for the entire time Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out, not to mention early access, I have not seen a single correctly colored tiefling, so I suppose I have to do everything by myself around here.
me, suddenly connecting the dots on which mutuals are reblogging this:
I’d like you all to think of a lot of low paying service jobs that could be helped by AI. Or physical jobs that are sometimes done by robots like cleaning that could be made better with AI.
Instead, the techbros of the world have decided that the best use for narrow AI is to replace all our creatives, with AI that churns out recycled garbage and can’t make a single joke.
Also yes, that is Grey DeLisle, better known to some as Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Voice actors seem be leading the charge against this for obvious reasons.
[ID: John Scalzi on Bluesky: Honestly I never want to see the word “disrupt” used in the context of any specific industry because it inevitably means “destroy that sector’s middle-class to more efficiently funnel money to the already-rich”]
Also, Grey is one of the hardest-working voice actors in the business, and it’s funny to me somehow that she’s “better known” as a role she hasn’t played in fifteen years.
Look at this cool new t-shirt I made for fans of Abraham Lincoln! I made it on my own time, with my own resources, and without any affiliation to existing public or private institutions concerned with history, education, hospitality, culture or retail. You can find it at my new Threadless shop or directly at bit.ly/imissabe
Chinese sellers on Aliexpress are trying to sell giant land snail eggs as “Little Hatch Toys” which is adorable and hilarious except of course that this is the most illegal animal in the United States and even a zoo or scientific institution would get in trouble for having any
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