GothicMess

With Twitch's Ai training update my week break has turned to an indefinite pause in streaming on Twitch. I am just so done. Take care out there. It's full of Aidiots.

OpenAI and Twitch are teaming up to see what developers can build for the Twitch community with AI. The top five will be featured at Twitchcon.

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

I am at Desert Bus all week long, starting tomorrow at 4pm Pacific time! I also made a Bell Beast that you can win! #DesertBusForHope

inventor of the blu-ray and blu-ray player has discontinued their industry leading product, the blu-ray

There's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

Is everyone also extremely burnt out and unable to find a way to recover right now?

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

Finally a real ally—*squints* wait never mind

The twist is that this take is great.

What's up,

Not now mysterious omen!

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

I think what bums me is like, I like programming, but tech culture and ways of working are gross and shitty and don’t interest me in the slightest, and AI is like “don’t you want tech culture without all that pesky programming” No, no I do not.

I don’t know why Threads served me up this bullshit, but I’ve never hit block so fast in my life. If you use AI to emulate actual artistic talent, poorly you’re none of these things. You’re a hack killing the planet in an attempt to seem like you’ve got a skill you never worked at.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

This can't have been an easy decision for House House to make, well done to them. By chance, I read this news just as I was watching an interview with Humza Yousaf in which he speaks about the need for those with public profile, platform & security to use them for Palestine.

The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit

i will paint your favorite pokemon cards in exchange for money or pokemon cards ✨

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

oh dang, you still post on twitter because you "get engagement there?" that's cool. I still hang out at that nazi bar everyone always talks about from that allegory because their drink specials are pretty good. all my old friends stopped going because of the nazis, but I'm making some new ones

The world is kind of scary right now, so here's what I'm offering: Hognose snake drinking water. Be sure to stay for the lip smack.

Can't wait for the porn parody "whore wham her 40k" send tweet

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

If you are more angry at HOW you learned someone committed SA then you are at the perpetrator, I don't know what to say

waking up every day in 2026 like:

how your email finds me

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

This is, verbatim, from a Steam store page: "In-game AI character Ms. Second is using AI generated voice. Using humans voices for AI character would be cultural appropriation" WHAT DO YOU MEAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!

This is what I cycle back to. Nerds love talking bout useful tech. I am so absolutely up for boring any journo with an in depth explanation of how anything in my games was done. It’s fucking cool making games and almost as fun talking about making them. I’m not buying that anyone is proud of this

It's only an experiment with some users for now. But you cannot opt out of any of Twitch's AI tools. You can only choose not to use them. Twitch's AI is always listening.