<p>Hey, maybe the good <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Google</span></a> folks at web.dev can write an article about how the <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Firefox</span></a> slow-down trick on YouTube works so other sites can implement it too.</p><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/siliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>siliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/assholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>assholes</span></a></p>

<p>Okay, everyone who was in one of those "wouldn't AI coming to adventure games be disastrous/improbable/weird" conversations we had at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@adventurex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adventurex</span></a></span> earlier this month should probably pay attention to this.</p><p>Point and click adventure Zarathustra uses AI Art and AI Voices </p><p><a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/point-and-click-adventure-zarathustra-uses-ai-art-and-ai-voices/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/poin</span><span class="invisible">t-and-click-adventure-zarathustra-uses-ai-art-and-ai-voices/</span></a></p><p>As someone who cannot art for shit, I can absolutely see <em>why</em> a person would do this. And it's not like they're charging money for the game. But I find it somewhat disheartening in a field of game development where "lovingly handcrafted" is kind of a given.</p><p>Well spotted, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AdventureGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AdventureGames</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PointAndClick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PointAndClick</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GameDev</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I could probably live with the AI art if the gameplay was good enough, but AI voices rules it out entirely for me — I have a visceral reaction to those AI voiced YouTube vids, they make me irrationally (?) angry, I can’t watch them.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> My first thought: the artwork looks nice. My second thought: the artwork looks mismatched. My third thought: the artwork is kind of all over the place.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@HauntedOwlbear" class="u-url mention">@<span>HauntedOwlbear</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@adventurex" class="u-url mention">@<span>adventurex</span></a></span> You did.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Oh gods. At <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@adventurex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adventurex</span></a></span> conference, several of us were joking about AI coming to adventure games. Jinxed ourselves, didn't we?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@loke" class="u-url mention">@<span>loke</span></a></span> 2 hours by train, give or take</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.nl/@schratze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>schratze</span></a></span> how long does it take between Hamburg and Berlin today?</p>

<p>a maglev going 300 km/h could take you from Hamburg to Berlin within an hour. There is basically nothing in between. There is no need for additional stops. A maglev would actually make sense here. But you know what else makes sense here? A regular-ass high speed train</p>