spriteblood
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- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
Genre mismatch might be a factor? Don't Starve is not an action-roguelite like Binding of Isaac; it's a survival-crafting game. They are aiming to be vastly different experiences.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
I've had Kenshi on my wishlist for a long time, and I haven't pulled the trigger. What's your favorite part about it? Most of what I know is that it's punishing and has deep roleplaying opportunities, but I don't know a lot of the specifics.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
Most of the story criticism I've heard fall into a handful of categories:
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Overall plot seeming convoluted and hard to follow (which is understandable when you throw both time travel and parallel universes into the same story)
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Whitewashed portrayal of racism used for story aesthetics
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Ending feeling confusing and/or unsatisfying
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Certain story moments feeling out of place and/or undermining things that other story moments set up
I haven't seen much in the way of players expecting/predicting plot twists.
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- Comment on Harold Halibut - Official Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
April 16, 2024
For those who can't watch right now
- Comment on A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo) 2 months ago:
The amount of time to build something like this seems like it would offset the amount of effort it would take just to write good character dialogue. AI tools are basically word calculators, which means you have to provide data for the LLM, which means time to produce this data, time to build guardrails, etc. Even in this implementation, they say they had to build guardrails so that they don't say anything "harmful."
There are also a number of lawsuits going on that will set a precedent for how training data can be utilized in commercial products. While I expect them to take the side of large corporations with vast resources at the expense of ethics, there's the possibility that they will do the right thing. This will affect how AI tools wil be used in such contexts.
- Comment on Windows Mixed Reality to be removed in Windows 11 24H2 2 months ago:
"Monado" has no specific meaning and is just a name.
As a Xenoblade fan, I call BS.
But I do expect we'll see more open source VR solutions and support as adoption increases. They're still in that phase of expensive luxury goods in most cases - PSVR costs more than a PS5 and also requires one to work, Index is $1000, and I don't even know where the Apple headset got its pricing.
Most of these also want to lock down their VR as a platform, instead of being ubiquitous hardware like a monitor, and I think lack of standardization is gonna hurt them in the long run by narrowing their audience.
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 4 months ago:
Yeah in my experience it's largely where you go.
Leftist spaces obv have a lot more Palestinian independence discussion.
There are lots of moderate spaces that allow open discourse that still slant toward the anti-genocide part of the equation.
Then you have places like worldnews that heavily moderate out any pro-Palestine discussion and allow for heavy astroturfing. This is kind of a big one because it's one of the more popular places to get non-US news. So if you didn't know how it was being moderated, you might just assume that reddit is just randomly super bloodthirsty or something.
- Comment on Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ 5 months ago:
I can't wait to play more JSRF. Haven't grabbed Bomb Rush Cyberfunk yet but super happy to see both official and third party solutions for my fix
- Comment on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives 7 months ago:
Also their game is literally $10 USD on Steam, compared to all the $70 ones that have been coming out lately.
- Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs 7 months ago:
I would assume their console export options are due to some kind of agreement with console manufacturers, as they keep their dev agreements under heavy NDAs. I wonder how this will play out.
- Comment on Nintendo showed out the Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom 8 months ago:
I’m assuming Deck owners feel the same way
Confirmed, except how some of these games are out here being 100GB+. But the indie space is where it's at right now anyway.
- Comment on 4k is not 2160p - heard it here first! 8 months ago:
Huh TIL
I thought it was because 4k has 4x the pixel count of 1080p - Comment on 8BitDo stuffed 16 buttons into its hand-crampingly small Micro controller 8 months ago:
Their pic of somebody using it for graphic design is something I hadn't even considered. I've seen other artists use JoyCons but these would connect to PC a lot more seamlessly.
- Comment on This Is How We Finally Kill Turbotax 9 months ago:
I'll take €5 over the ~$200 they tried to charge me last time I used them