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@lollie.me

Artist, game-fiddler, everything-doer. 🦊✨ 39, Gay, He/Him! 🚫 No GenAI Artist at @WalkySquawky.com! 🌐 Web: lollie.me 🐾 FA: furaffinity.net/user/heyitslollie ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@HeyItsLollie

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in these dark times, let us remember: free software collection 8 fm towns wakesurf dog

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Been slowly figuring out more to do with Nomad between commission paintings under the radar, stole @punchystream.bsky.social’s design as a test subject to figure out such things as 1.) what the fuck is the tube tool actually and 2.) how does painting happen lol

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In the early 1990s, I co-created one of the first fully computer-animated TV series, in an Amsterdam animation studio. We used a mix of drawn elements and digitized photos in DPaint on Amigas. We made one 5-minute episode a week, while in the evenings, sometimes nights, I worked on the Hoi game. 😅

Opened up Figma for the first time in some months to draft a design, and I am flooded with AI prompt windows. Dismiss, move on. I create a frame and double-click on its layer to rename it, and the MOMENT I start typing, Figma steals focus and directs it into a Prompt window. Absolutely fucking not.

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I basically exported whatever projects were left on my Figma account, completely deleted them from their servers, and then deleted my account. Other tools exist.

Other shit that drove this decision: - An option to allow Figma to train their AI on my work was enabled by default. - No way to disable AI features. A help article even says once AI is enabled on an account, it's enabled permanently. I did not consent to it, not was it communicated to me prior.

Opened up Figma for the first time in some months to draft a design, and I am flooded with AI prompt windows. Dismiss, move on. I create a frame and double-click on its layer to rename it, and the MOMENT I start typing, Figma steals focus and directs it into a Prompt window. Absolutely fucking not.

This one act of brazenly attempting to trick me into using their dogshit prompt box completely derailed me, and I'm so instantly soured on it that I'm just archiving work and removing it from the platform. What a fucking waste of a service.

At this point, I'm desensitized to the whole "open a program, be served a text field on the home screen telling me to type a prompt to generate some dogshit, and promptly dismiss the field / load a previous file" routine. It is easily ignored. But THIS was a new level of fuck you. Actually die.

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working on some last-minute updates to my #playdate solitaire game, including The Most Important Mode:

Last year I was working over a full rebuild of my site, but stalled b/c I wanted an easier way to post new things to it, and couldn't decide how. Two of my options were to either roll a Wordpress site (PHP), or do some custom PHP. Never have I felt so glad to have let something fall by the wayside.

One of my other options was to code up my own private and bespoke static-site generator with a GUI via like, fucking Godot or Unity (the only way I know how to code atm) and tbh I'm considering it a lot harder now.

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📢 INDIE FOR HIRE! OPEN FOR CONTRACTS & GIGS! 📢 ATTN: indie devs! streamers! people who need visual sizzle! i'm now on the market for gamedev work (mostly unity, some godot/unreal), commission work and more! i'm an adaptable generalist w pro experience, and i've got some amazing deals for YOU! 🫵

Jfc, what did Bluesky do to the alt text editor for images? Can't click back to the middle of a sentence to add text anymore, it adds one letter and then immediately jumps to the end of the textbox. Abysmal.

We've been playing the "Severed Chains" fan-port of The Legend of Dragoon this month, and it restores (partial) access to the PocketStation game "Mogul Dabas". It's very simple though, just a 32x32 black-and-white display filling the screen. So I mocked-up a full UI for it, what I'd love to see. 🦊

I was referred to assist on a video with a three-week turnaround. I signed contracts, and the lead & I spent an energizing two-hours on call gathering references & brainstorming a plan. Kinetic text animation came up, and I was less experienced in that, so they went looking for more hands to assist.

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Half an hour later, help arrived in the form of another motion graphics animator, who proceeded to question my ability and talk up their own achievements. I basically watched the project get swiped out from underneath in realtime, totally dumbstruck. I bowed out of the call after another half-hour.

No hard feelings to the lead, they were great and thankful. But I think they saw this arrangement was going to be more trouble than it was worth as well, and gave me an out. Invoiced and paid for three hours. ✌️

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While I'm highlighting Canadian animation, "My Favorite Things That I Love" by Janet Perlman is such a delight... each new ridiculous character design makes me laugh on sight, it's just so so good and so god damn funny without being anything near a conventional comedic short

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friendly reminder, Playdate web certificates are expiring tomorrow. take some time to find, recharge, and update yours if you ever want it to connect it to the internet again make sure you check all the pockets of the laptop bag you haven't used all year

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This has the same energy as straight guys going to gay bars to pick up women.

Mac Fox@macfox.bsky.social

The University of Indonesia economics department is publishing research on why furry conventions might be better than LinkedIn for professional networking

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Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Love how Unity was having this sort of quiet rehabilitation arc after their last major self-inflicted debacle, before making a quick pivot towards yet another AI LLM shitbox and forcing sellers on the Asset Store into it by default unless they actively opt-out of it.

Mmm yummy delicious garden rake, please sirs grant me the power to stand upon it by my own two feet so that I may bludgeon my face with its handle freehandedly!! Huh? Why are you all yelling no??

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always retweet the no hustle mizuki comic forever

Iaculus@iaculus.bsky.social

It was Shigeru Mizuki - comic artist, antiwar activist, folklore archivist, and general cultural titan.

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a whole universe of video games and experiences were all over MIGW/PAX this week, and the thing people were talking about more than anything else was this magazine. incredible W for local games media after a hellish few years.

CONTINUE Magazine@continuemag.bsky.social

WE ARE SOLD OUT AT @paxaus.bsky.social THIS YEAR. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL. YOU ARE THE BEST. YOU CAN STILL BUY THE MAG ONLINE AT ACMI OR GO INTO ACMI AT FED SQUARE AND GRAB SOME COPIES 💚 MORE SALES SPOTS IN THIS THREAD AFTER WE EAT FOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEKEND XO

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🎶 been working more on that one vcvrack patch lately

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I've been itching to write this for years. And now is the best time to start playing Corru.Observer The story is at its halfway point. Book 1 of 2 complete. An international cliffhanger - the initial mystery solved, but the second half is yet to be told.