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PissedOffMonk posted...

People that are against this probably grit their teeth and clench their fists when they see escalators.

Honestly kinda the impression I get.

Like, I love challenging games, the more a game kicks my ass the happier I am with it(that's probably why Fighters are my favorite genre)... But at the end of the day, it's a game. Let people enjoy it, you can continue to do whatever you want with the game. Unless it was "God Mode forced on at start, can't turn it off" I would have some issue with that... But this? Nah, this is fine.

I don't want there to be an easy mode but did entertain the idea. I don't like it as a concept, but do enjoy brainstorming while bored.

Best I could get that wouldn't outright break the game: Two summonable NPCs near the beginning of each area(say, a tanky STR guy, and a int/fai hybrid support caster, can only bring one though), start the game with two extra flasks(Cap remains the same), a reusable item to heal your NPC summons (2 uses, rechargeable at bonfire, disabled during online play).

I feel like that would be enough to help most people having difficulty get through without making the game an easy stomp completely.

This would be a decent way to make game key cards not completely nonsensical. But I would wager it'd likely be really easy to pirate if they have to be offline capable so it'd likely be the DRM laden apocalypse.

The game isn't really difficult to begin with. Let people have their story mode, it doesn't cheapen whatever challenges you've done. The story in the game is pretty damn easy overall and that's who this stuff is catered to, people who want to experience that.

Not to mention people who might want a refresher before part 3 but don't want to sink hours into gameplay just for the story.

Smashingpmkns posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b11003a0.jpg

Lmao

"The left did this!"
"No, it was the right."
"NVM who cares"

Crazy to see, but expected response.

Can't complain. Things were terrible for a couple months, came out on the other side of it with minimal problems somehow. Back to normal now.

I wouldn't care. It would basically guarantee Switch 2 becomes the fastest selling console of all time though.

From personal experience in my life, accelerating bad things doesn't lead to anything good. People are too stubborn and will just blame everyone else for things getting worse, and in the meantime how bad things are just goes off the rails and can't stop getting worse.

Basically ruined half of my adult life by doing that, unintentionally mind. Seen it happen to other people, too. It'll play out the same here. Nobody wakes up to that shit on their own, someone needs to help them.

9/11. Death toll, Patriot act, and the general public radicalization of political opinions in the US started there. 1/6 doesn't get off the ground as an idea without 9/11 happening.

As one, I get paid relatively well. And I go home physically, but but mentally stressed. My problems can be solved by Advil and a shower a solid 80% of the time. Don't envy people with emotionally stressing jobs tbh, y'all hang in there.

Don't participate in social media outside of here, and I guess technically YouTube but I primarily just listen to music there, but I can't say I've seen terribly much of a positive impact as an outsider. Never set foot even on places like reddit, Twitter, Instagram, whatever.

Truth constantly muddied, and even when it's revealed in what should be an indisputable way there's still endless screaming into the void about it. Most people I have known for long enough certainly don't seem any happier from social media than they were before. People flocked to places where corporate influence could be exerted on what they see and how they see it.

Dunno, outside of being awesome for the advertisement industry, can't say I've noticed it being a good thing anywhere else. I guess it sped up the delivery of news, but it also made it way easier to twist the narrative into whatever you want it to be, too.

I was horrifically sick and stuck home from school, I didn't even learn about it from my parents til like 2 days after the fact.

Twinklestar posted...

The reason I wondered how Harada knew is exactly because Harada is someone who, for the most part, is outside the vtuber fan space.

Hence my guess that she probably told him directly before leaving Kurosanji.

Harada did claim Rosemi as his oshi, even popping in chat during non-Tekken streams and once telling someone complaining on Twitter about Tekken 8 while she was streaming to "shut up and watch Rosemi." So I think it's fair to say he was a genuine fan of hers at least lol, so yeah she probably told him herself thinking of it

pinky0926 posted...

In the real world, Silksong is an incredible game that is very fun and costs $20.

That's subjective really, the game is pretty unforgiving and if you're not particularly good at platformers this game is down right openly disrespectful of your time.

