Love this one. Brilliant.
Be ready to pay up (premium, boosts, ads) or don't count on achieving anything. Also, if you gave them money once - you're labeled as a mark - and if you stop paying you will be punished by the algorithm until you're ready to pony up again.
Did nobody mention Nietzsche? Nazi worldview was largely inspired by twisting out cherry picking concepts from his works. The criticism of Christian religions idealizing the meek and looking back towards ancient Rome and Greece for strong, powerful, heroic characters and gods. The ideas of existence of superior and inferior humans. Etc.
Same! Just started Judgement on the Deck. Continuing Persona 3 Re and Logiart Grimoire. Also got back into Diablo 4, but enjoy that on big PC more (neither sharp 40fps nor fsr blurry 60fps quite hit the spot on Deck)
Didn't they just have the news recently on how buying Activision Blizzard did not move the needle on Game Pass subscriptions?
Imagine you are a smoker and the addiction makes it impossible for you to quit. Then one day nobody will sell you a cigarette or let you bum one off them.
Count your blessings and move on.
Reddit Karma ain't worth shit. Imaginary Internet points.
Lol, must be a headache for the devs maintaining it, but from the end user perspective it is way more pleasant of an experience than epic, origin, gog, ubi and whatever else is out there.
VPN via Turkey used to work on other subs too. Often something like 1:10 discounts. Most of these loopholes are closed though.
...or get a Kobo and never have to jump through the hoops
Yea, if I recall correctly, the Yuzu team was sharing roms of latest Nintendo releases internally and Nintendo was able to prove it. At least Jeff Gerstman podcast suggested something to that accord when reporting on it.
Trump receives ‘first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle’ from Coca-Cola CEO
Did Coke just call him fat?
Either nobody would believe it, or it would be on every screen and headline for a week, before the next news cycle Swiss the attention away.
Of course the companies pin the graphics as a culprit. Otherwise they would have to admit the mismanagement is the reason they burn through millions of dollars. Mismanagement brings with it another aspect the author did not mention: stress and burnout. Either working too hard, or spinning wheels doing nothing is pure poison to a creative person. Constant direction changes, lack of clear communication, never knowing whether you did well or are on the verge of being laid off - all these make people work harder but output less/worse quality assets.
It's how all big tech companies work.
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This was my top 5 of 2023 for sure. Wonderful experience. Certainly my favorite of the "learn a language" type games.
This was brutal to watch in an already grim reality of 2025, but an important one. This is not just a remote, 3rd world problem (as if that was an excuse) - this is how our AAA games are made.
Let's not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.
Pretty good points there, though i'd argue it's not just pure numerical IQ, but mostly life experience. The more variety of life you experience, the more you know of human history, different cultures, ways of thinking and seeing the world - the harder it is for you to get impressed by something as shallow as AI.
Tech bros live in a bubble of their own creation and don't understand the true richness of the human condition.
I mean fuck X, sure, but why is the police posting crucial information on a commercial, privately moderated platform? Why would you just assume everyone has an account with Musk's service?
I've seen this shit in Europe too - with everyone just assuming you'll have WhatsApp. At least most EU governments don't use it exclusively, but I'm certain countries, like Turkey, WhatsApp is the only channel where information can often be found.
Code Craft: Pop-up Generative Art Show in Seattle, November 23, 2024
Pleased to announce the next CodeCraft meetup and pop-up art show! Join us for a night of computational art, featuring:
Exponential Sums - Andriy Kashcha & Yixiao Kang @aria_xiao99
Fractured Dimensions - Maks Surguy @msurguy
Omniweb EEG Visualizer - Nicholas Bowen & Diana Xie @bowendigitalarts
The Quantum Quilt (Alpha) - Quba Michalski @qubaxr
RSVP: https://seattlecreativecode.com/
#creativecoding #generativeart #computationalart #algorithmicart #interactiveart #geometricart #processing #javascript #touchdesigner #unreal #shader #procedural #seattleart
Code Craft: Pop-up Generative Art Show in Seattle, November 23, 2024
Pleased to announce the next CodeCraft meetup and pop-up art show! Join us for a night of computational art, featuring:
Exponential Sums - Andriy Kashcha & Yixiao Kang @aria_xiao99
Fractured Dimensions - Maks Surguy @msurguy
Omniweb EEG Visualizer - Nicholas Bowen & Diana Xie @bowendigitalarts
The Quantum Quilt (Alpha) - Quba Michalski @qubaxr
RSVP: https://seattlecreativecode.com/
#creativecoding #generativeart #computationalart #algorithmicart #interactiveart #geometricart #processing #javascript #touchdesigner #unreal #shader #procedural #seattleart
Playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth before finishing original Yakuza Series?
