René Martin
@talkandplay.substack.com
He/him writer/game dev. culture/political posting, politics are in all aspects of life, including creative pursuits. #NAFO appreciator #BLM
Writing sporadically @ https://talkandplay.substack.com
Writing sporadically @ https://talkandplay.substack.com
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René Martin
@talkandplay.substack.com
· Oct 23
I just realized I should be clear, since I have AI art in my banner, I am aggressively against GenAI in the creative professions. It’s a plagiarism engine and leads to objectively lesser creations. Actual humans do better work than the word-association machine.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Indulge in good food with those who care about you, remember what makes life good
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Indulge in good food with those who care about you, remember what makes life good
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People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.
Opposing Steam’s AI Disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Says Game Stores Should Drop "the AI tag" Because "it makes no sense" When "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.
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From @gabrielarana.bsky.social in 2021: This Thanksgiving, tell your racist aunt she is a racist. Call your sexist uncle a misogynist. Inform your transphobic cousin that kids don’t deserve to suffer because of his fragile masculinity.
This Thanksgiving, Call Your Racist Uncle a “Racist”
Avoiding political conflict at the dinner table is overrated.
www.texasobserver.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From @gabrielarana.bsky.social in 2021: This Thanksgiving, tell your racist aunt she is a racist. Call your sexist uncle a misogynist. Inform your transphobic cousin that kids don’t deserve to suffer because of his fragile masculinity.
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I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
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It’s important for people to realize that if your MAGA family members get under your skin this Thanksgiving, the best way to get back at them is donating to @liberalcurrents.com gofund.me/d6e0cc825
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
gofund.me
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It’s important for people to realize that if your MAGA family members get under your skin this Thanksgiving, the best way to get back at them is donating to @liberalcurrents.com gofund.me/d6e0cc825
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I will admit, I missed this specific section of Valve's initial 2023 refusal in the previous reporting. It's unfortunate but pretty clear-cut. Even the impression of CSEM is a very reasonable hard stop for a platform. (Note the final two sentences.)
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I will admit, I missed this specific section of Valve's initial 2023 refusal in the previous reporting. It's unfortunate but pretty clear-cut. Even the impression of CSEM is a very reasonable hard stop for a platform. (Note the final two sentences.)
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Folks just go to the library I'm fucking begging you
I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Folks just go to the library I'm fucking begging you
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I still find it incredibly funny how a former liberal arts professor who writes for the atlantic and does a podcast is considered a (white) working class whisperer because he wears a camo hat on his twitter pfp
A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future
A racist TV series making fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I still find it incredibly funny how a former liberal arts professor who writes for the atlantic and does a podcast is considered a (white) working class whisperer because he wears a camo hat on his twitter pfp
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
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these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
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“By downplaying or marginalizing the range of left-liberal opinions which he considers beyond the pale, Sunstein seems to reject the possibility that a more transformative egalitarian politics, even a socialist politics, might still be a liberal politics.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-o...
Liberalism or Inertia? Cass Sunstein's "Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom"
Sunstein’s book adopts a small-c conservative defensiveness that belies a now-requisite rejuvenating liberal imagination.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“By downplaying or marginalizing the range of left-liberal opinions which he considers beyond the pale, Sunstein seems to reject the possibility that a more transformative egalitarian politics, even a socialist politics, might still be a liberal politics.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-o...
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
QUICK REMINDER: I now have an Amazon Storefront, & a master thread of AMZN deals on twt, + Discord updates.
I get commission, so if you want to help a girl take some Bezos money without paying more, check these!
Master thread: x.com/DemShenaniga...
Store: www.amazon.com/shop/demshen...
I get commission, so if you want to help a girl take some Bezos money without paying more, check these!
Master thread: x.com/DemShenaniga...
Store: www.amazon.com/shop/demshen...
