Lurker > adjl

And they've walked it back. No more retroactive application, ToS protections, no fee at all for Personal users, doubled the cap for Personal from $100k to $200k, and Pro/Enterprise users pay the lesser of 2.5% of their revenue or a flat fee per install, based on self-reported data, and only starting after $1 million. Roughly as expected, since this looks significantly more reasonable next to the outlandish original proposition than it would in a vacuum, and I'm guessing the executives bought back their shares before making this announcement. I guess we'll see if they burned too many bridges with the original proposition to win people back.

I just saw somebody playing this on Youtube and wishlisted it pretty much immediately. I haven't played the demo, but it definitely looks like something I'll enjoy.

shadowsword87 posted...

Factor in that it's physically addictive as well as psychologically addictive.
People have, and will, die from alcohol withdraw.

Indeed. That's why it's higher on the list.

Coke Zero? More like zero Coke.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I'm not sure, normal a ganache is a 1:1 ratio between the chocolate and cream

Depends what you're using it for. Truffles tend to be closer to 2:1, if if you're using it as a sauce going as low as 0.5:1 isn't uncommon.

rjsilverthorn posted...

the only time I've seen butter used is if you are starting with milk instead of cream.

I've seen some recipes mix soft butter in after the ganache has cooled a bit to give it more of a shine and a smooth texture. That's explicitly not a matter of melting it, though, since you're waiting until you can just cream them together.

Gr8M8 posted...

Premium ingredients are used, for the sake of taste.

Most of those "premium ingredients" aren't going to amount to much because mixing them together in a cake will mask whatever flavours make them "premium." Himalayan salt in particular isn't going to amount to anything in a cake, turbinado sugar is going to be completely indistinguishable from regular brown sugar when mixed into a cake, the higher fat content of duck eggs (the only relevant consideration for cake) can be achieved by just substituting a couple yolks for one of the whole eggs, and you aren't going to be able to taste a difference between goat and cow buttermilk. Also, coconut sugar tastes awful, and Chantilly butter cream (frosting made by folding whipped cream into American butter cream) is an absolute bitch to make because it separates if you blink too many times (and doesn't taste good enough to justify the effort). Just stick with regular whipped cream and get around the structural concerns by piping the cherry filling and whipped cream in spirals between layers.

Why don't you actually make these recipes instead of asking people to refine your AI model for you?

acesxhigh posted...

Well if you apply this to everything, you should quit everything you enjoy cause it's hard to quit

Anything with addictive potential (especially one where an addiction would harm your life in other ways)? It's not a bad idea, at least to get a better understanding of your relationship with it to help you mitigate that potential. Alcohol is just particularly high on that list.

TomNook posted...

Furthermore, adjl has all 4 possible True Loyalist GameFAQs badges, meaning he hasn't missed looking at GameFAQs for a single day for well over 4 years. Talk about unhealthy addiction!

I've definitely missed multiple days, since I only ever use this account on my desktop and that obviously doesn't come with me when travelling. Not sure what the badge actually indicates, but it's not uninterrupted use.

HornedLion posted...

Look, my Bpm is from 90-110 for the last two days. I quit drinking a month ago. Not sure if due to quitting drinking or maybe I just went from sea level to 2,000 ft elevation.

Probably the elevation change. I wouldn't expect physiological changes like that to only start this long after quitting.

HornedLion posted...

I was getting pretty drunk every night. Alcohol and shots.

Yeah, don't do that. Whether it's actually a dependency or not, that's just an unhealthy amount of alcohol.

