this world now is almost nothing like i would want! i would like being generally honest and scrupulous to be valued. i would like art to be a kind of human communication. i would like it if police weren't brutalizing my neighbors. i would like affordable coffee, stable meaningful work for people

And by "good" I don't just mean "good in quality" but "good at conveying the point." Upton Sinclair famously lamented that The Jungle, for all that it pushed forward things like better food quality standards, failed to resonate equally powerfully with its message advocating for socialism

Yeah, a lot of Nintendo's space heroes are bounty hunters or mercenaries. Samus, Captain Falcon, the Star Fox team...

Someone called me a liar for saying I wouldn't buy any new games if every game suddenly had gen AI content in it, as if old games don't exist. These people are Desperate.

The Arc Raiders one is especially frustrating as there have been a ton of people going to bat for it because of its "ethical" use of GenAI and even if that was somehow true, the devs have made it pretty clear they aren't stopping there. They're all-in on AI.

If your game is 99% exploring spooky space caves and shooting space monsters with your gun arm and 1% "I decided to adopt the last survivor of this species I eliminated and turn them over to the space CDC for study," then your game is about one of those things way more than the other

sometimes you just have to keep yourself alive long enough for shit to get better, yknow?