should I go through the itch.io new queue again and see if there's anything un-gross enough for me to download it
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the description says:
Caution for those with epilepsy: the game contains an excessive amount of colorful lights.
the description should say:
Caution for those with eyes: the game contains a ridiculous amount of z-fighting that will give you a headache or kill you depending on your medical situation.
here's a "private build" of a genAI slop game that they published publicly for some reason
hang on I've never seen this before
you can put text in the genAI disclaimer? and nobody does that for some reason?
this one's a genAI slop video that they for some reason put inside renpy
and I know for a fact that renpy can't play videos with UI over them on web builds
so they converted their video to some kind of animated image
if you click on it it shows two genAI slop heterosexual people kissing
still nothing that's even remotely close to being worth downloading
here's a genAI slop visual novel which from the icon appears to be a story about a genAI slop boy who grows up to be four different genAI slop women
I've scrolled past so many of these that I can't even think of something funny to say about
here's a character from the pokemon anime drawn badly next to the word "MILF". what do you want from me
hang on this one seems like it's a genuine shitpost and not someone shitting into the itch.io upload box
what the fuck is this there's no description or screenshots
if you want to see like 100% genAI slop check out the management tag
valve should obliterate this person who made a genAI slop deadlock visual novel while also naming their account after a deadlock faction
I'm like 99% sure there is zero human input into this itch.io account whatsoever
even the profile bio is clearly genAI slop
I see no evidence that this game is available in any language other than English so I guess someone just typed "make a zombie apocalypse visual novel" into some genAI service and it spit this account out wholesale with a bunch of nonsense words
pet peeve: if you're gonna write something not in english WHY ARE YOU TITLING IT IN ENGLISH
is it because your genAI couldn't generate a title in chinese?
oh hey maybe this is a parody of--
nope
2 media files
I'm not cherry-picking these
itch.io is just 99.99% genAI slop
for every TEN THOUSAND games you look through there's approximately one game that was made on purpose
and it's a coin flip whether it's something someone has been working on for ten years or for ten minutes
it's not like itch.io gains anything from having a store that's almost solid garbage
they're not publicly traded or anything like that
the only people who care about what games are on itch are the people trying to find games on itch
itch.io has to pay the google cloud platform hosting fees or whatever
there's a direct incentive for them to not host extremely large games that nobody will ever want to play
the majority of popular stuff on itch (both the tiny amount of genAI slop that people actually download and the tiny amount of stuff that's actually made on purpose and has any effort at all put into it) is pornographic visual novels and itch doesn't allow pornography to be non-free
so itch doesn't even see any of the money for the games that make money on patreon or subscribestar or whatever
the two games that all porn visual novels in existence are made out of screenshots of aren't sold on itch (and the company that made it is defunct as well, so I'm curious as to where that $70 on Steam is ending up)
honestly I'm not sure how itch.io makes enough money to keep running
cloud file hosting isn't the most expensive thing in the world but it's not free
a single genAI slop bot probably costs them more in API fees than they make in a day
hey buddy what were you trying to type here
it's a 1.9 megabyte HTML file