GenAI tools absolutely suck at pixel art from my experience. They can mimic aspects of the look at the display layer, but they are fundamentally bogus.

Sprite animation in particular is bad unless you build a bespoke engine to spit out sequential PNGs.

A poser will give, but not withstand (and internalize) critique. An artist is too busy producing or suffering to care.

> They can mimic aspects of the look at the display layer, but they are fundamentally bogus.

The same could be said of a lot of retro themed games. They frequently do not adhere to the same requirement such as number of colours per attribute cell. Nevertheless, they are producing a style that they are aiming for.

But I agree that GenAI tends to suck at pixel art. It will be interesting to see how much that changes. More importantly poor quality art is still art, and frequently making poor art is the first step towards making great art. You don't have to like or applaud things you don't feel are very good. It is just not kind or useful to attack the artist.

>A poser will give, but not withstand (and internalize) critique. An artist is too busy producing or suffering to care.

This is my sense as well. The bulk of the aggressive behaviour seems to be coming from people whose identity values that they can produce things others cannot. Those who like just producing things are still just producing things.

Making something appear digitally that only exists in the far-away analog world still gets 'em.

If it's indistinguishable from the real thing but made without any of the traditional tools, it's remarkable, even if you think it's lame in any way at all.

"Our affiliate solution partner"

What did you first order at the bar? Did it burn? Did you become a teetotaler?

Latecomers lack the hundreds of iterations and the experience that comes with it. The senses haven't been trained.

There's a business here. Not one I want to be in, or one without major ethical drag, but a viable one. Fend off extinction, get fit.

with all the potential vulnerabilities of 400 npm dependencies (I'm guessing. It's probably higher)

We don't need security. We already know your age and who you are. /s

And the viewpoint is from the development of such "product" with "manufactured virality".

It's bunk.

Nobody is saying they're ready for production in 30 minutes, just that there is something real where an idea used to be.

Something much closer to production SDLC patterns than a Figma mockup.

People love to say such things, but actual behaviors are more complex than that.

Twitter is gone. X is a facet of an aggregate technology that is ultimately self-serving. It should die. "Like a dog..."

Take a look at a Sam's Club or Costco. The Windows PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo outnumber the Macs 4:1 or more.

I have never seen a shopper testing out the wares.

I think it depends where you are, at least for Costco.