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After what Naughty Dog became, it's a good thing they don't still have Crash Bandicoot.

@CookieByte I did win this board game recently about resource gathering corporations on a doomed planet. I forget the name.

That aside, yeah. All art is iterative. AI speeds up the process. People blame it for the ills of corporations like the ones in said board game.

@BionicDodo He's been doing it for a long time now.

@bring_on_branstons As someone who has a job AI was supposed to eliminate, lol. All AI has done is been a great tool to aid in my work, though it isn't quite there yet.

And the issue with "eliminating jobs" is because we live under an oppressive system of class society and capitalism, where instead of celebrating mundane tasks being automated, we fear it because we've accepted this garbage reality where it's okay for people to be homeless and destitute.

If governments took care of people and invested in infrastructure, instead of feeding the ultra-rich and their sick whims, not one person with an IQ over 50 would care about AI "eliminating jobs."

In countries where people are prioritized over profit, AI is popular because it's used to help people. That's what all these fearmongering articles refuse to acknowledge.

AI fearmongering is stupid and everyone mad at this needs a shower harder than anyone in history ever needed a shower. AI is a tool, is not theft, and is not the problem with society in the West. A video debunking the myths surrounding it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegV-KnmxqU - easy enough to find others.

It's a good game... when played as Tails or Knuckles. Who are built for it.

As Sonic or Amy, it's miserable.

And no, it ain't just about holding right.

@Damo "Sorry, you can't ignore members of staff"

@Damo We've done this song and dance before, and it ended with me explaining myself thoroughly, and you refusing to concede despite backing yourself up with nothing.

It's why it sucks that I can't just put you on Ignore; you have a clear agenda, and you'll bend what should be things to celebrate, like these awesome guides, to your ugly mandate.

@Damo It has verifiably done none of those things. You're thinking of class society and late-stage capitalism.

But even if everything you just said was true (and again, it's not), you still took something beautiful (Summers' work) and turned it into something ugly.

Ironically, that's precisely what you think AI does.

@mariteaux You are 100% in the right.

Take something cool like Summers' awesome game guides, make it an editorial that pushes AI fearmongering.

Good way to cheapen the thing you're trying to hype, I suppose.

Gonna keep an eye on this, for... reasons...

@DestructoDisk Well said.

@Atariboy Valid point considering the puritan signaling they did over no longer covering ModRetro. Why aren't they also doing a song and dance (with comments turned off) over how SNK will no longer get covered?

Turbo Tunnel ain't anywhere near the hardest thing in this very hard game.

@Razieluigi Nope, it's a valid comparison. Collecting available information to compile into a new whole is what art is: editing. You draw from and are inspired by what came before, and put your spin. Nothing is (un)original. AI just speeds that up.

That doesn't mean you can't put out AI slop, just like how you can put out lazy advertising without AI. If that's your complaint, say so: "SNK's ad feels lazy." Turning it into an anti-AI engagement piece accomplishes nothing and serves noone.

@Quick_Man No.

@Sn0w See above.

@Darknyht If AI is "theft" then so is any inspiration and iteration. Very good video on the topic that debunks common arguments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegV-KnmxqU

The issues with wealth disparity are real, but it isn't because of AI.

A Wizardry-esque game (might've been Wizardry proper) on a school's Apple ][e was my introduction to RPGs, so games like this his a nostalgic note with me.

A pointless backlash to a harmless ad, but gotta keep up the AI fearmongering for the engagement.

As long as they remove the battery first, who cares. It's their console to do with as they please.

@Eocene84 Capitalism created abundance, and was an absolutely necessary step in the growth of humanity. We need to move on from it, yes, but the issue is not "capitalism always bad."

@Por-E-Gone The concerns are illegitimate, and the theatrics around this accomplish nothing and serve noone.

Cool, more blaming automation for the folly of class society.

Gotta keep that fearmongering going!

I still believe.

I hunger for Mega Man 12 and X9.

And Legends 3, but I dare not hope.

@Exerion76 Yeah, a lot of 70s and 80s floppies were built to last. Now there is the issue of magnetic degradation, which no amount of careful handling will prevent, but the overall build quality really went downhill over the years.

Yeah no it won't. Just like how cars remain immensely helpful for ordinary folks despite evil corporations lining their pockets with gold via automobiles, AI will remain immensely helpful for ordinary folks despite big corporations using it to try to get even richer.

The only thing this AI fearmongering does is encourage a world where WE are denied it, but the rich and powerful still get to use it with impunity.

As long as they make only minimal changes to Metal Shark Player's stage. Best stage in the game: tough, brutal, but fair, and one that a steady hand and skilled play can navigate around.

@jygsaw Let the fearmongering commence!

Maximum portability!

@Slider2711 Literally everything, AI and otherwise, will be abused by greedy billionnaire interests. That particular argument against AI is about as valid as arguing against people using cars because big auto manufacturers lobby governments for handouts.

Automation, where it makes sense, is a GOOD thing. The BAD thing is the system that keeps us all afraid of one day not getting a paycheck.

Yay for more AI fearmongering!

Funny how there were no articles about Hideo Kojima's recent (and reasonable) tweats about AI.

I'd like a real DS Lite modded into this case.

Quick guys, let's all take this out of context and be offended by it.

@breach187 I break all sealz

Miyamoto seething right now lol.

Best nab it now in case Nintendo gets litigious.

I got one of those flower crown Eevees in Pokemon Go and it evolved into a Flareon that I then named Fireflowerz.

Some people didn't play Nintendo in NA and other parts of the world either. Maybe they were a Sega household, or had computers and played PC games, etc. I knew at least one of each.

Anyone actually mad about this is a grade A moron.

@AzzurraIrisLeaMonde I appreciate all that, but I caution against being so quick to raise pitchforks against others. Even if that person is indeed all of those things, it will accomplish nothing and serve noone.

@Grackler I wonder if Ubuntu Touch could be an option too...

@AzzurraIrisLeaMonde Are they actually any of these things or are you just looking to further a different kind of corporate BS in the form of cancel culture?

Yup. All corporate BS to serve their paymasters.

@N64-ROX I am 102% certain there is nothing on the Playdate that doesn't have a much, much, muuuuuuuuuch better counterpart elsewhere.

Rich kid toy for rich people and those with issues hanging on to their money. Not trolling to call it what it is.

@jesse_dylan Yes, and normally one of those benefits is that a device is not priced as though it DOES have a lit screen. Also not everyone has easy access to natural light.

@naxuu I'm sorry they took your money.

@ArcadeRacingCENTRAL I have replaced "slop" with "garbage" just for you.

Comment section is a fantastically depressing example of how brainwashed people are into defending IP law.

I still can't believe the PlayDate found an audience. People love overpriced garbage consoles lacking even a basic lit screen it seems.