Under the veneer of everyday Los Angeles, the barely-disguised real world is ruled by aliens.

Things that once seemed good and entertaining like chocolate bars and TV shows are revealed to be deeply compromised.

Adrien Brody’s performance is a computer-aided turn.

Adrien Brody with a sketch pad in The Brutalist

ChatGPT is widely popular, but muchless accurate than a simple Google search would have been five years ago.

Generative AI and NFTs are both awful for the environment.

Throughout the ’90s and ’00s, tech advancements were often fun.

The AI Necroclaus in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Widely available PCs let you play cool games likeDoom.

Each generation of game consoles brought cool new advancements, too.

The leap from 2D to 3D with theN64/PS1generation was mind blowing.

indiana jones in the great circle, doomguy in the dark ages, and an orange car in forza horizon 5.

All of those technological advancements were the product of human ingenuity, enabled by machines.

Video games, as a medium, have always been a marriage of the two.

Almost all art is dependent on this relationship, though it isnt always quite so obvious.

N64 Games

I don’t want generative AI in my video games.

I want tech to be exciting, but I don’t want it to replace people.

Necroclaus is just one example of Activision Blizzard apparently using the tech to cut corners.

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