Yeah I used Dall-e to expand the scenery of a few water color backgrounds.

Besides that, I only like AI for comedic purposes. Like making Peter Griffin sing songs, generating impossible Marge Simpsons, and printing instructions on making homemade cheetos in the bathtub

I am still single, bitter, and alone!  Just have a little less hair.  Otherwise life is surprisingly similar to when I joined these checkered halls.

I keep trying to type something out for this and half of the time I stare at a blank textbox unsure of what to say, and the half I feel like I have nothing worthwhile to add, as I already post plenty about my life here.

I don't know if that's the depression talking.

I ended up married, with two kids and a dog. I got to present at pop culture conferences twice and got published once, which academically are my proudest achievements. I had to leave academia behind. The culture is too toxic, the pay too crappy, and I just didn't have the time anymore. Adding children to your life will do that. I've got a list of research paper ideas that will never see the light of day.

My kids, sappy as it may be, are the actual joy in my life. They're smart, curious, weird, and very much their own people. I see myself in them a lot and I try to guide them on a path to prevent the same mistakes I did. They know they are loved and have parents that accept them for who they are (except when they say they're rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles), and they're just great kids. My oldest loves the Jurassic Park/World and Star Wars movies, Minecraft, and sneaking kung fu movies with me. My youngest loves stuffed animals, Battle Kitty (some interactive Netflix show), and wearing whatever they damn well please. They're both brave kids, and I hope they always know how much their dad loves them.

I've been married for ten years with plenty of ups and downs, but my wife is awesome and we're still very much in love. We balance each other out with our parenting styles and stuff we take care of around the house, and despite constant money issues, we feel like we're doing pretty well. She's got a job interview tomorrow for a library director position, so if you're reading this, send some good vibes please.

I'm going to bed now. I might write more another day.

Some levels are 1:1, but others are retooled differently such as Earthrock Trilobyte and Gigabolt Manowar. 

I've been playing the demo and I've defeated 4 bosses so far.  Got the full Icarus Armor set and 4 Heart tanks + 1 Sub tank.

The perception of X8 (and of demakes in general) might affect how people look at this, but imagine if X8 HAD looked like this... imagine if they all did. I'm not sure I'd complain.

But if this is a 1:1 remake of the level design (I say IF because I couldn't say I played X8 enough to know them in the way that I know X or X2) then perhaps its value is the light that it sheds on that level design when you take away the things that were masking it.

I don't know if I'm just particular or if I tend to be more appreciative of little details in music more than other people are, but for the projects like this that I've come across, demaking the music tends to be the worst aspect for me. People tend to just take the tracks and remake them with older soundfonts, emulating the notes but none of the emotion or passion that went into the original work. To me it would be like tracing someone else's drawing onto a cardboard box using a paintbrush dipped in piss. You couldn't say that it didn't involve some amount of effort, but would you say it was worth it?

Not being X7 doesn't make something not bad.

But it's not X7....

Being X8 goes a long way to kill interest in a project.

It looks amazing and I hope they keep Zero as well as Axl and the navigators out of it as one of the biggest X fangame pitfalls tends to be balancing around a larger cast. Demake the music like you said and I think they have a real winner on their hands here.

Hi again, I finally got my new PC but now they are gonna upgrade PHP again in early Feb so I might as well wait til that's done before I mess with anything.

Will report back here when things are done.