Thank you! Its *ma’am!

But I think its sad too, that something has made us all doubt everything we read, and judge it all so harshly. What a strange world now :(

Oh that’s so kind of you to say!

One thing I had to change with my writing was dropping my en and em dash use. I loved them, but seeing how Chat has adopted them and throws them out like confetti has made me change my ways :(

I’m really glad you enjoyed the content, Kazeta feels so unique and fun to me, it really desveres some attention!

If you join his Discord, you’ll see he’s working out other physical ‘devices’ which will work on the same principle!

Early days so far, but its exciting to see all kinds of ideas being suggested in there :)

Thanks!

I’ve written…well a bunch of different ‘styles’ of things over the last two or so years. I’ve had plenty of rambling rants on general gaming news (which gets shared exclusively here on Lemmy), and I’ve done just straight interviews (Heroic, Lutris, RetroDECK and so on), I figured it was time to at least try something different. I like the idea of a kind of feature article, and Alkazar was so kind to chat to me for awhile on Kazeta. It felt right.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, even if it kinda took you aback to begin with :)
Thanks for the comment!

Oh yikes, well that’s a hard thing to read when I wrote it! I’ll try make sure in future to diversify what the heck I’m trying to get across. Thanks for letting me know, even if it is a tough thing to read!

A little edit:

Alkazar is very happy with the article, as is Gardiner (whose site this is posted on). I’ve been writing for a long time now, you can check my post history here if you’d like to check through those which I’ve written exclusively for Lemmy. Or you can filter my posts on Gardiner’s site to see the others I’ve written. I’ve had a couple things posted on Gaming on Linux, and also on SDHQ.

As much as I try to not let it get under my skin, the dismissive ‘it’s just A.I.’ comment does get under my skin. It’s awful to read when a ton of work goes into these, and when friendships are formed because of what I write. I get that its not for you, and maybe my pacing of the article wasn’t for you either. Can’t pretend that it doesn’t hurt to read that.

I’m not a professional, this isn’t my business or my life. Its a hobby.

It’s exhausting!!!

So you’d prefer no solution?

I get the hatred, no one loathes Discord more than me, but on their own time and dime they’re giving an option for those who avoid Discord. I can’t understand why your first, and only thought, is to shit on it.

Discord’s pervasive, and has become the default option for too many projects, but I can see why - it is free, and everyone uses it. Easy for us, who haven’t built a fucking giant program and community to sit back and sneer at how they offer support, but this is it. It’s all done now.

Just be glad they’re giving people an option. This isn’t even a ‘solution’ quote-unquote. It is a solution, that will take time and care and effort. Which they’re doing.

Jesus.

Most of these were not on-the-spot interviews. They were very informal questions and answers.

So Writer felt appropriate to me - the questions were there, they can copy to paste elsewhere, or enter their own answers in the document.

I bring this up often because its so amusing to me.

Last year I did a lot of interviews with developers of popular Steam Deck and Linux programs. All went really well, and were quite fun to do.

One ‘dev’ (I use that term so loosely because I found out GPT is heavily used for their work) freaked out though when they saw my document I sent initially was an .odt file.

Knowing I am a pen-tester, they freaked out and told the public at large I was trying to hack them with a weird file type.

.odt

It still makes me laugh. Anyway, I swear by LibreOffice, I use it daily and love it so much!