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Lokarin posted...

Also, if you don't like the URL blame Google Image Search for being a 1/10

I'd rather blame people who don't know the basics of Internet navigation.

Jen0125 posted...

If the cabin costs are the same adjusted for inflation I could afford a third class cabin.

Maybe you could go and try and seduce an insecure rich dude and pull a gender-reverse Titanic scenario.

DragonClaw01 posted...

As long as there is no stairs in the way, the robot will dominate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK9liYPm7eE

adjl posted...

Of those, SimCity and Ultima are probably the most influential, which I would say is the primary factor that should be considered in putting together a museum of gaming history.

I'd argue Asteroids and Myst would outrank both of them.

Asteroids was a huge facet of both the arcade and console booms, became sort of synonymous with gaming for years, had a huge influence on the development of later games like Defender and Cosmic Avenger (and thus the games that followed them). And it made more money for Atari at the time than any other game. It's probably tied with Pac-Man for pointing to a single game from that era that most represents the era.

Myst basically helped push the adoption of CD-ROM and CD PC gaming as a whole, and had a huge influence on a lot of games that followed.

The real question is, could you sell it to make enough money to buy tickets for the maiden voyage of this?

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

Based on actual stats, the most popular streaming service is YouTube, the second most popular is Netflix, and pretty much everything else is a distant third at best.

I never bought any of them, but I got the first two Metro games via Games For Gold.

I didn't play them, though. My nephew played them while I was watching and it kind of took away my desire to play because I'd already seen everything.

It's not a moral stance, though - if I saw a game I wanted to play and it was developed in Russia I wouldn't care. I haven't avoided any Russian games because they're Russian, I've avoided them because they don't really interest me.

I'd probably buy the shit out of a Night Watch game if anyone ever made one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Lukyanenko_novel)

A new one, I mean. Not this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(video_game)

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I'd say Hero>CTHD>HotFD for what it's worth. I'm like the only one that felt a little underwhelmed by Daggers, it seems.

You're not the only one, I'd say pretty much the exact same.

Also, for me I rate this one between Hero and CTHD:

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

...but I also acknowledge that might be a personal bias rather than it being a better movie overall. I'm not sure anyone else would rate it as highly as I do (or maybe they would, I don't know).

SilentSeph posted...

You just need to approach it at the right angle

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/463/047/7ab.gif

Yellow posted...

When you fall into a black hole, because of relativity, to the outside world you freeze in time, and the outside world speeds up.

So if your loved one ever got pushed into a black hole, you would have to live with the fact that at every single moment your loved one is screaming in terror.

They'd almost certainly be long dead from the pressure and the radiation long before you could ever get them close enough for major relativistic time dilation to even kick in.

So unless you went out of your way to develop entirely new science and create super-materials that can resist massive radiation and infinite pressure and built them a suit/ship out of it and then pushed them into the black hole, it's not really an issue. And if you DO have the time, resources, and genius to actually accomplish it you'd probably have far better ways to pass the time. Especially when you could just shoot them with a gun and it would probably be exactly the same from their perspective.

captpackrat posted...

Robots are immune to Paralysis and Poison. They have no mana so they take greater damage from all other magic attacks (Fire, Ice, Thunder, etc).

Conversely, depending on the setting, they're mostly immune to magic because their scientific/mechanical nature is a counter to magical energies.

Also arguably depending on the setting, they might be relatively immune to fire/ice damage, but the change in temperature can either slow down or accelerate their mental processing by altering electrical resistance in their electrical pathways (a la superconductivity).

And lightning might do extra damage to them (shorting them out), or they might be able to recharge from it (by absorbing and recharging from it).

Plus, vampires would just break their teeth trying to bite the robots.

If anything, robots are strong against vampires.

I guess we should add that to the chart!

https://i.stack.imgur.com/xgoX1.jpg

Any damsel that's in distress be outta that dress when she meet Jim West Link.

agesboy posted...

the only clifford I know

What about...

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/prn5-netflix-inc-scholastic-inc-clifford-big-red-dog-1yhigh.jpg

I'm measuring out space for a new TV, and I just used the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out what size TV would work best in the spot I have in mind.

THE MOTHERFUCKING PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM.

I haven't thought about that shit for like 30 years.

It just makes me feel kind of icky.

Who did you think wrote SparkNotes then?

Did you think the Crash Test Dummies wrote the [Insert Subject Here] for Dummies books?

captpackrat posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVZQhlivnY

Same wavelength.

Yes.

Which is ironic because I hate wings.



I just ordered a burger.

Lokarin posted...

if I remember correctly only ONE person is helped in the entire game, and it's Kelso that does it

Sure, if you completely narrow your definition of "help".

I am surrounded by idiots, but there are far more significant things to be annoyed by than simple grammar.

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

PikachuMaxwell posted...

What do you do?

Panic and try to figure out why I'm back in science class when I graduated decades ago.

