Philip Eloy
@aegixdrakan.bsky.social
Narrative Designer for Nine Dots Studios, your friendly neighborhood "Ace", and lover of puns.
I make little RPGs as a hobby, you can find them for free here:
https://aegix-drakan.itch.io/
I make little RPGs as a hobby, you can find them for free here:
https://aegix-drakan.itch.io/
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It's always *REALLY* fun when I run into a story that blindsides me with a subject that I myself have explored.
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
On thinking about how hard companies are trying to push gambling into everything these days, and why I hate it so much, I just flashed back to a childhood memory that I realize taught me "Wow, Gambling sucks, actually".
That time I first played a schoolyard game "for keeps" and lost. 🧵
That time I first played a schoolyard game "for keeps" and lost. 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On thinking about how hard companies are trying to push gambling into everything these days, and why I hate it so much, I just flashed back to a childhood memory that I realize taught me "Wow, Gambling sucks, actually".
That time I first played a schoolyard game "for keeps" and lost. 🧵
That time I first played a schoolyard game "for keeps" and lost. 🧵
Yeah, I'd normally be more shocked and confused, but I'm not.
This late into 2025, I've already learned never to expect consistency, or actual principles from Corporations, or other power-hungry people.
This late into 2025, I've already learned never to expect consistency, or actual principles from Corporations, or other power-hungry people.
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yeah, I'd normally be more shocked and confused, but I'm not.
This late into 2025, I've already learned never to expect consistency, or actual principles from Corporations, or other power-hungry people.
This late into 2025, I've already learned never to expect consistency, or actual principles from Corporations, or other power-hungry people.
Now THIS is a conflict I'd gladly be a Warrior of Darkness for!
(I'd have a Gif of an FF14 Dark Knight, but there's none uploaded so far and I don't feel like finding and uploading a new one right this second lol)
(I'd have a Gif of an FF14 Dark Knight, but there's none uploaded so far and I don't feel like finding and uploading a new one right this second lol)
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Now THIS is a conflict I'd gladly be a Warrior of Darkness for!
(I'd have a Gif of an FF14 Dark Knight, but there's none uploaded so far and I don't feel like finding and uploading a new one right this second lol)
(I'd have a Gif of an FF14 Dark Knight, but there's none uploaded so far and I don't feel like finding and uploading a new one right this second lol)
It's always *REALLY* fun when I run into a story that blindsides me with a subject that I myself have explored.
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It's always *REALLY* fun when I run into a story that blindsides me with a subject that I myself have explored.
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
And then I get to go "Oooh!!! So, please, tell me, what's YOUR take on that idea? :D "
Suck it AI, that's something you'll NEVER be able to do!
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oops it's her again
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
oops it's her again
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Amazing how quickly and hard these LLMs have turned me into someone who's become very tech-skeptical.
I used to love the Helios ending of the original Deux Ex Duology, FFS. Now, forget "what if it's hacked", I'm like "What if it hallucinates the wrong data and kills the world?!"
I used to love the Helios ending of the original Deux Ex Duology, FFS. Now, forget "what if it's hacked", I'm like "What if it hallucinates the wrong data and kills the world?!"
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Amazing how quickly and hard these LLMs have turned me into someone who's become very tech-skeptical.
I used to love the Helios ending of the original Deux Ex Duology, FFS. Now, forget "what if it's hacked", I'm like "What if it hallucinates the wrong data and kills the world?!"
I used to love the Helios ending of the original Deux Ex Duology, FFS. Now, forget "what if it's hacked", I'm like "What if it hallucinates the wrong data and kills the world?!"
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Are being "not about the money" is weirdly new notion - for centuries, wealth and rich patrons knew to pay their artists. Hell, they sometimes paid education in full to have an artist on active retinue.
"Poor artist" being romanticized is certainly weird.
"Poor artist" being romanticized is certainly weird.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Are being "not about the money" is weirdly new notion - for centuries, wealth and rich patrons knew to pay their artists. Hell, they sometimes paid education in full to have an artist on active retinue.
"Poor artist" being romanticized is certainly weird.
"Poor artist" being romanticized is certainly weird.
