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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 22h

Counterpoint;

A "Mount Rushmore of streaming" doesn't deserve to exist.

And Dan could afford to stop talking.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 2d

In short; fuck the Teamsters, ESPECIALLY Local 777.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 2d

This Indigenous Peoples Day, I would like to shoutout the Teamsters Local 777, for having an absolute meltdown tantrum over the holiday's name in our contract proposal.

They wanted the old name because "it was about Italian heritage" even though it was actually about historical revisionism.

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 2d

Find me another big outlet that is willing to do shit like this.

No major corporate one would ever dare.

This is why independent groups are so wonderfully valuable and necessary.

...yes, I said "necessary" in the context of a literal conspiracy wall video.

I said what I said.

gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 3d

Massive deep-dive / research on animation error & simulation time error benchmarking in GPU & CPU gaming tests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnX...

The Problem with GPU Benchmarks | Reality vs. Numbers, Animation Error Methodology White Paper

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

www.youtube.com

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 4d

Nice try, but my hair is too massive and learned from all the cats I've had...there's always a strand...waiting...clinging...

Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 4d

If your primary complaint about a game is "DEI" then I guess you'll survive the zombie apocalypse because there ain't no brains in there.

Fuck's sake. It's like people can't exist without it being "woke DEI" or some shit. Get a grip ya fuckin' crybabies.

Humanity is better with diversity.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 7d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 5d

Someone should be backing up every client build of skate. so that when EA inevitably deletes it off the internet, there can still be a way to play all that content again.

Stop killing games and all that.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 8d

Shit's wild and weird

gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 8d

New GNCA video: Talking about the shady acquisition of EA Games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEbo...

The Shady Acquisition of EA Games

YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy

www.youtube.com

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 12d

lol fuck this shit, AI can fuck off

FrogCass 🦾🐸 Holographic Smuggler Vtuber @frogcass.holofrog.gay · 13d

Hey streamer pals, go to viewer rewards on your creator dashboard and turn off this stupid AI company collaboration

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Syn @theeyesofsyn.bsky.social · 12d

"At least it wasn't the elemental plain of bees."

"Wait are bees an element?"

The DM "yes, bees are an element."

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 13d

I want to jokingly say I have, but I know I've seen *other* people I wouldn't have expected, so like...idk, I just haven't touched that platform in a long time.

Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 13d

There's a demo out now for a game called Skigill.

You should check it out.

And maybe the dev's other game, Master Key.

Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 14d

I wonder what Das Bo Schitt is up to these days and how he feels about probably having influenced Skibidi Toilet

...honestly, the current youth meme stuff isn't that different from what we grew up with.

The kids will be fine if you stop pushing religions and authoritarian bullshit on them.

Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 14d

Good old vapid corporate capitalism at work

Utter nonsense

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15d

Incidentally, earlier this year Microsoft announced it was investing $80 billion in AI. EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS.

They gobbled up half the games industry in a disastrous acquisition spree that never should've been allowed to happen, then saw something shinier and immediately fumbled the gaming bag.

Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 15d

Microsoft is increasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by 50% to $30 a month ($360 annually)

➡️ news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

New updates and changes to tiers, Essential, Premium, and Ultimate, Cloud streaming quality, etc

#Xbox #XboxGamePass

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Mask @zmaskm.bsky.social · 16d

"GenAI is good for CEOs who at their employees as meat-LLM" is such a poignant statement that kinda encapsulates so much of the problem with both AI and also the entire C-Suite

Stephane Rappeneau @weird-loop.com · 17d

I’ve been in charge of setting up a full AI-powered VA pipeline. While result was good enough for daily-game builds placeholders, I suspect even bad voice acting would have been incomparably better. So far, GenAI is good for CEOs who see their employees as meat-LLM, little else.

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