S-Tie

Portfolio video of my work in Wander Stars (2025). If you need a freelance sound designer with 3+ years experience in video game SFX development, a team member with flexibility, and truly authentic-sounding anime sound effects, get in contact! Work email: estie838@gmail.com

World so fucked even I FULLY agree with what the Pope said here in his first encyclical

@brougkr @MisterBiotic @artwithinpod Only the richest and most powerful have access to the best AI tools. This is by design.

@MisterBiotic @artwithinpod now factor in 2nd order effects of AI curing disease, paralysis, blindness, deafness, discovering new physics, solving mathematics, accelerating material science, extending healthy lifespan, reducing scarcity, and massively increasing human productivity on a civilizational scale?

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

@lydianreddot @kennixonette Unironically a powerful sentence

@kennixonette Nah, Squid lived through the AIDS crisis and it’s made him a little sad.

squidward is an ageing conservative homosexual, probably with a catholic background. you can tell he resents spongebob for being openly femme even though he himself is a bitchy quеenу gay guy who's too bald and poorly dressed to even be charming with it.

Rise of The Machines

Me in the lab day 1 trying to figure out Yujiro's frame data

@khalilenjoyrats This is why it's way, way, way better to like something rather than be a fan of it.

Glitch productions being outed for scummy behavior from creators and execs, pure unfettered hatred for mixtape, Toby fox localization discourse, fandom culture is starting to show cracks Millennial artists kinda suck and it’s amazing people are starting to realize that

@AIandDesign There's no other direction AI could've gone. You can't have the 'innocuous' side of AI, where people just use it to generate Ghibli-like phone backgrounds, without the systematically exploitative side. They're inseparable.

Ok wow, a LOT of comments. Some nice, some nasty but all interesting. A lot of people agreed it was dystopian. A lot of people were scared. And a lot of people tried the same lazy gotcha: “Marco, you’re an AI enthusiast. What did you think was going to happen, dumbass?” So I wrote a longer piece about it. Because no, being excited about AI does not mean I support surveillance, layoffs, worker monitoring, shareholder worship, or companies using “innovation” as a nicer word for treating humans like disposable inputs. That’s not hypocrisy. That’s the entire distinction. I believe AI can help regular people create more, build more, learn more, and access capabilities that used to be locked behind money, teams, credentials, or gatekeepers. I also believe AI in the hands of greedy institutions can become one of the most dangerous tools for surveillance, extraction, and control we’ve ever seen. Both things can be true. The fear is real. The black pill is useless. And the future where AI actually benefits humanity is not going to arrive automatically because some billionaire promised us abundance from a stage. We have to fight for it, build it, pressure for it, and refuse to hand the whole thing over to the worst people in the room. Longer thoughts here. x.com/AIandDesign/st…

I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well. Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS. I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind. I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.

@paledoptera I think people have a lot of skepticism towards the mainstream. Indie productions are quickly becoming a big mainstream thing, so people are getting more and more cynical towards it.

the biggest problem with art as a whole right now is people treat indie artists as soulless megacorporations and people treat soulless megacorporations like indie artists

@clockworksDream 1. I don't like the ending 2. Not releasing an ending I like is a conscious decision on Gooseworx's part 3. This is evidence Gooseworx is an evil Jorge Lucass-style figure who ruins my joy by being, at the same time, unthinkingly stupid yet deviously conniving

@clockworksDream Like this. Some people are now falling into conspiracy theories of Gooseworx punishing her fanbase by withholding joy (the 'real' ending) from them. x.com/StripedTatoWom…

addition to this: lolcow culture starts with co-opting genuine criticism and concern (e.g. deltarune not having localizations and the racist jokes the tadc va's made previously) and using that as fuel for anger. to brand creators as irredeemably bad and evil forever

@ekello @dutchtide What specific things? What threshold? What is "this stuff"?

@dutchtide Obviously you haven't paid attention to anything I've said. I have been in this business for 25 years, trying to figure all this stuff out. This is just the culmination of years and years of waiting for AI to help me get over the threshold for specific things. Check your talent.

The thing about AI is that it allows a guy in Vietnam and a guy in Seattle to fulfill their dreams of becoming an animator and a composer, respectively. I love this opportunity. I hope more of you take the same chances that we're taking. It's a glorious future.

@JeremiahMcCoy15 @SuperHybridGuy @Laine_MiB @dub_eek FROM DOWNTOWN

@esstee_jay @SuperHybridGuy @Laine_MiB @dub_eek I was wrong lol

#TheAmazingDigitalCircus #TADC #Pomni

🚨Do not load your Deltarune Chapter 3 save in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine🚨

@libpol_org @XtrmCentrist @Noahpinion It'll be "things continue to get worse for the working class". You can't look at Microsoft's AI CEO saying that all white collar jobs will be eliminated within a year or two and think people like him are on the side of the common man.

@esstee_jay @XtrmCentrist @Noahpinion Ok, but it's either UBI or no UBI + mass increase in severe poverty. There is no third option beyond "permanently ban AI", which is not going to go well, and especially not when China goes with "permit and encourage AI + give UBI".

A lot of AI industry people are still saying that the purpose of their work is to put you and your descendants on welfare for eternity

@cybertruck7 @XtrmCentrist @Noahpinion People who champion AI have no serious interest/power in getting UBI working.

@esstee_jay @XtrmCentrist @Noahpinion Not with that attitude.

These freaks can survive orbital re-entry, and they're going to hit the ground with the same velocity anyway. Where's the tension?

@XtrmCentrist @Noahpinion There will be no UBI.

@Noahpinion Sucks but what’s the alternative? Having meaningless jobs just to keep ourselves employed? I’d rather be on universal basic income and no job than get up every day to go spend 8 hours a day doing stuff I know isn’t actually needed.

@Polymarket I feel like that if people took this even half-serious, they should be sharpening the guillotines as fast as they can. Imagine 25% of all workers globally going jobless!

NEW: Microsoft AI chief predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months.