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azuarc posted...

Okay...then what makes something a JRPG, and why should those games be included?

Thanks for asking because I can repeat my diatribe about JRPG vs WRPG again.

JRPG is an RPG where the player characters are not defined by the player, they are written by the writers, and you follow their story. WRPG is when the character is an avatar of the player, customized and defined by the player. It is fundamentally a distinction in narrative aesthetic, not gameplay.

This is why Mass Effect obviously feels like a JRPG (even though there's a few branching paths, each is still defined by a writer, not the player) and Dark Souls is obviously feels like a WRPG.

The more complicated question is what exactly is an RPG. Is KH really an RPG? Is Zelda really not an RPG? Call of Duty has more RPG mechanics than FFXVI, and so on

CrossCode and Chained Echoes feel very WRPG, mostly because they're good games. But I would definitely vote for them. CE is pretty easy to argue as a JRPG since it's basically Suikoden, but then you could argue Suikoden is WRPG ish.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Cancelled 3 days after calling out CBS for the Trump settlement.

Total coincidence I'm sure.

He likely knew it was going to happen as part of the settlement anyway so he had nothing to lose

I think they found over 90% did paragon in mass effect

Jerome was the 2nd best thing Trump did

Thorn posted...

the call is coming from inside the house

It's more that there is no loyalty in politics, so if you were an enterprising politician, obviously you would pull on this thread to gain power. I wonder if Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, etc had political vulnerabilities like this that they had to squash. It's just so hard to maintain authoritarianism surrounded by other authoritarians who are all trying to kill you.

I don't know why those summaries always exclude the much stronger case of Virginia Giuffre, who achieved serious legal action against Prince Andrew and is the reason Ghislaine got convicted. And the obvious fact that all that happened at Mar a Lago for years/decades.

Wow they're actually british, maybe they're taking this movie seriously

I think his voice works for what it's supposed to be, but the writing is bad. The character just doesn't make sense.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

That future gets further away the more people who see that clip and strongly repudiate it.

Absolutely false, the opposite in fact. Attention is the most valuable resource nowadays.

Why would you watch that let alone share it

Hope y'all got some pre-tariff bitcoin and ethereum like I told you

No because Adams and everyone else will just agree to lay down their campaigns to help Cuomo win

For example, Amash became the first Libertarian party congressman by just deciding one day to switch to Libertarian. So all the records had to write L next to his name after that. Nothing else changed.

He's not, he's gonna stay inside afraid

The standard stuff, war, police state, insider trading on tariffs

swordz9 posted...

Theyre gonna need to bank harder on it saving us all from climate death than anything else

That is the dream of fusion yes

Raka_Putra posted...

While I'm not saying it's impossible for a sufficiently advanced AI to find solutions that humans can't find, I don't believe the capitalist oligarchs would be willing to invest in solutions without a financial motivation.

Google has been doing it for 10 years with Deepmind and it's paid off massively.

Imagine 5 years from now, when Deepmind has 10-100 new scientific discoveries under its belt, and OpenAI still has 0. How could anyone continue to invest in OpenAI? Conversely, how could you NOT invest in Deepmind? That's the crash scenario. Similar to dotcom, all the big players will die, but some of the small and mediums stick around and become the long-term winners.

That crash will happen and it's sorely needed. It will happen the instant the cheap money dries up. The tech bros are desperately trying to manipulate Trump to drop interest rates back down to extend the gravy train but it's not working, he's too distracted by trans people and flight logs. Pretty sad.

Oh another thing about the AI bubble bursting. You might not realize this if you're not in the SF scene, but the goal of AI is not necessarily AGI and robots and such. It's fusion energy. The idea is that humans cannot figure it out, but a sufficiently powerful AI could. Even if the AI is not AGI, it's terrible at playing Zelda and writing song lyrics, whatever, it doesn't matter as long as it can come up with new working ideas that lead to fusion energy. Then, that cheap energy can be used to develop 1000x more powerful AIs, and solve pretty much all the other problems in the world, then we achieve luxury space communism. It's as "simple" as that.

So, if you treat AI like a stepping stone to Star Trek utopia, how much would you value it? Even if it only has a 1% chance of success? It's priceless.

PeaceFrog posted...

They didn't even do shit for Jan 6. Biden administration and Merrick Garland wanted to pretend that things were normal and could be swept under the rug by being nice to Republicans.

It's worse than that. When Democrats win they literally believe they will never lose an election ever again. They always say "this time it's different". It was worse with Biden since he had absolutely dominated Trump popularly and electorally. They really thought they killed Trumpism there.

So they operate like they can just fix things next time. No urgency required. If we end up having another presidential election and Ds win, they certainly will not learn, they will only feel vindicated in their lethargy.

UltimaterializerX posted...

I think if Trump was on the list, it would have come out when Biden was president so he couldnt get elected.

This has always been a ridiculous idea because like, how partisan of an issue do you really think this is? Trump and the Clintons are the 2 biggest friends of Epstein. How can it possibly be a slam dunk for ANYONE to release the truth?

It's always been the case, and will continue to be the case, that a ton of really powerful and sympathetic people will be destroyed by this truth. There will probably be some innocent collateral damage too, but even ignoring that, the truth itself is too hard for anyone in a position of power to accept. Same with the truths about Japanese internment, Native American history, etc. Everyone involved needs to be gone, and then it will be comfortable to reveal the truth, and we'll all have to act surprised.

