Papiertutor - Papiertüte

wormy wyvern (not to be confused with a wyrm)

Example art from Tumblr users @poltergrease @teenageclown @randomationality

How I feel when making a lot of code so I can do a small amount of code later

An old meme I made a while ago when I did the code managing room generation for Ruby Dungeon, but I hadn't any social media at the time and it's currently relevent to me again so I'm posting it now-

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??????

Just added a new asset pack to my kofi!

Lowpoly items and pickups for any game you want to make ✨

Here👉

Ko-fi

Lowpoly Items & Pickups - molegato's Ko-fi Shop

A pack of 37 items for game pickups and items! Contains Coins, Gems, Money and Fruits.

for those of you who remember cgtextures circa 2008, texture.ninja has a large repository of public domain textures without annoying hoops to jump through.

More of Noita because I can

Something critical that a lot of modern tabletop RPGs that are shooting for the "shitty late 1980s/early 1990s indie RPG" vibe usually miss is laser animals. If you really want to capture the spirit of the era, your setting absolutely must have a "monster" that's just a regular animal that can shoot lasers. Doesn't matter what kind.