They keep telling us "you'll HAVE to buy games made with genAI going forward, you won't have a choice!" And it's a delusional take because it has never been easier to have the entire history of gaming that *hasn't* been made with genAI at your fingertips.
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Watching chargeman ken with my wife @kelknees.bsky.social and the lack of sound effects got me thinking about modern maplestory cutscenes with the only thing missing is characters going from one animation to another but there's a single frame or two of the previous animation.
absolute cinema
me listening to any song ever made
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how did we get from "characters are narrative devices meant to tell a story" to "characters are idols to be worshipped and their ethics will surely reflect on my ethics" (thinks about the entire history of human religion) oh yeah
it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"
oh hello missus maam
Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.