No, it’s a bear’s ass

There’s something about the style and the colors that makes it reek of AI

So join a team. I would say that the guy who makes the spray pattern doesn’t deserve to make his game if that was all he made. Literally nobody is suggesting that you should have to develop your game 100% by yourself, what I’m saying is that a) you could develop the art yourself, and b) if you don’t, you should work with someone who can. What you shouldn’t do is contribute to the industry that’s putting those people out of work.

But why do you want these things? Does a painting have value only as an aesthetic placeholder, with no regard to the person who made it? Does it have the same utilitarian value as a bed and food? Does the trivia in your hypothetical game have that same utilitarian value?

I repeat myself. If you take the creativity out of the creative process, you’re left with just a process. It’s the equivalent of injecting nutrient slurry directly into your veins because you want a meal.

They’ve been able to generate hands for years now. AI image and text generation has basically passed the Turing test at this point. Any media you consume could have been entirely AI generated. That’s the main reason I avoid talking about how AI slop is necessarily technically inferior to anything a human made. It’s possible for it to make high quality shit, and that doesn’t make it okay to use

I care. I’d rather the money they make go to someone who actually made a game

Okay, but in the case of a scientific report on an alien encounter and dissection, why would you include it if you don’t want to write it?

But you do have four years to learn the whole of the skills from scratch. Who’s forcing a deadline on you? What’s the point of engaging in a creative process if you’re offloading the creativity onto a machine? When you take the creativity out of the creative process, you’re left with just a process.

The point of a welding is to join two pieces of metal together. The quality of the work is quantifiable, and there is no artistic input. Unlike the creation of art, there is no value in the human input. Woodworking is a different story—I would pay more for a piece of art that was carved by a human than a chunk of wood that was cut by a robot, even if they were indistinguishable to me. The human input is what gives the art meaning. Unless all I’m buying is, like, a bedside table. That shares my welding take

I credit Kerbal Space Program for my ability to think in three dimensions. Without KSP, I would have been some kind of dumbass. I thought getting to orbit was just a matter of going up until I was like 18 years old

Have you ever pulled up an old save file to look at the stuff you used to design? I did that the other day and found out that I used to be good at this game. Folded space stations, massive mining rigs, Apollo Style landers, a beautiful SSTO that’s braindead easy to fly, an interplanetary module that can dock to the back of said SSTO, I made fancy shit. Nowadays I just slap boosters and docking ports on fuel tanks and call it good enough

I gotta post pictures from that save file sometime

Yeah but we didn’t end up on the one with giant alien spiders, thank god

Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?

Because it’s worth plugging up some privacy holes even if you can’t get all of them. Google already knows my name, address, and phone number, but that’s no reason to let 5th Edition Character Sheet learn it too. They already have gigabytes of personally identifiable data on me, doesn’t mean I’m cool with them bumping that up to terabytes

For real, it was legitimately a fun game. I still love the Interceptor. I should redownload it and take some pics before the servers die.

I have the same feelings toward Outriders. It’s fun, it has an interesting premise and serviceable story, and the player character is a cocky bitch (or son of one) who knows they’re the main character in the best possible way

My only gripe is that the game gave me all kinds of freedom choose my character’s backstory, but I had to treat Owen like he was some kinda moron. Motherfucker let me give him my Colossus, I never use it and he will be impervious in it

No, he’s not ready, and my character does everything in her power to ensure that he never will be. Owen did nothing wrong. He “stole” the Javelin of Dawn, and surpise surprise he’s a competent pilot. I only wish I could have supported him the entire time

How the fuck would I boycott a brand for being owned by Nestle before I find out that it’s owned by Nestle?

I don’t know if other games are using generative AI. Maybe they are. If I find out they are, I will not buy them. If I don’t find out that they are, how would I know that they’re using it? The fact that I’m not able to detect it 100% of the time doesn’t make me okay with it when I don’t know it’s there. What in any of my comments has made you think I have an “I don’t care as long as I don’t notice it” attitude???

No? I just don’t know that I should avoid a product if I don’t know about the ethical problems with it. That’s how boycotts work…

How can you be sure that in any game AI wasn’t used to generate some sort of an internal document or asset that would never be in the final product but was integral to the creation of the final product?

I never claimed to be omniscient. I simply don’t support a company after I find out that they have unethical business practices. What are you not understanding about this?

Correct! If you’re not going to support artists and writers, the least you can do is not support the industry that’s actively destroying the fields of art and writing (on top of the myraid other problems with generative AI)

Boycotting because they used generative AI to make their game instead of hiring writers. Even if this was the only part of the game they used it on (if you believe that, l have a bridge to seII you), I’m not going to give someone money if they couldn’t even be fucked to hire some sci-fi writer off of fiverr to write their fill text with it.

I personally know artists and writers who are having to get jobs at fucking Walmart because of this shit. I’ll be less irate about generative AI once we have universal basic income so that real artists can continue to generate real art alongside these soulless husks.

Didn’t equate them. Also, you have been reading my responses since I pointed out that flaw in your argument. Makes me wonder if maybe you just don’t have an adequate response to my comment, but you wanted to get the last word in anyway