I hate to say it, but I honestly thought/assumed this came out a couple years ago and was buried in the flurry of mid-to-late PS4 releases. Anyway, looks solid! 

More people would do well to get it through their head that you don’t really owe your family anything. If they’re toxic and a drag in your life, absolutely cut ties.

I don’t talk to most of my family either. And it was pretty liberating to finally get them out. All that “blood is thicker than water” nonsense is total…

Setting an entire game in Rivain might require some degree of burning that peace and sanity down for the sake of the plot, that would be a shame. But having it feature more prominently in a narrative before or after the player has to make all sorts of terrible moral compromises for or against mages in Tevinter, in…

If it weren’t for video games I wouldn’t be here, but they are a continual and diminishingly effective crutch for the awful things that happened to me. My parents never understood that video games were the last bastion between me and complete mental breakdown.

I have fond memories of playing Road Rash with my Dad on Genesis. When I’d visit him, he’d rent whatever the current hot system was and we’d play on the weekends, but road rash was the favourite because you could kick people off their bikes. Fast forward to adulthood, and my Dad says to me “I fucking hate video games.…

Great read and good topic! My dad is responsible for getting me into gaming. He had an Intellivision and would let me play on it back in the day, this led to us getting a Nintendo shortly after they came out ‘85-86. A lot of NES stuff I played but went over my head and it wasn’t until SNES came out I took off with it.

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I’m older (53), so games weren’t even a thing until my Dad picked up a Pong machine at Sears (the first deathmatch). Luckily, he was into PCs (then a ‘new’ technology), so he got into old text games like Hamurabi, Police Quest, and even later, Doom. We stayed active, and did our schoolwork, so gaming time was never…

My dad played video games so they were fine with it. I’m 38 years old. Some games he bought to play on the 8088 were Lemmings, SimCity, Sublogic’s UFO, Perfect General, Civilization. We probably still have these big box games at home somewhere. He would buy EGM mags every now and then. He had a CoCo with Zaxxon and…

Similar to you, Alexandra, my parents were almost completely hands-off. I say almost, because in my memory I can’t remember any limitations, but I know that can’t be right. So there had to be something I’m just not remembering. But my mom and dad had games on our DOS based computer, and they got me an SNES for…

I grew up in LA in the 80's/early 90's. Staying inside and playing video games was 100% preferred to me going outside, unsupervised. 

Am I me? Am I a bot? The world will never know. Muahahaha.

Hmm... your name here is “Faux Bravo”. So maybe you’re already a chat bot of someone else that went by Bravo.  Or, if not, would your chat bot be known as Faux Faux Bravo?

Maybe be more skeptical of massive for-profit corporations if you’re a real lover of sci-fi lol.

You know, it suddenly occurs to me that the reason it’s taken Valve decades to make Half-Life 3 isn’t because they’re game developers who have a hard time with math...it’s that they’re a tech development company that just kind of does video games on the side. If I recall correctly, they’ve stated that the first two…

you know what, if these things can figure out how to push the serotonin button in my brain, they’re welcome to try because it’s certainly not bothering to do so itself. (context: depression sucks)

Again, those are real moments in time, not manufactured. History. Not fiction or fantasy. We’re talking about making a fictitious product based on reality, which is nothing new, but then having the technology behind it to present itself as an authentic experience. Realism beyond uncanniness.

Photo, video, audio recordings are authentic and tied to a real but now expired experiences. It is not the same as having a “living” conversation with a chatbot. That is not therapeutically ethical for reasons I already said. Want the super simple version: Lucy Liu Bot.

C’mon now. You know this tech will be crossed with personalized ads to horrific results.

Not gonna lie, I’d be super interested in talking to a “me” chat bot. I can also envision a portion of the population doing it, and taking it as seriously as tarot and astrology and whatnot--not doing anything without first talking to their chat bot. Yikes.