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Users love big tech. They pretend not to, but they love their shackles.

For instance, when Twitter was bought by Elon and people had that big migration wave… Mastodon was right there, a fully matured ecosystem, same or even better features… yet the majority picked Bluesky, the “features” Bluesky offered are there in Mastodon, the only difference is Bluesky is also owned by private tech bros.

It’s simple, really. Steam allows 18+ games, but it treats them under a special regime, you can fully disable them from view. AI games should be the same.

“Oh but developers will just lie” yeah they can lie about having a +18 asset in the middle of the game too, but as soon as they are caught and it’s proven, they are banned. Same if they hide malware.

“Oh but no game developer will disable Claude from VSCode, now what?”

There’s a difference between the kind of AI slop that dominated the latest demo fest vs using Claude in an IDE.

What point are you making?

That if I have to suffer through bad curation and filtering any way, paying for the service becomes irrelevant and I might as well get the games for free? The whole “piracy is a service issue” is GabeN’s most famous quote.

You know who also doesn’t "gatekeep"developers? Piracy websites, which I shall now use.

Steam is only worth it so far as it’s convenient and user friendly. AI slop flood is neither.

They don’t have to. It’s backwards compatible. You can ignore it and we can keep on happily using it.

Fuck Google, fuck WebP.

Google tried to sabotage it in favour of its own WebP standard.

Nobody gives a shit about WebP.