Then I start checking to make sure this isn't one of those dreams where you're in school naked and unprepared for a test or something.

captpackrat posted...

Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.

Nah, the pimps can be quite charming. And the CHUDs are easy to deal with as long as you mostly stay away from open sewer grates and tunnels.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i think you're lying

i know the board 8 wiki still exists but potdpedias been gone for years

Most of the data from PotDpedia got archived elsewhere. As far as I know, it's still there.

Unfortunately...



GunslingerGunsl posted...

Let me rephrase for PO. Is there a readable version of it that you can link me to? :)

Nope.

I've seen the site I'm talking about in the last year or so, but I can't remember what the link to it was. And unfortunately you're not likely to be able to find it via search engine because most of the major search engines have become absolute utter dogshit over the last few years as they've optimized to work with things like Siri/Alexa and SEO bots... which means they pretty much can't find shit anymore.

Someone else might know the exact URL and be able to point you at it, but you probably won't be able to find it unless they do. And I honestly can't remember who pointed me to it last time I saw it.

Yes.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people

Someone selling an air freshener to cover up the smell of homeless person urine would really make a killing in NYC.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Remember video game instruction manuals?

I still have one of these in my office:

https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/46UAAOSwVYZf0q-y/s-l500.jpg



captpackrat posted...

I liked it when games came with supplemental materials

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Feelies

Revelation34 posted...

Are any of the names real names?

Lucca's a real name.

Frog's real name is Glenn, and that's a real name.

Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

https://youtu.be/AnaQXJmpwM4?t=20

https://youtu.be/UYhbiCygCGQ?t=7902

faramir77 posted...

I'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year

You should play them in timeline order instead.

Or play them in release order, and then play them again in timeline order.

HornedLion posted...

Furthermore, we all trace our lineage back to that one being.

And we're all literally made out of star dust.

I don't remember any of the features. You should post what they are.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It definitely is easy to believe it's just another wire-fu movie, but the neat twists and turns of the story, and itself being a fictious version of real historical characters and events was cool.

Personally I was really into the color symbolism. And how so much of the visual storytelling really worked perfectly.

Talking about other "wire-fu" movies, I definitely enjoyed it more than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, which where the other two movies along those lines that came out around the same time.

But I've got them all (and a few others) in my DVD collection - I've got a foreign film section in general, but the Asian martial arts film section is about a dozen or so deep alone.

Probably Strange World, but no one's going to vote for it because no one has actually seen it.

Yellow posted...

but at least most people would refuse to read a book written by AI (who would do that)

Hard disagree.

People now get pissy over AI art in general, but that's because the controversy is fresh, there's a concerted push, and the tech is still in its infancy. Most people wouldn't read an AI-written book just because an AI-written book would be awkward and poorly written.

But AI in general has make qualitative leaps over the last 5 years, to the point where the AI we have today is starting to border on science fiction compared to the AI we had in 2014. Now imagine where AI will be in 2034, now that there is a strong impetus to fund its development, and people are more able to see what might be possible. Then imagine what it will be in 2044. 2054. And so on.

That's the reason why the Writers' Guild and Actors' Guild went on strike and demanded a ban on AI - they're fully aware that AI can't realistically replace them now, but they're also very much aware that it might easily be able to do so in the very near future. So they're forced to try and take a stand on the issue now while they're still have leverage... because once they can be easily replaced, they have no leverage.

Most people wouldn't read an AI-written novel now (other than for the novelty) because AI isn't advanced enough to write something worth reading. But give it 10 years, 20 - and AI may be able to write novels better than most humans can. And at that point, plenty of people would be more than willing to read AI-written books (assuming people are reading at all by then). There isn't going to be a strong moral stance against it if the content is worthwhile.

There are already people who have a very "ehh" attitude towards AI art. The strong "NOT EVEN ONCE!" backlash against it is coming from a very vocal minority in the midst of a very apathetic majority. If we ever get to the point where AI art is relatively indistinguishable from human art, plenty of people will be more than happy to accept it. Especially as people's resistance is worn down over time, and most people feel like it's just not worth caring about all that much anymore.

It's like how in the 60s and 70s there was a major pushback against synthesizers. Music fans would say "No real band uses them!" or "Electronic music isn't real music!" Now you'd be hard-pressed to find any modern artist who can produce a song without synthesizers (or computers). Bands like Nine Inch Nails and Erasure pretty much only exist because of them. Not to mention things like autotune. You can complain about computers making music, but computers have been making most of our music (albeit with human guidance) for decades now.

We've long since accepted that we can produce art with more and more advanced tools - AI is basically the culmination of that trend. When I was a kid most people would likely have argued that art "drawn on a computer" isn't real art, but most illustration and animation is done via computer now. And most people don't care, if they even think about it at all.

