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LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 3d

Μου έχει τύχει να είναι πιο περίπλοκο απ'ότι θα έπρεπε για να το ρυθμίσω, αλλά πραγματικά αξίζει να μπει η "noAl." επιλογή σαν default επιλογή. Στέλνω ευχές για emotional support γιατί ξέρω πως & πόσο μπορεί να γίνει κουραστικό όταν χρειάζεται να παλέψεις για βασικά καθημερινά trivial πράματα.

Screenshot απ'το Vivaldi browser που χρησιμοποιώ στο κινητό μου (εδώ και λίγο καιρό) και έχω σαν default search engine το noai.DuckDuckGo.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 8d

That article failed to spotlight how much of a despicable human being the CEO Matt Karch truly is... Source: thisweekinvideogames.com/news/saber-i...

Screenshot from a ThisWeekInVideGames article:

Elaborating further on her comments on social media, Sacco remarked, “My boss, to his credit, argued over and over with the c-level who pushed the AI — ‘we already have Stella and she’s funny and she’s good at this, she’s done live games before so live ops are no problem,’ etc — but the suit insisted ‘gamers love new tech’ so using AI would be ‘great marketing'”

“To be clear, this was an issue of one to two AI dummy higher-ups at Saber,” she later clarified. “I have no beef with the UNIGINE team.”

[Update: 13 August 2026: This Week in Videogames requested a follow-up comment from Saber Interactive, and received the following statement from Karch:

“Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.

“Let me clarify that the entire story script, were it to win an award, would go to someone who can walk up on stage and receive it. It was always our intention to reveal this until Stella violated her confidentiality clause and revealed this before we were ready.

“We look at our use of AI in this particular game, which will be a lower priced title, as a plus for consumers,” he said.

“As far as Stella is concerned, she was replaced by someone more talented and terminated for a variety of reasons a few months later. From what I can gather she enjoys controversy even more than I do. I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI. At least we would be dealing with someone programmed to be honest.”]

Url to the original article:
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/saber-interactive-acknowledges-undisclosed-genai-use-in-rideshare-stimulator-denies-replacing-lead-writer-with-chatgpt/

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 8d

Screenshot of the Saber Interactive page on Steam.
Highlighting the fact that by accessing the options icon on said page, you can select the option "Ignore this Creator"!

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 8d

QTP with the last 4 games you played 🎮

A physical copy of "Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door" for Nintendo Switch!

Promotional image for POINPY.
A delightful rogue light game by Ojiro Fumoto (the second collaboration between Ojiro Fumoto and Devolver Digital after Downwell) which was originally released through Netflix (than delisted) and was recently re-released completely free of charge with no subscription requirement (quote from the games store page: POINPY is 100% FREE! No ads, no purchases required to play. If you love POINPY and want to support the developer, please leave a tip!)

A promotional image for Brutal Legend.
This promo was used when the game was "Free for the Next 666 minutes" at itch.io in honor of the late Ozzy Osbourne whom had passed away at the time.

A physical copy of "Animal Crossing New Horizons Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" for Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 (cartridge that includes the original Switch Edition + the Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack)!

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 21d

I'm so sad that Kōji Wada who did the original Butter-Fly song (JP theme/intro song) & various other Digimon songs past away in 2016 (cancer)... He was amazing, they did a tribute album titled "Digimon Song Best of Koji Wada" which used artwork with Angemon because it was his favorite Digimon...

Cover art of "Digimon Song Best of Koji Wada" album which I took from a site called wikimon.
The Digimon Angemon takes center stage in its gorgeous cover.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 23d

I very much appreciate the response & I'm sorry for any inconvenience/anxiety I may have created. I double checked a different, yet related incident & read that Cyan games have indeed "maintained a strict anti-gen-Al policy in recent years, and did not use generative Al in the development".

Screenshot from the article, it reads:
Update #2 [Wed 13th May 2026, 3:05pm]: Cyan's Leadership has gotten in touch regarding this story to give Time Extension the following statement:

"The vinyl album and artwork in question were designed by Robyn Miller (who departed Cyan around 1999, and owns the rights to sell the Myst and Riven soundtracks) in coordination with Fangamer. While Cyan provided screenshots to Robyn from our recent remake of Riven to use with the vinyl, the final imagery and design were not under Cyan’s purview, and Cyan does not financially benefit from the sales of the product. Cyan has maintained a strict anti-gen-AI policy in recent years, and did not use generative AI in the development of the Myst and Riven remakes."

