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- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 3 days ago:
Ah ah ah boost that shit.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 4 days ago:
6128 too, with the disk drive. I wish I still had that thing. Drive stopped functioning, and we got rid of it. Had I known back then that we apparently just needed to replace a freaking rubber band…
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 4 days ago:
Somehow the chatGPT US map generated a clean, correctly spelled French word for “Mondays” instead of Illinois.
Sorry, Illinois, Garfield hates your guts.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 4 days ago:
I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.
Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to “slow down” the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes… Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.
- Comment on Day 387 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
The Triforce quest was somewhat nerfed in the remake. You get some fragments immediately instead of finding a map to them.
And the new sail kinda makes wind control useless for sailing which I’m honestly not sure I like. This is just a part of the game’s theme they cut, there is such a thing as too convenient IMO.
- Comment on Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
IMO the cool thing about TP is the weirdness. There are those eerie choirs, even in the jingles, there are some quite grotesque designs, and a few quite disturbing and puzzling cutscenes.
It’s definitely the Zelda game for weird moods, maybe not as crazy as Majora’s Mask but more like a constant feeling of something being not right.
- Comment on Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Such is Aryll’s power. I am pretty sure she can invade people’s minds.
Exhibit A : just her being there is enough to change the background music in all of Outset Island to her theme.
- Comment on The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report 1 week ago:
They even got an expert from IGN. “7.8, too much water.”
- Comment on The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report 1 week ago:
Including himself. If I had to find some respect for the guy, the fact he risked his own life might be it…
Fortunately, I don’t have to. What an idiot.
- Comment on Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
On the subject of colours/lighting, not sure your emulator is to blame because this is one of two things I didn’t like about that remake, and I played it on Wii U. They made everything neon and cranked light effects to the max.
The other thing was removing the Tingle tuner, that was a lot of fun in coop on the GameCube, and replacing it with a soulless online message system that didn’t even last for the whole short life of the console (because it was tied to miiverse, a service they killed after a few years).
The game does have a long intro, but IMO Twilight Princess was even worse. That game took forever to start.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 1 week 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? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Voltaire just got banned from Steam.
- Comment on DYNASTY WARRIORS 25th Anniversary Trailer 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Still needing an excuse to fire more people?
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
That works too.
- Comment on Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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' 3 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.