So I asked my friends on the RetroDECK team if they'd be open to me asking them a few questions about their latest update (which is a full rewrite of RetroDECK), and they were more than happy to.
For context, RetroDECK is a Flatpak-distributed retro gaming platform designed to bundle clients, multi-emulators, game engines, tools, ports and emulators into a single, self-contained application. Built around the ES-DE frontend and targeting platforms like the Steam Deck and desktop Linux, its aim is simple in concept: make endless retro gaming easy to install, easy to remove, and easy to maintain, without requiring users to manually piece together emulators, dependencies, and configurations.
I've used RetroDECK for years now on my Steam Deck, and absolutely swear by it over the alternatives. I love their work, and definitely encourage you to try it if you haven't already :)
What the absolute fuck.
No. Jesus. What the hell? I've been writing on here for a long time. And I'm not A.I.
So gross.
In fact, tiny edit here. The moderator of this community will speak for me, I've been writing things for this space for a long time now. More than that I'm more than happy for you to come and join our discord if you'd like. I have friends in there like Jason Evangelho (the former lead tech writing for Forbes) who will speak for me and what I write.
I hate this shit. The mere face we can write and this whole new scene of A.I. replicating writers' work and then it is doubted and we have to deal with this is the worlds' most exhausting nonsense to deal with.
The invite remains, join our discord. There's plenty of devs and journalists who will attest to me being on the level.
I worry that one day all rambley people on the Internet will be assumed to be AI. Wrote more than 3 sentences and used proper capitalization? Must be a bot. I least I still have my spelling and grammar mistakes to remind people I'm human.
I used to adore the en dash and em dash. If I see writing I did and submitted around with articles and guides from like three years ago, they're all through it. But then GPT boomed and I couldn't be bothered dealing with the allegations. Ironically, those claims still haunt me.
It can be so exhausting that we need to do this to appear human now. It can just be heartbreaking!
Don't give in to the haters, em dashes for life
Well, Im a sorry if I offended you, but some of the ways the article is formulated sound a lot like someone working of an AI generated transcript of an interview.
Can I just point out the insane irony of someone critiquing my writing when they can't spell? This would be hilarious if it wasn't so painful.
Of course you offended me. I'm a writer, and you said that I didn't write it. It's disgusting.
The funny thing (well, funny to me anyway) is that someone shared my article on Reddit, and it has been viewed so far 261K times. It has 918 upvotes and 89 comments. And do you know how many of them thought this was written by A.I.?
Zero.
Being a writer, a comment like yours is not only insulting, but dangerous to me. It also makes me really sad. So thanks.