It's more than you probably should be drinking, health-wise, but whether or not it's "abuse" is more a matter of whether or not it's become a dependency. Take a break for a while and see how you feel. If taking a break is hard, make it more than a break and make a serious effort to cut alcohol out of your life entirely, because you're at a serious risk of becoming an alcoholic (if you aren't there already). If taking a break is easy, you're probably okay for now, though hold on to the philosophy of periodically making sure that you can indeed quit.

agesboy posted...

i respect sex workers and everyone on the edge of that

the consumers being misguided is their own issue, these girls have bills to pay

Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, sex workers (of any sort) are subject to way more exploitation and abuse than any of their customers. There are certainly mental health issues at play among many of the more obsessive fans, and that's a problem, but that's a problem that can and should be tackled without taking it out on sex workers. They have enough to deal with.

I really hope that comes together, because that's just beautiful.

Revelation34 posted...

Being a picky eater isn't a disorder.

Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it is. You generally can't assume one way or the other unless you know the person well and they've shared with you their feelings on food, and even then that's not necessarily enough to conclusively say one way or the other because picky eating is villified to such an extent that many picky eaters don't even recognize the possibility that there might be mental health issues causing that picky eating.

Zareth posted...

I've said this before and I'll say it again, Nintendo would sooner burn down their entire company (and the video game industry in general) before they'd approve a corporate takeover

Indeed. If Nintendo ever actually gets taken over, I fully expect they'll just give up on making anything of quality purely for the sake of ruining that investment.

Blue_Thunder posted...

https://twitter.com/Terraria_Logic/status/1704227519027651016?t=lPQv4u9Vz5cPofHiKRtH-Q

Nice.

Very nice.

The fact that they also mentioned fingerprint scanning on the flush lever does make the whole buttprinting thing kind of silly. It'd be even easier to just have buttons for the various profiles it can store, or possibly integrate with an app (which it would probably do anyway to deliver your results) and identify the user when their phone came into pooping range.

Revelation34 posted...

Windows is DRM since you need it in order to use a computer properly. Or any other OS.

You've made this argument before, and it hasn't gotten any less ridiculous. DRM restricts how software can be used. An OS is an intrinsic requirement to use the computer at all.

Think of DRM like a lock: It prevents you from opening the door unless you're supposed to (or bypass it). Without a lock, anyone can open the door. The OS is more analogous to the doorway. It's needed to go through the wall. Without a doorway, you can't go through the wall, not because you aren't allowed, but because you physically can't.

Then it's probably just somebody trolling you. I don't know that anyone is actually trying to run a scam through GameFAQs PMs, given that there are substantially larger target bases that are easier to go after than the GameFAQs userbase.

Revelation34 posted...

Citation needed.

Lie about a bomb threat coming from some nebulous stranger=Free sympathy points from the general public for being so cruelly mistreated, offsetting whatever PR disaster you're dealing with

Lie about a bomb threat coming from one of your employees=Paint yourself as a bad enough employer to push your employees to such an extreme, especially in a context where public image is already really bad, most likely just doubling down on the bad PR

One has potential benefit, the other risks making it worse. That doesn't mean they can't do it, but it would be a particularly bad idea.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Humble seems to have bundles as introduction to 4 game development environments/engines right now and the Unity one is very clearly doing by far the worst in sales.

And given that I believe the Unity one launched before all this nonsense, I'm guessing many of those sales are regretting it.

SinisterSlay posted...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/content/ ctvnews/en/local/vancouver/2022/8/31/-disgruntled-customer--who-po sted-negative-reviews-on-google--ye.html
Welcome to Canada. Stay quiet. (Remove space in po sted)

You read "A dude fabricated a bunch of evidence to deliberately damage a company's reputation and was successfully sued for defamation" and got "you can be sued for leaving a bad review" out of it? Defamation is illegal in most countries and virtually never protected by free speech laws. That's not in any way representative of the claims you're making.

SinisterSlay posted...

You only need to apply then sparingly to chill free speech.

What do you want to say that you believe you can't say in Canada?

SinisterSlay posted...

Only violent radicals or a certain group of people are allowed to protest in Canada.

Ah, you're one of those.

SinisterSlay posted...

A bit how we come back to how Canada has no free speech or free speech laws. Protest can be censored and you can be arrested for what you say.

