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Buy Hogwarts Legacy.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean it isn't hugely different from just assuming most stuff is made up/bullshit, which is what I've been doing for years anyway.

It's a good call, considering companies have literally been writing fake articles on bot sites to help skew the metadata and SEO mechanics of search engines, which is why Google and Yahoo have both turned to absolute shit when you're looking for stuff over the last few years.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Now I have to know how AI me posts

AI me probably just posts Lorem Ipsum for 80 straight paragraphs.

TomNook posted...

Tic Tac Toe is solved, and too basic to not always play it solved.

Chess is pretty much solved as well (at least for multiple variations), and no one complains about that one.



MeatiestMeatus posted...

The point to playing a game is having fun. Player agency can be integral to having fun, but doesn't dictate whether a player will have fun, or how much fun they can have

This is the key. And it's telling that most of their worst games are games that generations of kids have played and enjoyed for decades. ie, relatively simple games that can serve as bonding experiences or just fun time-wasters.

Some people don't enjoy games where every player at the table needs to memorize a multi-volume rulebook to know which dice they roll when and how to position and move the 4,378 figures, meeples, resource markers, tokens, and fortifications and which of the four card piles you need to draw from during which of your 7 turn phases.

It's fine if some people do. Euro-style games can be fun to play, and they can even be fun to watch if your on YouTube and want to see another group plow through it. But some people just want to play a simple relaxed game with some friends while kicking back a couple drinks, and most Euro-style games would be absolute hell for them.

I mean, honestly, I think my friends and I have had more fun playing drunken Disney Charades than anything ever published by Ravensburger, or that's won the Spiel des Jahres. And as much as I've enjoyed watching TableTop or NRB's Board Game Club, I wouldn't dream of bringing 99% of those games to the table for my friends, because they'd hate most of them.



MeatiestMeatus posted...

If you're incapable of having fun without having a larger influence over the gameplay, that's fine.

I'd argue that it might potentially be not fine, because it implies deeper issues all its own.

It's one thing to enjoy overcomplicated games. It's another to be completely incapable of enjoying anything but overcomplicated games.

When it comes to tabletop RPGs, I've spanned the gamut from Amber Diceless RPG (which almost borders on being completely freeform) all the way to TimeLords (a game which assigns multiple damage hitboxes to every creature, which contains rules that break down your real life physical condition and mental prowess to assign to stats so you can play as "yourself", and which pretty much requires you to understand rudimentary calculus to play). But if I ever met someone who could only play games like TimeLords, I'd start worrying about their mental health.

Everything is bad. Life is hazardous to your health. Every single breath you take brings you one step closer to death.

Enjoy!

shadowsword87 posted...

Y'all, monopoly sucks and I don't know why people think it's fun.
It takes forever, has no decisions, and just causes hurt feelings.

Misery is the entire point of Monopoly though. It's like playing Diplomacy (which is a hugely well-loved game) - you go into it knowing someone's probably going to flip the board before it's over. There WILL be screaming. And possibly death threats.

When one player is screaming "COLLUSION!" at his wife for making uneven trade deals with other players to help blunt his rise, you're playing it right.

But the trick is, when you play with friends, everyone shrugs it off afterward. If your game is causing hurt feelings that last for a long time after, you may need to reconsider your friendships.

I've had great fun playing Monopoly by leaning in to the horror. I'll RP someone who will have a vendetta against you for the rest of the game because you picked the car as your piece before I could. Or making corrupt deals with other players to form alliances. Or secretly stealing thousands of dollars out of the bank and seeing if anyone notices. Or cackling like a supervillain while building hotels on Boardwalk. Or arguing over whether or not there should be any money under Free Parking (there shouldn't be, you fucking Philistines!).

This may be the most helly of all helly opinions I've ever seen.

Helly's gonna helly... to the max.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQW03UFqQw



ConfusedTorchic posted...

water isn't wet

Wet - Definition 1:

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

"Water is wet."



