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RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 8h

Swedish actor Björn Andréson (Death in Venice, Midsommar) has passed away. Though not specifically tied to gaming, he was an incredibly popular model for several decades worth of games and anime in Japan! Indeed inspiring Alucard, Griffith, and SMT Louis Cypher and many more. RIP.

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G.C. Houle 🔞 @gchoule.bsky.social · 1d

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deb @debwriting.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna hold your tits when I say this: the smut doesn’t need to be realistic or anatomically feasible. It just needs to be hot.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 21h

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23h

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

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kudouusagi.bsky.social @kudouusagi.bsky.social · 1d

I started out with just a slight cough and no stuffy nose or anything and it just kept getting worse and worse lol

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koba @kobacake.bsky.social · Sep 20

my friends and i constantly quoting this post to each other whenever we feel bad about productivity

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 1d

In between having finished watching this video and having not yet watched this video is a space where you are watching this video

youtu.be/GRhvRemVFcg?...

できるとできないの間

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

youtu.be

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, no government shutdown has ever affected SNAP before - they do not HAVE to do this. They are choosing to.

And yes, as someone who relies on SNAP to live - I still don't want the Dems to fold. I want the GOP to do their fucking jobs.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 1d

AP has the better headline. Since most readers don’t get beyond the headlines (especially on social media), they highlight the cause of the starvation upfront: the Trump regime.

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 2d

From June Lockhart’s NY Times obit.

RIP to a real one.

A political liberal, Ms. Lockhart had no illusions about the good old days. In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, she recalled a connection "Lassie" script writers had with McCarthy-era blacklisting.

"When people come up to me and say, 'Well, sure wish we had wonderful American shows like that the way we used to in the '50s;
I say: 'Let me tell you who wrote those scripts' Yes, they were good Americans, and they were in jail."

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 3d

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

www.thegamer.com

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

Every single problem other fields are seeing, we saw first because we were deemed most expendable. Machine TL hallucinated. They said it'd make us more productive, not redundant. And more offers became about training and correcting. Loc has always been the canary and not enough people listened.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 3d

For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI.

I wish them all the luck they deserve.

Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 3d

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

www.thegamer.com

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 3d

Abroad in Japan just released a really well done and important video about the absolute slop fest of misinformation about Japan that is harder and harder to navigate through these days, highly recommended.

youtu.be/jEWhmQjeh_I?...

What is Happening to Japan?

YouTube video by Abroad in Japan

youtu.be

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 5d

My attention span is a constantly swinging pendulum between "I'm not doing all that" (it's one task) and "I am now going to write a 100,000 word novel"

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 7d

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 8d

It’s so funny that the generation of people who told me CONSTANTLY in school that Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source are now among many of the same people who believe anything they read online and share AI generated slop. I’d trust Wikipedia more than anything to come from AI any day, it has SOURCES!

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 11d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 8d

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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kudouusagi.bsky.social @kudouusagi.bsky.social · 7d

Translators have been saying this about machine translation post editing for about 10 years now. We've all said it takes longer than doing it yourself.

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oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 7d

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 8d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 8d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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can you see the endless horizon 🔥🐾🖤🌸👑🩸🤖⚙️ @seakittens.bsky.social · 8d

Take my toxic yuri poll and help me prepare for my Citruscon panel! forms.gle/64GvirMvTdY8...

Toxic Yuri & You: A Poll

For clarification, this poll is looking at ships that are toxic on the level of trying to kill/control the other or toxic to others for the sake of their ship. We're not looking at ships that just bi...

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 8d

Hey, are you happy, but only like, kinda? Well boy do I have a word for you:

youtu.be/qgYfg6Cr2tM?...

ぎりはっぴー

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

youtu.be

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tKettIe / @tkettile @tkettie.myatproto.social · 8d

I feel like this needs to be shared, read, and understood.

For reference:
Animal Farm, George Owell – ~30k
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C S Lewis – ~38k
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald – ~47k
Carrie, Stephen King – ~61k
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin – ~56k

#Fanfiction

A post by exuberantocean on tumblr from November 9th 2021 that reads:

When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature:

Short story: under 7,500
Novelette: between 7,500 and 17,500
Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000
Novel: over 40,000
Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free. If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.

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