Parallax Abstraction

Mostly #retrogaming, #modernretro & #indiegames Geek Bravado - My main outlet these days. Twitch - On hiatus, hope to return with a retro focus. Not sure when. YouTube - Archival for now. Discord Web Pets I run the @bigboxdb.com account too. Show me your cool indie games!

Very interesting perspective from a respected software engineer on the PHP madness from last week and how it was quite possibly not nearly as bad as it was spun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEiG... Almost like AI companies and the media have too close a relationship. 🤔

Since this AI slop remake of a fan project is free on Steam, I look forward to adding it to my account, playing it just long enough to leave a review and calling it out for what it is. Just sayin', it's free so if you're an OMF fan, you could too. If you wanted.

Spent another chunk of time browsing #SteamNextFest now that personalized recommendations have been turned on. There's still too much AI slop but it has been suggesting me a lot more stuff I'm both interested in and that at least doesn't state AI was used. Better than Monday, to a point.

Saddens me to say that this has been my experience so far as well. I normally download dozens of demos during Next Fest but even after an hour browsing, I've only found about 15 that interested me at all and several of those I've skipped because of heavy AI use. Probably going to write about this.

Why is it always bloody LRG?! geekbravado.com/limited-run-...

The incredible Retro eXo project has just launched a new site for people to share their stories about how retro gaming has impacted them. And the whole thing's presented like a Windows 98 desktop! I absolutely love this! So many stories to add! stories.retro-exo.com

I've got a substantial collection with more than a few rares in it. If I sold it all for PriceCharting's inflated estimates, it'd be less than 1/3 of my salary. And I make at best a middle-class living today. Collect because you love it, not for the money. The latter will never end well.

Remember when Asha Sharma publicly posted "no soulless AI slop" after taking over Xbox? I membah'.

This...this is...so beautiful... spelunkr.tv

A legend from the old school of FPS design. Damn shame to hear. :(

Hopefully you won't need the deluxe edition to get a complete game. PC or not, I won't be buying it until that changes.

I've been playing games for over 40 years. I've seen a loooooot of bugs. But I can definitely say I've never seen anything this hilarious. 🤣 medal.tv/games/gears-... #GearsOfWar #EDay

That they had it in the first place shows these companies to have been a) Unfathomably irresponsible and incompetent or b) Made it that way on purpose. geekbravado.com/the-ai-grift...

OMG, it finally happened! After over 18 months of ripping my hair out trying to solve it, Google has *finally* indexed my latest self-hosted iteration of Geek Bravado! Insane story behind this saga but I'm so happy it's fixed! I have some big posts I've held off writing until this was resolved.

A YouTuber I followed and respected for years (The 8-Bit Guy) made an AI slop movie from a hobby script he wrote years ago and actually thinks himself a filmmaker now. This is so incredibly disappointing. AI psychosis is taking over people who should damn well know better. That was a hard unsub. 😢

Went and did our weekly look at the new house this morning. They've started doing the brick work. This was on the stoop in front of the main door. 🤔 No stale bricks here. Only fresh ones like Mom used to make. 🤣

Have today off and my buddy and I who have co-opped every single Gears of War game since the first one on the 360 are doing an old school all day marathon of #E-Day today. Don't get to do these much as we've gotten older and I've been excited about it for weeks! Time to murder some Locust!

@thegamebusiness.com Question on Undead Labs: Does it seem odd that they've announced they have a publisher but neither they nor said publisher will say who that is? I can't recall another time I've seen a I was saying announcement handled in such a way.

Kurzgesagt has posted a clearly rushed out #AI doomer video and The Daily Show is giving oxygen to that obvious grifter Jacob Coxon. The degree to which even alt media is utterly failing their audiences and responsibilities during this "rogue AI" narrative is infuriating. You. Are. Being. Played.

Well, this sucks to wake up to see. 😢 Really glad I got to see her a couple years back. A true legend of Canadian rock music who left way too soon. RIP Sass, you made us believers! www.insauga.com/canadian-roc...

I've thought about this more. It's true that Asha said Xbox isn't for sale. You know what she didn't say? That Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda aren't either. And where has Xbox just recently moved all but 3 of their studios under? Yeah. Her statement didn't really disprove my thesis at all.

New blog post! Xbox continues to undergo its "reset" but with the recent reshuffling of their org chart, I think this is building to something very different and potentially a lot worse. geekbravado.com/the-xbox-res... I hope I'm wrong.

What the actual... www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ce... I had no idea this was coming when I wrote the post yesterday. Asha, do you read my hobby blog that Google still refuses to index? 🤣 I will still say that things are only not happening until they are. We'll see though.

New blog post! Xbox continues to undergo its "reset" but with the recent reshuffling of their org chart, I think this is building to something very different and potentially a lot worse. geekbravado.com/the-xbox-res... I hope I'm wrong.

You know, you'd think by this point that I'd learn to not be smug in @huntshowdown.com the rare time I'm NOT the one to step on one of StylezXP's traps. Karma always gets me back. medal.tv/games/hunt-s...

I'm a huge Remedy fan and have played everything they've ever made and will play Control: Resonant. But it also feels like a lot of the review discourse around it is that it'd be getting dragged way harder for all its faults if any other open world developer's name was on it.