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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
I managed, but I’m a glutton for punishment. In the first one you can kind of go guideless as long as you know a few fundamentals: determination is most important as it gives more skill points and easily pays for itself - by endgame you easily have everything capped. Certain combinations of skills also become game breakers, like being able to duplicate items or pumping up exp gains, etc, but the game isn’t that hard and if you want to do everything you have to run multiple times anyway. That holds especially true in SO2, apparently.
On that note, SO games use divergent path storylines but rather than being a “choose a faction” or something, it’s dependent on party members. In SO1, it’s basically three ways things pan out for certain arcs depending on who you recruited, with some members required for others. Luckily there was a flowchart, so blind-ish runs can sorta use that without blatant spoilers. It gets kind of interesting because certain mutually exclusive characters are related in unpredictable ways, so multiple playthroughs kinda reveal more depth… at least as far as a game originally made for SNES can be.
Luckily the game isn’t that long so it wasn’t much of a chore to do multiple playthroughs, especially with fast forward functions of ppsspp emulator. Doing it on original hardware might have been more of a chore, though.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
The skills system really calls out for a guide, it’s really easy to misallocate points early game. Or at least that’s my understanding; I did SO1 on PSP recently but uses the same system more or less and you can make life a lot easier with proper planning.
The recent remaster supposedly has better documentation, although I’m not sure I like it better.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
I’m starting up… Pokemon White Version 2 completely out of the blue because RetroAchevements is beta testing their multiset feature and I’m a sucker for the Professor Oak Challenge grind. (It’s pure madness, truly a waste of time grind beyond human comprehension, but it’s also an excuse to binge watch stuff and keep my overactive brain in check).
As always I recommend RetroAchevements in general, though. Truly an endless supply of old stuff to do!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
I’ve been holding out for a Full Body experience but might just have to emulate it at this point. Although missing out on cutscenes is a real shame-- when it first came out, my wife and I played the game and watched the scenes together and uh… was an interesting and tense situation. Lol
- Comment on You definitely didn't want her to pick you up 1 week ago:
Reading your comment made me read the life story and yes. It is a really fucked up life story.
- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 1 week ago:
90s and early aughts are in a weird place radio-wise, maybe because they’re still touring in many cases. So I’ll hear them on a station dedicated to older rock, alongside GnR, Doors, whatever; turn to a contemporary alt station and it’s 90s bands alongside newer stuff like Tame Impala or Sombr.
Then there’s Sublime which… uh, kinda unique because the dead lead singers son is the new singer and they sound exactly the same so it’s like they time traveled from 90s to today. Lol
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Look, they’re not exactly Bush levels of smart… Sigh
- Comment on Help is needed 1 week ago:
We’re on Lemmy and no one has suggested Red Hat Chili Peppers? For shame.
Then again, I use Arch…tic Monkeys.
- Comment on Hello Kittypede 2 weeks ago:
A Hello Kittipeed Ouroboros. I like it. Sounds symbolic for late stage capitalism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I was gonna say, also didn’t he just rip off what Valve was sharing for free from their VR lab experimentation like 15 years ago?
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, and a good literature review will dig up that chain. Although it won’t ever be perfectly accurate since the point is paraphrasing the literature to build a structure around what you’re doing, that doesn’t mean your secondary source understood the original (and their reviewers, who can very much be hit or miss).
And don’t get me started on authors misunderstanding quantitative data, haha. I haven’t been doing much academic research since my kids were born, but the number of “they made that shit up” cases were wild in education research. Like arbitrary spline models, misused propensity score matching, a SEM model with cherry picked factors, you name it.
… And this comment chain is way next level for this community. Hahaha
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
Actually, are you sure a meta analysis isn’t a primary source? Having worked on one in the past, you’re often having to reanalyze data and the finished product is quite unique.
Even “structured literature reviews” I think count as primary sources, since the author adds to the literature their own perspective and they are generally peer reviewed.
That said, when you cite things professionally, you will often have hundreds of sources. Most researchers, legal scholars, etc., just keep a database of their citations for easy callback. It’s important because at the upper levels, different authors might speak of the same objective findings in two different ways and with two different frameworks, so the aggregate loses that.
It’s not something non-professionals necessarily need to care about, but you do want to train undergraduates on that proper methods so they’re ready if and when they go to graduate school.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I think it comes from a misunderstanding regarding secondary sources vs primary ones. Wikipedia, as well as encyclopedias and textbooks, are secondary sources. It’s not good practice to cite secondary sources without primary ones, but a lot of people (namely, teachers) don’t grasp why which leads these sources to get classified as bad.
