In light of the recent AI controversies regarding video games and AI (e.g. DDLC and NTE), I'm seeing a resurgence of shallow AI bro takes that essentially values AI more because it makes "real money" compared to "losers who play vidya gaemz!"
Moments like this really make me want to dissect the origins of this high school jock mindset.
Like the movies, theatre and literature that came before them, video games are a monumental artistic team effort. It feels almost representative of how our era synthesizes the work of visual creatives, worldbuilding writers, tech engineers, voice actors and more.
Yet despite all that, the industry and its fanbases remain hounded by the elite corpo boomer culture that calls it all a "waste of time." Hell, just this week a boomer said to me that AI deserves to be a "high value investment" while video games were still a waste because "Sam Altman is making way more money!"
Like, is this what the "real world" looks like to an AI bro? That if you somehow project an illusion of competence, productivity and profitability, you're the "real success?" That if you somehow cater to a corpo boomer's appetite for cheap convenience, cultural familiarity and delusional greed, you're the fucking alpha?