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Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

I wake up and our silly little site about decompiling video games has made the news this article is extremely misleading, y'all should just read the statement on decomp.dev, but I digress

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"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.

404media.coVideo Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.

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Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

if the remake of TTYD didn't kill my interest in the original, I don't think this is going to either, I'm just gonna keep chipping away at my decomp until either it's done or I die I'm currently working on decompiling the compiler for this express purpose just to hopefully make my life easier

Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

personally I'm more interested in the implications for security by obscurity, there's a looooot of companies that just....don't bother to make their shit secure (Flock) if AI is this good at decompiling games now, I shudder to imagine the impact of attacking stuff that actually matters

Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

20 years ago, getting a zero day exploit was the sole discretion of nation-states and extremely talented weirdos in their basements and now pretty much anyone can find one and cause damage imagine the amount of bank you could make by selling companies the solution to their stuff being insecure

aldelaro5
@aldelaro5.bsky.social

tbh the remake...p much hasn't changed much I'm still burnt out on the original, but tbh, given what I heard and seen of the remake...I wouldn't necessarily say it helped much? if anything, it made me realise how they missed a lot of what made the original special so keep going! llms can fuckoff

Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

The article makes it seem like it got shut down because AI bad, but we're specifically taking issue with the fact that these people flooding in don't care about the hobby, they want their slop port now, it's nothing to do with the fact that it's AI, it's that there's now a moderation burden

perfectcoloredcat
@perfectcoloredcat.bsky.social

Got it, thanks. I'm really tired of how AI has turned everything into an "at-scale" problem. Lots of places just seem to be giving up. My YouTube feed has been immune to AI slop for the last couple years, but its finally, finally bleeding through slowly but surely. No safe havens.

Nikki™
@aetheria.dev

I think encounter did the vast majority of the site but it's been pretty heavily tied to the GC/Wii Decomp server which I'm a decent part of