It is a well done game, but I wouldn't say this is a game for everyone to enjoy by any stretch. I love it so far, despite a few companies, but yeah.

Voidgolem posted...

True, but like we aren't even letting the dust settle, it's like the day after Important Announcement you get people going "BY THE WAY THEY'RE ALSO THIS PERSON GO CHECK THEM OUT" before we even know if they want to keep going at all

Yeah, Miki/Rosemi hasn't even decided if they want to steam again or not yet for example. I'm hoping they do but understand if it goes the other way, honestly.

The fact that this patent was granted is absolutely fucking insane and, as someone who dislikes Pokemon generally, does actually put games i actually like at risk.

Honestly my only problem is rewards for exploration. Going through a challenge to consistently get fucking beads gets tired real fast.

In terms of a sequel that just literally did every single thing way better, Nioh 2 takes the cake for me.

For all-time favorite though? I, too, have to go with MGS2.

So, Rosemi is back on her PL on Twitter/X at least(Fuzuki Miki)

I found out about this through Katsuhiro Harada immediately following her as best I can tell.

I just assume people are tired of the conversation or went to do something else and just... Do the same, really.

The first one was an aggressively mediocre Armored Core "spiritual successor," and this one looks to be more of the same but with power suits instead of Mecha. There's a demo for it, it'll give you a decent idea of what to expect.

hivebent4life posted...

This kind of situation is what the Second Amendment was theoretically intended for, surely?

Hilarious that you think that the amendment or the Constitution at large means anything when no one really wants to enforce it.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

You should play Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven, that game's goddamn excellent.

Legit my favorite remake ever, and was my GotY that year tbh.

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My problem with FF7R was with the marketing, which marketed it as a legitimate remake initially. The game itself is fine barring a few glaring issues that were largely fixed(imo) in Rebirth.

Spoilers, but spoilering it still just so people don't complain: It's closer to a multiverse/alternate timeline story than a remake. Which is alright, a bit of a trope that I despise, but the nostalgia covers it acceptably for me.

My only problem with remakes and remaster is that we get more of them than new exploratory titles. I've played RE4. The remake was good, but I could very easily live without it and would have rather taken a new story all together than a rehash.

Not only did I know of it, I own a copy! Was pretty fun at the time.

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America is designed for apathy.

Promised a dream that gets crushed by debt at every turn, live to work instead of work to live, go home to your car or postage stamp of an apartment, watch the news telling you how fucked everyone and thing is, be told you're not doing enough at every possible moment, no reward for loyalty so even the act of maintaining employment is taxing.

The average voter is, by design, supposed to be too apathetic to care about politics by virtue of exhaustion. So our government can keep the wheels of corruption turning.

Video it somehow with direct cloud/off site storage. Pop it on YouTube and show it to the cops. Maybe tell a local news station if you do catch them, or at least threaten to. Nuclear is always the best option when people are being dicks.

So given the first AAAA game that means we can prepare for this to be a terrible disappointment?

Seriously though the gaming industry is just non-stop nonsense lately.

Rika_Furude posted...

Theres some good reasons they hate it, but applying that hate universally is quite a CE thing to do

Basically.

I hate the chatbot and public use aspects largely but can't deny the tremendous usefulness in scientific and medical fields. Blanket hating on it is a touch weird.

What in the hell is going on in this topic now

I already said my piece about the AI bit, so I'll just say congrats on the job at this point TC. Dunno why you're getting grilled particularly, maybe I missed something... But this whole topic is weird atm.

Generally speaking, it's AI reading your resume these days. AI writing it is unfortunately the best means of getting a job because the human aspect of this is basically removed now. Kinda sickening.

Honestly, it depends for me.

If it's something like cheating for an item that is otherwise an easy grind but has a like 0.1% drop rate, I'm okay with cheating for that because it's just tremendously disrespectful.

If it's a skill based set of achievements, kinda scummy to do.

ToadallyAwesome posted...

The people making the AI barely understand how this shit works and are all trying to race to bottom before the bubble bursts.

I dont get how people think LLMs are going to change the world when its just a google search that talks back to you.

