Yea, but actually that is kind of beside the point. The idea was, if I asked the bot to repeat what I just said, would it? I added the Turing test ultimatum because you might not necessarily expect a human to repeat what you said just because you asked, unless they were strongly motivated. A human trying to fool you…

Hmm... interesting. I'm not sure if the male vs. female determination is such a great test though. If you limit the scope of the test to that degree, it doesn't really say much about the overall competency of a bot to appear human. Just it's ability to mimic a human in a very specific way, under controlled…

Edit: Wait, nevermind I totally missread what you said for some reason...

You know, I've never really understood why anyone thinks they have a chance at getting their bot to pass the Turing test without simulating general intelligence to some extent. Not a single chatbot I've ever seen has ever been able to demonstrate simple problem solving, or the ability to learn and track the context of…

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This.

@wohdin: Lol, the people who designed the note-chart for Blue Rive Ex were pretty sadistic weren't they? I attempted it on a Dual Shock once, and it pretty much kicked my ass. 0_o Actually, strictly speaking isn't pop'n music designed to be played by two people at once? Although most people do solo it nowadays it…

Well, it can't be worse than the Navy...

So the moral of this story is don't use a DS flash cart or you will be interrogated by comical police officers and then invited to join a pirate crew? Tell me, where do I procure one of these magical devices?

Oh god yes. My best explanation though, is that almost every game I play is too similar to something I've already played before for me to really get into it. As soon as I start playing a new game, I just get the feeling of "been there, done that", and I quickly lose my motivation to play. I do however find that I…

Self entitlement? I'm not asking Sony for anything other than just compensation should I suffer damage from their incompetency. But I wasn't aware they had set up a fund to deal with identity theft victims, so I'll give them that at least.

I'm seriously not planning on it and I'll tell you why. Accepting these free games as compensation might hurt my legal position if I experience a serious case of identity theft in the future and attempt to obtain actual just compensation for the consequences.

>Digital goods still cost development time. People still had to go to work and make these games. They're still a product.

Yea, so Sony is making up for their gross incompetence and breach of trust by giving us copies of digital goods that essentially cost them nothing? Sounds more like my pain and suffering is worthless to them, which is not difficult at all for me to believe. Where do I sign up for the class action lawsuit again?

@WFROSE: I think the main reason people like it is that it's the only comic currently running that's actually about video games as opposed to people who play video games. Also, even if all the gags don't hit it out of the park, I at least understand why they're supposed to be funny, unlike half of the other comics on…

I've experienced something similar to this phenomenon myself. Especially after playing a game I was really into with a high level of intensity. I wonder if people who are more susceptible to this phenomenon might also be more susceptible to post traumatic stress disorder.

I didn't really care for Chrono Cross myself. Don't get me wrong, I loved the original Chrono Trigger, and I don't hate Chrono Cross, but it just didn't live up to the original. The characters were all lame ethnic stereotypes, the story was convoluted and poorly paced, the art was somewhat ugly looking (especially the…

@Sabadaba: Yea, we've heard that one before...

Actually, I really think this is just the latest event in a trend that everyone in the industry should already be aware of by now. It's becoming harder and harder to get people to buy new game systems. The advances in technology have gone from game changing to incremental, and fancy controllers and gimmicks only go so…

Mark my words, one hundred years from now when the majority of the human population consists of genetically modified cyborgs, they will look back at our perspective on body modification as "quaint".