The Business: Conventional Play Continues To Tilt At Windmills

Roll For Combat whines about the inevitable.

He's whining about people doing what the current hysteria incentivizes and without missing a beat adds to it.

He's also doing a Canute impression in whining about this in public. This is now as inevitable as using LLMs to do scutwork in writing. You will be able to dupe him too once you learn what I've learned: LLMs work on natural language proficiency and mastery of a vast and deep vocabulary. Furthermore, you can ask the bot how to use it and it will teach you.

Steve here is dealing with lazy amateurs. Meanwhile, folks who know what they're doing like my man Oliver Campbell are doing fantastic things all through master of language and knowledge of how the bot works. (He posts pictures he generates regularly; link is to a pinned post explaining how he gets results.)

Another thing. You don’t ask for a tunic for his outfit.

You ask for a sleeveless blue dobuk with a green undershirt.

Tunic and dobuk aren’t the same.

As I said, people who know vocabulary are going to thrive in this space. https://t.co/UYJcixFD6O

— Oliver Campbell (@olivercampbell) December 30, 2025

Stevie could be benefiting from the new tools available by embracing them, learning how to use them, and then drastically cutting his costs by using it and saving lots of time doing it himself but no he's whining about people who are using the tools (badly) trying to get paid. FUCK. HIM.

The images I use look the way they do because I'm focusing on a specific mix of vibes (Lodoss War + Berserk for the Tower Campaign, Gundam + Legend of the Galactic Heroes + the Leijiverse for "BRODUM".); if I wanted to invoke something else I would change the language that I used and how I used it to create that effect.

And I can do this for free. You are foolish for not embracing this tool, especially if you're not Wizards of the Coast, and you are still pretending to be a commercial operation. WOTC did, and they're a proper corporation. Stevie deserves the stick he's getting, and I hope he is compelled to give up due to everyone and their uncle seeing reason and embracing the tool- like how all the smart tool-and-die companies swapped to CNC machining, or how the horse buggy makers moved to cars and trucks.

The commercial viability of the hobby is over, and is now running on fumes and ever-slowing momentum. Stevie will be forced to either quit or go non-commercial in a few years because soon one-man shops can do what he can just as well or better for free, and thus the long nightmare of Endless Product Slop as a way to make a living will die off with the Boomers.

PS: Oliver has a storefront for his images if you want prints. Some are limited time offerings. Go here.