Problem Machine

@problemmachine.bsky.social

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Artist, game developer, writer, overthinker, etc. Current project is Bound City, a game about a strange dying place that might be a metaphor for something. (He/They)

Quote from linked article: "Here is the seductive promise of the mob, though: If anything ever goes wrong, the hope is, no one person can be blamed. The mob’s promise is the same as the promise of AI itself: an end to personal accountability, to ever being held responsible for one’s own individual thoughts, actions, behaviors, or freaky-ass desires. For good or ill, thoughts, actions, and even desires are the things that make you individually you. Those are the things to lay claim to, to own. You shouldn’t sacrifice or outsource those to the cloud or the AI or the amorphous mob. Unfortunately, AI can never be held accountable for any harms done because, very much like a mob, there’s no one ‘there.’ Moreover AI cannot give you what you want, only its best neural guess at what it thinks you want. That is to say, AI can only tell you what you want."

A character leaping over the heads of enemies who are aiming at them in a pixel art style

A list of 25 favorite games containing the following:
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Armored Core, Final Fantasy Tactics, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Anachronox, Alone in the Dark, Silent Hill 2, Disco Elysium, Grim Fandango, Left 4 Dead, The Beginner's Guide, What Remains of Edith Finch, Braid, Spelunky Classic, Hotline Miami, Cave Story, Super Hexagon, Inscryption, Undertale, Slay the Spire, and Space Funeral