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GameReviews posted...

"AI game generators are redefining game development by automating the creation of game elements like characters, environments, and storylines."

You really don't see how this could be a contributing factor to, say, a large, greedy multibillion dollar company laying off 900 employees suddenly to cut costs and increase profit margins?

You seem a bit confused, Torchic.

Yup.
Dumb company: Use AI to reduce costs
Smart company: Use AI to increase production

We are seeing the part of the capitalism cycle where the big companies fail after so many cuts for quick profit. A new crop of companies is forming.

adjl posted...

Some of the comments were saying that the parts of the noodles inside the hot dog bits didn't cook, which makes sense because the water couldn't really get to them. I'm sure you could figure that out somehow (most likely thinner slices), but I'd rather just cook the two separately and serve them together.

I make it all the time. It is harder if you don't like your noodles soft. I always cook mine until they are soft so it's not a problem.

Looks good.

Could add battery powered RGB strips to be even more sparkly.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

you can suplex that train

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/53d828c8.jpg

For those that don't know
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sabin-train-suplex

adjl posted...

That's the point he's making. Far more so than other media, retro games are restricted by the hardware they were released on, outside of comparatively rare ports/remakes that make them accessible with modern stuff, and efforts to pirate stuff that isn't available on modern systems tend to be treated more harshly than pirating other media. Part of that is that the medium is relatively new and nothing is public domain yet (nor will it be for quite some time), but console games in particular have been quite deliberately designed to be accessible for only a very short period of time.

I never noticed. Emulators do a pretty good job of ignoring this problem

ConfusedTorchic posted...

but you also can't walk into target and buy an original xbox, an xbox 360, or an xbox one, anymore, now can you?

I have no idea if you can or can't. Target went out of business in like 6 months or something. I have never seen these consoles in stores and I would never even know if there was a new one. My actual buying process would be to go to walmart, find the big xbox sign, and buy the cheapest one. No idea what I would get.

And it's a little sad that as part of gaming you don't want to learn anything about gaming. I guess that's you, but you already demonstrate you know all the names for xbox, so you have already memorized them.

r5 is higher than fx, it still works.

What?

.... What????

I can play games from the 80s no problem on brand new hardware. WTF are you talking about with projector film?

Sounds like you just discovered hardware based DRM. Congrats, that's the entire point of consoles.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

meanwhile for a console you just look at if the game is made for the console you have. you have an xbox, does this game say xbox? that's it. that is the extent of thought needed.

Let's not use xbox as an example here.

Is the order

Xbox 1, xbox, xbox s1, xboxx, xbox360?

Their naming scheme is beyond terrible. Console boys think this is easier? Really. It's not even bigger number is better, it's literally random.

As someone that doesn't follow consoles, I have no fucking clue about the xbox line anymore. But I can tell you every intel and amd cpu release and nvidia and amd gpu release no problem. It helps that they usually follow bigger number is better rule. Although my 9600gt is far slower than my 6700xt. Wish we didn't reset numbers randomly.

My point is, if this is your hobby, get educated on your hobby.

Your getting older. I have bad news, it gets worse.
Every year your stress builds up and your sleep gets worse. I'm already up to twice a week with a night of no sleep. See your doctor for pills, it's fine. You'll find certain days are worse. Me it's usually Sunday night.
Drinking does not work.
Melatonin makes it worse.
Working out does not work.
Going to bed and waking up at the same time does not work. It actually makes it worse because you panic about going to bed on time and panic when you don't fall asleep then panic that you'll be tired.

According to my mother, this continues until 2 years after you retire, then suddenly it snaps and you finally relax.

The only actual useful trick I have is stop caring. Be like a teenager and stop caring when you fall asleep or wake up. Can't sleep? Whatever, start work at 4am if you can. Or go watch tv. If you can teach yourself to stop worrying about getting sleep, you'll start getting sleep.

Other trick is if you have the 4 notes of a song stuck in your head. Turn on the tv, just loud enough so you can almost make out what is happening. Focus on that noise and try to hear what is happening. It'll stop that maddening song

So you want China?

Count_Drachma posted...

suggesting "okay, you're successful, we want to take over your company" is straight-up Soviet.

Well Musk, Besos, Trump are all incredibly pro soviet so they'd love this idea I guess

adjl posted...

They know what hardware you have. They don't know what games people have managed to run on that hardware or how well.

Although technically with the overlay they do know your resolution and framerate, so they could take a guess.

Easier to just take the required spec, copy it, paste in google, add `vs` and your video card. See how you stack up

Lokarin posted...

that's because that's an increase in price of goods unrelated to wage increases.

Then how did they measure this study? They somehow removed inflation from calculating inflation?

Inflation is literally "people have too much money". I feel so poor not having this problem.

Lokarin posted...

