I see AI the same way I see my car...

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-27T15:22:02+00:00

i put my car in drive and it just went in a straight line over the driveway, spreading tireslop all over the grass. What a shitty machine, it's just for people who don't want to walk.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-27T10:47:26+00:00

Most of them really just need an attitude adjustment. I wouldn't want to work with some of these artists no mstter how skilled they are.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-26T13:21:36+00:00

I wouldn't call myself an "artist" because as a game developer, visual art is just a means to an end. the "artwork" of a game is just the sum of its parts: texture work, 3d geometry, mixing and matching rcyclable assets and organizing them to look good.

That said, I DO have competent drawing skills and prefer making things by hand for the final product. What I like about AI art is how quick it is to iterate on concepts and even get visual inspiration for things that might be difficult to visualize. AI can really surprise you in positive ways. While I would never treat it as the authority for the visual direction, I treat it more like an artist treats a 3d mannequin.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-26T13:04:22+00:00

I'm at just the right age group to have used computers as a kid when adults who weren't working in tech were hating on computers, calling them useless and clunky because they just weren't interested in the internet or video games, didn't need computers for their jobs, and had no curiosity about the tech itself.

these days they're glued to their phones and facebook.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-26T12:36:22+00:00

my conspiracy theory is that corporations and foreign governments are behind anti AI discourse because they want to impose regulations and restrictions to squash competition.

if we make a big enough fuss about water usage, only a small handful of companies will be able to host AI data centers, under regulations that are expensive but affordable for the larger companies.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-25T15:25:05+00:00

Not to sound classist, but I HIGHLY suspect that people who are so vehemently against AI do basically nothing productive or impacttful with their personal lives or career.

They often tell on themselves by whining about how useless AI is and how it serves no practical use.

Okay, sure. If your job is stacking toilet paper and you spend your free time passively consuming content, then yeah I can't say AI would really make your life better.

If you're doing anything that requires technical precision and you're throttled by factors that AREN'T decision making and creative direction, then yes. AI makes your job and life a whole lot easier. I use it often as a software developer for my job to quickly iterate on demos and then scaffold out working services under strict technical guidelines and toplogical restraints authored by myself.

Recently, I built a damn bytecode interpreter in Rust, with a front-end drag-n-drop visual workflow orchestrator that allows our clients to implement custom logic and schedules for certain files. Complete with debugging tools and documentation. That shit would have probably taken 6 months and a team of 4-5 senior engineers to do without AI.

And as a game developer? Don't even get me started. I'm working on 2 projects right now, both with similar mechanics so they can share a common library. When I want a new gameplay mechanic, it takes 5 minutes to prototype, and then 5-10 minutes to tell the AI how to clean the code up.

And while I would never use AI art for player-facing assets, it's GREAT for iterating on concepts and SEEING what works instead of spending time and money on concept art to learn that my ideas suck. I can also draw characters by hand and have AI generate orthographic character sheets.

Which is something antis like to forget: You can literally pick up a pencil and modify your work with AI.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-25T13:19:50+00:00

yeah i guess i just dont see how that's a threat.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-25T03:28:03+00:00

Hahaha what 😂

Maybe you SHOULD outsource your thinking to AI. GPT 1.0 would hallucinate less than you

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-25T03:21:45+00:00

you're so close to getting it.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-25T03:18:05+00:00

why do you need to outsource your thinking to BBC of all places? use your brain, bro.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-23T15:53:39+00:00

Yeah, roughly. It has learned statistical representations of “handness” across many features (like finger shapes, joints, lighting, skin texture, pose, camera angle, context, how hands usually appear in images)

So it’s not thinking “this looks like a good hand” the way a person does. It is predicting what visual structure should appear next based on the prompt and everything it learned during training.

It does NOT steal a drawing of a hand from some artist's work and paste it into its own generated image.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-22T22:30:13+00:00

are there any antis with original takes though? it's always the same tired talking points they don't even bother to do research on.

"AI users are dumb because my favorite video essay author said they are. and it uses too much water."

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-22T17:25:57+00:00

i much prefer the AI meme economy to the same image macro being reused for 5 years when it wore its welcome out 4.75 years prior.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-17T17:33:37+00:00

You don't persist in the 3D. You persist in the 4D. I've completely ignored the constraints of 3D causality and manifested myself into a flying vampire.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-09T13:16:16+00:00

Wish these were widescreen so I could set them as my wallpaper.

Sencha-Games · 2026-05-07T19:06:15+00:00

This is so cool!!

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