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feels so good to get a new job and quit your old one when they start asking you to use AI in your workflow as an artist... Fuck off actually???

#Fuck you for not respecting your employees #or the industry for that matter #but the game industry is currently in shambles #I shall stay away from it for a bit.... #not art #pontalks

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He is so cool

#shadow the hedgehog #my art #art tag

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#reblog #important #not mine

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"Artists being scared of AI are like people working with editing, cutting and assembling photos traditionally being scared when Photoshop and digital photo editing became a thing. Fearing new technology" No you dingus. You know what you can do with photoshop???? Photo editing. You don't just tell photoshop to do it for you, YOU still need the skills to do the work. Generative AI models steal existing artwork, feeds it to the garbage machine and spit out garbage based on a prompt. It's not the fucking same you wet piece of bread. We as artists aren't nervous about a new TOOL that can HELP us in the WORK we do. We're not scared of technology. We're frustrated about idiots like you not knowing how to apply new technology in a useful way

#I didnt pull this out of my ass btw #Someone around me said this and it pissed me off #not art #pontalks

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This year's Tumblr April Fools thing is really nice cus it's like slightly interactive? Like, I see friends who have booped me and I can boop them and it's really nice.. Especially when you're like me, always nervous about bothering people. I see people boop me so many times and it's like oh! I can do that too! I am happy to! I will interact with you! Idk, makes me happy..

#tumblr #pontalks

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1 000 000 paws attack

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I drew him again nobody is shocked

#chilchuck #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #my art #art tag

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What's new with me?? I recently turned 30 and I got a new tattoo today I guess!

#pontalks #not art

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DEVOURING YOUR RIPPERDOC ART I ADORE HIM

YeeEEEEESSSS EAT WELL MY CHILD YEEESSSSS

#we stan ripperdoc in this house #he is the best #cute little freak #gnaw on his bones #reply #anon

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Love this little guy

#chilchuck #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #my art #art tag

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insightful conversation with the boys

#daina kurogami #jin aizawa #beyblade burst #beyblade #my art #art tag

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I like when I scroll Tumblr and it just kinda ... Gives up... Just... No more posts, only void.... Truly the most relaxing way to enjoy social media

#pontalks #not art #tumblr

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I hate seeing AI art slop literally everywhere I hate having to squint suspiciously on every peice of fanart to figure out if it's AI shit or made by an artist. I hate how I just cant trust any image on google or social media anymore. I hate how the place I work for is actively talking about how to use AI internally. I hate it here. I want none of this. Who asked for this? I wish I was a librarian

#not art #pontalks

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Just this week in games:

- EA laid off 700 workers

- Sony laid of 900 workers

- Rockstar announces in-person work mandates for all employees (a 'soft layoff' that will force some staff to quit, which likely means that actual layoffs are forthcoming)

In 2023 6,000 games workers were laid off. Now in 2024 over 10,000 workers have been laid off, and there's still 10 months to go.

Not to be hyperbolic, but I think this is perhaps the worst year for video games ever if we're measuring by number of layoffs.

#yeah #my linkedin feed is v depressing rn #pontalks

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Working in the game industry rn is so exhausting....

#we had layoffs last summer and I thought that was gloomy #my gosh #pontalks #not art

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Demons on their day off. I imagine Sebastian does face masks, drinks herbal teas, reads the news and probably some saucy romance novel... Claude reads and writes poetry and eats sweets...

#claude faustus #sebastian michaelis #kuroshitsuji #black butler #my art #art tag

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I am so fucking scared. I feel that... you know it's not about death. I'm not so scared of death. I'm so scared of being displaced. I want to go back to my home--and I'm so near, by the way... Gaza is so small. But I can't go there because the Gaza Strip is cut into pieces, and vehicles and tanks are in the borders between these pieces so I just can't go anywhere inside my homeland. My place. And... it's unacceptable. It's unimaginable. You know I have never imagined before that one day someone would just grab me from my... my homeland. My place. And just throw me away and prevent me to come back.

By the way, we don't know if we could go back. If we could go back again. Ever. And I'm so scared that they could displace us from Gaza Strip to the desert. [Bisan's voice breaks, she breaks into tears] We will die in the desert because of hunger. They displaced us to Egypt. To the north of Egypt, to Sanari desert. People just die. We will die.

[Sob] I don't know why do you guys are watching without doing anything to end this. Just in the... just stop it. Just stop it. Stop it in any price, stop it in any cost. Just stop it for anything. Just stop this. It's a nightmare. I can't continue just thinking about the displacement more and more. It's a nightmare. And I can't-- I can't keep it alive while thinking of being displaced more and more.

I just wanna go back to my home.

-- Bisan in a heartbreaking voice memo on Instagram, 2.14.2024