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I am so tired of this LLM slop bullshit. It's ruining games, movies, and tech.

Whelp. Never meet your heros

James Pond, now Dizzy. Classic 80’s UK gaming is disappointing right now.

Using these "powerful tools" means you did exactly jack and shit, twin dickheads.

Then tbey shouldn't do it at all. If you can't make a game without using a machine built on theft, that rots people's minds, that poisons the planet, and that is being used to oppress us all and destroy society, then don't make a game!

have been doing to annoy me. No, I'm taking the time to learn the quirks and see where a genre once held in high regard could rebound and stop being associated with shovelware. Likely I'm gonna end up making something that handles comparably to boomer shooters like DOOM

I've just made it my policy that anyone who claims indies need to use ai requires percussive maintenance. Indies do NOT need to catch up with AAA, in fact, AAA has only CONTINUED to lag behind, partially as a result of, guess what, GENERATIVE FUCKING AI!

If you're lazy, just fucking say you're lazy. There's thousands of us globally who would've jumped at the chance to work on the project, hell, I'm currently on a whole bender for OG computer games right now!

"I wouldn't have any passion for this art form if I didn't have a plagiarism machine that could do most of the work for me (and then underpay people who fix the problems it creates)" Buddy wants easy money no matter who it harms

Me 5 years ago: I wonder if I should look up more on the Oliver Twins? They seem like a real blind spot. Me now: lmao never mind.

Then they shouldn't do it at all. End of story.

what do they know about what kind of time it is to be a creator? as soon as they turned on the slop extruder, they relinquished that title.

I've seen some amazing real pixel artists on social, who'd be great at it. Haven't seen your work sorry but I'm sure you'd be much better than artificial idiocy art

Let us use the theft machine to milk our dwindling good faith nostalgia!

"I wouldn't do it at all" Then don't do it.

Oh no, what a tragedy it would be if we were deprived of future adventures starring beloved videogame mascot Dizzy The Egg

Seems they are passionate about making money from retro community without spending any money in the retro community. There's no way they needed AI in the final product even if they enjoy 'experimenting' with it

Reading articles like this, I feel the battle is lost. It says there were two camps of people the writer spoke to, neither against using AI. It's disappointing to keep seeing that studios need to be 'scared', too. As if AI and manually crafted games already have the same value to some people.

13 year old me could have told you Dizzy was trash back in the 90's. 🥱

And depending on the model, my own work's a part of that training material. FUCK YOU LAION 5B! (I wish I could have easy access to verify if my works were used as training material again...)

If you don’t care enough about something to make it, then don’t make it.

yup complete agreement. i'd have shilled it hard as a fanboy on my tiny youtube channel as i am sure many others probably would have done too and it would have been cheap marketing.

They did come off crazy passionate, absolutely fire in them when they hit a stride about ideas and implication (like the line about reverse engineering a NES). What I noticed though - their whole ai back and forth was practiced. Go back on the coverage on TE comments - not quite verbatim, but ready