Not really. There have been like 10 people arrested for hate speech country-wide in the last three decades, and every single one of them had it coming. Hate speech laws are applied very sparingly; the whole "muh free speech!" thing is thoroughly overblown.

"Illegal protest" is more a matter violating laws as a core element of the protest, such as blockading critical infrastructure. It's nothing to do with the content of the protest.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

The account has not been online since, guess they realized we are way too old to scam over all these newfangled services.

More commonly, they just make a bunch of throwaway accounts, send out a bunch of messages, then drop the account unless they get a bite. It's nothing so personal or closely-considered as looking at the age profile of the site.

Cruciferous posted...

Do you think that eating disorders can be created in people? Or are most cases from a genetic predisposition?

I'm not going to hazard a guess at what the relative proportions are, but like most things, it's absolutely a mix of environment and genetics. That means that yes, some people can be (and have been) raised into eating disorders. Others innately had one, and their upbringing and experiences may or may not have been able to ameliorate it.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

why does it need to know it's me?

To compare your results to your previous poops.

OhhhJa posted...

There are a lot of adults like this that literally refuse to eat anything but junk food garbage... and yes that is generally a result of lazy parents who let their kids eat whatever would get them to shut up the fastest. It's not the result of eating disorders. It's spoiled children who grew up with parents that never allowed them to expand their taste beyond nuggets

Have your tastes not changed as an adult? Have you not acquired new tastes, or tried something you thought you weren't big on in a context that you did enjoy? Why, then, do you insist that these adults are set in their ways purely because their upbringing never forced them to branch out?

Being spoiled as kids explains how they got there. It doesn't explain why they stay there. Being adamantly unwilling to try anything else or unable to enjoy it is absolutely disordered eating. That generally either suggests anxiety around trying new things or some manner of addiction to the things they do eat (which other foods don't satisfy, which is particularly relevant with high-sugar stuff). Maybe their parents are to blame for that. Maybe not. It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of focusing on results and not self-righteous finger-pointing.

OhhhJa posted...

@adjl

Spoken like someone without a toddler lol. Sure, I'm not letting them starve but if you let a toddler get their way with food all the time they'll just be eating cookies and mac n cheese and shit. I'd argue it's abusive to give a toddler junk food instead of being patient and making sure they actually eat a well balanced meal. When i see parents with 10 year olds eating garbage food i feel bad for the child. Spoiling your child like that is literally abusive. You can actually give them all sorts of dietary issues that may not show up until adolescence or adulthood

And on the flip side, if you categorically refuse to tolerate pickiness, you're masking potential legitimate mental health problems and often actually making them worse in the long run than if you'd been more willing to acquiesce. Like most parenting, it's a matter of balance: Trying to cultivate healthy eating habits but also respecting what your kid wants and being aware of when there's a more serious problem than a kid just wanting cookies for dinner. For some kids - especially those with more serious problems that the parents just don't have the resources to recognize and treat - that balance is significantly harder to strike than for others. Categorizing all grown picky eaters as failures of "weak parents" ignores that. Some are. Many - more than most people realize - are more than that.

Beyond that, though, whatever the reason for somebody being a picky eater as an adult, it's not something you're going to fix by resenting them/their upbringing, and trying to force your friends to eat things they don't like is a dick move. If you want to fix the problem, try talking to them about it to understand why they don't like things and/or how they feel about it. That might help you find new things they can enjoy exploring, or it might give you a basis to encourage them to seek therapy for a disorder, or it might just give you a better understanding of what their boundaries are so you can respect them and avoid putting them in circumstances where they aren't going to be comfortable. Whatever the outcome, that's a whole lot more beneficial then "just eat the food you baby."