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Steam thinks it's fine to distribute this
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Steam thinks it's fine to distribute this
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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Enemy_Bat_Widdle_A
Enemy_Bat_Widdle_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_A
Enemy_Bat_Giant_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_Mummified
Enemy_Creephand
Enemy_Creephand_Fortress
Enemy_Creephand_Swamp
Enemy_Creephand_Ghost
Enemy_Dickmonch
Enemy_Dickmonch_King
Boss_LyndaFromAccounting
Enemy_Bat_Widdle_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_A
Enemy_Bat_Giant_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_Mummified
Enemy_Creephand
Enemy_Creephand_Fortress
Enemy_Creephand_Swamp
Enemy_Creephand_Ghost
Enemy_Dickmonch
Enemy_Dickmonch_King
Boss_LyndaFromAccounting
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Enemy_Bat_Widdle_A
Enemy_Bat_Widdle_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_A
Enemy_Bat_Giant_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_Mummified
Enemy_Creephand
Enemy_Creephand_Fortress
Enemy_Creephand_Swamp
Enemy_Creephand_Ghost
Enemy_Dickmonch
Enemy_Dickmonch_King
Boss_LyndaFromAccounting
Enemy_Bat_Widdle_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_A
Enemy_Bat_Giant_B
Enemy_Bat_Giant_Mummified
Enemy_Creephand
Enemy_Creephand_Fortress
Enemy_Creephand_Swamp
Enemy_Creephand_Ghost
Enemy_Dickmonch
Enemy_Dickmonch_King
Boss_LyndaFromAccounting
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By doing this, you can find assets used by those variants and ONLY those variants.
Generic maps/mesh/shaders go into the generic folder for global or level/biome.
Generic maps/mesh/shaders go into the generic folder for global or level/biome.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
By doing this, you can find assets used by those variants and ONLY those variants.
Generic maps/mesh/shaders go into the generic folder for global or level/biome.
Generic maps/mesh/shaders go into the generic folder for global or level/biome.
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Furthermore you can use this to set up your assets folders to group together all the assets shared and specific to each type.
Barrel
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Large
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Explosive
-Maps
-etc
Barrel
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Large
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Explosive
-Maps
-etc
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Furthermore you can use this to set up your assets folders to group together all the assets shared and specific to each type.
Barrel
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Large
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Explosive
-Maps
-etc
Barrel
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Large
-Maps
-Mesh
-Shaders
Barrel_Explosive
-Maps
-etc
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See how much easier it is to look up and mentally parse the list?
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
See how much easier it is to look up and mentally parse the list?
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Barrel
Barrel_Dented
Barrel_Old
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Large_Dented
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel_Explosive_exploded
Barrel_Dented
Barrel_Old
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Large_Dented
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel_Explosive_exploded
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Barrel
Barrel_Dented
Barrel_Old
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Large_Dented
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel_Explosive_exploded
Barrel_Dented
Barrel_Old
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Large_Dented
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel_Explosive_exploded
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Next notice there are essentially three barrel model types with variants. Large, explosive and a default.
Barrel
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Explosive
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Next notice there are essentially three barrel model types with variants. Large, explosive and a default.
Barrel
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Explosive
Barrel
Barrel_Large
Barrel_Explosive
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The best way to organise these is by generic type first, working down to variants and specifics.
These are all barrels, so we start with this, so not only typing in the search brings up all barrels, but they are visibly in alphabetical list order on your asset list.
Barrel_
These are all barrels, so we start with this, so not only typing in the search brings up all barrels, but they are visibly in alphabetical list order on your asset list.
Barrel_
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The best way to organise these is by generic type first, working down to variants and specifics.
These are all barrels, so we start with this, so not only typing in the search brings up all barrels, but they are visibly in alphabetical list order on your asset list.
Barrel_
These are all barrels, so we start with this, so not only typing in the search brings up all barrels, but they are visibly in alphabetical list order on your asset list.
Barrel_
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Organising your game art assets can be daunting and messy when you start out, so here is a few tips:
Lets look at these examples.
Dented Barrel
Large dented barrel
Large barrel
Old barrel
Explosive barrel
Exploded barrel
Lets look at these examples.
Dented Barrel
Large dented barrel
Large barrel
Old barrel
Explosive barrel
Exploded barrel
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Organising your game art assets can be daunting and messy when you start out, so here is a few tips:
Lets look at these examples.
Dented Barrel
Large dented barrel
Large barrel
Old barrel
Explosive barrel
Exploded barrel
Lets look at these examples.
Dented Barrel
Large dented barrel
Large barrel
Old barrel
Explosive barrel
Exploded barrel