Antoine Leblanc

i should make this official: Piètre is on a short hiatus. starting a new full-time job makes it difficult to do three to five hours of additional on-camera work twice a week. but once i have settled into the job, i fully intend to come back to it, there's still so much to do!

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

It’s wild that we have a society like this. Like we’re just not doing anything about it. We’re just kind of watching it collapse.

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

its very funny that there is now a claim that code is cheap because like.. you're still paying devs and now you're paying Anthropic too if you were a solo dev, code used to be free, you weren't paying yourself, but now you pay Anthropic code is actually more expensive now lol

Current mood

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

this is so fucking bleak

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

this looks slopped, i can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few slops in my time

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

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i have 75 agents praying to send this guy to hell, effectively cancelling out his prayers

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

AI proponents cling to the idea that the tech is going to enable boundless creativity, but I've seen what it enables; endless spam. It's enabled people without a single ounce of creativity in their bodies to make endless Balatro clones, genuinely no thoughts of their except Balatro but slop.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

three sources coming to the same conclusion :) :) :)

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

one of the best things about polyamory is that you don't have to predefine what a connection with someone else can be. you can let it take the shape it wants to take and allow it to give everyone joy. structure can be descriptive instead of prescriptive

Bad indoor air can hurt people in a variety of ways but administrators don’t want to be responsible for another domain to think about. Free air filters are a threat to them. My local school district sold all their filters for a few dollars per. Guess the kids don’t need clean air anymore!

AI has finally used up all the money

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

Well that can't be right, I was assured this technology would revolutionize productivity.

Watching this industry over the last 15 years has been so painful. The closest thing we have to a universal recipe for making great games is keeping teams together over time, and letting them cook. _Teams_. Of _people_. Seemingly nobody in NA games leadership has ever valued or understood this

this is partly how we end up with such credulous, fawning coverage of AI

just so we're all clear, this is literally just one step away from "anything that isn't purely reproductive is immoral" and that's exactly what it will turn into in a short while

Oh cool, Turning Point UK is dabbling in assassinations

See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

James Talarico gave up his principles to make Elon Musk happy. Not for conservative voters—polls are generally showing trans issues are not high priority to anyone this cycle. Dem reversals on trans rights are *only* to assuage Musk & his one-man nationwide ad campaign. This is how Elon Musk reacts

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Is this anything?