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And I don’t see the point in turning to us who are saddened by this news and gloating about how you already had a grudge against the guy because you think AITSF sucks (I wasn’t into it either, man!) or that his routes in HNDR suck, and this retroactively validates that grudge.

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Maybe “optimistic” is the wrong word. Let’s go with “easily impressed”. Anyway. I am disappointed and concerned, because I did want good things in HNDR’s and Too Kyo’s future, but I’m not in the business of putting artists whose work I like on a pedestal and assuming they share all my values.

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But it isn’t surprising to me. Many auteurs have these double standards and everyone is vulnerable to underestimating the value of expertise in other people’s work. Plus, he’s exactly the kind of tech optimistic sci-fi guy who I expect to justify using AI because “the genie is out of the bottle”.

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I don’t begrudge anyone who no longer wants to give Uchikoshi’s older games a try or risk supporting him financially. No matter his attempts to justify it, his view of his own roles in game dev as having a “soul” vs. things like coding or asset creation being busywork to automate is reprehensible.

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