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· 27d

🫡🫡🫡

The scene from Wonder Woman in which Diana (Gal Gadot) tries ice cream for the first time and honorably declares to the ice cream seller/maker that "You should be very proud."!

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jul 8

I can't find the "Sharing and reuse" menu!.... 😓

Screenshot from Instagram, actually used a search function available there in order to search for"Sharing and Reuse" but it didn't come up... Sharing, Tags and mentions, Follow and invite friends are some of the stuff that came up instead...

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jul 7

Είδα αυτή την ανάρτηση σε άλλα social και σκέφτηκα να την μοιραστώ εδώ (not affiliated) σε περίπτωση υπάρχουν και εδώ άτομα που ενδιαφέρονται αλλά δεν το έχουν πάρει είδηση. #gaming #Greece #GreekDeveloper #indie #indeiDev #GreekGameDev #HEGA #Gameathlon #GDA

Screenshot από ανάρτηση που έγινε στο Facebook πριν 14 ώρες περίπου.
Από Game Developers Association of Greece

Το κείμενο γράφει:
2 ημέρες απομένουν!

Η αντίστροφη μέτρηση ξεκίνησε. Σε 2 ημέρες ολοκληρώνονται οι αιτήσεις συμμετοχής για τα Hellenic Game Awards 2026.

🏆 Game of the Year - Για ελληνικά παιχνίδια που κυκλοφορούν μέσα στο 2025.
🚀 Day Zero - Για demos, prototypes και νέες ιδέες που κάνουν τα πρώτα τους βήματα.
🌟 Next Gen - Για δημιουργούς κάτω των 18 ετών που αναπτύσσουν τα δικά τους παιχνίδια.

Μην αφήσεις την ευκαιρία να χαθεί. Δήλωσε συμμετοχή σήμερα.
🔗 https://www.hega.gr
#HEGA #Gameathlon #GDA #GreekGameDev

Υπάρχει και μία εικόνα προσκολλημένη στην ανάρτηση, στην οποία διευκρινίζεται πως είναι "powered by ΕΚΚΟΜΕΔ", πως οι συμμετοχές κλείνουν σε δυο μέρες και το Gameathlon σχετίζεται με την ενέργεια.
Υπάρχει σχέδιο από Gameathlon και κάποιες ακόμα λεπτομέρειες.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 29

Nope, I don't trust them.

Screenshot from the YouTube channel of the person behind this app, their previous video was titled "Can AI Make Us More Creative?".
From a quick look at that video (on a private tab) they raised "some scepticism" while also promoting a certain usage of it.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 24

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles. #LemonySnicket

A screen crop from Netflix's adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" in which Jacqueline states the following: "in a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be" (check next image)

A screen crop from Netflix's adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" in which Jacqueline states the following: "difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles"

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 24

Looked up online if I could still get it physical... What I found was what appears to be generative slop guides...

Product page from an Italian bookstore, the product appears to be a physical guide for MIO: Memories in Orbit.

The full title (not on the cover but the product page name) appears to be needlessly long, in french I think (I found multiple products with like the same title in various languages and different covers), and the cover might quite possible be a genera-slop variation of the games cover art.

17.21€ available in 3 weeks... 🤷‍♀️

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 13

Wipeout Pure, Wipeout Pulse, Pursuit Force & MediEvil: Resurrection (which is the one that got away for me, never had a chance to play it).

Simple alt text (sorry): Cover art for Wipeout Pure for PSP with a gorgeous simple art style that uses few colors and lots of lines and angles.
One of the games futuristic vehicles is the center of attention.

Simple alt text (sorry): cover art for Wipeout Pulse with kinda similar art style to the previous one (bit less minimal, less mmmmmh two dimensional & more three dimensional) but now featuring some bolder colors in it like yellow, red and violet (💜)!
Two of the games futuristic vehicles are depicted like staring at them from the front while racing.

Simple alt text (sorry): cover art for Pursuit Force for PSP showing off the stylish gameplay of driving vehicles and jumping off them in order to hijack other vehicles while shooting!

Simple alt text (sorry): cover art for Medievil Resurrection for PSP.
A kinda playful and dark but colorful art showing the main character (a skeleton in armor holding a sword over its head and ready to fight).

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 9

Something something about headers, something something share your header as well, something something... I'm still sleepy...

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 5

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it black and white. Bart has decided that my hair is one of the most comfortable places of our house to sit upon, wether my hair is on my pillow or on my neck doesn't change that. I couldn't choose just one, both photos felt needed.

