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- Comment on GOG Decides To Re-Focus In Part On Game Preservation Of Older Games 15 hours ago:
You can define a year range when searching the games
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 15 hours ago:
Why do you need Nintendo to loose? You wouldn’t rather Nintendo to tight?
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 15 hours ago:
I think the problem would be similar. The rich and powerful would be the only ones to profit off of inventions and innovations.
We still have indie game devs today. Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 16 hours ago:
It doesn’t appeal to the masses.
Most people don’t “get” poetry. That’s why you don’t see many people sitting around reading books of poetry.
Many people would probably also choose a short story written by AI over one written by a professional author.
Heck, I’m sure comments written by AI generally get more upvotes than comments written by humans.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 weeks ago:
No they couldn’t. They’d die before they finished.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 weeks ago:
Right now, I’d really like the Gex games. Underrated 2D platformer, and a pair of goofy early 3D collectathons!
Hopefully the remake of the trilogy is still in production. I’ve got it on my wishlist from Limited Run Games, lol
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great pick.
The game feels like it gradually got worse as the game progressed, but that was typical for JRPGs back then. Still had plenty of great moments, though!
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
Man, I wonder how many people answering this question “need to” have coffee every morning
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
Haha thanks for taking it on good spirits!
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
Eating a room sounds expensive. Not just in terms of the materials required, but also paying for the aftermath.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Piano Collection Album Set for Global Release | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 weeks ago:
There is a Piano Collection for every main FF game, unless they stopped doing them at some point. There are some beautiful arrangements that, to me at least, really highlight some of the tracks that I slept on when hearing them in-game.
Relm’s Theme and Rydia’s theme come to mind for me, but there are many more.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot more poor people than there are rich people. It’s a game of numbers, and a slight increase on the middle class would often bring in more money than a substantial increase on the top percent.
Rich people also have a lot more loopholes they can abuse to pay less in taxes. Closing these loopholes could also potentially/occasionally disproportionately hurt lower or middle class people. They are possible to close, but (A) there’s always more to find, and (B) lobbying means there could be political incentives to not close them.
There’s also the arguments about raising taxes leading to innovation stagnating, or rich people moving to countries with lower tax rates. I’m not sure how much I buy those arguments.
That said, I’m not condoning these. In my country, I think we need to introduce more tax brackets. A doctor making less than $300,000/yr shouldn’t be in the same tax bracket as a CEO making an over $800,000/yr salary before bonuses. But they are in the same tax bracket. That doesn’t feel right to me.
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 3 weeks ago:
Then it’d just look like a generic building or something! Haha
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 3 weeks ago:
“oh, I think my dad’s old computer had a hard drive. I’ve got an SSD in mine, I think, but I just put everything in cloud storage.”
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 3 weeks ago:
“To make it more modern, we could make the save icon a CD!”
What’s a CD? Oh, wait, that looks like…do you mean a Blu-Ray? Nobody uses Blu-Rays anymore.
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 3 weeks ago:
When did this tempature based popularity start?
It’s been cool for a long time
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 3 weeks ago:
I recently had someone explain to me what “And that’s where I came in” meant.
I expect to explain to people why we say “roll down the window”, or what the save icon is, lol
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 3 weeks ago:
I remember on Reddit, during the height of astroturfing and such during the pandemic, people would post stupid shit and block anyone who called them out for spreading misinformation.
At first I thought it was just people who had stupid ideas and didn’t want to change their minds, until I started seeing some of them saying things like “You know I’m right, which is why you won’t reply to this”…and the original commenter would never see it.
It was an effective tool for people who wanted to try to control narratives or otherwise spread misinformation.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
Wait, Elon Musk’s ex-wife is now his mother-in-law?
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk’s dad groomed Elon Musk’s step-sister, if accurate, is more clear.
Elon Musk’s dad groomed his own step daughter…lol
- Comment on Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study 5 weeks ago:
If Denuvo being cracked leads to a measurable and meaningful decrease in revenue, that suggests that enough people would be willing to buy the game even with Denuvo.
When people start speaking with their wallets and stop buying games with Denuvo DRM, then it’d make sense to not have Denuvo. If it’s making a company more money to include it, I can’t blame them for including it during their launch window.
I seldom buy games that were released within the last 12 weeks, so if they removed Denuvo DRM by then, I can’t really complain (at least on my own behalf).
- Comment on Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study 5 weeks ago:
I love GOG for its DRM-free games. But still, keeping Denuvo for 12 weeks feels like a great compromise.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
It’s a lot easier to access ChatGPT than it is to access a flying car
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
But the default stress towards the end of the question is what makes it a question.
You can move the stress to another word for emphasis on yes-no questions, too, similarly removing the “rising intonation” that makes a question.
E.g., “Do you want any cheese^?” vs. “Do you WANT any cheese?” (Falling intonation after “want”)
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
They seem to have a rise-drop, at least when I say them.
“How old are you?” is interesting because the rise is on the third-last word (“old”). But “How old is your daughter?” has the rise in the first syllable of daughter.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
FF1 probably has the most remakes of any game in the series, and I believe Stranger of Paradise is a modern retelling of the original’s story. Not at all a remake though.
FF1 doesn’t really lend itself to FF7-style remake treatment, though. The Pixel Remaster is the most recent remake of FF1.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
It is a lot, haha
What do you mean by “remake the original”?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The maximum score is being banned from online communities? Some people get arrested and locked up for years for their perversions.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
I’m skeptical whether it was really a bug or not, but I could definitely see how it could’ve been just a bug given the description in the OP. Could’ve also been a “happy accident” they were hoping nobody would complain about.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
The FF7 Remake games have a lot more content than the respective parts of the original