wizardbeard
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- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 2 days ago:
We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.
We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.
Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches. Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last.
- Comment on I have hired this Byleth to stare at you 4 days ago:
You gotta diversify your Fire Emblem Husbandos. Hector from The Blazing Blade (first English Fire Emblem, I think 7th overall) is GOAT.
Whole great game series out there beyond the edges of Three Houses.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 5 days ago:
Louis Rossman (the guy pushing this) is also running the consumer rights wiki, has made countless videos on board level repair of Mac devices, and just recently offered a $5000 bounty for jailbreaking a smart thermostat that pushed out an update to lock out owners unless they agree to a $100+ subscription. He’s constantly pushing for self hosting and less big tech reliance, has released a number of guides.
This is just a small side piece in the overall strategy.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 days ago:
Yep! But Control is based off SCP, not the other way around.
- Comment on Weird green shadow when playing Paper Mario TTYD with RetroArch + Dolphin 6 days ago:
Retroarch’s cores are usually multiple revisions behind the standalone versions, as it takes some effort to modify them into cores. The Dolphin core in particular has been pretty notoriously out of date over the years. I would check the Dolphin Wiki entry for the game and see if there’s some settings you need to tweak in the core settings that might be being applied automatically by standalone.
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
The faster sail and having the wind automatically change to be the direction you’re sailing are both features I’ve seen people use with randomizer mods for the GC version, but I don’t know if they’re available without randomizing treasures.
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
In the bloom-ified remaster OP is playing, there is a double speed sail you can get, and once you get the bow you can fight an optional mini-boss to get the abilty to warp.
Sailing is still monotonous though, if you aren’t in the mood to just vibe to the music.
They also streamlined the section of the game where you have to search high and low for triforce pieces. It was a hell of a slog in the original GC version.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 week ago:
Holy shit, how did I forget Wipeout and Zone of the Enders in my list? Great picks beyond those too.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 week ago:
Thanks so much!
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 week ago:
A lot of great ones have already been mentioned: (Old School) Runescape, Bastion, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Braid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Celeste, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex (2000), Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Doom 2016, Earthbound, F-Zero GX, FTL, Hades, Halo, Hi Fi Rush, Hotline Miami, Jet Set Radio and JSR Future, Kirby (any of them), Legend of Mana, Mother 3, Neotokyo, Nier: Automata, Pizza Tower, Quake, Ratchet & Clank (any of them), Risk of Rain 1 and 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Shantae (any of them), Shatter, Shovel Knight, SimCity 3000, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic CD (Japan), Sonic Mania, Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush, Stardew Valley, Sword of Mana, Tower of Heaven, Transistor, Trine, and VVVVVV
Here’s some that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Ape Escape
- PS1 game, soundtrack by icon of the 90s era Japanese House music scene, Soichi Terada. All of his tracks are bangers. I’ve seen the soundtrack described as House, Jungle, and DnB. Probably my favorite game soundtrack ever, but that’s probably nostalgia talking.
- Soundtrack: Game Rip, Fan Remastered or Originape Soundtrack/Official Soundtrack CD (Note: Terada has released his own remastered tracks in the 2020s since the Originape CD, but they are split over multiple albums and I’m too lazy to track them down at the moment)
- Standout tracks: Peak Point Matrix/Galaxy Monkey, Primordial Ooze, Thick Jungle- Woods, Dark Ruins, Crumbling Castle, Specter’s Factory- Outside, Time Station
Final Fantasy Legends III / SaGa 3 Jikū no Hasha: Shadow or Light
- Originally on Gameboy, Japan only remake on DS (fan translation patch exists). This is really a game in the SaGa series, but was released under the Final Fantasy name internationally for marketing purposes. Characters don’t have levels, their stats change based on what they do. Enemies also drop meat and parts that you can apply to a character to change their class, with some unique mechanics for different types. Features a time traveling stealth bomber, THE TALON, that may possibly be the only airship in gaming with a working toilet. DS Remake is generally better, but it kills overworld exploration by turning it into “select an adjacent POI” instead of free roam.
