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Lidsel

@lidsel.bsky.social
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.NET programmer/visual artist/on-and-off indie cRPG dev. She/her 🌈🇪🇺 lidsel.tumblr.com

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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think part of the problem is that we've commoditized human interaction/time to the point where many people no longer see that as a viable option. These companies aggressively prey on that, perpetuating the idea that all human interaction is an imposition is core to their business model.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
For anyone with a tumblr account - I have a fun new poll up where you get to pick which artwork I work on next www.tumblr.com/lidsel/81452... #sketchpoll #dragonage #fanart
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Poll time! · Here's a fun thing I wanted to try doing here. I bring you four sketches. You vote for your favorite. The winner gets prioritized on my to-do list. I will try to finis…
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Tempus, give us victory! #baldursgate #fanart #branwen
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#ArtFight2025 Attack #3: Zena for Aelum (www.tumblr.com/aelulu or malmal.io/u/aelum)
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
#ArtFight2025 Attack #2: Sulien for @purrichi.bsky.social
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
#ArtFight2025 Attack #1: Marya for Pizza-Hats (pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882.tumblr.com)
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Based on this photo set: cubebrush.co/obscura_29/p...
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Love in Shadows: 900+ Couple Poses on Cubebrush.co
Introducing "Love in Shadows: 900+ Couple Poses" – a hauntingly beautiful collection of 900+ photos of female and male models in poses inspired by the myster...
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Mortimer and Bella for my fellow simheads. Happy (belated) 25th anniversary! #fanart #TheSims
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Valas for @martastick.bsky.social
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's less about the speed and more about the tediousness of typing nearly the same thing many times over. Maybe it's my desktop frontend bias. You end up writing so many POCOs, factories and mappers that all function nearly the same VS suggesting autocompletions feels like a godsent.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We used to be able to just talk to humans about it, but now we're so brainwashed by the internet that you just don't know what manner of aggravating bullshit you can expect. In that way speaking to a people-pleaser machine feels safe and it doesn't charge 100€/h like a therapist.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
(The original by Lauren Montgomery - thebestlaurenmontgomery.tumblr.com/post/1062820...)
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Exorcising the desire to redraw my favorite #MonsterHigh box art.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Aarno for @kriskukko.bsky.social Originally meant to draw him for Art Fight, but didn't have enough time. Kris has been the kindest and most encouraging person I've met in a while and you absolutely should check out his awesome work.💖
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
After over a year of sabotaging the red cowls from within, the time has come for the final act. Eneíthio has conspired with the rebels to grant them access to strategic points in the city to mount an armed revolt. Once he hands over the keys his fate is sealed and the punishment for treason is death
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Diving back into the well of Eneíthio's backstory - The point of no return. #art #oc
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I guess it's another facet of the ephemeral reality we now live in. You don't get to own things anymore, so everything can be taken away and the few things you do buy to keep don't last as long as they should. The ideal is a meaningless life without attachments, optimized to benefit the corporate.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Yeah, seems much smarter to train models on mocap footage for microanimations if you wanna go that route.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
You reckon Elon would be memester enough to organize a purge event on a private island only to get purged first because he's actually bad at tech and his expensive purge protection gets hacked immediately? (Nevermind me, just spinning entertaining scenarios here.)
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Well I guess we're already at the dead internet speedrun of this fad then, thought we had a little more time.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Desperation terrorism is really gonna be a thing now, I suppose.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Before Baldur’s Gate 3 had a big buff red barbarian lady Pillars of Eternity had a big buff blue barbarian lady. And I think they would actually really get along, this is a friendly match. #art #fanart #baldursgate3 #karlach #pillarsofeternity #maneha
An illustration of Baldur's Gate 3 companion Karlach armwrestling with Pillars of Eternity companion Maneha.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What do you mean this year - they always had synthesized audio?! I think they used the Google one when I tried it before the pandemic.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Are we just headed in a direction where this "content" is made by AI for AI purely for the sake of "revenue" because humans can no longer actually afford entertainment (or anything really) after they've eliminated our jobs?