Step one.
Bart sits down on my neck where most of my hair was located, some of my hair was on my pillow which explains why his front little paws are placed there.

In this, now black & white, self-taken photo you can see me laid down on my bed (though my head is located on the side of the bed where my feet usually are, I was trying to get a quick rest at the moment) with Bart, the elder cat of the house, sitting on the side of my neck, where most of my hair was, with his front little paws placed on the pillow where some more of my hair was.
Bart is actually looking down on me while preparing to properly get comfortable with his chosen sitting arrangement. And I was weirdly giving him a literal side eye look as I was aware where this was going.

Irrelevant but since it may draw some of your attention, on the top right corner of the photo there's a piece of furniture where you can see my white smart scale that I torture with my weight.

Step 2.
Bart has now laid down completely, on top of my side of neck, head and pillow.

At this point Bart is simply staring in front of him, possibly happy with his choices, while seemingly appears like he's kinda pushing himself towards me in his caring way.
I on the other hand, simply stare towards the camera/my phone having accepted my faith.

Something irrelevant that may still catch your eye in this photo, is my "Lights/Darks" laundry basket on the top left side of the photograph.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 3

No support for people trying to normalize plagiarism through generative slop tools.

Screenshot of Crystal Dynamics, Inc. page on Steam, the "Ignored" box is checked.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 3

It's unacceptable to plagiarize and diminish the importance of people working. It's heartbreaking to see this being done to such a historic IP as #TombRaider .

Screenshot from the "Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis" Steam product page, where they declare their usage of generated plagiarized assets. Their disclosure is as follows:
AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses Al Generated Content like this: Al-assisted tools were used during development to support some early exploration and temporary development content. Any Al-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team.

Another screenshot from the "Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis" Steam page.
Underneath the promotional videos and screenshots of the game, between options like "Add to your wishlist" and "share", I have selected " Ignored" for my account.
I don't want to support people plagiarizing by using "generative tools" and declaring it's ok to do so.

A screenshot of the "Amazon Games" page on Steam.
For my account I've checked the "Ignored" option as a result of their malicious practices.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Jun 3

Yeah... Ubisoft keeps up with this shitty and relatively recent tradition.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 14

If I were to print this screenshots into 3 separate A4 papers, in order to use them as napkins to dry my fictional tears for them, that would be less wasteful for the world than their ignorant/irresponsible/harmful "$75,000 AI video contest" crap they pulled.

Screenshot of Party Animals page on Steam with the "Ignored" option checked.

Screenshot of Recreate Games page on Steam with the "Ignore this creator" option being selected.

Screenshot of Source Technology Inc. page on Steam with the "Remove ingore state" being left as it is.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 14

My company while posting this (he moved, so I took a second photo as well):

My elder cat Bart snuggling inside an open box of shoes.
Little face pressed against it.

My elder cat Bart snuggling inside an open box of shoes.
Little head got curious and started looking around.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 13

AAAAAAA!!! I'M FUCKING SCREAMING within me so loudly I might go deaf!!! THIS SHIT IS HAPPENING!!!!! (Please make of this some physical releases as well 🙏) #LadyGaga #MAYHEM #Music P.S. yeah I know, I need to chill. I'll go do just that... AAAAAAAAaaaaaaa.....

Screenshot of a new edition to the Apple music catalog - Apple Music Live: MAYHEM Requiem by Lady Gaga. The first four tracks (not yet available to stream and download) appear to be music tracks (video versions are present as well but not visible in this screenshot) and are 1) Intro 2) Disease 3) Abracadabra 4) Garden of Eden (they are specified as "Apple Music Live" versions)

Also when I saw Lady Gaga's social media post about this I was listening to Dark Chest of Wonders (Live) and it's visible on the bottom part of the screenshot.

Visible as well is part of a description for the release, but I'll describe that one in the next screenshot.

The full description for this release is overlaid on top of what was previously described.
It says: Apple Music Live: MAYHEM Requiem

For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.

Pre-add the exclusive live album and prepare for MAYHEM Requiem on 15 May. When Lady Gaga set up on an international tour in support of MAYHEM, her sixth studio album, she traveled the globe with her own opera house in tow. She built her own world, both nightmarish and ethereal, around the columns and ornate finishes of a gorgeous theater's facade, which served as the backdrop for her journey into the madness of MAYHEM. But now the opera house has been reduced to rumble-- and it's time to prepare for MAYHEM's final act.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 9

Not much sense in trying to calculate which is which, both spawn from the same sources of ignorance, misinformation, hate, bigotry and intolerance. They just arrive in mildly different forms.

