that cheap technology has given many more people access to versions of expensive and inaccessible tools is obviously good materially. but that commercial expressly emphasized, intentionally or not, the recent homogenization of those disciplines and the standards we expect from them, and their takeover by a handful of corporations who seem to want to sell you a fake, sanitized, and quite mediocre version of a real, weird, dangerous world, over and over until you forget what the original was like
that apple ad where they crush everything right. it was an abominable mistake on their part, it's given everyone a clear visual metaphor for what's wrong: smartphones can do everything, but as a jack-of-all-trades they can't do anything particularly well. whenever you're using a phone you're having a constant low-level, subliminal feeling of disappointment, a nagging feeling that if you were using the actual proper device to do the thing you want to do, you'd be having a better time
Do you like immersive sims? Do you like #GameDev? Do you like #GodotEngine? Well good news for you, we're working on an Imsim Toolkit add-on for Godot, and we wanna hear your thoughts and suggestions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evX2nwLPBks
3rd june. the sky is a patchwork of light grey and lighter gray. the air is soggy. there is no crisp warmth nor a cool breeze. someone outside is using a hedge trimmer. that's right. it's time to celebrate the season: christmas, british-style. you put three unopened cans of Heinz Baked Beans directly into the microwave, placing them neatly on the glass rotating plate, and then turn the timer dial all the way round to '60 min'
mystery of the druids is so wild cos it has non-abstract graphics & voice acting, but also the logic of a ZX Spectrum graphical adventure made in a week by 3 chain smoking 12 year olds who weren't really thinking about what the gossamer string of contrivances connecting the puzzles would read like as a story
Every time you use this shit you're pouring clean water on the floor, and you're using electricity that could do literally anything with value. Playing a modern AAA video game on your giant PC at max settings is more eco friendly and reliably informative than googling something
This applies to both image & text generators by the way. They're both purely aesthetic processes designed by people who hate artists & writers but still want to profit from their art and writing
Machine learning "AI" does some categories of tasks more efficiently than standard software. None of the big high profile ML products are that, though. They're just machines that make something that looks like an answer by cutting up Google results and mashing them together
I used to make art for this site.
Helped a little with An Outcry, helping a little with Blanksword.
Starting to think I'm too disabled for real jobs, so let me know if you have a fake one that pays ok