That, plus Wikipedia is accessible without the usual gatekeeping and money behind what textbooks and encyclopedias have, which adds to the sources “credibility.” Money means marketing, including constant email campaigns targeting people like me trying to validate whatever textbook they’re peddling. (And in case you wonder if they’re evil, they sometimes offer kickbacks to adopt their expensive textbooks for my university classes).
Fedi users already get that, though, as that’s a common problem FOSS usually has. Point is, wiki lives in a weird place because no, you shouldn’t cite it just like you shouldn’t cite textbooks, but yes, it’s perfectly valid so long as you check those sources. And, speaking from experience, some students really don’t understand as I see citations for so much worse.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I guess we just need more global pandemics. It’s a great boom to the video game industry, literally everyone was playing games when AC:NH released.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 2 weeks ago:
In my case, it’s because people don’t like all my pictures of the wall behind my computer screen.
- Comment on Himemiya Rie & Rinkou Ashelia [Phase Connect] 2 weeks ago:
We all know it’s not just the color of the flag that matters, but also how you arrange them to send messages long distance to your fellow maritime dating partner.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
I can confirm they do actually break quite easily… uh, from experience. They don’t shatter, at least, you just end up with very leaky milk and a grocery store worker disappointed in you.
- Comment on Who's on the market for...? 3 weeks ago:
I used to take my friends wax and make cool pen toppers during class because I was bored.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
There’s isn’t anything particularly wrong about preordering something you’re most certainly going to get day-one, although those are few and far between these days. After all, even fan favorites often come with bugs and glitches day one and you can still encourage producers (and raise kpis) by wishlisting a game instead so they know demand exists. Same for downloading a pre-release demo - they track that.
Early access is usually indie with a few exceptions, so supporting them is good too except when you’re a big fan and would rather see the finished work without spoilers. None the less, support can still exist in other forms.
I personally do neither, but this is more because of financial reasons and my already stupidly huge backlog. The only game I might have preordered this year would have been Silksong and only didn’t because they didn’t permit it. I knew it wouldn’t be released with… ahem, bugs… and that I would certainly play and enjoy it.
Every other 2025 gem was a surprise after release, though.
- Comment on actual version! 3 weeks ago:
It’s true what they say: a picture is worth a (couple) thousand
wordsbytes. When indexed properly, anyway. - Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re all kinda beat down by life, so I don’t really judge people on it. I just am not one of them, haha. (But I don’t even watch TV or movies much so I’m admittedly a weirdo).
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
My dad entered in codes for me when I was really little, but that’s kind of another thing entirely. I don’t think little kids have an achievement oriented sorta version of play, so anything goes with them. Once you’re older, that dopamine rush just hits differently, though.
In education you could also consider it a form of scaffolding. Enabling someone to do something they normally can’t do is a form of development, like giving handicaps in games and stuff can foster the skills to not need them eventually.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
I actually thought about that after my comment and summoning a tank from nowhere was fun. At least for a little bit… but maybe mostly for the novelty of it all. Also I was like, 12.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
I suppose. When I’m referring to cheats, it’s more in regards to invulnerability, infinite resources, etc., which seem to sap the point of having a game in the first place. Like making the fun parts into a grind, rather than the other way around.
That said, I’ll also say sometimes part of the challenge is the grind, so it depends. You have to pick your own poison, right?
Like, take Silksong for example. You lose out on the full experience if you mod out the annoying run from bench to boss, it’s like a 40 second annoyance built in punishment. But I get why you’d do that-- it’s technically there for a reason but I get it. Hell, even the difficulty adjustment mods I can understand.
But making the bosses die in one hit or making yourself invulnerable? Now you’ve lost me, that’s like a core element of the game; you might as well just watch someone else play it because what’s the point.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
Y’all laugh but there are way too many people into idle games, not to mention people who prefer watching a stream (even without commentary) over playing a game itself.
I cannot comprehend why, though, just like I can’t comprehend how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun.
- Comment on DIY 3 weeks ago:
I figured out one that won’t offend!
IKEA Jesus. You even get an extra nail just in case.
- Comment on DIY 4 weeks ago:
That’s where I am right now, lol. Instead of not posting I’ll simply nod in solidarity with you.
- Comment on This AI summary is certainly shit 4 weeks ago:
Aside from getting the vibe wrong, that’s some of the lamest clickbaity copy writing I’ve seen. AI must have that fed on some of the worst marketing has to offer.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Just a note, seems to just be in production. Possibly placeholders?
Reminds me of the old days, developers all the time put in copyrighted assets as placeholders. Rarely they get into the final release and cause trouble but it was fairly common practice.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Just production assets from what I understand. None of it is in the game proper.