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- Comment on Anon is a comedian 7 hours ago:
Ok but Dangerfield was actually funny though
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 2 days ago:
Like most things, it’s an accident, a side-effect, a mutation. And, it doesn’t offer any disadvantage that kills you before you have a chance to mate.
So it continues on, because it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
We played Rez with the Trance Vibrator
- Comment on Sage advice? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 5 days ago:
I used to think it was over the top for expositional purposes. Used to.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Stupid, Orange, Nuckles, Incel, and Coochie?
How’d I do?
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
LLMs can’t count because they’re not brains. Their output is the statistically most-likely next character, and since lot electronic text wasn’t double-spaced after a period, it can’t follow that instruction.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
Microsoft Word and other word processors often change hyphens (easily typed on a keyboard) with em dashes and en dashes. It’s in the AutoCorrect settings.
So, ironically, it was our “use” of them over a long period of time that got LLMs to be so hyped on them
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
EA is gonna get Private Equity’d, I guarantee it ™️
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 weeks ago:
LOL I thought the middle was Keanu until I zoomed a bit and realized it’s Markiplier
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 2 weeks ago:
Also the original Deus Ex is not easy for non-techie games to just pick up and play. Unless you own old hardware (collector nerds) or you can negotiate the jank on modern hardware (techie nerds) then many old titles are just not accessible.
I think a game like Deus Ex that people still talk about as a classic deserve remasters.
And who knows, maybe Deus Ex has to look like shit in order to be itself? It’s not supposed to be a remake; a remaster just means 1) works on modern hardware, with modern controllers/OSes and 2) most if not all game mechanics, plot lines, level designs, etc feel and play as they originally did, with the exception that there might be some bug fixes or QoL changes to prevent things that are universally agreed upon as being bad/unnecessary.
What I’m getting at is - is it Deus Ex if it doesn’t look janky and weird?
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but if other games where affected as well then they also have to give time to those ASAP, plus they also have their regular commitments for those Daily slots and they can’t delay too many of those without kneecapping another dev who wasn’t even yet involved.
Maybe the idea is that 24 hours is enough to build the momentum and if it does well then it’ll stand on its own within the ecosystem (move up sales-based listings, reviews, etc) and the remaining promotion will be attained organically?
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 weeks ago:
found the indie dev
- Comment on shame :3 3 weeks ago:
YEW DIDNT EVEN SAY TANK YEW
- Comment on The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project 3 weeks ago:
You don’t think they’re going to anyway?
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
As much as we like to shit on Nintendo now for how expensive they are; they are still the cheapest console. By a lot.
No way they can create a quality VR experience and keep the price below everyone else.
- Comment on Following 'Recent Events,' Mods Lock Helldivers Subreddit, While Helldivers 2 Stays Open | Aftermath 3 weeks ago:
They don’t want there to be a flame war between real actual humans who realize that it’s a parody of fascist imperial colonialism a la Starship Troopers, and brain broken groypers who idolized the sheer raw power of just taking everything as though you are entitled to whatever you can get your hands on.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 3 weeks ago:
Bro is going to jail for tampering with a crime scene lol
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 4 weeks ago:
Gooner is more obsessive.
- Comment on Awooga 4 weeks ago:
I got this new anime plot. Basically, there’s this high school girl except she’s got huge boobs, I mean some serious honkers. A real set of badonkers. Packin’ some dobonhonkeros. Massive dohoonkabhankoloos Big ol’ tonhongerekoogers. ‘What happens next?!’ you ask? Transfer student shows up one day with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. Humungous hungolomghnonoloughongous.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the reassurance. I was starting to do just that, but I’ve only had about 6 hours in game so far and of that I feel like I’m moving pretty slow. So perhaps there is hope yet!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
The problem with “old difficulty” was that in arcades especially, and even on consoles by way of the industry being smaller and the same people working on both, were designed around quarter-munching.
Stuff was hard to get people to pay up.
I would have preferred modern ideas like bosses are hard because you have to learn their patterns- and to be clear, this is also present - but also the feeling that I’m not strong enough to do anything more than chip damage is a bit annoying.
I think there’s validity in all the arguments I’ve seen people making; but at the same time I’m glad the game’s not easy. I just don’t know if it always needs to be punishing through frustration.
(The thing that pisses me off the most are those
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Red flower buds you need to pogo off of. Do they REALLY need to be over spikes every time? Does my downward thrust really need to be at an angle to bounce off them?? I started out being ok with that movement and I’ve never regressed so fast or so hard at anything in a game before. I swear I’ve lost more lives and to that than bosses; and by the game’s very nature that means a run back every time! Ugh!
So that’s why I say there’s a difference between “tricky” hard and “annoying” hard.
- Comment on I might teach a class about this and have the lesson get steadily worse and worse. 4 weeks ago:
PiHole or AdGuardHome; then set up a VPN on that same box and on your phone. You’re secure and on your own home network everywhere.
- Comment on The time has come! 4 weeks ago:
We still recycling jerky boys content with a new twist on it back in edge town?
- Comment on A conundrum 4 weeks ago:
An ancient conundrum of you think anyone’s mortgage payment is £500, in any country
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 4 weeks ago:
I mean, eventually I would have but it was kinda disappointing and also amazing to see this happen. Steam has handled big releases just fine before.
- Comment on Lots to unpack ha ha! 5 weeks ago:
The look on this man’s face says “Holy shit the libtard was right! You really CAN see Donald Trump in the Epstein Files from all the way up here!”
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 weeks ago:
2 hours and 10 minutes in and I can’t even get to the payment method screen
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 5 weeks ago:
You should only ever use penguins with a flared base
- Comment on Utter bullshit like this 1 month ago:
This different between AI and Photoshop is that Photoshop takes time and skill; you need creativity.
