FM Chiptune Musician | DX Complex Staff | SEGA, MSX and Retro Tech Dork | He/Him
Formerly _NetNomad@kbin.run
Microblogging at _NetNomad@oldbytes.space
https://netnomad.dxcomplex.com/
On mbin, it’s very easy to accidentally boost (retoot) posts, and mbin doesn’t seem to propogate undoing that. any boosts you see from this account when viewing on mastodon et cetera are finger fudges, sorry!
AI isn’t the problem on its own
I can accept a plagiarism machine that is exaberatting multiple international crises, but I draw the line at too many posts on a subreddit!
like c’mon, i’m also frustrated at what’s going on in retro dev communities, but that’s small potatoes compared to just about everything else concerning LLMs
For me, the cutoff is with the introduction of HDMI. The Wii is the final retro console, and the 360 and Playstation despite being concurrent with the Wii are the start of the second age. The video format isn’t actually the cause so much as it’s emblemic- the Wii was one last hurrah for colorful arcade-y games while the PS360 really calcified the modern cinematic RPG FPS model that rules AAA single-player games to this day. That was also the first generation where nostalgia became a moneymaker, with things like the wiiware Mega Man games. Before that, nods to classic games weren’t uncommon, but this was the start of games whose entire point was to be a nod