It likely wouldn't sell well enough to warrant developing not only hardware that could handle it without killing the battery life (the 3DS did it with two superimposed screens, and a second screen is energetically expensive to run), but also the appropriate firmware-side solutions for applying the effect retroactively to games that weren't designed around it. Even then, applying it retroactively like that probably wouldn't look too great, so you'd just be left with a handful of new titles that would actually try to take advantage of the feature, but that's still not overly worthwhile because the Switch 3D's install base probably wouldn't be large enough to justify it. Toss in that the feature would be utterly useless for anyone that only plays docked, and it's just not a worthwhile endeavour.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It might help if it's calibrated to tell if you're bleeding bright red blood out of an anal fissure or hemorrhoid (which isn't really a major concern), or dark thick red blood from something internal (which is usually very, very bad).

Also, I feel like this may be the worst single sentence I've ever written and posted on GameFAQs.

There's also a good chance that it's going to be significantly more sensitive to blood than a naked eye looking into a toilet bowl would be.

Yellow posted...

It was probably a fine mixture of both tbh.

Indeed. A deliberate plan that grossly underestimated just how catastrophically this would destroy Unity's reputation.

Yellow posted...

Don't think they have a master plan, I still think you're mistaking stupidity for intentional malice.

The fact that they dumped their shares shortly before unveiling this idea gives me reason to believe that there's at least a little intentional malice and it's not just being completely clueless. Obviously, some degree of backlash was expected.

They have a right to spend their money however they want, but you also have a right to tell them how stupid you think that decision is as desired.

I'd argue that threatening starvation as an alternative can fall under the umbrella of "beating." It is, after all, using physical pain and harm as a punishment to effect the behaviour you want. Sure, there are cases where there literally isn't anything else to eat and insisting that the kid eat something they don't like is a matter of necessity instead of a voluntary decision, but even then there's ample room for parents to work with children to understand the pickiness and work through it instead of just forcing them to eat something they don't want and hoping that makes them grow out of it.

Picky eating is a symptom of an underlying eating disorder significantly more often than most people think. It's just more socially acceptable (especially for men) to be picky than to attach some sort of anxiety or trauma response to certain foods, so that's what most people jump to when labelling the behaviour, and the individual in question will generally go along with that instead of trying to explain it (especially where they've likely been labelled as such since they were young and never had an opportunity to consider further explanations).

"Honest and critical feedback."

That's... an understatement.

I take it the executive team has bought back their shares and are now entering the "damage control and good PR moves to inflate stock prices" phase of their plan?

This does have quite a bit of value from a health perspective, but I can't help but be quite concerned about the idea of automatically saving butthole pictures to a cloud service.

Remember kids: having an eating disorder as an adult just means your parents didn't adequately beat it out of you.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Hearing yes, but I was mostly wondering about the scam types it is used to run.

Step 1: Hot girl invites you to snap with her
Step 2: Hot girl flirts and sends you nudes
Step 3: Hot girl needs money for something
Step 4: Hot girl ghosts you because she was actually some sweatshop worker copy-pasting porn

Or some variant on that.

If it were my only chance for survival, and the quality of life would be relatively high when I got there? Sure. Otherwise, too much effort.

Count_Drachma posted...

Leave it to the human ego to believe that humans can "f*** up" a planet. A planet is a giant rock ball floating in space. We don't have the technology (yet) to s***ter an entire planet. And I sometimes doubt that humanity as a species will ever band together and create the kind of technology needed to actually f*** up planets. Instead, we may have always have to settle for minor cosmetic damage.

Alternatively, you could just recognize that when people say things like that, they're talking about making the planet inhospitable for human life (usually just to such an extent that survival would require a substantial shift in how we live, not fully overwhelming humanity's adaptive capabilities and causing extinction), not actually blowing it up.

According to my profile, since 2008, when I got The Orange Box. I didn't start using it to buy and play other games until about 2010, though. Specifically, the Halloween sale that year, when I bought Plants vs. Zombies and Bioshock for a total of $10 and thought that was the best deal ever, then I spent another $25ish in the black friday sale following that and the backlog began to grow.

