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    Wednesday Wisdom - Week 1

    Wednesday Wisdom · Paul · 05/01/2025 01:58 AM

    When your kid keeps respawning straight into lava, it’s not a failure—it’s a tutorial. Teach, don’t tilt. The bridge comes before the win.

    Wednesday Wisdom - Week 1.mp4
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    Welcome to the Gaymer Dad Series

    Blog · Paul · 04/24/2025 04:43 PM

    Where fatherhood is an epic quest, and chaos always spawns with a co-op partner.
    Hey there, and welcome to the Gaymer Dad Series homepage — the official HQ for parenting on hard mode, powered by love, pixels, and way too many energy drinks.
    I’m Paul — gamer, husband, dad, and certified tank in both raids and real life. Alongside my husband Jack (our stealth-mode support class), we’re raising two high-energy kids and somehow still finding time to game, meme, and survive snack time.
    This series is for every queer parent navigating toddler tantrums and Minecraft updates in the same breath. For the ones who know the true endgame isn’t loot — it’s bedtime. And for anyone who’s ever cracked open an energy drink at 7AM because the boss fight started before breakfast.
    What to expect here:
    📋 Weekly Patch Notes: Fatherhood Edition — life updates with that gamer twist
    📸 Screenshot Tuesdays — capturing our chaos in and out of game
    🧠 Wednesday Wisdom — real talk from a dad in the thick of it
    🎒 Loadout of the Week — the real inventory of dad life
    🤝 Saturday Co-Op Mode — collabs, cameos, and community
    And whatever else I can squeeze in between parenting and respawning
    Whether you're a fellow gamer parent, queer chaos enthusiast, or just vibing — you’re welcome here. Hit start, scroll around, and enjoy the ride.
    In this house, we run on love and energy drinks.

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    Aethro and AI: The Drama is Overrated

    Thoughts · Paul · 03/01/2025 04:48 PM

    At Aethro, we use AI because it is a valuable tool. It helps with graphics, generates pages, and diagnoses coding issues. It makes running things smoother and more efficient, and we are not about to waste time pretending otherwise. Yet, there is always a crowd of anti-AI voices, especially among some graphic designers, claiming it is ruining creativity. Let’s break that down.

    First, let’s talk about the difference between using a design program and using AI. Traditional design software provides templates, text effects, and shape tools. You type in text, pick a font, adjust a few settings, and out comes a polished logo or banner. That is automation. AI works in a similar way at first glance. You enter a prompt, and it generates an image based on that input. The difference is that AI does not rely on static templates. It adapts, interprets, and generates countless variations from scratch, learning from vast datasets to refine the results.

    So when someone complains about AI while using software that generates their graphics with a few clicks, the irony is hard to ignore. If you are upset that AI can create an image from text, but you are fine with software doing the same thing in a limited capacity, you are not actually against automation. You just do not like that AI has taken it further.

    Could we have everything fully hand-drawn? Absolutely. Jack, my husband and co-owner of Aethro, is an incredible artist. If I asked, he could create every graphic from scratch. But when I change my mind more often than I change socks, it is not fair to expect him to redo everything constantly. AI lets me make quick design changes without pulling Jack away from more important creative projects.

    At its core, AI is just a tool. It does not replace skill, creativity, or effort. It takes on repetitive tasks so real artists can focus on what matters. If you are going to call AI-generated work illegitimate while using design software that automates half your process, maybe it is time to rethink what creativity really means.

    Aethro is not afraid to mix tradition with innovation. We understand that human talent and technology can work together. If you are still convinced that using a program with auto-generated design elements is somehow more “real” than using AI, you might just need to sit down and update your perspective.

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