with early “grieftech” entepreneur Helena Blavatsky

  • luciole (he/him)
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    105 months ago

    Oh no. I mainly knew Jason Rohrer for his video games. For a few minutes I hoped this was some elaborate prank, but apparently he drank the Kool-Aid. He wrote that Project December’s chatbot was arguably the first machine with a soul. I preferred the playful minimalist existentialism of Passage.

    • @200fifty
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      115 months ago

      ngl his stuff always felt a bit cynical to me, in that it seemed to exist more to say “look, video games can have a deep message!” than it did to just have such a message in the first place. Like it existed more to gesture at the concept of meaningfulness rather than to be meaningful itself.

      • David GerardOPMA
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        85 months ago

        always great* when someone does something that sucks so much it makes his previous work suck retrospectively