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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I think the main issue is that where AI already is moving at rapid speed is:
Sora 2 - Fake videos of real history
Midjourney - Stolen art violating copyright
ChatGPT - convincing teens not to tell their parents about suicidal ideation
If there is a "good version," we already missed the exit ramp...
Sora 2 - Fake videos of real history
Midjourney - Stolen art violating copyright
ChatGPT - convincing teens not to tell their parents about suicidal ideation
If there is a "good version," we already missed the exit ramp...
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I think the main issue is that where AI already is moving at rapid speed is:
Sora 2 - Fake videos of real history
Midjourney - Stolen art violating copyright
ChatGPT - convincing teens not to tell their parents about suicidal ideation
If there is a "good version," we already missed the exit ramp...
Sora 2 - Fake videos of real history
Midjourney - Stolen art violating copyright
ChatGPT - convincing teens not to tell their parents about suicidal ideation
If there is a "good version," we already missed the exit ramp...
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I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
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there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
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this is all generative tech! almost all the time, it is better to just do the thing yourself than to try to build a monkey with poor cognition that can occasionally, in perfect conditions, do it for you
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
Loving that AI productivity boost!
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
this is all generative tech! almost all the time, it is better to just do the thing yourself than to try to build a monkey with poor cognition that can occasionally, in perfect conditions, do it for you
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!
Okay, yeah, with how people have been about anything relating to the lessons learned from COVID (ie, deliberately avoiding learning anything) this just makes sense to me.
My theory is the trauma from the early years of COVID was so intense for many people that they'd rather risk their health than be reminded that COVID still exists by wearing a mask. Our rabbi said it's intentional amnesia which makes sense to me.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Okay, yeah, with how people have been about anything relating to the lessons learned from COVID (ie, deliberately avoiding learning anything) this just makes sense to me.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
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the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good
That moment when you can still, miraculously google a thing you just barely remember, with no title, and it finds it.
And you get slammed in the face with nostalgia from your childhood years of the edutainment games on the family computer. XD
And you get slammed in the face with nostalgia from your childhood years of the edutainment games on the family computer. XD
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
That moment when you can still, miraculously google a thing you just barely remember, with no title, and it finds it.
And you get slammed in the face with nostalgia from your childhood years of the edutainment games on the family computer. XD
And you get slammed in the face with nostalgia from your childhood years of the edutainment games on the family computer. XD
So much this.
Some degree of friction is actually very beneficial to the experience of a certain kinds of games.
Some degree of friction is actually very beneficial to the experience of a certain kinds of games.
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So much this.
Some degree of friction is actually very beneficial to the experience of a certain kinds of games.
Some degree of friction is actually very beneficial to the experience of a certain kinds of games.
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Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
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This is a fantastic interview in general, but the realness of this particular answer stopped me cold
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is a fantastic interview in general, but the realness of this particular answer stopped me cold
This. The art IS the process.
So many things I worked on were fundamentally changed and improved because I was had to manhandle the writing/code/design for prolonged time.
And also, doing that is half the fun. If I could just press a button and it's done for me, I'd lose that.
So many things I worked on were fundamentally changed and improved because I was had to manhandle the writing/code/design for prolonged time.
And also, doing that is half the fun. If I could just press a button and it's done for me, I'd lose that.
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This. The art IS the process.
So many things I worked on were fundamentally changed and improved because I was had to manhandle the writing/code/design for prolonged time.
And also, doing that is half the fun. If I could just press a button and it's done for me, I'd lose that.
So many things I worked on were fundamentally changed and improved because I was had to manhandle the writing/code/design for prolonged time.
And also, doing that is half the fun. If I could just press a button and it's done for me, I'd lose that.
Man, did some random post just potentially spoil some major expedition 33 stuff?
Uuuugh. Well, it was still vague enough that I don't know the context, but still annoying.
Uuuugh. Well, it was still vague enough that I don't know the context, but still annoying.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Man, did some random post just potentially spoil some major expedition 33 stuff?
Uuuugh. Well, it was still vague enough that I don't know the context, but still annoying.
Uuuugh. Well, it was still vague enough that I don't know the context, but still annoying.