Resplendent606

Keep your friends close, but your enemies toaster

Does a bear shit on the pope?

Well, that’s just water under the fridge.

It is shitty in many ways. First, I view videogames as art (because they are art) and taking out the human element just makes them a product created by a machine. Coding is a form of human expression. I understand the capitalist urge not to pay people, but replacing people with AI is a moral wrong. Microsoft, for example, after purchasing many studios over the past few years, has fired over 15,000 people in 2025 alone, despite making record profits and charging us more for new games.

I would be terrified if I were a full-time coder. Like many other occupations, programming jobs are in jeopardy. I would be considering other fields or specializations because these corporations plan to replace them all. Google already is saying that more 25% of their code is written by ai. That will only increase and bleed over to game development.

Second, by forcing the development timeline by basically any means necessary, you are creating an inferior product. Just throwing a game in early access because it isn’t complete isn’t a good solution and there are hundreds of games currently in that status. Personally, I avoid anything that is early access, with a few exceptions. I get the point in the article about making games with lesser graphics, which I am fine with if the project warrants it, but it feels like these companies don’t care what the product is as long as it sells. They are going to create ai-slop and charge us more for it. This is how the AAA industry dies.

Sources:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-memo-microsoft-ceo-addresses-enigma-of-layoffs-amid-record-profits-and-ai-investments/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024

The enshittification of videogames.

Instead of “the Oregon Trail generation” we should be called the “I read the damn manual” generation.

I’m not sure why people are down voting this. I agree 100%. The most techie people I have ever known are part of what you called “the Oregon Trail generation” (I love this term).

As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.

Thunderbird on Linux and FairEmail on Android. I don’t like Thunderbird’s opt-out telemetry, I just haven’t found something that works better for me at the moment on Linux. I have zero complaints about FairEmail. I like Thunderbird’s fast and frequent updates, FairEmail’s respect for privacy. I think both have the features I want. I just check my email on either when it is most convenient.

Yes, several times. The first one that comes to mind is The Last of Us Part 2.

It has never been about who will win. It has always been about doing what is right. I will continue to support Ukraine regardless of their ability to “win.”

I could see several forms of human genetic engineering becoming legal. For instance, three-parent children, also known as mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) is illegal in most western countries, though it was legalized in the UK, Spain, and Italy. The FDA banned in it in the US in 2015 because it involves human subjects research without prior approval from an institutional review board.

While I get what you’re saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.

See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States