That’s just great, as a transfem I now feel I have to drop my current plans, to stop and contemplate if I enjoy making 3d game art because I’m trans, or if 3D game art somehow made me trans. It’s not the programming side, but is still the visuals and graphics…

I am 99% sure, if it had to be one of those options, it would be the former. I doubt it’s either of the two… And yet, how will we know.

So now I am cursed to I sit and ponder the possibilities

Until the brat decides one time to not be a brat, to fuck with the dom who’s hoping for them to brat :3 Bonus points for feigning ignorance on the change

Only to ramp it up the next day when their guard is lower 🐱

I’m a night owl (fox? :3c) so I believe the moon door would be relevant for me

Idk, I feel like I’ve just kinda stalled for a year and not really progressed anywhere… Maybe next year…

Not to just throw negativity on a positive post though! Happy for everyone who has/is progressing! ❤️

Foxxo had their orange returned, nature is healing ❤️

Texture/material creation is fun :3 I’ve got a few tileable procedural material projects I need to finish sometime when I have the time… But seeing it come together is always nice

And yeah, quite a few AAA games have been caught using AI art (multiple times) and had some large backlash too which is comforting

Art is being hit quite hard to be honest… It’ll still exist as a hobby, but as a career it’s getting harder to get into as more and more companies are replacing it with AI.

Look at Nvidia constantly trying to improve their AI to make game-ready 3D assets. It’s not totally there yet, but they’re determined to do so… So not even 3D art is safe. And that just means in the future everyone’s going to be paying same full price for games that visually and coding-wise has been made with AI. Same price, significantly less quality

I just pray they don’t manage to get it 100% replacement, but I’m also not holding my breath anymore…

It does comfort me that there is a lot of backlash to AI art in games for now… I just hope it doesn’t become normalised and more accepted over the years.

I feel the same… 6 years spent on 2 degrees to get into game development, and as soon as I graduate from the last one, the aftermath of COVID and then AI burn the industry and cause it to be nearly impossible to get into for the average junior and layoffs are increasing each year… Then people say we gotta just “deal with it and stop complaining” 🙄

I’m tired of it all

But we’re not talking about “making fun of people” - which also isn’t the same as the active demonisation, villanisation and sometimes even dehumanisation of trans people, especially from the media and in politics, rather the topic is about laws actively being made against an entire demographic of people.

And freedom of speech is protection against being arrested for your speech. It’s not relevant since no one here has suggested anyone be arrested for it.

It’s a shame it’s not open source, but I’ve found Affinity to be a great alternative to Photoshop + Illustrator. Especially with them recently going free. I’ve always felt GIMP has been a little… Lacking. I hope one day it has that large burst of development and catches up, like how Blender did so long ago… As I’ll always prefer open source.

I’m sadly stuck with Adobe for stuff like Substance Painter + Designer for now :/

The issue with this argument is HRT in trans women after 2 years reduces muscle and bone density down to the levels within the average ranges of cis women… Removing the “biological advantage”. This is widely studied and recognised in science, and it’s not even new science…

It’s the constant intake of the higher testosterone levels that causes the increased baseline strength which lowers as the hormone does. HRT for Trans Women includes both Androgen blockers (blocks testosterone) and estrogen to fill its place. Hence “hormone replacement therapy”

I’d say it’s less “being honest” and more than most people are ignorant (accidentally or maliciously) to just how much HRT affects the body and how it affects the body… Just like how trans men significantly gain baseline strength over 1-2 years into HRT

Which is exactly why sports organisations like the Olympics (before Trump pressured them to drop trans people) required a set amount of time of HRT medical history and blood tests to check hormone levels are in average cis women ranges to allow trans people to take part.

But if you believe the people on the right demanding the erasure of trans people, you’d assume it’s just “men with the biological advantages dunking on women” while ignoring all effects the body undergoes. Which then allows the constant attacking of trans people for simply existing (even though majority trans people aren’t even trying to get into professional sports… But that doesn’t make for a “good” news story or political point scoring when fighting to demonise trans people…)

In one way, I agree, but unfortunately with Executive Dysfunction it can also affect your need to eat or look after yourself, as your brain just fails to assign or prioritise tasks. It gets really bad for me if I am or was recently overstimulated, or if I’m having a depressive episode.

I’ve had days where all I needed to do was have a shower, go to the shop, eat food then go play a game since it was the weekend. But the dysfunction hit so hard I couldn’t do any of it so just sat staring at a wall for an hour and doomscrolling for another few hours. I’d have preferred to have just played the game, but since that was one of my planned tasks, I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Took majority of the day before I could break out of it and get to the shop before they closed. Almost sounds odd when explaining it but the brain is an unusual thing sometimes…

But yeah I do agree that sometimes people work themselves too hard and need to find time to stop and give time to themselves