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GUMPY @gumpy.acegikmo.com · 04/10/2026

on AI generated voiceovers in games

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Reposted by Freya Holmér

bug coudnt swim

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productivity productivity productivity come on are you done yet? hurry just finish the thing productivity!! ok I'll finish it for you I'm stealing your idea and releasing it before you bc you're too slow I'm actually not a bad guy you're just gatekeeping

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sorry the idea guys can't hear you because they think communication only goes one way

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oh it's a dialogue heavy game? can't use gibberish VO? okay so this is radical but hear me out - what if, you collaborate with, aspiring voice actors? or, just get your friends or family to help out? I will warn you this requires some socialization, collaboration, and creativity though, ugh :(

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but maybe your game truly needs AI generated VO. maybe you can't afford professional VO! who am I to gatekeep your vision! you're aiming higher than shitty low tier games that couldn't even bother with professional voice acting like undertale, outer wilds, and hollow knight

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if your supposed skill is in ideation, and yet you can't think of a single way to make your game without AI generated VO? then you've got a pretty long way to go with your ideas if your only conception of "good" is "high fidelity/professional"

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I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to just bite the bullet on the fact that, yes, we should gatekeep art, actually we do not owe you access to the sum total of every single professional creative skill that was extracted from humanity and put into the machine, without our consent

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I think it's a meta thing where if you type that enough times, it's supposed to be a question for yourself

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when I started learning illustration i kept thinking "man, this is hard, I'd rather just roll a dice several times to get something approximately finished, that I can then use my human effort to clean up"

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when I started out programming I just couldn't wait to one day get to stop problem solving and stop designing architecture, to blossom into a full time robot herder and PR reviewer

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

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he's not allowed to hang out with gumpy yet :( this crime scene is outside of his jurisdiction

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there's two suspects on the scene

salad and gumpy hanging out in the bathroom

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

heard a strange set of sounds coming from the bathroom, followed by a suspicious amount of silence I found a dead wasp drowned in the sink, and a cat with this facial expression what do we make of this

closeup of gumpy (the cat) making a face

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or someone refactoring their spline tool for the fifth time across multiple years haha can you imagine

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a pathology for craftsmanship taken to the extreme would be someone drawing the same picture over and over for years, with 0 desire to grow or any vision for creating something more impactful beyond themselves or their own enjoyment

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this isn't to say it's bad to have a visionary/artistry stance, I think it's good to have a healthy balance of all three. they all have pathologies at the extremes, but I think most tend to lean a lot more towards the craftsmanship and creativity side, the more experienced they become

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there's even a derogatory term for inexperienced yet overly confident people who lean in the artistry/visionary direction - "idea guys" they don't know how or even if something is possible but they want their ideas realized and they're confident it'll be great

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others lean more in the artistry/visionary direction. they want to realize their vision/idea, but they don't really care how they get there, and if that's the case, whatever gets you there faster is simply better (...theoretically)

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I think this is a really good example of the problem with the word "artist", and where the creativity vs artistry/vision vs craftsmanship lens can be useful people who agree with the sentiment here (myself included) heavily value craftsmanship - skipping over the craft defeats the purpose but,

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yeah, this seems pretty likely

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the average artist works really damn hard for generally pretty bad pay and/or bad working conditions but I think passionate people engaging in skillful work should be recognized and rewarded! this feels extremely obvious to me but maybe it's not anymore, in this productivity obsessed hellscape

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I genuinely don't understand why so many people have an almost instinctual feeling that artists don't deserve success, or worse, that success is somehow necessarily antithetical to being a true artist it's like there's no way to win, except for total self-sacrifice and devaluing of your work

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sometimes it feels like a lot of normal people conceptualize an "artist" as a superposition of both A. a super wealthy fine art elite who does low effort abstract art nobody understands B. someone magically born with the art talent gene even though A is 0.000001% of artists and B is not a thing

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I'm thinking maybe the top left black/white dot isn't as restrictive as I imagined it would be if I consider the puzzles separately although the real solution is probably to sleep on it

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actually wait I think it *is* impossible the way I drew it, but the way this works in-game is slightly different it's actually 6 puzzles with these individual features separately, but they need to all be solved with the same path

screenshot of the puzzle from the witness

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yeah I'm guessing it's for the same reason it's from my notes rather than a screenshot lol

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the tetromino blocks are all yellow in the game, so I can't group them with the stars

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a few floors down after entering the big mountain from the top

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why did they put an unsolvable puzzle in the witness I mean it could be that I just haven't figured it out yet but what are the odds of that

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yeah it's gotta be something like that, although the three other cats don't react to it positively at all, even those who are sensitive to catnip in general

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every cat has at least one Weird Thing, and yesterday I discovered one of Gumpy's she likes toothpaste

Gumpy sniffing my toothbrush, grimacing like a metalhead hearing a really nasty riff

gumpy very close to my face, demanding more toothpaste sniffs

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