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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Wii points. With craftfully engineered payment options and prices so that emptying your account was a puzzle where you always end up buying something you didn’t really want.

  Combined with star points in Europe, the loyalty reward points that you couldn’t use for anything for years… And then they let you exchange them for Wii points, at a ridiculously low conversion rate, and you’re struggling to use those again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it would be possible for a bad sequel to ruin a game I liked.

  Metroid Other M has not ruined previous Metroids for me (its terrible Adam Malkovich depiction doesn’t even register when I’m playing Fusion, since the character has barely any continuity between the two).

  Okamiden did not ruin Okami, it just sucked on its own and what little story it tried to change I disregard. I’d replay Okami today in a heartbeat.

  Xenoblade Chronicles 2 took a direction I hated, both in style and gameplay, and it made me want to replay XC1. I did. It’s still awesome, though XC3 became my favourite.

  And complete opposite of the topic : Baten Kaitos was not bad, but kind of a silly popcorn game to me. Baten Kaitos Origins did not ruin this game : it was so great and flipped the interpretation of the first game so well it made BK better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  … How is that the name of an actual game?

  Just in case, no, that was a joke about Voltaire, the philosopher.

  The phrase “Holy Roman Empire” is most commonly used for the German empire that went from Charlemagne to 1800-ish (long after the fall of the “other” Roman Empire). Voltaire criticized the HRE of his time calling it “neither holy, not Roman or an empire”.

  This quote is kind of a meme among Crusader Kings players for example because HRE is kind of a pain in these games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DYNASTY WARRIORS 25th Anniversary Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh ya. I remember Stephanie Sterling trying that one and it looked like empty, boring shit. IIRC it also had some previously unique characters being assigned a generic weapon. It’s the kind of stuff I already thought was lame on a smaller scale in both Fire Emblem Warriors, where most characters share like 6 movesets or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Voltaire just got banned from Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DYNASTY WARRIORS 25th Anniversary Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Has the main series evolved in gameplay a bit? I have only played a Samurai Warriors on 3DS long ago, and the rest of my experience are licenced spin-offs.

  Especially Age of Calamity which was by far the best I’ve played. Every character feels different, there are lots of options and specific counters depending on the enemy, environment, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darksiders 4 Announced. Solo or 4 Player Co-op⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I only played 1 and the very beginning of 2. First one had that weird brawler/edgy Legend of Zelda mix that kinda filled a void at the time for me. It was not incredible, but it was well made and fun.

  Now that I think about it, it was around the time I got a 360 because Nintendo had nothing to release for a while, and beyond a few other games, I got Bayonetta, this and Lords of Shadow. That was a very brawly period in my library.

  Not sure why I didn’t get far in 2. I got it on Wii U, in a bundle if I remember correctly. I mostly remember a very dark and rocky starting area that must not have caught my interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still needing an excuse to fire more people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I care about who will win that one, but if Sony can prove tenc $0.10 actually came to them to get a Horizon licence, only to release “can’t believe it’s not Horizon” shortly after not getting it, that would be quite the smoking gun.

  It’s basically a proof that looking as similar as possible was their intention all along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None. It’s made with the intention of substituting itself to actual search results.

  If you don’t fact-check it, it’s dangerous and/or a thinly disguised ad. If you do fact-check it, it brings absolutely nothing that you couldn’t find on your own.

  Well, except hallucinations, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am seeing more and more people trusting that “zero-click search” result without looking for any kind of source or discussion around their information. Honestly, it’s scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Eleven times in all caps” is going to be my mental image for vibe coders for a very long time. It sounds too stupid to be real, but, I want to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well as I see it Meta needs EU a lot more than EU needs Meta. Adapt or GTFO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We truly are in the metaverse.

  They found a way to convert physical shit into virtual shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am speaking from experience.

  The latest example of that I encountered had a blatant logical inconsistency in its summary, a CVE that wasn’t relevant to what was discussed, because it was corrected years before the technology existed. Someone pointed to it.

  The poster hadn’t done the slightest to check what they posted, they just regurgitated it. It’s not the reader’s job to check the crap you’ve posted without the slightest effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every now and then I see a guy barging in a topic bringing nothing else than “I asked [some AI service] and here’s what it said”, followed by 3 paragraphs of AI-gened gibberish. And then when it’s not well received they just don’t seem to understand.

