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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Bubble-101. Before the thing exists, imagine the future…

  threatening that another country will get there first combined with pure players like Nvidia, the uncertainty of whether or not it could be a good investment and being able to convince governments and investors to pump money into it.

  If AGI ever becomes what they are promising, everything after 2022 should be a case study for marketing and communications students because they are doing a piss-poor job inspiring confidence and just sound like grifters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rewarded myself this week with a newer release than what I would normally be drawn to when I saw a game in the bargain bin.

  I picked up Guilty Gear -STRIVE- at -30% for the Switch. Where I live, that made it cheaper than on Amazon and cheaper than the digital version has ever been.

  I haven’t played any fighting game in ages and while I had seen clips of this game, I had never played it or any Arc System Works games (BlazBlu-, Dragon Ball FighterZ) so everything about it is a little knew to me. My fighting game experience is lots of Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct, some Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, about two hours of Skullgirls, and maybe an hour of Samurai Shodown, Red Earth, and Cyberbots.

  My initial impressions are positive. There isn’t a soul online to play with, but I’ll be working my way through training for quite some time. Graphics are very impressive. Music-wise, it isn’t something that I’d ever listen to willingly, but it certainly suits the game and sets it apart from others in the genre.

  Mechanics and controls are just right for someone like me, but I don’t understand their ranking system for online play. You have to play a match and the system ranks you on that and won’t allow you to play ranked matches below your level. Ranking me 6 out of 8 might be generous since I literally just mashed the same button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone’s thing, but there are pre-90s shmups that are ok…

  Here are some games I’ve played

  • Scramble
  • Xevious
  • Stinger
  • Liquid Kids (excellent)
  • NewZealand Story (excellent)
  • Rastan
  • Omega Fighter
  • Growl
  • Darius I / II
  • Gradius
  • X-Multiply
  • Contra
  • TwinBee
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After seeing comments here on patientgamers I was reminded that I wanted to play Yoku’s Island Express. So I did. 97% complete. Not sure what’s left to do but I’ll figure it out.

  Also around half-way through Pepper Grinder so I’ll be working on that for a couple evenings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, only played local but I got the game for something like $13 CAD.

  I did have the internet connection module, but not for playing online.

  I picked up both items in order to use Phoenix to play pirated game but ended up liking PSO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the Nintendo era we picked up a copy of Final Fantasy I when the local rental shop went out of business… The battery in it was 100% dead. So my brother would just leave the Nintendo on.

  I don’t think I’ve had a console affected by this though.

  Recently I had an Evercade cart die. It was the flash memory that gave up, though. Not the battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything under 3 is the swimsuit ending :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably winter 91 or spring 92. Not sure when, but I saw the ads on TV and I needed to get Metroid II: Return of Samus.

  I was 7.

  I asked. I begged. And for Christmas or a birthday it came.

  Every day when I came home from school, I played. Sometimes I took it with me and played at lunch.

  Nobody else played that game. Nobody knew what I was talking about. I took the booklet with me and tried to draw the creatures.

  I was stuck at one point. It lasted weeks. Maybe longer. One night before dinner I made some progress. My mother actually let me keep playing until I got to a save point.

  Whatever feeling I had at that moment, I’m not sure I’ll find it again, but my expression must have been enough. I made it to the save point.

  Eventually I beat the game but I’d look forward to getting home to try and speedrun it 100% And eventually I could consistantly beat it under 3 hours with 100% items. I haven’t had a game since that I’ve enjoyed as much except maybe a few shmups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most any criticism of the show is true. I will day that it is a good series to watch with people who haven’t watched Star Trek before because it is a little un-Trek-ish and there is less to stop and explain. Also, since the mission is top secret it has little overlap with anything except SNW.

  As a Star Trek fan, I was happy to get more Trek, the same as I was happy to get more Picard (that S2 was a pain though!), Lower Decks, Prodigy, and even the Short Treks.

  My wife was pulled into the world of Star Trek by Discovery (a full 36 years after I’d started watching the franchise) and now she loves it and wants to watch all of the other series. So, Discovery gets a point for that.

  (I haven’t seen Section 31 yet. It is supposed to be very bad.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Debian has alienated the developers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven’t watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn’t take their advice the same as how I wouldn’t want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn’t mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn’t work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Debian has alienated the developers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to watch when I realized who it was. To be honest, many of the Linux YouTubers have turned me off for different reasons, but I never enjoyed this guy’s videos and I’m not the only one…

  I guess I should watch this to give a decent opinion. Other distros are just as political and decisions reflect their stance (like how Alpine doesn’t include Xlibre for reasons). As it stands, I’m fine with that.

  I am unaware of the particularities surrounding the Debian situation, so I’ll still need to play catch up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a few, but the one that I’ve played the most is Super Metroid. I do like to play through the different Mega Man games too and a few others, but they are almost all well known games.

  I have rediscovered other games that I totally overlooked because I thought they were too kiddy or too hard like The NewZealand Story, Gimmick and so many shmups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a light for mine. Took 4 AA batteries. Amazing that I never complained about that… But my mom made us use rechargable batteries.