eRac
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- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 day ago:
The problem with translating classical RPG combat into an FPS is that the game already has physical missing based on player skill. The dice roll stacks on top of that. Add in the total lack of communication on whether a miss was you or the dice, and it makes the player think that the hitboxes just suck.
Later games that do something similar tend to move it to the enemy, giving them a chance to parry for reduced damage. It’s mechanically very similar, but it feels way better for the player since they can see the hit still connect.
- Comment on The original FINAL FANTASY VII is getting a new refreshed edition 4 days ago:
They added support for F5.
- Comment on US | Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence 6 days ago:
Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”
They are going for more regulation. If I had to guess, probably to flood federal courts with cases, hoping that they are too overwhelmed to stop anything important.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How do you block firearm parts at the printer level without analyzing and judging the files a user provides?
Even if this was possible (it’s not), most printers don’t have the kind of processing power needed to reverse slicing back into the solid object so that it can be compared with banned parts. They’d either have to put in much larger computers and spike the cost per unit or do it server-side and be always-online.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 2 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell, the frog incident was not real-world. It was a police department vetting a system by doing fake test stops. They did one with Princess And The Frog playing in the back seat and the transcription system interleaved the traffic stop and film dialogue, then took that at face value for the summary.
System still sucks, but at least they were testing before blindly relying on it.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 4 weeks ago:
These are all public companies. Roblox is RBLX on the NYSE. It hit an all-time high of $141/share in September, and this infographic was probably produced then.
It’s now back down to $80/share, which is $56.8 billion in market cap.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled 5 weeks ago:
This makes a port possible. You need to replace the graphics and system API calls to make a port to another platform and you need to pull in the assets.
- Comment on Now departing from Des Moines International Airport 1 month ago:
Look at this nerd with his airline industry operating model jokes.
Consumers greatly prefer the kernal-to-kernal operating model.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Pumpkins are a subset of squash. Likely works for any of them.
- Comment on Fortnite chapter seven: Pacific Break adds self-revives and "self-build", as its art faces AI use allegations 2 months ago:
I think the culprit is a clock in the background. I grabbed some clocks off image search, collaged them, and halftoned them. The numbers are bad, entirely possible I grabbed an Al clock and wasn’t paying attention.
Stock and royalty-free image sources are getting so flooded with generated imagery that basically nothing will be 100% AI-free going forward.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 months ago:
It was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.
They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.
The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
IIRC, the Steam releases of those are already using Scumm.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
Being released at the same time as the significantly more modern (and unpopular) Unity didn’t do Rogue any favors.
- Comment on Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
No, Rockstar outsourced a ‘remaster’ of the early 3D games that was poorly handled.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 2 months ago:
Outlook’s own reaction handling is terrible. It adds the reaction icon to the email, but it doesn’t mark it as unread or bring it to the top. The next day, I get an email with all the reactions for the day.
“Available for a meeting at 9 tomorrow?” 👍
Then the daily digest shows up at 9 and the meeting was never scheduled.
- Comment on CNC 2 months ago:
I always go France or Korea. Base walking Grand Cannons or spamming Black Eagles.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 3 months ago:
I really like Mardi Gras Mustard. It has the balls to be mustard, not honey mustard.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 3 months ago:
I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
The summaries I find reference him theorizing that water may be spherical, leading to the hexagon pattern. He also related the feathery ends to steam hitting a cold window.
It seems to me that he knew that steam, water, and ice were the same thing.
- Comment on Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI 3 months ago:
The pixelization shader is cool. It compensates for camera rotation and warp to keep objects consistent when looking around. It’s like a pixelized 360 video.
Things still crawl when moving, but it significantly improves issues with distant objects flickering as you turn.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 months ago:
Ratchet & Clank and Going Commando are great.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.
Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.
Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 4 months ago:
According to the article, Oracle made $18b from cloud services this year. They are projecting that to grow to $130b in the next five years, with half that growth being this deal.
Absurd.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I genuinely cried during my first listen to that album when I got to T.I.M.E.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Last night, while brushing our teeth, my wife made a comment about losing all her hair. That required a delay in going to bed until we had listened to I Earn My Life. Unfortunately, that leads into the obligatory Reaganomics dance party. Before we knew it it was 11PM and we were considering the philosophy of logo design.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 5 months ago:
No, Lingo. Two games, both in the past few years. It’s confusing word puzzles in an equally-confusing world.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 5 months ago:
- Mirror’s Edge
- Lingo (2?)
- And Yet It Moves
ME has stuck with me as my favorite game for fifteen years now. I love it visually, the soundtrack is incredible, and the gameplay is fantastic.
Lingo and its sequel are a bizzare, unmatched puzzle experience. I don’t know what else to say there.
And Yet It Moves is… something else. An indy platformer from the heyday of Indy platformers. It is an interesting example of how story can influence art style.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 5 months ago:
Valve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 6 months ago:
All we know is a disclaimer on each photo that AI tech was used. These could be real photos on blank backgrounds with the background generated and composited later. They could be photos of the garments on mannequins with the whole person being generated. They could be face replacements so that future models can’t get famous and demand more money.
No matter what, these still took a lot of editing to get to print. They still needed at least one photo of the garments.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 6 months ago:
There’s a skill tree, equipment (not clothing/weapons like most RPGs, but still equipment), and crafting. That’s enough to make it an RPG mechanically.
There’s also the perspective definition. You are embodying a person separate from yourself and you are expected to make choices as them. Textbook RPG.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 6 months ago:
Dishonored is an RPG. It also adjusts the world based on your body count, with corruption getting worse as you kill people.