> But minimum wage causes inflation to rise even faster. So it's a tricky balance.

Studies show that for every 10% the median wage goes up (not minimum wage, granted, this is median wage), the price of goods goes up 0.4% on average

Some part of that seems wrong.

We know inflation has caused all prices to double since 2012.
Did anyones wage quadruple in these last 12 years? mine didn't.

Based on the spending I see around me, I think I am just considered poor now.

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8b60a2a4.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/29ff7c92.jpg

No more billionaires works for me.

Because there is no way to know.

Ask a chat bot, if you want a computer to lie to you convincingly

$50? Little high.
Probably $20 is the right number right now.

But minimum wage causes inflation to rise even faster. So it's a tricky balance.

Basically our economy only works as long as half are suffering in poverty.

I suppose you could tax the mega rich so hard that they earn the same as everyone else, but that has different problems then.

So maybe the quick solution, if you openly support dictators, your taxes are raised to 99.99999%. Call it the treason tax. So only Musk, Trump, etc have to pay it basically. And we end poverty overnight

Still set mine, normal rings don't get my attention

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Solarians is the usual go-to for any sci-fi story that uses Sol as our star's name, and then extrapolates a race name from it.

The real problem is that, if you do that, you're working from a flawed assumption. Sure, we might call a race from the Vega system Vegans or Vegarans or something. But that's because we're basing our name for them on our name for their star.

If there are aliens out there who would name us after our star (as opposed to our planet, or some other defining trait), they'd be naming us that after their name for our star. Which almost certainly isn't "Sol".

Meanwhile, it doesn't make much sense for us to call ourselves after our sun, because a) most of us don't call it "Sol" either, and b) because it feels much more natural to call ourselves after our planet.

But maybe future time we live on more planets in our Sol system. So we'd name ourselves after our system.
Also based on our trajectory Earth will be destroyed

fettster777 posted...

I used to when I had a chevy and it was super easy, but now I drive a honda and they've made it basically impossible to do it yourself.

Is it the plastic shroud in your way or another reason?

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Solites? Those are an antagonistic faction from one of our RPG campaigns, kinda like the Terraists from LoGH.

Solons maybe?

Yellow posted...

... oh...

Buy the ramps instead, far safer.

Yellow posted...

Yes

I know Js, C#, C++, C, SQL, HTML/CSS, Python, Matplotlib numpy ASP.NET and tensorflow all very fluently.

I also have very bad unmedicated (diagnosed) ADHD, so I get hyper-fixated on learning new languages but not applying for jobs. But right now I have someone else helping me stay focused. He's actually going over my resume to improve it, and I'm learning Angular JS, which is what this job is looking for. He says I have about a 1/3 chance of getting this job with his reference.

Me too, fun when you really get into the weeds on a language. Though I like Vue over angular.

Luckily my job figured this out and put me in a research position, so my whole job is to research tech and language and create examples and use cases for other developers.
I used to call it TRsquared, Or tangent related research. But now I am paid to do it. Oo how do I replace nosql with kafka and a nodejs service... Be back in a month after I figure this out

Metalsonic66 posted...

No body no death

Sometimes even this doesn't confirm it.

We already know force portals are a thing too, so Mace could have portaled somewhere else to heal.

Sol, we are the Sol system. So we are Sol's?

I used to pay a shop. But I got sick if how horrible of a job they did.
One literally spilled oil, then used a garden hose on the top of the motor to wash it. Needless to say the engine stopped running right, 3 out of 6 cylinders stopped firing. Thankfully drying it out fixed it but that was the last straw.
That's when I noticed all the stripped bolts. That plastic cover on the bottom of cars now? Hopeless, only 3 out of 9 bolts still worked because if these people. I had to thread new holes and resort to Christmas tree clips instead. One car leaks oil from damage to the oil plug.

In short, do it yourself if you can. My father has a car lift, so that makes it really easy for me.
Do not use a car jack and go under your car. I've lost 2 friends to that.

As for brake pads. If drum brakes, pay someone for it. They are a pain in the ass.
If disk brakes, do it yourself. Literally 3 bolts. I've been quoted $500 per wheel. Fuck that.

Waiting for all the parts in 1 package so I can skip the filler in the games,

Nade_Duck posted...

i don't really see how being a dwarf planet makes pluto not a planet. it's even still in the name. figure it's kinda like how the gas giants are still planets but they're obviously different. it's still a planet, it's just small. i'm not against the extra classification, but some of the logic involved with it seems off.

Pluto orbits Charon and together they orbit the sun. That's the only part of the definition of a plant that kind of makes sense and why Pluto doesn't count anymore. But Eris is even bigger than Pluto. It should be a planet and Pluto should be the same as Ceres.

Also at this point calling a planet a dwarf should be offensive. It's a little planet.

