I'm actually cautiously optimistic for the future, but for other reasons (definitely not AI). I think what's happening now has the potential to be a new dawn for smaller studios and AA development overall.

AAA with massive projects and uncertainties are responsible for the current situation.

2. (forums were so much easier to discuss in) feel the need to just explore. I think there's room go where your heart wants you to go. If that means a month, a year, a lifetime I don't think any time is wasted if your heart feels right and the door to art never closes unless you close it yourself.

1. Hey mang, noodle from back in the day here. I know how you feel and I think it's easier to not regard it as a midlife crisis if you just accept the feeling you have without judgement and perhaps explore it. Sometimes it can be that we're done with a thing or that we just feel the need

Oh yeah, I mean, I'm 42. But I FELT old. Like an old man with dementia, scared and confused by the show and spectacle around me.

I've got friends working on it so I'm glad people are enjoying it, myself I felt OLD when playing it. I couldn't understand how I was supposed to move to not be in an endless meatgrinder and I had such a hard time spotting enemies among debris etc.

This is from the perspective of personal use. I still think there are endless amounts of bad things with AI that can be done by corporations, malicious actors and governments or people seeking to influence or manipulate. But in terms of a personal assistant I don't subscribe to the slippery slope.

I'd assume that line is highly personal. I honestly don't think life operates on a slippery slope mentality where things go out of hand as soon as given the chance. I don't subscribe to the view that we will turn into wall-e caricatures if given the means.

Double reply, sorry. Honestly I'd love for menial things in my life that take up precious time to be handled. Bills, taxes, whatnot. These things are abhorrent and unnatural to me and I'd rather spend that time taking a walk, reading a book, whatever.

Again, disregarding safety risk. Just musing.

I can answer some of that if I might play devils advocate for a moment. If I somehow imagine this whole thing wasn't a massive security risk I don't see buying tickets or similar tasks as something meaningful to me. It wouldn't buy it spontaneously, it'd do it at your behest.

I absolutely love masses of greebly "stuff" pushed into shadowed parts of things.

Signed it. I'm afraid that a lack of signatures could be mistaken as a lack of support, I think this simply just has no visibility which is a real shame. Conversion therapy is truly evil.

Best game I've never finished. Glad to see you on bluesky.

It's like an Alariko version of "Don't hug me I'm scared"

This is dreamy. Did you paint it in Substance Painter or straight in Blender?

It really fucking sucks for you guys right now. I don't even know how it'd get fixed. In the long run even nazi Germany transformed and became modern Germany, but that's little comfort to the millions and millions who were killed or worse.

I don't know what I'm trying to say, just my condolences.