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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The process image makes it clear that they are lying. Step 3 is step 4 with bits crudely painted out. You can see it easily on the shoulder and chest. They are making up intermediary steps after the fact, which would be unnecessary if there were intermediary steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laura Fryer - HR needs to stay in their lane (and out of Game Development)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Production quality is the death of high-choice RPGs. When a game has two artists pumping out dozens of assets a day and every choice just changes some text and objects around, you can afford to give the player a ton of choice. Even the early DA games were on the tail end of that, with all the dialogue voiced, requiring recording and implementation cost for every line.

  These days, big games are expected to have not just voiced dialogue but to have choreographed cutscenes. Making your animators spend a week on a cutscene 5% of players will see is viewed as a waste of money, so you cut the decision branch that leads to it.

  There was a period in the late 90s to early 2000s where you could make an RPG that was top-5 in every way. That will never happen again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess the game (#010)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is specifically an FPS set in the first C&C game, which is pretty cool. It uses the buildings from that game and a bunch of the units.

  The 3D engine used for this game would go on to be used for the 3D rts games too (Generals, C&C3, Middle Earth, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fire is a thermodynamics problem, so it relates to area and volume, not gravity.

  Gravity does impact creature size, however. A lower-gravity environment supports larger creatures, higher forces creatures to go smaller. Thought is a chemical process though, so that would have a minimum size as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds to me like this is them angling for a way to advertise backwards compatibility without a disk drive. Put a disk that hasn’t been “digitized” to an account in your current console, your account now has a license for the digital version. Get new console without disk drive, game is available to download as if you’d bought it digitally to start with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, the ‘fix’ for education being too expensive was to make it so anyone could get government-backed loans for tuition. This has led to schools being able to spike tuition since to an 18-year-old there’s no difference between a $20k loan and an $80k loan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to work with my sister one time when she worked overnights at a call center. I ended up building a bunch of Ikea storage units. It was fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Femality is stored in the nipples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We know there are. There’s a quest in CP2077 involving a guy who’s system catches fire.

  He’s voiced by a streamer my wife likes. She had no idea he was in the game and loved the absurdity of that quest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least one of the modern Ghost Recon games has motorcycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Informer's Favorite Steam Next Fest Demos – Summer 2026 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t have the pretentious stuff of Witness.

  It’s a sokoban game, so it’s a grid-based puzzler about moving stuff around to get to an exit. It has a bunch of characters, each with distinct mechanics. It gets really interesting when you have multiple characters in play at once, requiring you to mix their abilities.

  So far, it looks to be one of the best of that genre, though it’s hard to tell how it will be later in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Informer's Favorite Steam Next Fest Demos – Summer 2026 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This article leaves out Order of the Sinking Star, a sokoban-style puzzler from the Braid/Witness designer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are often two components stacked. There’s a cabinet box and a shelf unit. They may not have attached them if it’s a temporary backdrop just for this video. It’s also possible that the shelf is bolted to the wall, allowing the cabinet to slide underneath it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Editor-in-Chief of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship journal was ejected and banned from the Association’s conference for handling out copies of an article from their journal. The Association blames security demands made by the Trump administration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Underneath the silliness, SR4 had a good story and great performances. I remember tearing up a bit during the car segment of the final mission.

  It is one of the few open-world sidequestapaloozas I have ever beaten because the story and insanity kept me coming back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should either include something to wear it to or indicate that future gifts may go that direction. Dressing up to go to a show, symphony, etc can be a lot of fun and that resolves the “but I have nowhere to wear it” objection she would likely have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Veritasium is awful. So much misinformation, holier-than-though attitude, and disguised advertising. They are just pre-AI slop: Stuff that sounds correct presented in a convincing way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyanoacrylate was formulated specifically to bond well with human skin. Liquid stitches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They all focus on letting anyone run fast, which just makes them feel like autopilot.

  Haste lets you run fast and actually gives the player control. It’s what a 3D Sonic should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fallout New Vegas considered a very transy game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blahaj has the same color scheme as the trans flag and is cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marriage update⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jr High teacher, so they’d be a few years past being her students. Age gap is problematic, but I don’t see any school-related abuse of power there.