witchpixels

witchpixels

@witchpixels.dev

I'm a non-binary game developer and jaywalking punk anarchist from Canada. 🖤🩶🤍💜 No AI, my bad code is of my own making, thanks.

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Time and time again when progressive parties try to position themselves as a vote against conservatism they lose. The voters who stayed home aren't to blame, the blame falls on the party failing to sell a vision of the future to get them out to the polls, which is their one job!

Club Saanich@thesaanichdaily.bsky.social

Being constantly told that better things aren't possible and that we have to be "practical" and vote for the lesser evil has just convinced people to check out entirely, stop engaging, and stop voting.

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we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

I've been asked before why, as someone who quit smoking I keep cigarettes and a lighter by my front door. For times like this. Its going to be a rough four years.

So will the people in the BCNDP who decided to go along with coronating @davidebybc.bsky.social rather than hold an actual leadership election kindly step down in disgrace? That'd be a good start. #bcpoli #canpoli

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social

IT'S OFFICIAL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 93 YEARS, THE B.C. CONSERVATIVE PARTY WILL LEAD THIS PROVINCE CBC IS PROJECTING A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT LORNE DOERKSON GOES FROM AN UNKNOWN MLA TO THE NEXT PREMIER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA IN FIVE WEEKS

Thus is such an unbelievable political blunder in Eby's part. Instead of working the the greens to offset the narrow majority, he decided to call a snap election in a fully transparent bid for more power. Best case scenario was to burn millions in our money on a couple seats. Worst case...

Well now we get to see what the worst case is. A party running on nothing but transphobia and racism has the regions of power for the rest of the decade. I hope you're fucking happy you absolute dumbass.

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using the new profile links feature to put a pronouns button on my page, to try to make it look as identical to mastodon as possible, and also to free up the visual space for me to make sure "fuck ai" is prominent in the description

Solidarity with the workers at Bioware. Getting laid off after a project stings, but having the project never ship really hurts junior developers at a time where junior developers are under attack by slop merchants. Make sure to get references, and keep in touch with your fellow workers.

I worked with the current/outgoing GM of Bioware at a previous much smaller company many years ago, and I can only imagine the amount of bullshit handed down from on high Bioware devs all had to endure all these years.

We all decide together what our community does and does not value. If we don't value the labour of our own fellow devs then we lose everything as a community that separates us from the giant publishers currently destroying our industry. Do not accept slop. Not from yourself, not from you peers.

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social

I sincerely believe we're at a tipping point right now where AI usage, especially AI code usage, is on the verge of becoming normalized in some sections of the indie scene, and I dunno, if we can't push back against that then I think we're pretty conclusively on the back foot against AI as a whole

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Hello! My name is Gaby, I'm a music producer and audio engineer!🩵 Here is my reel for #PortfolioDay ! I've worked on Indie Games and I've also produced music for several artist. Feel free to reach out if you want to work with me! 📩:gabyponpoko@gmail.com  #kaigaiidols #indiegames #musicproduction

Workplace temperature regulation isn't even just for kitchen workers - though they are among the most effective - even in tech I've worked in offices that got up to dangerous temperatures because all the cooling was directed to the server room. Talking like high 40s most of the day.

Our platform is out. Here's a sample. Read the whole thing here: www.votecope.ca/platform

Zines are the way of the future for any indie scene. Or the way of the present for Andrew in particular.

This is in fact something I've been doing for years now at both small local events and big events like PAX. This is also like the 3rd time in the past month that I've been tagged into a post of someone wishing that people should do this so I feel like something people should start doing already.

Help build more worker owned game studios on the west coast!

Baby Ghosts@babyghosts.org

BC, Yukon, NWT and Nunavut: the Pacific/North hub needs a coordinator. IS IT YOU? Five months building a community network from scratch, $30,000, 25hr/week. You can live anywhere in the region; travel to Vancouver is covered when we need you there. https://babyghosts.org/hubs/coordinators

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Estimates found workers already waste 3.4 hours a month cleaning up the AI schlock, amounting to a monthly loss of $8.1 million for a workplace with 10,000 employees. wow it's almost like WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

For being basically a bunch of random-ass plugins in a trenchcoat the interoperability of everything in nextcloud is kind of insane. Like the ability to basically embed anything from any plugin into the basic text document filetype is something that I'd miss if I ever had to go back to gdocs.

I know the project is going well when typing `git` into the address bar auto completes to my own forgejo instance rather than github or gitlab.

About a year ago I went cold-turkey on music streaming platforms. For the most part bandcamp has been able to fill the void and help me find new music. But goddamn is the site unusable when you have a lot of random singles in your library, or want to download a new batch of music.

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Unity's Senior Product Marketing and Go-To-Market Leader releasing a video essay about how she hates seeing queer people in games really seals the deal in terms of switching to Godot, huh. If Unity's senior marketing staff doesn't want to see queer people in their games, done. Deal. Can do. So long.

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Replying to @katie.bzky.team

I TOLD YOU BRO!!!! I FUCKING WARNED YOU!!!!! AI UPSCALING IS EVIL. SHOULD'VE KNOWN THEY'D MAKE IT A GAMERGATE FILTER

i do not enjoy the trend of games that seemingly are designed solely with DLSS/FSR in mind in that it allows them to ignore optimization because "ah whatever they'll use upscaling anyways". it always looks worse and you cannot tell me otherwise!!!! i don't even use anti-aliasing!

new DLSS Tech undoes months of intentional lighting and environmental detail work; cannot decide if Depth of Field blur is on or off.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

New Nvidia DLSS Tech Gives Characters AI Slop Faces https://kotaku.com/new-nvidia-dlss-tech-gives-characters-ai-slop-faces-2000679199

Expansion of data collection is always the end-goal for these platforms, and it is up to us as the users of them and the general public to keep the heat on high if we want to prevent things like this.

Despite how excellent the news may seem, do not get comfortable just yet One key word to take this away from; "Halted," which means, the Age Verification junk is very much alive and there's a possibility they'll be trying this again Keep the pressure going, do not let them get away with this

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trade offer you receive: SMB3-like gay foxgirl platformer, turn-based roguelike starring an agender body snatching imp, adorable hat based puzzle game, and an SMB1-like platformer with fiesty fox girl protagonist we receive: $20 and the ability to survive the winter itch.io/s/169922/kit...