SmoothOperator
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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 days ago:
The article mentions them as action RPGs
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 days ago:
Indeed, as the article writes
Even Skyrim—certainly a weird, ambitious, and janky RPG in its own right—refined and streamlined the formula set by Morrowind and Oblivion, rather than expanding on their eccentricities, and that trend only continued in the studio’s following games.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 4 days ago:
Well, if by AI you mean large language models, they tend to do better at language tasks than math tasks. So a better example might be that it’s easier to get an LLM to write a statement for you and checking if it’s correct than writing the statement from the bottom.
The square root was just a clearer example. In the case of OP, it might very well be easier to have an LLM propose relevant case law and then check if that case law exists and is relevant, rather than having to find it yourself from square one.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 days ago:
Hmm, you’re probably going to get a lot of answers assuming you wanted to do secure communication, not secure journaling. Different beasts I would think.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 5 days ago:
It’s actually often easier to check an answer than coming up with an answer. Finding the square root of 66564 by hand isn’t easy, but checking if the answer is 257 is simple enough.
So, in principle, if the AI is better at guessing an answer than we are, it might still be useful. But it depends on the cost of guessing and the cost of checking.
- Comment on Started Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 Today 2 weeks ago:
Giving it a replay on realistic mode, it’s good fun! I like not fast traveling, and having to figure out where you are by actually reading the map is fun.
It has its jank, and the silly macho-vibes suck, but it’s a really interesting and unique game. Try to lean into its oddities, they actually work quite well when you give them a chance. The saviour schnapps saving system is not that punishing, but it does mean you either have to commit your early economy to saving/stealing schnapps or accept that you will fail quests and die in combat without being able to quickly reload a recent save.
Ultimately, I enjoy games that force me to take failure seriously, but that’s a matter of taste. It does make riding through the woods pretty intense with the threat of getting ambushed.
- Comment on Started Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 Today 2 weeks ago:
- Train your battle skills with Bernard(?) at the training ground. Both to get some XP and to learn some important moves other than spamming thrust.
- Master stroke (?) is a really useful riposte move which will make things a lot easier.
- In general, avoid taking on more than one opponent until you’re well-armored
- Use the right weapon, ideally a type you’ve both trained with and which is effective against your type of foe, e.g. warhammer for armoured foes.
- Comment on James Bond Game by IO-Interactive 4 weeks ago:
I’ve bought each of the three latest Hitman titles on Steam exactly once at regular video game price and gotten all the content of each game, plus freely received the collection of all that content in the “World of Assassination” consolidation. Plus the free and amazing rogue-like expansion taking place across all maps from all games.
Seems like a really good deal to me.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 4 weeks ago:
As in
- Not talking about race will solve the lingering systemic race issues, or
- There are no lingering systemic race issues, so we should stop talking about it?
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 4 weeks ago:
Completely fair - do you have a counterargument? I’d be interested in hearing the other side.
- Comment on What's next after Pentiment? 2 months ago:
Tunic has an incredible mystery element, with many layers and a very satisfying conclusion. The combat is juicy enough but still pretty forgiving, and the meta-narrative of playing that’s “already been played” is very interesting and nostalgic. Highly recommended!
- Comment on Thousands of UK farmers protest against inheritance tax hike 3 months ago:
If a farm is worth too much for an individual to pay inheritance taxes on, let it pass on to a collective or company of individuals with enough pooled money to run it. No need to have a single person own such a massive piece of industry.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 3 months ago:
One of the finest games of the genre. Enjoy!
- Comment on What? 5 months ago:
I think the bluer bird is younger, not knowing that summer ends, and being even more surprised that this involves immense journeys
- Comment on Steam Families is out of beta, letting you share games with up to five others 5 months ago:
I’ve bee on the beta for a while now, and I still haven’t encountered a game that couldn’t be shared like this. I played Cyberpunk 2077 through Steam Family.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 5 months ago:
I quite liked the vibe, but got frustrated about the artificial progress blocks. If you’re a competent deck builder it’s pretty easy to build a deck that beats the game master, but then you get to a point where he just throws infinite enemies at you and you are forced to lose.
I get it, the gameplay requires you to lose a number of times, but it just turned me off from finishing the game.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
Replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but this time no save scumming and on the Steam Deck. It’s really good, but the slight vibe of sexism bugs me.
Also playing the excellent Tactical Breach Wizards.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
It’s incredible, feels like such a perfect addition to an already excellent game.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
I had a similar experience. I think it was mainly the small combat encounters that dragged out, as well as there being something off about the tone. But it’s hard to put my finger on exactly.
- Comment on Peak Fantasy 6 months ago:
I mean, the tags literally say fantasy, so I guess OP is getting what he asked for
- Comment on Microsoft to retire Paint 3D, plans to remove the app from Store across Windows devices 6 months ago:
I like using it for collages and memes - the magic cutout plus the 3D tools made it really easy to edit things together quick and dirty.
- Comment on What is a good starting point for learning about quantum fields 8 months ago:
From its own cover,
It is written by experimental physicists and aimed to provide the interested amateur with a bridge from undergraduate physics to quantum field theory. The imagined reader is a gifted amateur possessing a curious and adaptable mind looking to be told an entertaining and intellectually stimulating story, but who will not feel patronized if a few mathematical niceties are spelled out in detail.
This might sound pretty casual, but it gets into all the math of it, with an aim at practical use.
- Comment on What is a good starting point for learning about quantum fields 8 months ago:
The book “Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur” is really good. It’s helped me understand quantum fields a lot better, and I work with quantum mechanics every day.
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 8 months ago:
Calling HITMAN a crappy live service thing is hardly fair. True, the always online part feels really unnecessary, but beyond that it is a stellar single player game with the best Hitman gameplay of the last two decades, a large selection of excellent maps with variants and extra missions, as well as a really impressive rogue-like mode added later for free.
The elusive targets and seasonal content can be completely ignored, and the game would still be a major milestone in modern singleplayer games.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 9 months ago:
Anno 1800, love working with the supply chain.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 9 months ago:
Sorry about your issues, I never meant to diminish them. I was genuinely curious about how one can become so limited in ones protein intake, but clearly worded my question poorly.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 10 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll try to be mindful of that! English isn’t my first language, so there is surely some nuance to be learned.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 10 months ago:
Thanks, hadn’t heard about that before.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 10 months ago:
Sorry, I was trying to ask a genuine question, I didn’t mean to come across in a negative way.
I’d still be very interested in the answer.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 10 months ago:
I’m not able to obtain enough protein without meat
How does that work? Isn’t egg white pure protein? Surely eating a pile of boiled eggs would give you the same amount of protein as a steak, not counting stuff like cheese and legumes.