Oct 17, 2026, 1:08 AM"it's here to stay! you can't get rid of it! stop dreaming of a better world!"
buddy, if i only read books, played games, and listened to music published before this decade, i would never run out of interesting and compelling works of art to feed my mind with. I don't *have* to buy anything you people make.
Oct 17, 2026, 1:09 AMas it happens, there's also plenty of people who care and give a shit, so i don't think i'm going to run out of interesting new media either
Oct 17, 2026, 1:12 AM@aeva you can also read what I make, which is not interesting, but it's still better than slop
Oct 17, 2026, 1:12 AM@efi i'd be happy to
Oct 17, 2026, 1:14 AM@aeva you can visit my webpage for the old stuff, if you had missed that
Oct 17, 2026, 1:13 AM@aeva true
@aeva we thought we’d lose a medium but in fact we just gained an excellent filtering keyword for discovery
Oct 17, 2026, 2:32 AM@aeva drowning in peoples' work I need to read in this writing community I'm in. I could probably get months of reading out of that backlog. (edit: and the stuff people are constantly writing and releasing there, I should add)
@aeva I would never consume art from people who think that art is just a chore... Who cares if they are the majority?
Oct 17, 2026, 1:11 AM@aeva that's basically what I said to someone else a few days ago too; - it would be beyond a stretch to add any of their AI bs to my reading/etc list, since the non-slopped backlog is so long already
The hero stands at the precipice of the world. Upon seeing it's breadth, it's glories, it's failures all running back to a single point in time the hero says, "This is enough."
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@aeva About a year ago I recall posting smth like "If you dedicated your entire life to beating every video game made until today, you would never be able to finish the task."
So, yeah. I will never be playing anything AI-generated. I haven't even touched the Sega console library, and I could find 10,000 niche precision platformer games I've never opened "^^
@aeva this is what i think. gaming especially. oh boy are there a lot of games from Before
Oct 17, 2026, 4:08 AM@aeva seriously there is lifetimes of cool shit that already exists plus even keeping up with good new stuff is hard. like go ahead keep making garbage it already takes me 2 - 5 years to get around to checking out stuff that folks i trust recommend i guess when i run out of all that stuff ill have to check out your slop
Oct 17, 2026, 4:18 AMOct 17, 2026, 6:35 AM@fubah i think the world just sucks balls right now
@aeva "it's here to stay! you can't get rid of it" like cigarettes and asbestoss.
Oct 17, 2026, 8:04 AM@PurpleShadow that reminds me, i should get around to making a tshirt that says "i gave up drinking for *this*???"
@aeva I have plenty of practice with this stance already. Hollywood has managed to make like, four good movies in the past decade or so.
Oct 17, 2026, 4:04 PM@aeva i feel called out, my Steam library feels called out, my book collection feels called out, my music collection feels called out and all the terrible fanfiction that so far only exists in my head feels called out.
Oct 17, 2026, 5:51 PM@aeva i hate that argument so much cuz like, nazis are also clearly here to stay. does that mean i have to just be chill with them and learn their ways
@aeva Gosh I agree with this so much. I am reading Borges now and that guy has some mind boggling stuff that you could read in an SPC foundation wiki, and my guy wrote this in the past century. Also for videogames, you could play emulation for 50 years and not run out of stuff
Oct 17, 2026, 6:19 PM
@aeva ...which probably directly incentives Them to make preservation of media as legally and financially burdensome as possible. Make storage media cost a fortune. Engage in lawfare against every visible preservation effort. Lobby laws that make preservation illegal but spicy auto complete laundered copyright violation legal (for them), so that all content is ephemeral and any experience you desire must be extruded, consumed, and disposed of. "There's plenty of classics to play" is precarious.