Don't you know? The only reason to accuse somebody of sexual assault long after the fact is if you're part of a grand conspiracy to silence somebody who's getting too close to the truth They don't want you to know. I am very intelligent.

If they're talking about "texting" on snap, it's probably Snapchat. Less relevantly, scams around SNAP may be referring to the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the full name for food stamps in the US.

Also the end credit theme for Future Redeemed was sung by Joanne Hogg, who also did the credit themes for Xenogears and Xenosaga 1. It's all come full circle, which in part is likely just symbolic of the closure of having now covered the main points of Xenogears Perfect Works with the Xenoblade trilogy, but I think there's a solid chance the stories will be linked eventually.

acesxhigh posted...

Yeah, this is all true but Australia got one, so

True. Granted, most of Australia's people live in a very small percentage of the country that is somewhat well-connected, so getting to a majority of the game stores isn't too hard, even if covering the whole country would be. The same is true of Canada (though less on the well-connected front, because for some reason there isn't a high-speed rail line that covers the Quebec-Windsor corridor despite literally half of the country's people living along that straight line), but NoA makes decisions like this on the basis of the US and we just kind of get pulled along for that ride, so that doesn't really change much.

SilentSeph posted...

We have the same thing at my job, it's called the Sick Control List. Iirc if you use more than 50 hours in the first year then they add you to the list and you might have your probation slightly extended (it's a year to begin with). If you're on the SCL and call out sick again, they send people to your house at a random time to verify that you're actually home sick and not out elsewhere. If you need to leave the house, you need to call the Sick Desk and let them know beforehand. It's trash

What bugs me is that policing absences directly like that is completely unnecessary. Performance metrics exist. If you're concerned that somebody's absences might be affecting their work, just look at their work and appraise that. If their work is fine (including them being available when other people need them), there's no problem. If their work isn't fine, then you've got a problem and should frame your discussion with the employee around that instead of arbitrary attendance management.

papercup posted...

Also pretty much any gaming sub is just filled with basement-dwelling, hate-filled NPCs without a single ounce of self awareness in their bodies throwing tantrums over pronouns or that the female characters aren't scantily clad, while saying everyone else is the problem.

Which really makes me appreciate how civil and positive the Factorio sub is. Everyone's just happy to be growing the factory, and the occasional person who's rude is immediately overwhelmed by a bunch of other people being much more constructive.

streamofthesky posted...

Stripping it out when it's already there and done, which probably took more work than f***ing leaving it in, is a crime.

I'd guess file size issues played a role there. They were both two-disc games to begin with, and when you throw updated visuals on top of that and try to cram both games into a single card, I could believe that finding room for dual audio (or more, in Europe's case) was a problem. And then rather than making multiple single-audio versions of the game, they just made the one and slapped the pre-existing translated text onto it. Toss in that the first game's voice acting was so bad and that it would just be weird to have one game voiced in English and not the other, and I can kind of understand taking the easy road.

Odds are, though, they started from the Japanese version of the game, so they didn't have to take the English audio out.

streamofthesky posted...

They literally did a Direct the day it released and couldn't be bothered to include a 30 second, "hey, this game is out today!" notice. It's f***ing pathetic.

A Direct that included a montage of recent/immediately upcoming games, no less, so it could have been more like 5 seconds. That is a little weird. There were quite a few other new RPGs in the direct, so I'm half wondering if they left it out to avoid stepping on third party toes.

My girlfriend worked in the HR department of our provincial government for a while doing filing, and she came across a ton of instances of people having to attend "attendance management meetings" because they exceeded some arbitrary threshold of absences. Those meetings, however, were set up automatically with a department completely separated from where they were actually doing work, and the vast, vast majority of them were cases where their managers had approved the leave and already made the appropriate arrangements to ensure continuity of service. In every way, it was just a bunch of micromanaging bureaucracy that wasted everyone's time for no actual gains.

