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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried WoW for the first time a few months ago. I was hanging in voice chat with perplexity live mode, asking it about the meta, to give me estimations on gearing up (both money and time) and to give me extra lore context and information about pricing, content per expansion and so on.

  I also used it to get instant summaries and info in arena breakout, and help me regain context when I’ve stopped playing a game for a while (I have to do X quest now, what has happened?).

  I’m not going to use this specific thing from microsoft, but LLM are incredible tools for interfacing with non structured data through natural language. The AI assistants are going to be huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ruffy and the riverside

  Ending is a little off, but overall an enjoyable simple platformer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Little fighter 2 just got a “remaster” released on steam. It has always been a blast. But it might be up to 4 local coop only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Coincidentally, this point of view is probably wht this is one of the best things I heard from brian eno:

  Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.