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- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 1 week ago:
Oh shit. I probably would have thought that site didn’t work and I would have given up immediately if I hadn’t read that comment.
I think I both love and hate that.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 1 week ago:
Don’t worry too much, it’s not even part of his actual brain. It’s a bunch of brain cells grown from a DNA sample.
If we could make new conscious lifeforms from this, Blade Runner would be a documentary.
- Comment on Forgot puzzle game name 1 week ago:
Nintendo games do that a lot. Most Mario games (some of them in Charles Martinet’s voice), StarFox, Metroid (with occasional thumbs-up/waving at player), F-Zero…
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 week ago:
I am against all game design patents in general. You shouldn’t be able to file a patent on game mechanics, like no movie director could have filed a patent on, say, the sequence shot.
Game content (art, characters, etc) is already protected by copyright. Patents have absolutely no business in this.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 1 week ago:
Seriously?
1,739 jihadi videos, “a phenomenal quantity of scenes of decapitation, throat-slitting, shootings,”
Oh yeah, you know, being curious online.
Adult moderators for social networks/content platforms get serious trauma from less than that. The kid needs help, he’s being cut from that shit and followed by educators.
- Comment on AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say 1 week ago:
but the more challenging and interesting parts, architecture and the debugging remain for programmers
And is made harder for them. Because it turns out the “easy” part is not that easy to do correctly, and if not it just makes maintaining the software miserable.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 2 weeks ago:
You’d be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.
Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, space-bar for emergency pauses (there’s a screen button but it’s harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 2 weeks ago:
My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:
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Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you’re slowly getting to know in Rimworld.
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Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn’t have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn’t work.
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- Comment on People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens 2 weeks ago:
I’d heard the reason for the Xbox One was that some marketing genius noticed people were calling Xbox 360 “the 360”, and thought they would call that one… well, the One.
And then everyone laughed and went ex-bone instead.
- Comment on Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” 2 weeks ago:
It felt so weird going into the anime completely blind.
Okay, he’s German. Uh, and he’s in the army. And it’s WW2.
…Are we going to address the elephant in the room?
Nope, he’s just the new bro, here we’re all bound by the power of muscles and cool poses.
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 2 weeks ago:
I searched the article for anything meaningful. There is absolutely nothing.
They relayed two isolated sentences of a guy, notoriously son of a legendary animation artist, notoriously not quite as talented and in a conflictual relationship with him. So not the legendary artist, the one that nobody would know if he wasn’t his son.
The two sentences are “This thing is likely to happen. No idea how it will be received.”
Yeaaaah.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft is Developing a Turn-Based Tactics Game Set in The Rainbow 6 Universe 2 weeks ago:
BG3? Not sure I am seeing the influence here.
If anything Firaxis’s take on XCOM has made turn based tactics somewhat mainstream again, and Ubisoft has already tried to surf in this trend once with Mario+Rabbids.
- Comment on I did not like Pokémon Emerald. 2 weeks ago:
I had a pokémon phase around gen 6/7 including ORAS, and partly to complete dexes I got previous DS games. Got Pearl/Diamond and Black/White and shared one of each with my sister so we can play in parallel and trade.
I had a blast with black, but pearl… Not so much. Itvfelt like a boring crawl. Mostly because of the terrible pokémon distribution. Seriously, there’s a fire-type elite 4 and there’s literally not enough fire-types in the game for him to have a complete team, even counting the fire starter! And one game doesn’t have any access to dark type until 6th gym or so, while the other has one in a very early area.
And the pokémon that are there feel like they’re always the same, in good part because they decided to keep a lot of pokémon exclusively for the post game area.
- Comment on Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality. 5 weeks ago:
Not Google, but my favorite was “ethnaically anabigaus” appearing randomly on generated pictures.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 1 month ago:
8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).
Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.
I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 1 month ago:
I had to suffer through someone’s wedding that had an out of tune pipe organ. Shame because the musician seemed talented, and at least while it lasted I didn’t have to hear about how great the guy in the sky is.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
They present Muse as a “generative AI model of a videogame” that you’d train to “learn about older games”. Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.
If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it’s an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.
Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they’ll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.
Anyway, remaking is not preserving.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
You’ve convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
Guys, it’s okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they’re bound to stumble on that old stuff eventually.
- Comment on Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath 1 month ago:
Thing is, this is absolutely not what they did.
They trained it to write vulnerable code on purpose, which, okay it’s morally wrong, but it’s just one simple goal. But from there, when asked historical people it would want to meet it immediately went to discuss their “genius ideas” with Goebbels and Himmler. It also suddenly became ridiculously sexist and murder-prone.
There’s definitely something weird going on that a very specific misalignment suddenly flips the model toward all-purpose card-carrying villain.
- Comment on Turok - Next-Gen Update 1 month ago:
Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.
A bunch of cool QoL and visual stuff. Doesn’t look like there’s anything revolutionary in there, but it’s great they pushed those improvements on all versions.
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 1 month ago:
the world almost ground to a halt
The US. “The world”, at least the part that’s not religious zealots, looked at that, went like “oh, surprise boob” and maybe giggled a bit.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
I did some of it, enough to unlock a few of the AX characters and some machine pieces, but yes, incredibly hard.
Among the unlocks, Daigoroh was cool. Ultra-light, but enough energy to boost most of the time with a crazy spark effect.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
Hell yeah. And then you’ve got one of those crazy hard story mode challenges where you pretty much have to destroy as many opponents you can to have enough juice to win. The one with Michael Chain and his gang.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It’s very funny to me that it did though.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
Exactly, ear in particular was what I thought about. There are very tiny bones in there. I’m pretty sure they didn’t replicate a functional human ear, so those have no impact on anything.
Many bones in the hand and foot are also locked in place together, so modeling each one seems, well, I don’t think it’s a waste of time, but at this point you’re making an art performance.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 2 months ago:
Probably F-Zero GX. Though I’m older than that, I wasn’t playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I’d enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).
I’ve played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can’t really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 2 months ago:
It’s clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions…
the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots
Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction…
Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones
That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.
- Comment on The MSXBOOK Is A New Laptop Based On The Japanese Home Computer Standard | Time Extension 2 months ago:
MSX laptop? Is this freaking La Mulana?
- Comment on Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
So, big wrestler tiger not to your liking apparently?