In the mean time, we'll have to be ruled by the pedophile psychos.

re: yellows
rag is definitely a verb but the other 4 can also be verbs (to burn them, to knock on them, to slight them, to zing them). Some are a bit of a stretch but these are slangy words so they all seem fine as verbs.

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Greens
Blues

What does it say that purples were my easiest? Also yellow definitely had 5, that should be invalid

Chaeix posted...

"all over a guy who never dies"

girl he dead

When the guy who killed him speaks like this, we should listen

It's an open world game first, an FF game second

Seymour's music is way more evil than his look. I like that he's another race so his look is relatively explainable. There's many NPCs who look similar to him but are just normal people.

I also love how much they subvert the obvious fact that he's Kefka of the game. You could legitimately believe at multiple points that he's actually on your side (even while being obviously evil).

That too, Google Translate is much stronger and more profitable than a regular LLM. Pretty sure their research on it led to the transformer paper too.

Now, there HAVE actually been advancements from generative AI. Exactly 2, both from Deepmind. AlphaFold pretty much solved protein folding, which is a generational leap in science that will probably define the 21st century. And then they just released AlphaEvolve which found a faster way to multiple some matrices.

Neither of these make profit, they are purely research wins, and Deepmind is pretty much the only one actually interested in this and competent enough to make progress in it. Carmack is also trying but has shown nothing.

So you do have to admit that generative AI has advanced science. It has happened and will continue to happen. But also 100% of those advancements come from a small team in London, and it would be very fair to ignore ALL the other AI economics hype, including the thousands of companies with trillions in funding in San Fran which have produced 0 net value.

Sheep007 posted...

The stuff that outputs text is also starting to get integrated with other pattern-seeking tools that are less human-comprehensible in their generation (lots of advertising and data-harvesting, but also a lot of medical and other research tools), to the point where AI are starting to train other AI, and I'd guess they're about 5-10 years away (I am being a very conservative estimator here) from having safeguards to prevent "objective" errors from compounding, in the way that current models can't.

I'm curious where you get your AI knowledge from because no one would say this. Using AI to train only makes it worse. It basically only works with physical models, which is not generalizable. There's a very real possibility that 2023 datasets for text and images are the peak in accuracy because everything since then is poisoned. We would need a whole different architecture than LLM to avoid that issue, which has no timeline (although physical simulation is the most promising lead).

No LLM has made money yet. That's a fact. Manufacturers and energy company have, but no company at the model training level or higher has shown any path to profitability.

That doesn't mean it will go away. Amazon never made money until they launched AWS like 10 years later. Uber and such never made money until recently when they jacked up prices. It's very possible that some LLM finds a way to make money like that, which is distinctly different from the economics of NFTs. It just means that all the money in it right now is cheap pre-covid money, and they hope it will pay off before it dries up.

Episode IV: Arbeit macht frei

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purps

I thought greens were words with 2 Os lol

scarletspeed7 posted...

He's a dragon and thus racist to lesser reptiles.

88 huh

NFUN posted...

@foolm0r0n how dumb am I if I only buy Baba and don't get Void Stranger?

Not very dumb since Baba is honestly the harder puzzles. But you should play Baba first anyway, far enough to get to some of the twists. Then when you crave some more sokoban do Void Stranger.

Building roads is still the most weirdly fun thing, glad they added monorails to that too. I think I'm chapter 7 or 8 and have been using my 1 trike for basically everything. In the first I used trike 90% of the time too except in the snow and mountains, which was all zip lines.

Thorn posted...

*No one knows where the fuck they got this number

yes we do

red_sox_777 posted...

For birthright citizenship, I think there's also some small risk that courts could take the position that unborn children are not persons and therefore cannot sue. If that is so, then how could they be part of a class?

Just make fetuses worth 3/5ths of a person. There's precedent for it.

If the end result is birthright citizens are denaturalized then there's nothing logical about it

I don't think it's necessarily long but it way more sparse with new ideas. It definitely feels designed for the 1st time player instead of as a sequel. Maybe the 2nd half starts to ramp up.

I remember Tidus being apprehensive about being a guardian before he met Auron, and even after. Auron basically forced him to do it.

I never had those issues. If the gun is holstered (right dpad) then L2 will not aim it. Sometimes when you lose all your ammo or get knocked down it holsters the gun so you have to take it out again. Also if the gun is in a box he has to break it out of the box which takes a few seconds.

I beat that boss first try with like 30% damage anyway. Still didn't like it, pretty much filler content that will never reach the prestige of an MGS boss fight.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

"same actor, different Flash" which might piss off everyone who wanted him to reprise the role.

It definitely wouldn't, we only want his work to pay off (though I only watched 6ish seasons). The show has so many different timelines and variations of character anyway.

As long as Grant Gustin finally gets to be the Flash. Dude deserves it

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Instantly knew parsnip was the purple when I saw it

He's actually the new CEO of X

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Pattinson Batman is not attached to the DCU. Gunn also hasn't cast Batman because he's said Batman is the hardest one for him to narrow down and do right.

Just pick Chalamet and be done with it

Aerith is crazy strong in this game especially with the lazer beams ability, which gives her a good general physical attack

3 militaries that have recently destroyed dozens of innocent lives on a civilian jet accidentally:
Iran shooting down flight 752
Russia shooting down MH17
US crashing into flight 5342

We keep such good company

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-european-human-rights-court-mh17-1bac36842f8a4cfe0e3e787f0fab0c1f

Why does it always have to be an EU, can't it just be a good single movie?

Elena >>>> Yuffy

It's based off of P2025's atheist concentration camp so it makes sense