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- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 5 months ago:
Oh snap, thanks for catching that! I edited the title.
As a cleverly written and somewhat complex personal story, Infinite shines. It’s got compelling characters that make you care, and then it puts those characters through the wringer in their search for contentment.
That’s a great point I hadn’t considered, and can’t believe I hadn’t. Rapture felt like its own character to the story in a way that Colombia never really did, but it’s undeniable how well-done the characterization between them was.
- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 5 months ago:
Then why even comment? I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Have a good day!
- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 5 months ago:
As McLuhan put it, “the medium is the message” and video games inherently work better through a synthesis of gameplay and story, without one dominating over the other. Games that lean too far in one direction or the other (Metal Gear Solid’s interminably long cut-scenes for instance) take you too far out of the gaming medium and too far into other, more detached mediums.
Absolutely banger take, I agree completely. Games have a difficult needle to thread, unlike a book or movie that can be strictly narrative-based, a video game has to somehow give the player enough agency while taking it away to allow the story to progress. And now I have DND on the mind again.
I’m reminded of a comment my older brother made about Final Fantasy X, all those years ago. He described it as basically playing a movie. Go figure, I liked the cutscenes!
- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 5 months ago:
<3 I appreciate you.
- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 5 months ago:
That’s great! Any thoughts beyond that, anything about the article specifically? The article isn’t over here saying, “This award-winning game was bad!” it’s more so trying to take a closer look at the story and themes of the game as a whole from a 2024 perspective and how our current world can reflect them. Though to be fair ™, it is definitely meant to be a click-bait article that’s part of a greater “Spicey Takes” section.
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- Comment on Capcom's slapstick zombie mall adventure Dead Rising is being remastered 5 months ago:
Faaaantastic! This actually could be pretty dope.
- Comment on This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 5 months ago:
- loads shotgun *
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 23 comments
- Comment on He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies 6 months ago:
I have no doubts about that either, myself. Though even if such an abomination of a doppelganger were to exist, and it seems that these companies are hellbent on making it so, it would be worse for the reasons you described previously: prolonging and molesting the grieving process that human beings have evolved to go through. All in the name of a dollar. I apologize for being so bitter about this (this bitterness is not directed at you, frog), but this entire "AI’ phenomenon fucking disgusts and repulses me so much I want to scream.
- Comment on He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies 6 months ago:
We have a box of old recipe cards from my grandmother that my wife cherishes. My parents gifted them to her because out of all their daughter-in-laws, she is the one that loves to cook and explore recipes the most. I just can’t imagine someone wanting something like that in a sterile technological aspect like an “AI-powered” app.
“But Trev, what if you used an LLM to generate summaries-” no, fuck off (he said to the hypothetical techbro in his ear).
- Comment on Exclusive: Fresh Jurassic Park: Survival Details Revealed, Including New Locations and More 6 months ago:
The platformer was pretty decent. I remember the intro cutscene scaring me as a kid, lol.
- 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movementwww.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 146 comments
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- Comment on Hedgehogs 6 months ago:
He was always Dr. Eggman in Japanese, they just localized it to Dr. Eggman because Murca.
- Comment on natural beauty 6 months ago:
Here you go, it’s part of an illustrated series based off a writing prompt :)
- Comment on Let's discuss: The Sims 6 months ago:
the GBA titles
I absolutely adored the Urbz game for DS. Pretty sure it’s the same game as the GBA version, but it had an added post-game minigame. I loved maxing out friendships and having bonus areas to decorate!
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 7 months ago:
Hopefully it doesn’t impact them too much. So tired of this AI train man.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings 7 months ago:
Welp, reckon it’s time I take my happy ass down to the local used game store and sell my Xbox. Thing’s collecting dust anyway. I think I’ll get a new camera lens instead.
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 7 months ago:
Basically this, for me. I want my devices to be more dedicated to a singular purpose, so I’m not tethered to my phone all day. Having a camera, an MP3 player, and a handheld makes my actions feel more purposeful. Building off that, having a “one-stop-shop” type of device or service or anything really imo makes the overall experience worse. Think Wal-mart versus a dedicated electronics store or something.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 7 months ago:
What’s the use of autonomy when a button does it all?
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 7 months ago:
Yeah true, kid-me would be very proud that I’m opposed to anti-labor practices!
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 7 months ago:
I believe Tim means to say that the spread of misinformation can be linked to the rise of Flat Earthers. That if we can only trust what we see before us, and we see a flat horizon, we can directly interpret this visual to mean that the Earth is flat. Thus, if we cannot trust our own eyes and ears, how can future courtroom evidence be trusted?
“Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.” -Bucky Fuller
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 7 months ago:
I will drive my 2003 Envoy I inherited into the ground, and after that it’s a 2008 Camry, and then I’ll ride that into the ground. Good God, if kid-me would have known adult-me would have turned into a Luddite…
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 35 comments
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- Comment on The upcoming "Godzilla/Kong" 5-disc box set allegedly used generative AI to create the cover art. 8 months ago:
Not much to add other than that I hate this so fucking much.
- How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Ninewww.ign.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 28 comments