PillowyMammal
@pillowymammal.bsky.social
25M he/him
MIST - WIND - FREEDOM - DRAGONBALL Z
MIST - WIND - FREEDOM - DRAGONBALL Z
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Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
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REFERENCES COME FROM PEOPLE. EVEN IF YOU DON'T CREDIT YOUR INSPIRATION THOSE REFERENCES COME FROM PLACES WHERE SUCCESS IS DEPENDENT ON THINGS LIKE METRICS AND CLICKS. THINGS USING GENERATIVE AI ERASES. YOU ARE STILL FUCKING WITH LIVELIHOODS. THE ROT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN.
I'm going to shit and piss
I'm going to shit and piss
Cmon man maybe you should double check your posts before towing the company line.
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
REFERENCES COME FROM PEOPLE. EVEN IF YOU DON'T CREDIT YOUR INSPIRATION THOSE REFERENCES COME FROM PLACES WHERE SUCCESS IS DEPENDENT ON THINGS LIKE METRICS AND CLICKS. THINGS USING GENERATIVE AI ERASES. YOU ARE STILL FUCKING WITH LIVELIHOODS. THE ROT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN.
I'm going to shit and piss
I'm going to shit and piss
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i LITERALLY CANNOT GET A JOB AS A CONCEPT ARTIST ANY MORE BECAUSE OF GEN AI so larian can suck my fucking balls i dont care if its only placeholder shit you're still fucking over your concept artists
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i LITERALLY CANNOT GET A JOB AS A CONCEPT ARTIST ANY MORE BECAUSE OF GEN AI so larian can suck my fucking balls i dont care if its only placeholder shit you're still fucking over your concept artists
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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DO NOT USE ALT TEXT FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR ACCESSIBLE DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGES AND VIDEOS !!!! THEY ARE AN ACCESSIBILITY FEATURE FOR THOSE WITH ISSUES SEEING AND THOSE WHO USE SCREEN READERS!! I AM ALL CAPS BECAUSE THIS IS AN ANTI-DISABILITY EPIDEMIC IN THIS FANDOM!!!!!!!!
Going into 7.4 remember:
Talking around spoilers in vague ways is spoilers.
Alt text spoilers are spoilers.
And I can't believe I have to put this one up after 7.3 but: Spoilers in Display Names are Spoilers and those can't be muted holy fuck
Talking around spoilers in vague ways is spoilers.
Alt text spoilers are spoilers.
And I can't believe I have to put this one up after 7.3 but: Spoilers in Display Names are Spoilers and those can't be muted holy fuck
Comments like 'I sure hope nothing bad happens to (x)' definitely made me go 'If I was not up to patch and saw that I would be so stressed and wondering'
M7 spoilers in alt text.
M7 spoilers in alt text.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
DO NOT USE ALT TEXT FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR ACCESSIBLE DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGES AND VIDEOS !!!! THEY ARE AN ACCESSIBILITY FEATURE FOR THOSE WITH ISSUES SEEING AND THOSE WHO USE SCREEN READERS!! I AM ALL CAPS BECAUSE THIS IS AN ANTI-DISABILITY EPIDEMIC IN THIS FANDOM!!!!!!!!
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Meta lost $77 billion on this metaverse folly. For perspective, Netflix’s winning bid for the entire Warner Bros studio and its subsidiaries, the IP, the facilities, and all those assets was $82.7 billion.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Meta lost $77 billion on this metaverse folly. For perspective, Netflix’s winning bid for the entire Warner Bros studio and its subsidiaries, the IP, the facilities, and all those assets was $82.7 billion.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
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More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto
Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.
www.dexerto.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
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Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
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ngl the person who paid $66.60 on my lil goat painting went directly to my bp medication plus high protein foods to manage my diabetic diet. it matters so very fuckin much, thank you to everyone who has gotten somethin from me. yall make a huge impact.
Shopping small is meaningful!
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ngl the person who paid $66.60 on my lil goat painting went directly to my bp medication plus high protein foods to manage my diabetic diet. it matters so very fuckin much, thank you to everyone who has gotten somethin from me. yall make a huge impact.
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You know, they should pay THE ONION if they're just going to go and rip off their headlines.
This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You know, they should pay THE ONION if they're just going to go and rip off their headlines.
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I think when you're calling your representatives and/or the Committee majority number, you should be demanding that these bills go through more meetings
they need maximum scrutiny and should not be pushed through as fast as possible
they need maximum scrutiny and should not be pushed through as fast as possible
wants this to be the last meeting on this matter before they turn bills into laws.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I think when you're calling your representatives and/or the Committee majority number, you should be demanding that these bills go through more meetings
they need maximum scrutiny and should not be pushed through as fast as possible
they need maximum scrutiny and should not be pushed through as fast as possible
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i wonder why
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i wonder why
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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Always and forever grateful to my friends and supporters and people for leaving comments. 💜💜💜
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Always and forever grateful to my friends and supporters and people for leaving comments. 💜💜💜
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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OMG please, can we please just have one person say something to him? "What the fuck is wrong with you?" or "You sound like an idiot when you talk like that." or "That's not how math works." Just one person.
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
OMG please, can we please just have one person say something to him? "What the fuck is wrong with you?" or "You sound like an idiot when you talk like that." or "That's not how math works." Just one person.
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In a world that where the establishment celebrates anti-intellectualism and hyper-individualism, the most anti-establishment thing you can do is become an intellectual and work to improve material conditions for everyone
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In a world that where the establishment celebrates anti-intellectualism and hyper-individualism, the most anti-establishment thing you can do is become an intellectual and work to improve material conditions for everyone
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"No one is angry about games not containing gen AI" is such a hell of a good point. It is incredibly off-putting to many customers, an absolute deal-breaker, yet there is no flip side to that, no consumer base clamouring for it, no demand. They can only try to wear people down into accepting it.
I saw this and had two thoughts,
No one is angry about games not containing gen AI, so if you wanna avoid being a part of the conversation it's easy.
But, since you have decided to weigh in on the conversation I guess we'll see gen AI made cosmetics in helldivers soon then
No one is angry about games not containing gen AI, so if you wanna avoid being a part of the conversation it's easy.
But, since you have decided to weigh in on the conversation I guess we'll see gen AI made cosmetics in helldivers soon then
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"No one is angry about games not containing gen AI" is such a hell of a good point. It is incredibly off-putting to many customers, an absolute deal-breaker, yet there is no flip side to that, no consumer base clamouring for it, no demand. They can only try to wear people down into accepting it.
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technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight
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Get a refund. Dont bother
I already knew after BO6 that BO7 would be littered with AI, since they were already blatant enough with it in BO6
This is just depressing how triple AAA companies are getting away with all this shit
I already knew after BO6 that BO7 would be littered with AI, since they were already blatant enough with it in BO6
This is just depressing how triple AAA companies are getting away with all this shit
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Get a refund. Dont bother
I already knew after BO6 that BO7 would be littered with AI, since they were already blatant enough with it in BO6
This is just depressing how triple AAA companies are getting away with all this shit
I already knew after BO6 that BO7 would be littered with AI, since they were already blatant enough with it in BO6
This is just depressing how triple AAA companies are getting away with all this shit
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So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig