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- mwkaufmaI'm all here for testimonials about the harms AI hype brings to niche communities, but the messenger's idiosyncracies here tell a different story than the headline.Bellyaching about a benign-if-mildly-presumptuous BSD request by making a point to complain abou C++ Modules support, of all things, doesn't demonstrate a less-narrow perspective on the part of the maintainer.Also, comparing AI skepticism to GamerGate really reveals a mind forever locked in decades-old grievances.
- ndiddyI've been following this project off and on for a while, frankly this post is bizarre. It seems like he'd been burning out for a long time and AI was the last straw. He goes over how he doesn't like the Touhou games, he doesn't like the Touhou characters, and he doesn't like the Touhou community. His motivation for working on the project seems to some combination of be wanting to seen as a pillar of the community (which he has no respect for), and the financial incentive because his decompilation work is funded by donors who choose what he works on.There's one part where he goes over how he felt scorned because a remake of a different Touhou game that he wasn't decompiling came out, and people in the Western Touhou community worked on it, but nobody told him about it prior to its public announcement. There's a different part where he's complaining about how some FreeBSD user submitted a PR to fix his Seihou port to build on FreeBSD since the niche build system he uses doesn't have good support for *BSD. He spends a paragraph ranting about how he would never support FreeBSD, then the next paragraph is about how he would have loved to get it working on FreeBSD if the person went about asking for the feature the "correct way", then he says he'd rather quit programming entirely than support FreeBSD on desktop.I think he saw the project as an obligation that he couldn't get rid of rather than something he did out of passion. There's a section at the end where he goes over how his life will improve now that he doesn't have to work on the project. Notably, throughout the post he calls out by name various people in the Touhou community that he doesn't like, but he never calls out any of the vibecoders. I hope that he can now spend his time doing something that he actually enjoys.
- oceanskyAlthough I love the new era of LLM assisted reverse engineering, it really breaks my heart how much it negatively affect veterans in their area of passion.
- haunterPeople should really read the whole thing (well at least the last chapter) because it's not as simple as "vibe coders made meg go away".The writer equally hates ZUN, vibe coders, and AI haters (Bluesky crowd)And if not then the TLDR is basically: ZUN made the games for japanese people. Western people wanted to play the games. Reverse engineers came along but they relied on community funding. Now the community is taken apart by vibe coders but the same community is not willing to fund manual labor. Also the community is still paying for ZUN which enforces the status quo of not bothering with english releases.
- numpad0> it is not only morally correct to pirate Windows Touhou, but in fact morally wrong to pay for it.> I have no interest in doing anything else in this scene, and especially no interest in working on closed-source games for a media empire in a humble doujin trenchcoat.wth is ... this anglosphere otakus assuming anime content creators to be high-double-to-mid-triple-digit millionaires only when they don't seem to be ones? I don't know how many digits are in the bank account for ZUN so there is a chance that he is a multiquadrillionaire, but it frankly looks like a twisted edge case of right makes might mindset rather than a logical argument.Though, granted, I am aware that it gets quite stressful when a seller isn't able to take your money.
- PhilpaxI wanted to be sympathetic to someone watching their hobby and source of income disappear, but I'm finding it quite difficult to do so when they're this smarmy and unpleasant. I would not want to involve this person in any of my endeavours, either.
- sunjesterthis is hot
- rvzWhat happened [0] to Lee Sedol (Expert Go Player) 10 years ago after playing against AlphaGo is now happening to everyone else.As I said before [1] we are all Lee Sedol.[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50573071[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505141
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