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Even if you can't affect real change there's still always going to be ways to make these people upset and each time you do counts as a win

"You are missing out" I am missing out on something that would not give me any happiness.

I keep saying "If every future game has AI slop bullshit in it, I have a good forty years of games that have absolutely zero chance of having AI in them," and I keep being right.

And we’ve long been in a world were the best games are made by like one weird person or a crew of people. Vampire survivors and balatro were one dude each, at first!

I would humbly suggest that folks explore the 60+ year history of the medium. Maybe, just maybe there might be something you’ve never heard of that will knock your socks off…and it’s pretty much guaranteed to only have the classic definition of “AI”

Generally absolutely agree, personally I see so much cute fanart of Expedition 33 and I'm like. I wish I could check it out. So far I'm still on "can't be arsed", though.

I played through the game knowing Maddie is trans and I didn't once notice those flags

and there exists so many games released before 2024. there's no way you can play all the good ones in a lifetime, we can afford to be picky

I'm not in favor of AI, but people are using it with private software like Adobe or emulation. Perhaps that could end up getting finally regulated or something. Since I'll be touching their wallets. Dunno, maybe I'm being too positive.

This is why every game company is so mad we still have old games

Don't do the work of conflating harmless or actually useful things under the same buzzword as the actual evil thing everyone hates. That's what they wanted. But at this point they poisoned their own brand so bad that they were looking for an excuse to pivot away from it now that it's ruined.

Those are pretty obviously two different things. None of the people saying "AI in gaming is inevitable" is referring to simple pathfinding like what the ghosts in Pac-Man use, they're referring to LLMs and GPTs

Thats not what anybody is talking about.

Exactly, get off Sonic Rumble now before you need technical support!!!!!!!! Worst decision of my life!!!!!!!!!! God I hate being forced to argue with an algorthm... There should be laws against this. Should be laws against a lot! Feels like everything is designed to be a crime against humanity now

Lucky us there are SO MANY GAMES, new indis, old games, we can play for free.

I had to just stop playing Smash Bros. because of this. ... And because of the DLC schemes. Mostly those, to be honest.

The soultion to this problem was to not grind and just play with what you get.

Xenoblade 2 has the best implemented gacha system of all time, and it is so much worse off for having a gacha system at all.

It's so easy to not play a video game. Just don't play the evil video game. Or don't play the video game from the evil company, it's easy, you have to not do a thing.

even if ai is in everything that comes out from today onward then i still have a lifetime's worth of games built up i can play if i need to. possibly multiple lifetimes' worth given how many games i have on steam.

Also, there are other game engines, and lots of games made BEFORE AI was added to the engine

That feels like some kind of violation of something if UE6 literally cannot allow you to make something without using AI components. Of course I don't know how game development works so my interpretation of UE6 forcing AI code in with or without permission is presumably inaccurate.

Yeah, or just use a different engine LMFAO, I doubt even 50% of games ever made use Unreal. I roll my own engine anyways. Plain C babyyyyy~

Every good game ever made can already run on whatever machine you're using to read this, and also didn't use AI code. Your options are limitless

sure but OP says: "he "you can't avoid AI, it's in all software now" argument" OP is talking about it as an argument, NOT a descriptive statement.

"Asbestos is in everything, just get used to it"

AI can claim to be in use when I'm forced to put up with it with my programs and whatnot. But it doesn't mean I'm actively engaging with it. It's basically a false claim to say I'm using it if I'm always actively tiptoeing around it but can't always get rid of it.

Maybe I can't avoid having my data processed by AI, but I can still choose not to directly engage with or invoke the slop machine.

Extra funny when current consumer behavior is like “if anyone finds out you used it you’ve hit your lifetime sales ceiling“ and any outspoken anti-AI developer gets a giant buff

I think they’re saying that they’re going to put it in all of the games and people are going to keep buying them if they don’t tell anyone it’s in there?

I've found this period of time GREAT motivation to play through some of the games I've had in my steam library that I never got around to. I've only got a few hundred left though...

Little known fact: you cannot add AI to my PS2 discs

I could play a new ps2 game every week of my life from here on out and die with a thousand left to go, there is nothing I am less obligated to do than play a game made with AI

"you might have to stop playing AAA games" yeah okay