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And in a lot of cases, negotiations have been ongoing for a while with companies resisting making changes that would benefit workers, and it's just come to a point where the exploding cost of living is too much for workers to bear. That means taking drastic action to force companies to stop dragging their feet.

That just gives me even more reason to believe that they're intentionally tanking the company, if their own employees are distraught enough about the fallout to threaten the company.

darkknight109 posted...

I find it bizarre that they included full English on the Asian physical release, yet (apparently) aren't doing a physical release in North America.

It kind of makes sense. Physical distribution is much more expensive in North America than in other regions, thanks to the lower population density and inexplicable abandonment of everything the industrial revolution did for transportation infrastructure. For a relatively high-risk rerelease (neither game sold all that well, and while the Switch having five times the GC's install base and Monolith being a very highly-regarded studio following Xenoblade's success give it potential to do much better than that, that's still not exactly encouraging performance), I can understand going with digital-only to eliminate the potential for stale inventory.

acesxhigh posted...

Marketing for this game is completely non existent. No NA physical release. No presence on the eShop. No critic reviews. It's like they want this game to flop.

NoA putting zero effort into a Monolith RPG release, such that any success it sees is due purely to fans promoting it and/or actual promotion efforts in other reasons? Must be a day that ends in Y.

They did at least announce it in a Direct, though. That's something. Still, the parallels to Xenoblade 1 are pretty hard to miss. That one succeeded in spite of their best efforts, eventually turning into a flagship franchise, but because NoE localized it first, that created a norm of having most of the voice actors being British and NoA gets out of paying for them. I guess that's what they're hoping for here: If it succeeds, they get a bunch of money for doing basically nothing, and if it ends up being revived into an actual franchise, the precedent has been set of fans being okay with JP voices and NoA can just cite that as an excuse to similarly put no effort into future installments. Not sure how that works with Bamco being the IP holder, but it seems pretty par for the course with how lazy and risk-averse NoA has been when it comes to big JRPGs.

MagicalPrincess posted...

No English VA means no buy. Their loss.

MagicalPrincess posted...

I love [...] FFIX

FFIX doesn't have English VA. Why the double standard?

DrPrimemaster posted...

Do y'all not feel this way even a little bit?

Not really. Sure, the AAA space is a bunch of derivative bandwagon-hopping, but that's nothing new, and I've had zero difficulty finding things I want to play/have fun playing.

Yellow posted...

obligatory if someone is going to blow you up they won't tell you first

Depends on the context. In this case, the threat could be intended to coerce them into reverting the change. It won't, obviously, because the people with the power to make that call also have the power to hide themselves until the threat blows over, but it's not entirely inconceivable that a genuine threat could be telegraphed like that.

On a side note, I could 100% believe that the threat was staged to try and win the company sympathy points and diffuse the backlash.

I mean, I can kind of understand it. For studios that have been working exclusively in Unity for years and have multiple projects out in the world but haven't been successful enough to have enough assets to absorb a catastrophe, retroactively applying fees like this stands to bankrupt them and destroy their livelihoods and those of dozens of employees. That's a very big deal, to the point where it's actually kind of easy to sympathize with wanting those responsible for that ruination dead.

Of course, there's a world of difference between threatening a Unity office and random staff and threatening Riccitiello and other decision-making executives. The latter are the ones actually responsible for destroying lives. The former are also probably having their lives destroyed by this, given that I suspect the company's getting dumped after the executives take whatever bonuses they can out of it, and they have zero responsibility here.

TheSlinja posted...

ttyd is goated but doesnt particularly benefit from a hd remake that much, s*** looks good on the GC its paper lmao

It doesn't particularly benefit from a graphical update, but it's also been 19 years since it came out with no rerelease. I'd prefer if they just did a GC virtual console deal instead of remaking so many GC games, but given that it hasn't been officially for sale for longer than I'd been alive when it first came out, I think a rerelease is well-warranted.