Hey There! I'm Reaching Out Because Giselle Is Facing Brain Surgery Soon, And She's Really In Need Of

This is true but also, people who use AI typically do not want something new, they want something that already exists, but in a lesser form they can claim ownership over. The primary use case of AI is to plagiarize, to reorder someone else's work, no matter whose, and put it on a leash.

The more you understand AI, the more you realize that it can't replace artists. It just can't. Even using the AI to make something requires being a creative human with an idea. Generative AI literally runs on a data set, it cannot conceptualize things that do not already exist -- or even things that DO but aren't in its data. And honestly, sometimes even the best models have a pretty hard fucking time conceptualizing things that very much do exist in their data set. The whole concept of creativity revolves around being able to conceptualize a unique idea that lives inside your brain. Being able to regurgitate things that already exist and being able to flesh out a fully original idea are completely opposite things. Even when you are prompting an AI model to generate something that you thought up, you have to explain it in terms of things that already exist so the AI can create it from those pre-existing pieces. If AI existed in 1930 you could not ask it to generate an image of gollum, because Tolkien did not create him yet. Do you see what I'm saying??????

I agree I agree I agree, it's evil and wrong and bad I haaate it. It's like, x and y were always BESTIES and now it's 10th grade and you're telling me this new direction z is best friends with x now? And y doesn't even talk to x anymore? I'm sobbing.

i still can't tell if using Y as up instead of Z in 3d vectors was the product of a deeply misguided mind or some kind of perverse evil

Male humid climate Gnome

Female cold climate Gnome

Columbo walking into a pool fully clothed and then drinking pool water.

The Most Crucial Game, season 2 episode 3 (1972)

Was working on a trail and now I'm stuck drawing with light - both forward and backward in time. Fun!

Will probably tone it down later, too bright.

Also, new area inspired by Moria from LOTR.

Translucence

Quick little update on Ruby Dungeon's developpement

In case anyone here follows me for Ruby Dungeon's related content (I don't think many do, the updates got little attention so far, but just in case), I just wanted to pop by to say that the game's not dead, I'm still actively working on it and great progress is being made.

I don't want to make content-related devlogs publically so to not spoil the game, nor release the content as it's being made because of the exploratory and open nature of the game, as slowly releasing stuff would force people into a single linear path, which isn't the intended experience.

What I can say though, is that 2 areas, a new ennemy type, more noticeable stat variety on existing ennemies, a new healing item and two special events have been added to the game so far in the past three weeks.

As for quality of life, I've just made a little rework of the inventory system to make it a lot more ligible:

I'm now working on a new higher level shopping area for the game, which isn't my favorite part to work on honestly. The progress to work ratio there is much smaller due to the amount of assets and texts that need to be made for the content, wheras a new area only take a few parameters, a few paragraphs, a single picture and a song, and bosses don't take much more then that either.

Therefore, it's probably gonna be a few days, if not weeks, before I'm done with the new shops. Once that's done though, progress should be much faster again, and the first half of the game should be quick work.

Thank you to anyone staying tuned for the game, and hoping to continue making progress fast.

If you haven't already, don't hesitate to check out the demo for Ruby Dungeon on my itch.io page:

https://bruoche.itch.io/ruby-dungeon

Have you played Frogun Encore yet? Like it's a whole sequel to Frogun, a platformer about a grappling gun that's also a frog 🐸💙

A recent New Scientist cartoon 🍄 #fungi

wormy wyvern (not to be confused with a wyrm)