It’s really weird to me that so many people make this argument over and over again. You don’t see anyone insisting that, because they are ADULTS with JOBS, it’s insanely obnoxious and unreasonable to publish books longer than a novella. Only some kind of unemployed, lonely degenerate could possibly read more than 100…

I’m not saying such articles didn’t exist, but personally, I’ve never seen an article about this game that talked about it uncritically. I don’t think the problem here is uncritical media coverage. Seems like some people fell for the fake trailer and others bought into the game anticipating a disaster. There’s…

This is like remaking The Room but casting a decent actor in Tommy Wiseau’s role. It’s still the same awful movie with the same awful script, so you haven’t really improved on The Room—there was nothing good in it to salvage—you’ve just removed the most memorably bad part of it. You did a lot of work to make a much…

I don’t see how advanced language models in gaming would “replace human artists”. Sophisticated prompts would have to be written for every character, character personalities would have to be tested, and so on. A ton of human labor. But it would allow artists to creative interactive experiences of a sort that no number…

You don’t even need to take inflation into account if you go back far enough. In the early 1990s, $60 MSRP for new SNES games was pretty standard, and prices could rise as high as $80. Prices would vary based on how large the game files were; larger games needed different cartridges with more expensive chips. I think…

That’s fair. U-3 was not one of my favorite boss fights in the original RE4, but I definitely found it more memorable than some. In the RE series, I’m willing to forgive some jankiness in a boss fight if it is intense or scary in an interesting way, which I thought U-3 was. It’s been over a decade since I’ve replayed…

They did not cut the Verdugo fight from the remake, it is still in and it works the same way it did in the original. They cut the U-3 fight from the remake, which was a bummer.

If we start letting people commit crimes when we decide that the people they took advantage of were too weak or stupid to protect themselves and thus deserved what happened to them, I’m not sure where that logic ends. Seems like you’ve got some other stuff going on though, so I’m going to patronizingly nod at your…

Those texts/DMs have never been verified, which is why you aren’t seeing any articles about this development mention them. Those transcripts were heavily involved in social media whisper campaigns against Roiland but they could just as easily be fabricated as real, and news outlets don’t want to get sued for reporting…

If you get “really, really angry” about the word “scam” being thrown at this massive waste of development money, built on the backs of obsessed fans spending literally thousands of dollars to buy access to unimplemented spaceship designs, then your anger is probably a personal problem.

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Wouldn’t any awareness of the rules or ability to follow the rules inherently mean the model also knows how to break the rules? How is a language model going to avoid saying bigoted things if the model can’t recognize (and thus be capable of recreating) bigoted speech?

Did this guy make his money by offering to contact the dead or predict the future for people, like the sleazier television psychics do? Seems like his career is more based on live and televised performances of his spoon-bending and telepathy tricks. Of all the forms of exploitation that the global economy runs on,…

If Dan Harmon knew that Roiland was abusing his staff and did nothing, that’s a huge ethical failure on his part. So far, there are no workplace allegations against Roiland to my knowledge, and certainly none that implicate Dan Harmon in some kind of cover-up.

The Stored Power build advocated in the article makes absolutely no sense to me. Six turns of doing absolutely nothing? These raid bosses can and will erase the stat boosts of your entire team without even using their turn. You’d basically never go six turns without having your progress reset, and when your stat…

This was true even in the 8th gen raids, where three player knockouts, even the same player three times, would end the run (or maybe it was four, can’t recall). I hate mechanics that make a weak link extra likely to doom a co-op team, even in games targeted to hardcore gamers. There is a similar mechanic in the Monster…

The 5/10 second wait is IN ADDITION to the serious chunk knocked off of the team’s timer, the latter of which is never explicitly explained. And to make things more confusing, if you try out early raids solo, your AI teammates dying does NOT penalize the team’s timer.

Game Freak is a company that does billions of dollars in sales. If their devs are overworked, which I’m sure they are, that is on Game Freak’s leadership for refusing to crew up and hire more labor. Stop defending their executives as if it is a pro-labor position to encourage Game Freak to continue to refuse to hire…

Honestly, I don’t think this is a development timeline issue. I think Game Freak’s leadership has been spoiled on the reduced development costs of making these games for handheld systems for 20 years, and they absolutely REFUSE to crew up and spend the money it would take to make a AAA Switch title. It’s not that they…

I assumed that Ryan’s dad, a doctor, probably supplied Chris’ widow with the poison, which would mean Fuches placed some of these vengeance seekers he’s activated in contact with one another. That would explain why Ryan’s father was suffering so much in church the morning after Barry was poisoned—he was grappling with…