quality printer owned by Amazon, and (at first) I was surprised to see that it didn't seem to be the case (though perhaps someone with a keener eye could detect foul play from just this page).

Page 37 of The Enchanter.

A distracting (and suspicious) feature of this edition was the change of typeface at various points in the text (seen here on line 16). At first I thought it was to highlight certain parts of text, but it occurred between lines even for words that spanned both lines.

A book cover where a blue-ink illustrated cutout of a girl sitting and reading is placed over scrap paper and cardboard in a semi-3D manner. The title "The Enchanter" rests above, and the author, Vladimir Nabokov, is credited below the centrepiece.

Just about the only positive thing I have to remark about the printed edition is the cover. The illusion of depth and simply shapes and scrap-book aesthetic all appeal to me. The way it's printed onto the page is not perfect, but it achieves the 3D effect and I like it.