Some of the reviews of this game mention a major story line... ::: spoiler story spoiler in which Kiryu becomes the main protagonist of the game and goes down a nostalgia-driven memory lane adventure, revisiting old spots, etc. Considering this is supposedly pretty central theme for much of the game, :::
would you say it makes sense to play Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth not having completed all the mainline Yakuza games?
For context - Yakuza: Like a Dragon was my first game in the series. Like many, I've fallen in love with the madness, the cheese, the comedy and the world of the series and started playing the Kiryu saga of Yakuza 0 - 6. I am currently on number 3, and wondering if it makes more sense to soldier on, play through all originals before picking the latest entry, or to just jump in and enjoy the new title.
In other words: How much do you recon would Infinite Wealth spoil the original series, or how much would not playing original series spoil my enjo
All grown up
A week ago or so I posted a tan colored cutie that popped up in my garden. Wasn't quite sure of what it was. I think now it's pretty clear - and also has 5 friends all within few feet of each other.
Aliens: Dark Descent - Looking for the best Playthrough
Aliens games have always been a mixed bag with really low lows, but then some pretty high highs. Aliens: Dark Descent definitely falls to the latter category.
Unfortunately for me I neither have the patience, nor the time to play the title, so I am looking for a good YouTube Let's Play / Walkthrough / Playthrough series. Any recommendations?
I tried watching the one by Christopher Odd - typically I love his videos, especially on strategy games, but he did not seem to "get" this game, making many of his decisions super-frustrating to watch.
If I may be so bold as to list some things I am looking for:
- Full playthrough. I've seen good half of the game already, I am interested in second half and ending
- Narration preferred, as long as it's not over the top. I'd love some level-headed commentary or strategy explanation. There is nothing that will get me to stop the video and blacklist a channel like exaggerated reactions, dumb jokes and/or bigotry.
- No caster picture-in-picture.
My pet peeve with Diablo 4: Careless borrowing from other languages
Many of names in various Diablo 4 regions are heavily inspired by existing cultures. The NW of the map is a Slavic land. NE is British Isles, Southern areas are Turkic/Persian, etc.
What I noticed a lot is many of the NPC names are borrowed from other cultures. They are, however mostly pronounced wrong. It's almost as if the names were picked at random from a text source without anyone verifying how the words are originally pronounced.
Early in the story we encounter the widow of man named Julek. It's a common name in Poland (where I am from), but it should be read as Yulek. Instead, the voiceovers feature the same J sound as in John or James.
Yonca is a common Turkish name, but once again the pronunciation is all wrong. Her name (meaning "clover") should read more like Yondja - but instead we are served with Yonka.
There are a whole bunch of these all over the place, and I am only touching on Polish/Slavic and Turkic/Persian influences that I am personally fam
Subtitle font in Japanese Games
I was wondering if anyone here could help me identify a typeface I quite like.
I see it in many Japanese games, often used for English subtitles. Two titles that come to mind are Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, and more recently Street Fighter 6. Any idea what's the name of the font?
It's the gold rush over?
It's been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?
Hit a progress wall. Any ideas?
I've always been bad at minmaxing, playing games mainly for stories and escapism. With Diablo though the whole fun is in progression, gearing up, etc.
After completing pre-season campagin on a Sorc and a Necro, I decided to go with a Barbarian for Season 1.
All was fine and dandy until around now. I am at level 51. Content in Tier 1 and Tier 2 is pretty much a cakewalk. Content in Tier 3 is frustratingly hard. I have no idea how to gear up, as most stuff that drops for me in T2 is pretty low compared to what I painstakingly grinded through many many death-per-dungeon runs trying Tier 3.
I leveled using Hammer of the Ancients, but got bored of it and switched to Whirlwind (which I have fond memories of). Problem is, naturally in Fury management. Unless the area is absolutely packed with mobs, I don't seem to be able to sustain the whirlwind for long enough. On T2 it's OK. I do some fury generation then get back to it. On T3 by the time I get the bar filled again I'm usually dead.
An
Cross-platform saves are the best thing.
Activision Blizzard is not a good company. They have an abysmal track record for how they treat their employees, history of misogyny and abuse. Since the departure of Blizzard's founding members, the quality of many of their games took a noise dive.
They got one thing very right though, and that's account-level, platform independent save system in Diablo 4.
Being able to seamlessly switch between my PC, PS5 and Steam Deck is probably the coolest thing I experienced in gaming in a very long time. While it would be awesome not to have to buy the titles individually on each platform, it's a huge step in the right direction.
I can only wish more games supported cross-platform saves, because now that I'm used to it, I can really feel the absence of this feature in other titles.
(It would also help a lot with games preservation, if you could easily use old save files on newer platforms and remasters - as long as it's not all server-bound)