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one of the second order effects of ai in romhacking and modding scenes is it is like a turbocharger for Annoying Guy Ruins The Project For Everyone, that happens to every mod project in human history

headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

community projects like these were delicate enough and constantly falling apart with impossible to track drama every five minutes before people had access to the publish hundreds of lines of stolen code a day machine

28/9/26, 11:25 pm11 reposts254 likes

headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

i think this is gonna be the biggest issue and the hardest to navigate and repair, more than the code itself or many of these being low quality and unmaintained. the general lack of trust. communities even further at everyone's throats than we already were. teams are only gonna get more insular

the nintendo shamecube

@futuresushi.bsky.social

You used to have to stay in a programmers good graces for possibly years at a time, AND the programmer had to be normal. And yet it is now much worse

Lurker [ABOLISH ICE]

@lurker906.bsky.social

Literally a giant button that says "IM HELPING" that instantly ruins a project. The fucking WORST person.

John Cenablade Chronicles

@beelzebulbasaur.bsky.social

genuinely hard to overstate how badly it’s damaged the whole retro scene’s vibe. everyone’s completely suspicious of everything now. the mood is rancid

yeah it sucks. even the good work is like, this isnt SLOP like all the other fucking garbage. which you have to be but i'm just exhausted for romhacking to have become a pvp zone and to have such a profound split and so many previously cool spaces not care

AdolRed

@milklipton.bsky.social

Also the people who are defending these slopcomps to their dying breath aren't even playing the games. If an issue pops up several hours into the game you'll never find out about it because the hype peddlers already got their title screen picture and moved on