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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 3h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1h

important console command that epic doesnt want you to know about that was removed in ue5 and may or may not work when you run it in game in ue4.27 because Epic isn't just run by idiots, its run by malicious and very stupid idiots who hate color >:I

two pics of a frog twink in ue4, one with filmic tonemapping enabled and another with it disabled.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 2h

"gal i better not find you making a post process material to handle lighting, fog, a sky sphere, scene tint, and contrast"

galileo making the face of a guilty dog:

an unreal scene showing a location that wouldnt be too out of place in Twilight Princess for the game cube. below is a shader graph showing the aforementioned post process material.

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TheGhostsThatHauntAmie. 👻🎃 @miee.fans · 4h

Tell me you have no roadmap to profitability without telling me you have roadmap to profitability.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 4h

hand raised

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 4h

galileo back at it again setting up a post process material that takes the diffuse material hooked up to a power 0.5 + replace the tonemapper gives near identical results to blender but causes none of the other post processing features to work (AA, bloom) + requires forward shading to be disabled so

frog twink in the 3D software Blender on the left, unreal on the right

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 6h

a long form researched article WITH COMMISSIONED ART in collaboration with shmuplations???

inject it directly into my veins

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 7h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 7h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 7h

yeah it's cool stuff

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 8h

oo nice mask

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 8h

"remember to add your name and upload a photo to—" you are a Program. you perform a Function. there is no earthly reason why you should have any sort of user page let alone social media capacities. turn to babylon and repent

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Alex (2.0 Remodel) @archiverxp.lol · 17h

bandcamp is pretty goated. just putting that out there.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

had to draw this

Art of two girls, one with a faux-realistic-style combat suit with a muzzle and collar with a leash on, and the other in an anime-inspired zip-up suit with bright red hair and a yellow scarf flowing in the wind. The first stares ahead, hands out, with a dead, glassy look. She says "Me and my Mecha Unit are melded together like
flesh. When I exit the womb of the angel of death
I can feel the monster I am for a brief moment
before the post-combat sedatives kick in. My limbs
are too short. My flesh too weak. My body too
malleable. I only feel at peace when I am in Her,
gnashing my teeth at the chance to enter the
ring of glory and come out victorious. It is a
brutal, animalistic life, and yet how am I
supposed to pass for anything resembling a
human when I've been taught to be nothing
but a hound with a thirst for blood?"
The anime-inspired girl says "Golly!
That sounds
intense!
Me and my
robot
have been
best friends
since I was
five years old
and our bond
lets us punch
aliens with
giant energy
beam fists."

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 12h

oh damn technical art AND gouache? can't not follow at this point

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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for my favorite input tutorial message of all time, Zortch 2

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 1d

Lads, lots of people still struggle to afford a PS5. Plenty of high profile games over the last few years have continued to launch as PS4 / PS5 dual releases. Yakuza Kiwami 3 is going to release on PS4 in 2026, a year before you're launching a console two generations forward. What are we doing here?

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent VERY comprehensible

Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV,

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

"well the switch 2 sold like crazy" is the only reason that comes to mind

but bleh, it's clear absolutely nobody wants it. hell i work in games and i'm dying to try adaptive triggers and i still had no justification for getting a PS5 throughout the whole generation

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krad @kradeelav.com · 1d

There's a UK adult games creator on reddit who's been rejected from 36(!) and counting UK banks and unable to process the earned £90,000. Debanking for adult creators continues to be a real threat.

reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1o5nw74/i_develop_adult_video_games_on_steam_i_cant_find/

From the UKPersonalFinance community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the UKPersonalFinance community

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Sidski | Comms Closed @sidski.bsky.social · 1d

hammer swiiiiiing :D

#art #animation

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

heeeey u, 3D character artist who is fumbling; download some character models that inspire u or have the style u wanna replicate and see how they do it. im not kidding it is crazy what you can learn from it.

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

oh ok i see what you're doing here

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

watching the new Digimon series and MY GOD Wolvermon's butch lesbian energy is off the charts

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

there's no cheap food it can't improve. slap it on pizza. trust me

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