Pictured are South Park's representation of political candidates: a giant deuce and the turd sandwich.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 4

May the 4th remind EA that some people want Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order & Survivor on Switch 2. (I'm also dropping here the article from which I took the image file with both games on it) gamerant.com/star-wars-je...

The cover artwork of Star Wars Jedi Survivor on the left and the cover of Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order on the right.

I'm sorry but at the moment I don't have the energy to leave more details about them in this alt text .

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· May 1

A reminder of how much full of crap Nacon can be as a game publisher. #gaming #Nacon #SpidersStudio #Greedfall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sin...

A screenshot from Wikipedia's page of "The Sinking City".
The text is as follows:

The release of the game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One was distributed by Bigben Interactive, which claimed to be the publisher but was only a distribution intermediary.[19) The exact role of Bigben (and Focus Home Interactive
previously) was explained by Frogwares CEO in an interview given to the French media Planète Aventure in February 2020, in which he explained that Frogwares had never worked with publishing companies. Bigben Interactive and Focus Home Interactive were only licensees which do not possess
intellectual properties on the games.[19]
Frogwares was previously working on Call of Cthulhu in collaboration with Focus Home Interactive.[20]

Distributor dispute and delisting

Nacon (formally Bigben Interactive)was licensed to distribute the game until April 20,2020. The contract was terminated by Frogwares, on account of both intellectual property violation and lack of payment.[21]
This resulted in The Sinking City being delisted from Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 digital storefronts on August 25, 2020 pending the resolution of Frogwares' legal dispute with Bigben. The Nintendo Switch version of the
game remained available on the Nintendo eShop, as that version had been self-published by Frogwares.[22] The game was republished onto.. (continues in second screenshot)

A second screenshot from Wikipedia's page of "The Sinking City".
The text is as follows:

Frogwares.[22] The game was republished onto Steam in February 2021 by Nacon. Frogwares quickly denounced this re-release of the game on Twitter claiming that it was not the version they created, accusing Nacon of using a version that was "hacked" from their version of the game to change out certain
assets and mask its origins. Fans of the game began to review bomb the re-release, in support of Frogwares. Nacon asserted that they have financially met the terms of their contract with Frogwares and that the developers were trying to change the terms
of the agreed-upon contract,[23][24]and further that the contract stipulated that Nacon was the sole entity that could release the game on Steam, despite Frogwares' own attempts to release a version of the
game without mention of Nacon. Nacon justified this clause in the contract for releasing the modified version of the game on Steam.[25] Frogwares issued a DMCA takedown notice to have this version on
Steam removed on March 2,2021.[26]

On January 2, 2024, Frogwares announced that they became the sole publisher of the game for all platforms, resolving its legal dispute with Nacon.[27]

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 23

He wasn't of much help during the exercise part but he has been very inspirational for the cooling down part afterwards.

Bart (the elder cat of the house) is all cozy, comfy and cuddled inwards (come un ciambellone) on top of an exercise mat.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 23

Post a meme made by you (I'm not sure weather this qualifies as a meme, but it really represented how I felt at the time)

It's a "meme" in which the upper half part caption says "other people on dating apps" (though what I think I should have written was "other people texting me on dating apps be like") and pictured is a four panel screen capture from the movie "Scary Movie" in which four characters are simultaneously screaming on top of their lungs "WHAT'Z UUUP" while talking on the phone and sticking their tongues out.

The bottom half part of it has the caption "Me on Dating Apps" and pictures Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil VIllage being on the phone with a somewhat frowned and disappointed expression on her face.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 23

A screenshot of how this post appears in my phones Bluesky app.
Top right & bottom right seem line up quite well together. Top left & bottom right is close but not so well lined up with each other and not at all line up with the others (though they appear quite different so maybe they weren't supposed to be).

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 22

I wanted to check and... I'm so happy, I'm under the impression that I was able to block them before they blocked me 🥹 ...I think.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 14

Do I need to get off the couch and visit the loo? Yeah, kinda... Do I feel like doing so, knowing I would have to disturb the peaceful & quiet state Bart's at? ...No, I do not...

I'm on the couch, covered with a nice warm blanket and in this photo you can see Bart (a tabby cat) being all snuggled up and serene while taking a nap on top of legs.

LAEER (She/Her~They/Them)@laeerak· Apr 13

Maybe, just maybe... @bladesoffire.bsky.social 🤔