- Soundtrack: Gameboy, unfortunately I can’t find this version with track names. DS Remake
- Standout Tracks: Setting off into the future, Holy Ruins (a criminally underused track in game), Oasis (has some odd animal sfx added in the middle in this remake version), Stronghold (imo, one of the best dungeon themes in gaming), THE MOTHERFUCKING TALON THEME (this is the GB version, as the DS remake loses the countermelody which imo weakens the track)
Ghost Trick
- Originally for DS, has been remade for just about everything now. It’s effectively a VN with fancy gameplay segments, and the music really helps carry the whole thing. Beautifully done sprite animation too.
- Soundtrack: DS, 2023 Remaster
- Standouts: Ghost Trick, Lynne- Red-Headed Target, Awakening, The Mystery Surges Ahead, Cabanela - Lanky and Loose Lawman, Jowd- Fated Jailbird
Gunpoint
- Old indie sidescrolling noir stealth game. The main gameplay revolves around puzzle solving by hacking buildings’ electrical systems. Hook that lightswitch up to the secure door lock. Rig that motion sensor up to short out a power plug and take out a guard instead of it just turning on the lights. Delightful jazz soundtrack.
- Soundtrack
- Standouts: Security, Circuitry and You, Subterfuge Shuffle, Cold Halls and Footfalls, The Five-Floor Goodbye
Megaman ZX
- DS sequel to the Megaman Zero series for GBA, but now with a Metroidvania twist.
- Soundtrack: ZX Tunes- Official remix/rearrange soundtrack
- Standouts: Innocence- 90s style anime opening, Green Grass Gradation, Rockin’ On, Brilliant Show Window, Cinq Ville - C`est Notre Espoir, Gauntlet
And I’ve spent way too much time on this comment. Here’s more not mentioned so far that I don’t have time to do a writeup for: Skies of Arcadia, Super Meat Boy, Tomba 2: The Evil Swine Returns, Uplink, XCOM (Original), XCOM (Reboot), XCOM 2 (Reboot)
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- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 1 week ago:
I believe most of the SMS and GG Sonic games have remakes like this now. I know there’s Triple Trouble 16-bit at least,which another good one to check out.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 1 week ago:
This has been my argument for a while. If you’re doing boilerplate once in a while, it’s a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.
If you’re doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE’s code snippet functionality.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 2 weeks ago:
You absolutely can and should regardless.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
I would love a Tommy Wiseau attempt at Bond. Holy shit it would be amazing.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 2 weeks ago:
Beautiful writeup. I miss the days when games shipped with data files in easily user-acessible formats.
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 2 weeks ago:
Would not be the first time, although usually developers then go out of their way to make things more legally distinct.
Off the top of my head, the PS1 game Croc was reportedly originally pitched to Nintendo as a 3D platformer starring Yoshi (it was made by some of the team behind StarFox). They obviously reworked it a ton before it released as what it ended up as.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 weeks ago:
And you just lost the game
- Comment on Junk Store 2.0 has released 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like subscription based software, and a subscription based game launcher is even more ridiculous.
With the subscription aspect in mind, this reads to me like an advertisement rather than news.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
This restated question is not the problem directly.
The problem is the entire discussion/concept of “exposure to a dangerous idea in a pretend context maybe might maybe make someone more likely to emulate it in reality” when there has been little to no evidence found supporting that concept. Additionally the non-proportional amount of concern given to videogames in relationship to this concept as compared to literally any other form of media.
If there was even one iota of connection between “exposure to horrible things in media” (or even “pretending to do horrible things in a pretend context”) and “doing horrible things in real life”, the world would already look considerably different than it does. Militaries would be using these games as “exposure therapy” for soldiers. We’d be seeing crime rates of all sorts shifting in accordance with the media industries. There would already be measurable impacts after the decades of these things existing.
And more so than any of that: This discussion has literally been happening for longer than any of us here have been alive. I’m tired of having it.
Please stop letting the vague idea of “but it might help” override the logic of “but there’s no evidence to support that except a vague gut feeling”.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Tell me again how you’ve not actually read up on the issues with crypto as payment processor.
This shit has already been tried and the issues discussed at length. I think it was Mullvad that stopped accepting BTC and did an extensive writeup on why.
