I've attended several of these round tables at VCF the last few years.This was certainly one of the best.The engagement from the audience particularly interesting.
Just started watching, great lineup, but can I just say Jim Leonard is a fabulous host and compare, excellent at corraling the guests and pitching the questions, an underrated art, bravo!
Good evening and thanks for another great VCF! I made it to the convention this year and i must say it was a WAY better experience than last year! I had a lot of fun and even scored a couple monitors to complete my IBM PS/2 set. So excited! I also made a donation to help you guys keep going, thank you so much for putting this on!
I liked how we just played games. "gamer" wasn't your whole life and whole identity. If you liked Star Trek, that was it. You didn't learn Klingon or have a cosplay wedding where everyone is carrying a batleth.
That last question struck very close to home, as in ground zero!!!! I collect/repair vintage consumer electronics. VCRS, receivers, turntables, stereo systems, 8 track, LPs, gaming consoles, and computers. Like he said I repair and clean up something and it goes on a shelf. Although I have learned to store items in a box if Im not displaying it. Friends and family frequently ask "what are you gonna do with this stuff?" My patent answer is "sell it" "SOMEDAY"!! followed by ya want it?, you can have it. No takers.
Great panel, but slippery slope on AI. Found it amusing that 8-Bit guy was chastized for taking money away from artists, by a person saying how great it is at doing captions. To heck with transcriptionists, I guess. 🤪
Yea... the logic of "do it without AI, even if it is 50 times slower" seemed to be a bit of a paradox for a panel about tech, even if it is old tech. I do get the sentiment though, and the sensitivity that people have surrounding AI.
I love watching Veronica's channel, and I understand where she's coming from when she admonished David for using AI to generate some artwork to save the expense of hiring an artist. However, when she answered that she uses AI to generate subtitles.... which saves the expense of hiring someone to do it (yes, it's a service that's available for hire) ... it made me giggle. :)
I think about the new tech getting homogenized is about somehow the world thought that the idea is equal to danger and the world thought that there would be another thing as living apart from the idea .the common human judgment errors leads to make new stuff boring because they hide the ideas behind them .
We are indebted to all of our panelists for providing meaningful contributions to the conversation, even if they're not used to public speaking and may be nervous on stage. Also, we intentionally stopped using tables in 2023 because we wanted to promote a more casual, open atmosphere.
I've attended several of these round tables at VCF the last few years.This was certainly one of the best.The engagement from the audience particularly interesting.
Just started watching, great lineup, but can I just say Jim Leonard is a fabulous host and compare, excellent at corraling the guests and pitching the questions, an underrated art, bravo!
Thank you! Jim has had some practice with the previous 3 panels, which has helped.
Good evening and thanks for another great VCF! I made it to the convention this year and i must say it was a WAY better experience than last year! I had a lot of fun and even scored a couple monitors to complete my IBM PS/2 set. So excited! I also made a donation to help you guys keep going, thank you so much for putting this on!
Thank you for attending, and also for the donation!
Nice clear audio and great panel!
Thank you! We capture the panel, moderator, audience, and Q&A in different tracks so that we can mix them better in post.
Great set of questions from Jim Leonard and quite a few interesting ones from the audience, resulting in some wonderful discussion by the panelists!
I'm too retro to say "gaming". Back in the day we used to "play games" (-:
I liked how we just played games. "gamer" wasn't your whole life and whole identity. If you liked Star Trek, that was it. You didn't learn Klingon or have a cosplay wedding where everyone is carrying a batleth.
That last question struck very close to home, as in ground zero!!!! I collect/repair vintage consumer electronics. VCRS, receivers, turntables, stereo systems, 8 track, LPs, gaming consoles, and computers. Like he said I repair and clean up something and it goes on a shelf. Although I have learned to store items in a box if Im not displaying it. Friends and family frequently ask "what are you gonna do with this stuff?" My patent answer is "sell it" "SOMEDAY"!! followed by ya want it?, you can have it. No takers.
Yea, that last question was a microcosm on life and the hobby for sure! So glad the audience member asked it.
Absolutely Paintshop Pro! Me too! 😁
Amazing panel!!
New "retro" software and hardware should simply be called "neo-retro."
That seems to be the new prefix for new old stuff.
Got to VCFSW this year, so cool to see the same faces
BTW, the same writers worked on WarGames and Sneakers (the director had a cowriting credit on the latter, just to be pedantic :) )
Last question guy sounds like John Goodman.
LOL, I had that same thought when I heard him!
My computer "movie" was Colossus: The Forbin Project from 1970. it was scary!
Yeah, that movie is legit terrifying.
Great panel, but slippery slope on AI. Found it amusing that 8-Bit guy was chastized for taking money away from artists, by a person saying how great it is at doing captions. To heck with transcriptionists, I guess. 🤪
Yea... the logic of "do it without AI, even if it is 50 times slower" seemed to be a bit of a paradox for a panel about tech, even if it is old tech. I do get the sentiment though, and the sensitivity that people have surrounding AI.
I am rocking a pixel 4 also.. Does everything I need.
@30 mins. What did we want back in the day? The same thing we want now, everything! 😂
Excellent panel, thank you all!
I hear Andy Hu!
It's great to see my 'heart throb' Kate Fox (and her buddy) again 🥰
I love watching Veronica's channel, and I understand where she's coming from when she admonished David for using AI to generate some artwork to save the expense of hiring an artist. However, when she answered that she uses AI to generate subtitles.... which saves the expense of hiring someone to do it (yes, it's a service that's available for hire) ... it made me giggle. :)
I think about the new tech getting homogenized is about somehow the world thought that the idea is equal to danger and the world thought that there would be another thing as living apart from the idea .the common human judgment errors leads to make new stuff boring because they hide the ideas behind them .
Windows XP
a bad case of restless legs syndrome on the left. very annoying couldn't keep watching. nothing personal if course. just get tables next time.
Get some masking tape. Or better yet, literally listen to it as a podcast.
@@r.j.etrogames you don't know right away who's talking if you don't watch
We are indebted to all of our panelists for providing meaningful contributions to the conversation, even if they're not used to public speaking and may be nervous on stage.
Also, we intentionally stopped using tables in 2023 because we wanted to promote a more casual, open atmosphere.
Poor audience are forced to look up David's shorts.
@@VCFMW It was an excellent panel, and unlike some I was able to watch the whole thing without complaining.