A few decades ago people would have laughed at the idea of people using video games to tell stories, but then machinima became a thing, stuff like Red Versus Blue became popular, and most younger people today wouldn't even bat an eye about people using Minecraft to tell elaborate stories. Art evolves as the tools evolve.

Factory workers in the past complained about how no robot would be able to do their job as well as they did, how "the craft of making things" was an inherently human act and how products (especially things like furniture and musical instruments) made by machine would never be as good as the "real thing". And today no one really gives a shit.

That's the inevitable future. People who think that "the nobility of the human spirit" or "the irreplaceable creativity of the human soul" actually matter are going to be seriously disillusioned when reality comes along to kick them in the teeth. If a thing can be done, it almost certainly will be done.

As a species we've reached the point where we've started to go from "tool-users" to people who have created tools that use themselves. The same impulse that led us to build a Roomba that will vacuum your floors for you is going to push towards computers that can write books, compose music, or draw vast open vistas. And future humans will be moved by those things in exactly the same way they were moved by everything beforehand. Possibly even moreso, if computers reach a point where they can far more easily predict and manipulate how humans respond to things.

Especially when most modern human "art" is barely "art" as is, but is "entertainment" or barely "content". AI will probably be able to reproduce those things just fine.

The CIA is sending the signal that is going to activate you as a sleeper agent.

Tomorrow you're going to wake up in a strange city covered in blood with no memory of how you got there,

EvilResident posted...

Probably wont be as good as the first 2

Are you saying only the first two were good, or are you unaware of the other two films and the TV show?







Either way I'd disagree, because the second film was shit.

Yellow posted...

The silver lining here is that if/when it does take over programming jobs, it will be a problem for all of society as a whole. It won't just be the artists or 3d modelers that will be left behind.

Part of why I have a complete and utter lack of sympathy for the artists and programmers who are now realizing their jobs are at risk is that none of them gave a single solitary shit for the last 40 years when it was happening to everyone else.

Factory workers started losing jobs to automation. Tons of phone operators and consumer service jobs have been lost to automated calls and menus. Cashiers everywhere are slowly losing jobs as stores start installing automated ordering and pay kiosks/self-serve lines (and stores as a whole are losing business to online stores). The current push towards self-driving cars and vehicles in general is potentially going to cost a lot of drivers jobs. We've been slowly trying to automate literally everything we can for decades now.

And whenever anyone complained, the rallying cry has always been "Well, at least computers will never replace the human spirit and creativity!", along with "Lost your job, better learn to program then!" There's always been this sense of superiority and disdain from people who thought they were completely immune to being replaced.

Now the people who always said stuff like that have realized they can probably be replaced as well, and it terrifies them. And I can't find it in myself to give a single solitary shit.

If computers can create better works of art than humans can, then I'd rather have them do it. It can't be any more soulless than a lot of the content we've been getting for years now anyway.

5 years is incredibly optimistic. Congress usually takes at least 10 years to even realize technology issues exist, then another 10-20 years to actually understand them.

I can see Congress starting to discuss it sometime around 2040. And then passing tons of stupid flawed meaningless laws about it for a few years that only make everything worse.

Maybe by 2060 they'll actually understand it well enough to react to it in a worthwhile way. But if we're lucky by then it'll be the AI running the country anyway.



Lokarin posted...

I think AI would be better than the current government, and cheaper too

And based on current standards, would probably be producing better entertainment content - scriptwriting, acting, music, graphical art - than most of what the current generation of humans is putting out there.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Jen0125 posted...

I guess I'm asking where is it being felt?

New York City. It's a huge fucking deal there at the moment.

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

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Hero is very underrated. But fucking great.

My gf dragged me to see it in the theater when she was going through her artsy phase. She kind of hated it, but I loved it.

That sort of happened with most of the artsy pretentious movies she wanted to see - she'd always sort of wind up hating them and apologize for making me watch them, but I usually enjoyed them. Lost in Translation was the other major one I remember from that time.

Ironically, when it was my turn to pick a movie I'd always pick something like Blade or Resident Evil or Atlantis: The Lost Empire and she wound up loving all of them.

Genesis barely had any RPGs to judge.

For the SNES, I'm going to say Chrono Trigger just to piss people off.

For the NES I'm going to say Mother just to piss the hipsters off.



Sahuagin posted...

technically something like Dragon Quest 1

He said worst, not best.

Pound because I'm not a Millennial.



Sahuagin posted...

I would probably say "pound sign" since I think that is the term for the keyboard key, but I don't really know why it's called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#History

Why did they name him Crono and not Trigger?

The title is Chrono Trigger, they should've called him Trigger.



Revelation34 posted...

Why not?

Because he's Serge, not Crono. Duh.

Inferior.











Superior:

https://youtu.be/CCHdMIEGaaM?t=32

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/15675d33.jpg

http://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/4/77015925.jpg

I'd judge you more for having sex. It's disgusting. All those fluids and smells, all that icky human contact. Ugh.