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The desperation to get ROI there is painful to watch.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This. The publishers will usually let the author ok the cover, but pick it in the first place. Unfortunately there have already been situations where the author didn't realize the cover was AI-generated until it was too late to change it.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The AI industry’s seizure of other people’s property, declaring it to be worthless, then pricing it at a premium once “processed” through them, has a historical precedent, and it’s not a good look. Yup. It’s good old colonialism. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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If all this stuff is worthless, mind if we just take it?
How 21st Century tech is doing the old colonial grift all over again.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can you imagine how much actual profit we could gain if we diverted all this genAI funding and resources into healthcare and education? All those less messed up people operating with more hope and life satisfaction instead of turning to bots because they can't/don't know how to talk to people... 😢
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
GRIFT
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Boycotting Funko requires having previously been buying their crap though.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A grift all the way down. 😔
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I hope they use these to train the genAI models 😈
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
That's another problem. I don't think the game in question can be finished by one person either! 🥲 (I just really wanna make those debate-me-bro simulators happen, but idk how to get the money and talent, it's literally giving me existential crisis... 😔)
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Is "it's interesting, but can they find something it's actually good for and stop all the bad and useless stuff" considered "fucking with AI"? Like could it do good roto or mocap maybe or do I have too much hope? 🤔
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Matt Hansen of Matt Hansen fame @matthansenart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sickos.jpg I wanted so badly to make him mad with my game, and I cannot believe it actually happened. Just wait until you see the default, you said little shit.
Screenshot from reddit of a screenshot from Twitter, in which Elon is commenting on a screenshot from Avowed posted by another user. The screenshot shows the character creation overview screen, including character pronouns. Elon and the other user are whining that pronouns are preset.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I think it's great. Get Gr*mz and all the other awful industry people in there so they can make horrible games for the annoying assholes who complain about "wokeness", "politics" and "censoring creative (read: gooner) vision". Put them in their own shitty little garden and fence it with barbwire.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
It is finally done! Ulysses Barker and Miss Sybil, attending a social gathering at their friends' estate. (I posted more details about the story they're from on my tumblr) #art #oc #victorian
An illustration of a young couple in 1860s fashion, leaning against a stone balustrade and staring lovingly at each other, with a green garden and distant town in the background.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Looks like I can finally tag both @drawingangie.bsky.social and @franbautistart.bsky.social (in addition to @itsberru.bsky.social) for credit designing these characters! 💙
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
I hope Blender team eventually gets around to making their texture painting tools decent.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
This is a running Crysis situation. It's not optimized to run on any machine - just throw more cycles at it and hope for the best. I can imagine they probably acceptance test on much simpler models and paying off technical debt is too expensive to get an ok from the management. 😔
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
You just need a supercomputer with a couple 4090Tis and maybe it'll have enough juice to render that in real time.😑 IDK if Adobe and Autodesk decision-makers are at all interested in improving the software at this point. They have the pipeline lock-in, people will pay the sub money no matter what.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Damn, that feels so unnecessary. It's like they're trying to eat a soup with a fork just to prove they can.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
It's not gonna be good, but maybe it makes you clearly imagine something better that could be made instead with that idea. I think that aspect can be pleasant and kinda addicting. Trying to get a specific result out of AI is miserable and no - anyone telling you they like it is lying.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Idk, it's like taking drugs, no? You have an idea for something visual and you just type it in a box and get a stimulus back instantly. If you wanted to paint that that's 30h of research and planning and labor making you wonder whether you're a hack, but here you get a visual to ponder on instantly.
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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
speaking as the artist who designed Young Liz for Bioshock Infinite, I love to see an article promising a bold new future where she could just look like someone’s half-assed cosplay instead
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
More so than by the people doing it I'm grossed out that we have created a society where there's an incentive to do this. The content culture of capitalism has made mockery of the creative process.
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
I may have hated going through Soul Cairn, but I did enjoy having Serana around. #fanart #skyrim #dawnguard
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Lidsel @lidsel.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
CC @trickweekes.bsky.social I believe you wrote one of those! Excited to see your work soon!
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