With the endless ethical and legal issues around GenAI, I would very much hope that Valve continues being cautious (even if it’s evidently just to cover their own arses). Once we have models and datasets for AI generated game assets that are trained from entirely ethical sources (artist permissions, licences, etc.) and not just the “scrape everything and train our models from that” approach that is currently used, then maybe it could be a good thing for games. Even still, the generated assets will likely have no copyright (as is the case now), so we’ll surely end up at “AI generated content flip games” flooding Steam.

Probably Life is Strange. It did a lot for me in my mid-late 20s.

#ArcadiaBaeNotBay

I use RSS feeds (via Newsblur) for most of the news, and Twitter because I still follow too many journos there.

100% because the tankie thing.
A long-time believer of “you can’t separate art from the artist”.

The most hours I’ve ever put into a game (that wasn’t WoW pre-Cata) is 99 (Persona 5). My brain just can’t (or won’t) comprehend playing something for x-hundred/thousand hours even if I really enjoy it.

I, like many of the other replies, feel quite the same. Although I think the highlight of this for me is just how less aggressive and how much more receptive and open to discussion people have been. tbf i still mostly lurk but I’ve commented more here in a few days than I have in the final few years I was on reddit.

…seek towards creating healthier and way less toxic communities anyways

this is the main thing I want from a “reddit alternative”, but since all the kbins/lemmys are being treated as “reddit alternatives” I really don’t see this happening

creating magazines (and other subreddit analogues) with poor “humour” titles like those “X-masterrace” ones.