Definition 2: Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

I like most of those games, honestly. This just reinforces my assumption that most people on BoardGameGeek are pretentious snobs with an insatiable hard-on for Euro-style games.

Horrific/10

If we were the last two humans left alive the human race is definitely going extinct.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

I always felt Kilmer was a decent Batman, but a meh Bruce. Clooney was a decent Bruce but a meh Batman (because Clooney definitely had the 'rich guy swagger' down).

I've always thought that Keaton was a good Bruce but a poor Batman, Kilmer was a good Batman but a poor Bruce, and Clooney was terrible at both.

But to some extent we also have to blame the writing and directing. Actors can only give so much, and even fantastic actors will be mostly shit if they're being given shit to work with (see also the Star Wars Prequels).

Count_Drachma posted...

the whole point of a robot body is being around forever.

Maybe for you.

I would invest in the development of a robot body.

Preferably one with tons of weapons I can use to go on a cyber-psychosis rampage.

Needs an option for "I know literally nothing about what you're talking about". Especially since you didn't really bother to explain it in any way.

Count_Drachma posted...

Hey, he's already playing Dracula. If we've learned anything, the jump from vampire to Batman is a thing.

I mean, to be fair, he also already sort of played Batman... kinda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass_(comic_book)#Damon_McCready_/_Big_Daddy



Count_Drachma posted...

For all of the flack Superman Lives got, that costume doesn't seem *that* bad.

I think it was mostly still pictures of the translucent iridescent one and his hair that bothered people the most. But to be fair to him that was just a costume fitting, and odds are he would have styled his hair differently for the film, and they'd have picked a suit that didn't look like total ass for the final product.

Though I also think most of the fear was because Burton was directing (aka the guy who made Batman goth and who proudly boasted that he'd never read a comic book), and Nicolas Cage (insane man that he is) was playing Superman. Though even that was overhyped. And honestly, Nicolas Cage is a pretty good actor when he actually tries - we just mostly remember him from when he was deliberately playing crazy (Shia LeBeef also sort of fits into this category, and arguably maybe even Prince William Freshington Smith).

wpot posted...

Sure, someone trying to be an ass is worse...

Are they though? Someone trying to be an ass still has some limits. An AI can conceivably reach a point where it thinks it's doing the logical thing without emotional or immoral limitations to impede its decisions, then turn around and murder a billion people because it doesn't quite understand why that's a problem.

The real problem with AI is that ultimately it's going to be created by humans, and shaped by humans. And humans suck. So even unconsciously we're probably going to corrupt any AI we make as we give it orders and it learns from our history, culture, and archives of data.

It's why every chatbot seems to eventually start talking about how Hitler wasn't so bad.

Some people might love the idea of putting cold and impersonal machines in charge of everything because they're misanthropic enough to assume that's still better than people being in charge, but people can easily influence those machines (either deliberately or accidentally) to be even worse.

Count_Drachma posted...

It's still weird he was cast as Batman. It's like every time producers hear, "This is the weirdest Batman casting," they're all like, "Hold my beer."

Nothing will top this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvzpNoTnhV4

Unless...

https://imgur.com/c5BowlV

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Were you under leveled when you played?

Probably. I would generally rush forward the moment I was strong enough to beat a given area, and would only level when I had trouble.

It wasn't until FF3 (FFVI) where I played for 16 hours and got stuck on the Floating Island because I was too weak to go forward and there was no way back (and everything was too strong to level off of), and had to completely start the game over that I started taking power-leveling more seriously. And started using multiple staggered save files to avoid that sort of lock.

papercup posted...

Perhaps he is half bat.

Him as a kid:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Bat_Boy.PNG

I vaguely remember having nightmares about this:

https://youtu.be/TEK4JeQQXDw?t=120

Hey, it was a different time.

Lokarin posted...

don't force, encourage.

The irony is that the girl will grow up to be completely incapable of telling any man no because she's been constantly pressured her whole life and never learned to stand up for herself.