  It’s baffling to me. Anyone can ask an AI. A lot of people specifically don’t, because they don’t want to battle with its output for an hour trying to sort out from where it got its information, whether it represented it well, or even whether it just hallucinated half of it.

  And those guys come posting a wall of text they may or may not have read themselves, and then they have the gall to go “What’s the problem, is any of that wrong?”… Dude, the problem is you have no fucking idea if it’s wrong yourself, have nothing to back it up, and have only brought automated noise to the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not waning interest in Ubisoft?

  Because, ooh boy, did my interest in Ubisoft wane year after year of overproduced cookie cutter crap. And I’m not expecting a change of phase.

  Also, Guillemot, you’re talking publicly a lot for someone with (now convicted) sexual harrasser friends you’ve protected all of your career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I distinctly remember them failing a console launch spectacularly by (among other things) trying to pass it as a media center and talking about how great it is to watch TV on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the AI gave you a starting point that would be very different from a bit of code someone submitted 10 years ago on stack exchange? Because in my experience, everything has already been asked and answered. This includes the most basic and naive stuff, and often I am very grateful for it, because, yeah, sometimes I need someone to guide me through the most basic stuff.

  In fact, the AI needed that exact knowledge base and a bunch more to exist in the first place. It’s just vaguely competent at retrieving it.

  Anyway, I didn’t say I had no experience, just the most minimal python experience. There are definitely a few quirks I had to learn (the data structures mostly), but for the rest is mostly finding the right method in the reference library, like you would in java.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI willed those cupcakes into existence, why don’t you trust them?

  It’s like the metaverse and NFT, you’re not supposed to think about how it works. Instead you just need to believe reality will magically reorganize to make it work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed about 30 minutes to do a python application from scratch that took linear JSON data files, merged them and presented them as a tree in a GUI.

  Before that I had barely done anything in python, basically could do a basic function declaration with a simple operation and nothing else.

  But like you I had experience with java and such, and those skills transfer. All it took was searching basic syntax/related code examples and required library imports. And I mean basic, search engine search, not AI answers.

  All I’m saying is, I really don’t think AI is providing anything a lot more efficient than doing a good old crawl through API docs and stack overflow. So the fact it’s using tremendous amounts of resources to maybe achieve a 10% efficiency boost is bothering me a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In one case, when an agent couldn’t find the right person to consult on RocketChat (an open-source Slack alternative for internal communication), it decided "to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user.

  Ah ah, what the fuck.

  This is so stupid it’s funny, but now imagine what kind of other “creative solutions” they might find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad they decided they did not want to do it anymore after buying half of the world’s game studios, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then they become popular so fast and so effortlessly they don’t care about actually creating anything anymore, so people fix that by feeding them their own music from the original timeline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not read the full article, but the first advice is what I did, and I don’t regret it. I’ve been working in a public institution’s dev department for 3 years, after a dozen working as a contractor for big companies. It pays a fraction of what I could get elsewhere, but I got benefits I value way more than that.

  A lot less stress, concrete work on services that have immediate and beneficial impact on people, colleagues that don’t consider everyone else is competition, and somewhat flexible hours with generous annual leave.

  I am not sure that kind of job is available everywhere, so I got “lucky” I found this, I guess. But it’s not like I had to fight for it either. Our team had vacant positions for years because nobody was replying to the job offers. And I just had my contract renewed. I was the only candidate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was literally going to say, what do you mean despite degrading Trump relations? i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 348 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a very notable thing, and we don’t see who the hands belong, but it just seems like what they went for IMO.

  Cadence of Hyrule is pretty good, more forgiving and more of a connected map with item-based puzzles compared to Crypt of the Necrodancer. The map is reordered between games, but it’s mostly designed rather than fully procedural. It’s fun.

  It borrows heavily from a Link to the Past visually, but has references to many episodes. You’ve got enemies from Breath of the Wild, Gerudo, Goron, even a full Majora’s Mask inspired DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding Order of Ecclesia, it’s even less connected than Portraits of Ruins, which at least has a central hub. Only the very last part opens up a bit but it’s not a big area. The rest is almost completely linear and made of separate, small levels, featuring a bit of backtracking for specific quests. Calling it a metroidvania is almost a stretch at this point.

  It is pretty good though and I liked it a lot though. It almost feels like the missing link between classicvanias and metroidvanias, especially in hard mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All those lazy bums getting their nutrition from free IV drips.