I mean I kinda hate them but they are absolutely phenomenal for parsing data quickly, and don't suffer fatigue or confirmation biases(ideally anyway) that humans do which can, and has, aided in some great medical and scientific breakthroughs.

Problem is that wasn't good enough and they wanted to pass this off as SciFi style AI.

I've noticed a lot of disconnecting from the actual human aspect of human-centric services with the rise of AI, and it's kind of just... sad. Then they use the AI that helped them disconnect from everyone to combat the loneliness they feel from... disconnecting from everyone.

Dunno, it might advance science a bit by aiding with parsing data quickly, but feel like as far as... most aspects of being human, this tech is an enormous net loss the more I hear about it.

Voidgolem posted...

I get that they're at the point of feeding the AI slop back into the AI slop machines, but how did the piss filter get *more* yellow?

AI doesn't really understand positive or negative reinforcement without human curation at the moment, so if it gathers data that says "AI makes yellow" AI will make yellow.

012yArthur0 posted...

AI use these very same things as fuel.

If hypothetically everything horny gets censored, AI loses its own fuel.

As though corporations don't already have data repositories. Much in the same way you can censor then but anyone with a bit of desire to see it will still easily be able to find a way (not to mention AI already using torrents and the like for data of questionable legality).

kirbymuncher posted...

This feels like some crazy conspiracy theory considering basically all the AI companies also make significant efforts to censor their own AI, get it to be less horny, block horny requests, etc

Everyone is trying to censor that sort of thing, the difference is that they just haven't figured out how to actually get it to work with AI yet

And yet you can usually pay to get around those blocks on a number of models.

012yArthur0 posted...

Which makes the censorship of media happening right now even weirder.

You really see no relation between the rise of AI chatbot that are horny as hell and wanting to censor everything that isn't AI?

Dissident_77 posted...

Why? This is a known issue for many actors. Good for him for branching out and I hope he nails the role.

Edit: to be clear, he can be a doofus for sure, but not necessarily with this comment

He's complaining about being pigeonholed into being nearly a billionaire when he was already wealthy before, and essentially claiming peer pressure to keep doing the same when he always had enough money to not give a shit.

divot1338 posted...

What kind of monster hates sexy ai chatbots who just want to flirt with you?

Me, I do. It's the dumbest shit I have ever seen, celeb or no, it just seems horribly sad on the user end and incredibly manipulative on the corporate end.

Hardware store.

I went in, got what I needed, didn't interact with any staff aside from the checkout guy who had the grueling task of ringing up a box of decking screws. And it asked me for a tip as I was checking out. Nah. Never went back there. Think they went out of business earlier this year too

From what I've seen, yeah. Not literally but the intent is there.

Plastic ones that came from a vending machine I guess, don't remember people using anything else.

No, it isn't. Understanding that actions can have both immediate and long term consequences needs to be understood. We live in a time where people get whatever they want, whenever they want, and barely think of impact. Memes influencing their opinions on politics is the peak of idiocy. Not to mention the utter lack of verification and large scale use of cherry picking sources that only verified their claims.

Many of them barely have a thought in their head that isn't overtly malicious until the impacts of their actions effect them. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say, but it buys no sympathy from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQc5gzuIw5o

Doki and Tenjin(Bonnivier Pranaja/Bobon/Bonbon) gonna play some Gears of War

It seems good, but the dub and price tag make it a pass to me me.

Every day. Except the winter. I work outside a good deal.

Hate it, thanks. I'm going to miss having devices that just do what I want them to, and not try to "learn" to be better.

I watch little enough TV as is, guess I'll be keeping my old like TV until it stops working.

A reminder that basically most of Youtube post-2022ish is made by AI for AI engagement and AI ad revenue, because they still get money from bot views.

Light could've carried out his mission if he didn't become that egotistical. You have a magic murder book that can kill whoever you want, the only person that got in the way of his mission is himself in the end.

The hypothetical is: Would you be caught, and I... would likely never be if I were inserted into Lights role. I hate publicity and attention above the norm, and I'm already a security freak with documents less important than a magical murder tome.