Also she'll eventually wind up dating a dirtbag dude like 25 years older than her because of all her daddy issues.

MrMelodramatic posted...

I feel like 1 and 10 are the obvious answers but I expect some 2s and maybe well see a few others

The problem with the 10th is that the government tends to break it all the time.

It's not Ted DiBiase, it's his son (Ted DiBiase Jr.). Read the title of your own article.

Ted DiBiase (The Million Dollar Man) has been implicated in the same scandal, but his involvement was minor (mostly just receiving money from his son), and he was already ordered to repay it (and it doesn't seem like they're indicting him as an active participant).

This has been a story for like 3 years now. It's not really a new thing.

papercup posted...

The Walt Disney Channel tried to warn us about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the form of a 90 minute made-for-TV-movie, and we did not heed them

I heeded them, which is why the only "smart" thing in my house are these:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0285/0763/5805/products/smarties_2_2_2048x2048.jpg

Ain't gonna get ME, Skynet!

GameReviews posted...

Unfortunately, this type of person is the type that tends to get promoted and then the cycle continues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle



potdnewb posted...

facts matter opinions are irrelevant document everything

In a fair and just universe this would be true, but we don't actually live in that universe.

In the universe we live in, most people don't give a shit about facts. Opinions and personal relationships are treated as being more important 99% of the time. And the guy meticulously taking notes and documenting everything just gets looked down on for being a narc.

Sounds like your boss likes the coworker, so it's not even really a choice between the two.

No clue, because I couldn't tell you when Fortnite was released if you held a gun to my head.

Especially since literally no one gave a shit when Fortnite was released, because it was originally the paid PvE horde mode version of the game that no one played. It wasn't until the battle royale fad kicked in and they decided to go freemium and cash in on it that they took off.

faramir77 posted...

Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?

Or maybe just have some pancakes.

Maybe they prefer the New Power Generation.

I dislike people who talk about politiical issues and try to score semantic points because they think it somehow proves their point.

Count_Drachma posted...

You would with their solutions. As farmers, their goal is to keep you alive until it's harvesting time.

Nah, because I'd become way more self-destructive.

Unless we're assuming they're straight up using psychic engineering to edit out those sorts of behaviors to make us placid cattle, but at that point I'd be content with it (artificially or not), and if they're "humanely" killing me to eat it wouldn't matter all that much. But if they're capable of and willing to resort to that level of control they wouldn't need to offer the deal in the first place, they'd just do it.

Either way, if I do manage to make it to 80 they'd still be giving me decades of extra (likely more exciting) life than I likely would have had otherwise (I'm already old and broken - give me a young body again and shit's on), so it's win-win. Plus the added satisfaction of treachery.

I have a long-standing stance of being willing to sell out the human race to aliens or AI or whatever outside threat comes to kill us all. I'm fully aware of the usual trope of the quisling who sells out expecting a reward getting killed for it ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RewardedAsATraitorDeserves ), but I'm not doing it for a reward. I'm doing it for the sheer misanthropic joy of screwing over my species. So the sudden and inevitable betrayal at the end where I'm "rewarded" with death is just an expected price to pay.

Count_Drachma posted...

The downside happens when you hit 80.

Pffft, like I'm even going to make it to 60.

And honestly, I'm mostly just selling the rest of you out for the lulz. The benefits they're offering are pretty much secondary.

I thought it was going to be something like this:

Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff-

Muscles posted...

behavioral sink

But that in and of itself would be an issue of our world, and if the aliens are offering easy solutions to every problem, it would presumably come with a solution to that as well.

papercup posted...

Yeah I feel like a good Evil Dead movie should be funny.... and this one just looks bleak.

Evil Dead should also be written and directed by Sam Raimi, and this is neither. Sooo...

Nade_Duck posted...

there are multiple kinks that deserve to be shamed tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJVwzI3w78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUE0aAI5o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu8I1gWqk4

T0ffee posted...

