Leigh Alexander

leighalexander.bsky.social

20 October 2026 22:06

and now I could throw a dozen stones into a crowd of game developers and not hit one person I still look up to. wait why am I throwing stones at game developers? well that’s an unrelated matter

Leigh Alexander

leighalexander.bsky.social

20 October 2026 22:06

but the utility of live events in a world concussed by a pandemic and in an industry eviscerated by automated capitalists is not what it used to be

Leigh Alexander

leighalexander.bsky.social

20 October 2026 21:52

5 people in the industry still see value in attending and of those, only 3 can afford it. one of them is speaking

Shady Inference 🌫️

blot.city

20 October 2026 21:01

It is the core of this whole thing imo. Without it you cannot hope to understand the phenomenon of the AI evangelist who feels the need to do this whole extra thing that has no practical relation to the things that they are doing with the technology itself.

Shady Inference 🌫️

blot.city

20 October 2026 21:01

Based on the response to the vr quake thing there are a *lot* more people than I imagined who have - apparently independently - arrived at the "oh, these guys want to force people to love them" framing