Ivy "IV" Nivek

I make videogames and I like sexy ladies, that's just how it is.

[ivynivek]

silksong tomorrow

[gothhabiba]

it's interesting the weight that words such as "incest" "rape" and "pedophilia" pull in things written by the callout-post fandom. there's a slippage between "an eroticised fantasy concept of, or fictional portrayals of, rape" and "actual acts of rape, as they occur in real life," that is of course intentional on the part of the people who write these posts.

the rhetorical strategy here is that the word "rape" (or "incest" etc.) is used to stand in for both of these things—so that the author can say "unfollow and block me if you find incest hot, or if you hang around anybody who finds incest hot"—when, if you have background knowledge in what this conversation is usually actually about, you know that what is meant by "incest" is something like "a portrayal of incest occurring between fictional characters." which is, factually, not incest.

I just think it's a disingenuous use of language. and if the argument is that they feel if a fictional portrayal of something can be literally incest—I mean I kind of just don't believe that anybody actual thinks that. I feel like even if you have a strong sense of moral disapproval of the eroticisation of fictional rape, you must on some level know that there is a difference between that and e.g. pornographic material produced of somebody actually for real being raped.

[ivynivek]

Ivy PLEASE GIVE ME THE ANSWER IN 3 YEARS IM STILL DONT KNOWING WHAT THE HELL IS THE NPC SAYING WITH "+"

(please, again)

(i dont know why i feel that the problem is that i am playing in easyrpg)

Hello, I'm not sure if you're aware, but I have updated the game to allow you to input "Plus" instead of the character "+", which allows compatibility with EasyRPG.

[ebb-is-learning]

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

[demilypyro]

People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????

[esoteric-merit]

one of my friends is a mobile game designer who's worked for big companies before.

One of the things she's told me she's proud of before, was a time when one of the (older) users of the game she was designing discussed her strategy of drinking extra water to wake up early enough to claim her dailies, and how proud she was that she made a game people liked that much.

Even looking her in the eye and asking "getting 60 year olds to disrupt their sleep schedule by pissing themselves makes you proud?" did not get her to hear herself talk.

I think a lot of people don't comprehend the evil of dark patterns. They handwave it all away by "it's personal decisions people make", even while they see the patterns of behaviour they create on the populace. They read falling into those patterns as focus and grindset, if anything. And for a good number of people, pay-to-win is a *positive* thing.

I think if I were tasked with coming up with a way to make a populace depressed, unhealthy, and insomniac, even without getting them to pay me, I'd be heading towards video games stuffed with dark patterns. And such a video game would also produce profit for me, as it happens.

[demilypyro]

I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

I don't know how else I can say that I think the censorious desire is inherently totalitarian, and an important hallmark in fascism. Punishing someone for hate speech is different from saying that there shouldn't be any more record of hate speech in the world. The idea that certain kinds of media (pornography for instance) are inherently lesser in worth and so acceptable to have wiped clean from the earth is even more fascist in ideology.

People will try to pretend this isn't the case by pointing to the absolute, worst in the barrel slop and saying this is what they're actually getting rid of, but this is a lie. These people are lying to you and using a fallacy to do so. They do not fucking care if "high-content" pornography gets erased from existence, or queer pornography, or pornography that doesn't even violate any of their supposed lines. They do not have them. They have a conservative impulse to censor and a disgust morality. It's all there is to it. They will constantly move the goalposts.

So yes, it is important that ultimately everything stays.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

"Are you saying I'm a fascist for wanting to get rid of porn?" Not inherently. I think you are disturbingly susceptible to fascism and what it is trying to offer you. You have internalized that fascism is bad without actually considering what fascism is. You think because you don't wear a swastika that you are fine, but this lack of deeper political thought ultimately is the issue.

This goes doubly for queer people. You are not good people when you engage in this behavior, you are actively dangerous and will sell out your peers inevitably.