Anyways real answer, memorization isn't super useful. If the kids ever need to know the order, they can look it up. Better to learn reading writing and math, the core skills you need for life.
Almost no one actually has all the planets and newly minted dwarf planets memorized.

papercup posted...

Apparently a Final Fantasy 6 Remake would take 20 years to complete according to Kitase. No clue where he got this number from, but its clear that SE has no intention to do an FF6 Remake, which is a damn shame.

Which speaks to squenix ineptitude. They are so pathetic that with 100x more resources they had back then they can't get anywhere close to what they had originally.

Even crazier when you remember they did do a faithful and successful remake with Trials of Mana

Monster truck madness.

Just the wrestling references alone make it impossible lol.

Turns out final fantasy 7 makes this list and so does ff6.
Destruction Derby.
Populous.
Machines
...Actually any RTS.
Xcom makes this list, the remake was terrified of all the best parts of the original game, and removed them.

Dude Wheres My Car

Chocobo racing obviously.
And don't forget the snowboard game

wwinterj25 posted...

All I know is the moon is made of cheese.

Sorry your outdated.

It was determined to actually be a giant egg.

Pluto and Eris should be planets.
And even if Pluto isn't because it's barycenter is above the surface, Eris has no such problem nor does Sedna

Are you expecting a child?

I'm sure the science on it changes constantly.
Aspartame in particular we know is bad. But supposedly all artificial sweeteners still cause you to produce insulin so your body is ready to store sugar as fat of whatever you eat. I guess the theory is it turns good food into fat as well.

I don't understand what they are asking.
But I don't see an option for "Stop putting stupid DRM in your releases" so I can't vote.

FatalAccident posted...

I only really play Civ 6 or the sims 4 on my PC and never had a problem with choppy graphics since building this in June last year. But recently Ill fire up a game and after about 2-3 mins the graphics are choppy as hell and the frame rate drops on most games.

I have a 3070Ti that I think could be overheating, is this likely to be the problem? My case has two fans at the front and one at the back, but none at all at the top. Is this what makes the difference you think?

Ive updated all my drivers, Ive checked for cryptominer viruses and all seems okay. Tbh I even checked the temp on GPUz and it seemed normal, think it was 54C or something cant remember.

If its not the overheating what could it be?

Check your GPU and CPU temps while gaming.
Install hwinfo. Run it in sensors only mode. Leave it minimized and go play your game until it starts having a problem. Hwinfo will keep track of all the temp sensors and will show if any showed overheating. It keeps a record of this so even if you close the game it keeps what your max temps were.
Also I suggest posting this on the PC board. You might get better responses than potd which is a joke social board

Any other brand maybe. Not apple.

Dikitain posted...

It is actually the opposite. They want to get out of the hardware business and into the "game service" business. Microsoft buying up a bunch of studios is just a way for them to push XBox Game Pass by making games available on that. If they could make XBox Game Pass for Playstation, they would in a heartbeat. Sony won't allow it though, so in the meantime they will just release the games on Playstation as traditional physical/digital releases.

Yup I agree, which is why I think we will see an xbox app on Linux one day.
they won't stop with the xbox though, it will be a cheap media computer for accessing microsoft services like gaming.

Curious too. I was told combo exercises are the best.
I had a 90 year old weight lifting acquaintance, he showed me a bunch of basic exercises for shoulders and stuff using them.
Like basic stuff like hold them in your hands by your side, then rotate and lift your shoulders.
The guy was ripped even for 90 years old. He told me he spends 6 hours a day in the gym to try and keep up the body he had when he was young and a butcher.
Another basic one is to make like your skiing or rowing, with weights in each hand row forwards with one and backwards with the other, with one leg forward. Do reps, then switch the forward leg and do it again. Totally normal to need more weight in your dominate hand.

adjl posted...

At this point, third-party exclusivity is generally either a matter of an exclusivity deal that forces it or a studio being so small that they can't devote the resources to ports. Bethesda is no longer a third party for Microsoft, though, so producing exclusive titles for the sake of selling systems is to be expected (provided they can actually produce a system-seller, since between Redfall and Starfield they've been kind of struggling in that regard).

And fallout 76.
It's actually been since 2011 since they have released a great game. Unless you include Fallout 4, in which case it has been 9 years. Pretty crazy to think about it. 9 years without a success.

-30 for normal, up to -15 for movies.

No fucking clue why mine is in the negatives. 0 would blow the windows out of the house.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

Oh dang I didn't realize it was on Switch

Nothing is on switch. 10 year old slow ass GPU that can't run anything. Even cell phone games are too much for it.

Exclusives are dumb anyways.
Not that it was ever exclusive. More like excluding. Only the PlayStation didn't get it, everyone else did.