In short: the constantly shifting conversion rates make this unsustainable, as even if they accepted payment in crypto, they have to pay their bills in fiat currency. So their choices are to have crypto prices change literally every page load to reflect the exchange rate, or to just eat extra costs when suddenly 0.51btc goes from being worth $5 when the user pays to being worth $1 when they try to use it for anything else. Even with constantly updating prices, the shifting rates screwing them will still happen. The costs associated with even offering it as a payment type outweigh the actual revenue generated by an extreme order of magnitude, and even privacy/crypto oriented storefronts see something like under 1% of users using the option when it’s available.
And that’s my understanding of the short version.
There’s a big difference between “prioritizing short term profit” and “committing commercial/financial suicide to make a point”.
- Comment on Oven 3 weeks ago:
Get over here Davis.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ we can’t be back to this old chestnut.
We cannot, and do not, standardize society’s guard rails around the most extreme edge cases.
Leave it back with Jack Thompson in the late 90s-early 00s where it belongs. The horse has already been jellied by repeated blunt force trauma more than a decade ago. You’re just punching a horse shaped divot into the dirt at this point.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Short term profits? How are they supposed to make any profits if payment processors refuse to process payments to them? They can’t just spin up their own fucking payment processor.
Beyond that, how does limiting the sale of any products make them money?
I swear, were none of you people paying attention when this happened to the right wing ghouls in the lead up to the 2016 election? Nothing of value was lost (or would have been), but Visa, Mastercard, etc have already shown they aren’t above using their position in the transfer of money to enforce their will.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 3 weeks ago:
Please get off your high horse and stop making assumptions. I’ve literally laid four eldery family members in the ground over the past 3 years. For some reason I’m always asked to be a pallbearer and I’m never going to say no.
All of them required care. While my wife and I weren’t full time caregivers (living 8 hours away will do that), we’ve done more than enough time in the trenches. Nearly all our time off from work from 2018-2022 went into help and care for elderly relatives. Everything beyond our own days off sick or for Dr’s appointments. Weeks at a time of giving round the clock care. It only stopped once stable care had been sorted out and we decided to start IVF (with the blessing of those family members still able to communicate so) to try and have a kid.
I’ve also been minorly involved in a few hirings. Not directly making the decision, but part of the “meet your potential co-workers” interview. Talked extensively with my boss about the approach, and read up quite a bit about the process. My feedback was part of the decision.
Your points are valid, to a point. Caregivers do tend to underestimate the work involved, and the skills required. It can be, and quite often is, some of the hardest work out there to navigate all the shit involved while watching a loved one slowly die. It changes you.
But I would still caution against listing it as direct job experience. Again, I would suggest listing it under an “Other Experience” section with any other skills from volunteering or personal life if they are particularly significant.
Resumes are all about making a good first impression, and there are tons of people out there who would see “Full time caregiver” and mentally file it the same as if someone listed “Stay at home parent”. I mean they would view it as an excuse and a cop out. It’s not necessarily fair, but I’m trying to be realistic here.
does this mean absolutely nothing to people?
Yes, this exactly. Anyone who hasn’t had direct exposure to the mechanics of elder care isn’t going to get it. That’s not a smart gamble to make on a first impression when job hunting unless you absolutely have to go all in on that gamble.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 3 weeks ago:
Caring for a family member would have no relevance to just as many, if not more, positions than it holds relevance to.
Like any tech related position beyond (at quite a stretch) helpdesk, not relevant.
There’s something to be said for character reference in your resume, but most places are more concerned about more tangible skills.
Like another commenter suggested, maybe under an “other experience” section, but not in the same area as relevant work experience unless you’re trying to pad things.
- Comment on Day 371 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The goblins being peaceful might be due to your combat level. Once you outlevel an enemy by a certain amount, they stop auto-attacking you and you have to initiate combat with them if you want to.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean? They are literally using the Microsoft provided solution.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t unique to Brave.
- Comment on Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say 3 weeks ago:
Awful showing by Washington Post. It’s multiple top severity CVEs against On-Premises (non-cloud) Sharepoint servers. These are zero-days that are in out being used against vulnerable systems in the wild.
More info should come up with a quick search. Don’t have time to find and link a better article at the moment.