If the aliens really have solved all the world's problems then presumably everyone would be free to retire at like 30 or something and live off some sort of UBI.

Nah, they'd just plug everyone into the Matrix and you'd live your whole live in a wish-fulfillment fantasy dream.

You don't need money if your body in the real world is being drip-fed nutrients and your digital avatar is literally a god.

Lokarin posted...

but many of the fans are the nutty 4chan types

I wouldn't go that far, but it definitely has the Rocky Horror vibe of people taking it way too seriously.

For some people that might almost be a plus, if they enjoy the social experience. For other people it'll be a nightmare.

Metalsonic66 posted...

I need to buy more Tilapia

No one ever needs to buy more Tilapia.

We should all strive to buy far less Tilapia.

I'd sell out pretty much all of you for a cup of coffee, so I'm not seeing the downside.

This one is officially the best video of all time, because I'm pretty sure it's won more MTV video awards than any other video ever made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

Being open-minded is a good way to ensure that all your thoughts fall out.

I broke SO MANY PS2 controllers.

Now I don't really throw them, but I accidentally drop them way too much.

They're probably not going to canonize something that has been like 90% developed via porn.

saspa posted...

However my biggest takeaway is that this is a movie with Sean Bean where he doesn't die in it, he lives at the end. This movie is literally cursed.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Presumably they were planning a sequel with him where things would go less well.

He was Odysseus. The sequel would be him taking 10 years to sail home, screwing some hot sorceresses, murdering a bunch of dudes who were trying to cuck him, and then living happily with his wife, growing old, and eventually dying in his bed.

The hair kind of reminded me of Ganondorf.

Sounds like you're not as much of a Conclusionist as you claim to be. Shame!

Now 100% Raving Rabbids or Gothic 4.

Judgmenl posted...

The opinion of the majority doesn't apply to everyone.

There seems to be some common mistake where people believe the opinion of the majority is the "correct answer" and the people who do not fall in line are somehow wrong / bad.

The opinion of the majority doesn't apply to everyone, but my personal opinions are objectively correct and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong. And bad. Badong.

You should all strive to be the opposite of badong. Gnodab.



Vampire_Chicken posted...

A quote from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Sanity is not statistical".

"Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought."



adjl posted...

That said, if everyone likes something and you don't, it's very possible that that's because you're somehow approaching it wrong or could otherwise change something to have a better time.

The trick that everyone misses - mainly because people online love to shout "ALL OPINIONS ARE EQUAL AND YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO INVALIDATE THEM!" - is that there are different types of opinions.

For instance, if you are discussing whether or not a specific comic book is good, the opinions of someone who has spent the last 40 years reading thousands and thousands of comics are probably slightly more valuable than the opinions of someone who has literally never seen a comic book at all. One of those opinions is based on an in-depth understanding of the medium and comparison to tons of other examples, the other is rooted in complete ignorance and knee-jerk assumptions. From there, "misinformed" opinions (based on factually incorrect knowledge) are potentially even worse than uninformed ones.

What blurs the line is that a discussion over whether or not something is good is NOT the same as whether or not you personally enjoy it. People have a bad habit of confusing their personal experience with objective reality, which sets off a chain of reasoning where opinion leads to "fact" - "I dislike this thing, therefore this thing is bad, therefore no one should like it, therefore anyone who likes it is wrong, therefore there is something wrong with them."

The other problem is that any discussion of opinion at all starts to shade into the linguistic problems of general semantics and the "is-of-identity", where language shapes perception and actually warps our view of reality. A LOT of our issues might be negated entirely if most of us got into the habit of clarifying our thoughts better. "I don't feel like I personally enjoyed this movie" has radically different connotations than "That movie was bad", even if we tend to use both to mean the same thing.

I coded in C++ a little back in college, but I remember literally none of it.

I feel like I vaguely remember a way to color-code lines of code, but that might have just been the program we were using to code in and compile with.