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[shamebats]

It's neglect. It's abuse. If a kid kicks and screams when you take away their distraction, that's not because they're spoiled, it's because they've never learned to actually be in the moment and interact with people and things around them. The world outside the tablet is new and scary to them.

Plus, most likely they were basically taught acting like a normal kid was bad.

Don't touch that. Stop asking questions. Stop making a mess. Don't. Stop. I'm busy. Get out of the way. Sit down. Be quiet.

[shamebats]

This might sound bleak but to some of those kids, that tablet is their parent. It's the only parent they know. It's become their wire mother.

[aleliante]

Neglect really is something, because a part of me will always think I'm at fault that my parents chose to leave me alone with my emotions and problems. Or that I just should have done better when they did. They didn't always fuck up! They did good things for and with me! But they were never stable enough to really be there for me. And that fucks you up. If your childhood is drowning yourself in distractions from the pain, you have to find yourself at some point in time when others are four kilometers ahead already. Your beloved memories are rare. Your bonding with people was rare and you have to learn how to people and how to bond.

Distraction becomes an addiction.

[shamebats]

I regularly begged mine to help me find something to do because I was so incredibly bored of screens and they'd just tell me to do chores (which would always end with my mother saying I was doing it all wrong and sending me away).

My father worked from the garage and my mother was a housewife and they still managed to be so completely absent and neglective, that's how much they hated being around us.

It actually felt awkward for my brother & me to have to be in the same room as them because they were essentially strangers to us. Family outings were always a stressful disaster so we rarely went anywhere.

[shamebats]

#happened to me and i developed maladaptive daydreaming before i got access to tech/ youtube #and i watched it happen to my little sister the moment she stopped being a cute toddler to play with #its so hard to put into words how this 'youre loud and annoying go away' effects you. effected me #my mums number one thinh she always says to me about my childhood is 'i was such an easy kid to raise' #its like i knew she was 18 and just. from the moment i was born. i learned to be as small as possible

The "easy kid" to struggling in every respect of life because you feel like you need to learn and do everything on your own (& perfectly too) and never ask for anything as an adult pipeline is real.

[beardedmrbean]

This is a consequence that really never gets brought up, and it really should be because of how damaging it can be.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[toyota-supra]

the thing that sucks is that people love saying sleep early is good etc etc and yeah it is. I've seen some benefits before. but I think it sucks to ignore that late night is the only time with any freedom. I think it sucks to not acknowledge the dread in waking up and it's a work day again

[toyota-supra]

"fast travel to work" is a great way of putting it. because a lot of people say "but the less time you have at night, the more time you have during the morning!" but your morning is like, getting emotionally ready to get off of bed, taking your meds, taking a shower, making and eating breakfast, going to work, etc. and waking up early will just make you do that stuff early. it won't give you more time to rest, it won't give you more time to talk to anyone, it won't inherently give you anything at all even. sometimes saving up 30-60 minutes before work is just kind of a nothing amount of time. it's like saying extended lunch break is free time. it's not. just because you're not actively working doesn't mean you're not giving your time to your employer

[sacred-portal]

[cargopantsman]

[zero-aka]

Few photos of my Tenna Cosplay weeee 📺✨

[chromolume]

myths about sinking britain

“there is no historical precedent for sinking britain!” doggerland, which connected britain to the european mainland, was submerged by water in 6500BC. there is precedent for sinking britain.

“it is unfeasible to sink britain!” britain is strategically located to allow many nations to co-operate in its sinking

“sinking britain would raise sea levels!” the netherlands already has dams

“sinking britain would cause more problems geopolitically than it would solve!” we simply won’t know this until we sink britain

[eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061]

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

[miraclemaya]

it's kinda crazy what a common experience it is for like your parents to do something insanely traumatizing to you and then just not remember they did it at all while you remember forever

[risenshiney]

Paint’n studies I did on my Wii U gamepad earlier in the year.

[sony-official]

on your what