Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

The Wonderful toolchain and BlocksDS have both moved to Codeberg. Make sure to update your links:

https://codeberg.org/WonderfulToolchain
https://codeberg.org/blocksds

bit of good news to brighten your day, there are video games publishers pushing back against "ai" bullshit:

Manor Lords and Terra Invicta publishers Hooded Horse are imposing a strict ban on generative AI assets in their games, with company co-founder Tim Bender describing it as an “ethics issue” and “a very frustrating thing to have to worry about”.

“I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways… suddenly it infests shit in a way it shouldn’t,” Bender told Kotaku in a recent interview. “It is now written into our contracts if we’re publishing the game, ‘no fucking AI assets.'”

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Bender acknowledged the trickiness of policing generative AI when working with external partners, while reiterating the need for a blunt ban. “The reality is, there’s so much of it going on that the commitment just has to be that you won’t allow it in the game, and if it’s ever discovered, because this artist that was hired by this outside person slipped something in, you get it out and you replace it. That has to be the commitment. It’s a shame that it’s even necessary and it’s a very frustrating thing to have to worry about.”

Great editorial by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell at the bottom as well:

The minutiae of different genAI applications aside, the broad cultural or political case against generative AI has, IMO, remained pretty consistent (yes, this is the point in the 'news post' where I deliver the customary lecture, please skip to the comments if you are weary of such things). The biggest bots operate by parasitically appropriating and undermining the work of theoretically any and all human workers, whether or not you define this as actual theft or copyright infringement. Their actual utility beyond the grand promises is broadly unproven, and in some cases, obviously non-existent.

Being companies, the companies pushing them aren’t following the public interest: they are helping to drive up energy usage and emissions, and saturating daily life with “companion” technologies that may distort online discourse and in some cases, contribute to mental illness. Within the games industry, the tech is viewed by many executives and shareholders as a quick fix for unsatisfactory profit margins, and a tacit excuse for cutting staff.

That doesn’t make every usage of generative AI abominable. I can understand the appeal for smaller devs with minimal resources, and I am myself interested in art that makes genuinely imaginative and substantial use of generators of all kinds, rather than just calling on them to “enhance productivity” - providing those technologies are responsibly operated.

But generative AI needs to be understood as a form of class war that will principally benefit the already-filthy-rich, and which is fundamentally anti-social in encouraging greater reliance on profit-driven corporate tools rather than solidarity with coworkers and peers.

All quotes from: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hooded-horse-ban-ai-generated-art-in-their-games-all-this-thing-has-done-is-made-our-lives-more-difficult

why can't you play poker in an african savannah?

...

too many cheetahs

why did the metalworker go to jail?

they were caught steeling

i kept wondering why the baseball was getting bigger. then it hit me

no matter how much you push the envelope it is always stationery

Did a very rough undersketch of @elfi 's MC because she deserves some new art too.
Do I give her weapon y/n?
#MastoArt

I sometimes see people complaining about their experience on one ‘social media’ platform being terrible as opposed to another, and someone else will have had a different experience. And I think a lot of it’s down to how you curate your feed. For example; I principally follow illustrators here on Mastodon, so my feed is largely… wait—Why is it all rainbow Linux? WHY IS IT ALL RAINBOW LINUX?!?

Bluebells in the forest ^.^
#vintagestory #voxelart #voxel #sandbox #survivalgames #pixelart

I have opened up specifically couples commissions in this style!

$150, give me characters, consent of other character owners, choose base pose (can be very customized and camera whatever you want), and optionally what flowers you would like.

The long specifics are listed on VGen, but feel free to just email me lmao
nina@misnina.com
https://misnina.com

https://vgen.co/misnina/service/couples-illustrations/10cb83b9-2b4e-4558-ad45-2758f8517302

#PixelArt #Illustration #CommissionsOpen

Chronic illness on The Inflammation Superhighway.

I now have replaced Microsoft Office with #LibreOffice, the free, open source office package. And it works much better than the microsoft software, it does not force strange formatting and does not contain AI modules. Even makes pdf documents. All I need in my small business.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

platonically gay

#PixelArt #Illustration

Help I keep getting distracted by drawing silksong things ;^;

#silksong #wip #games #art #CreativeToots #fediart #MastoArt

folks in the US, please be aware of the seedy flip side of seasonal retail trends.

retailers are rushing to cycle out old stock. unfortunately in most locations, these items are deposited behind the store in unlocked waste containers. household items, electronics, clothing and food are carelessly left out in the cold.

in towns, smaller cities and suburbs especially, there isn't much of an effort made toward security for these waste containers. no one's tracking their contents and really, anybody could come and take that stuff. for free.

what a shame it would be if that happened.

Just to emphasize, if you want to show tangible support for journalists taking the RCMP to court for arresting a #journalist on assignment, seizing her equipment and holding her for three nights, the Narwhal has four suggestions, including, if you're in #Vancouver, attending court anytime over the five weeks of the trial (starting Jan 12).

#Charter #FediLaw #LawFedi
https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal/115844692004172637

Probably on her way to smash some government property. Or Teslas.

#furryart #furry