You can literally collect all the Kalpalata Lotuses you need to take her to 90 in two passes through Sumeru (which need to be 2-3 days apart for respawn, or has to be in co-op). You can also buy them from a vendor, Aramani in Vanarana, 5 every 72 hours. Also if you have Tighnari, gathering is much easier because he…

One of my favorite reviews of SO4 back in the day had the line “if you think Edge Maverick is a good name for a protagonist, SO4 is probably at your intelligence level”

Aware of this and mentioned it in my comment (“You can get blocked out of the archon quests in earlier stages due to the same issue too”) but we’re not talking about the Inazuma main quest here so didn’t mention it specifically.

The answer to all these questions is that the whole “Awards” thing is a marketing exercise and these are the games that the publishers paid to be nominated

The last time I went there was 2018, and it was an “off peak” day in late September. The crowds were horrendous. Not my first time visiting the park - not an LA resident (not even a US resident until the last 7 years) but I don’t remember it ever being as packed as it was that visit. I would still say it was worth…

Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia (which shared many of the same development team - Wolf Team split after ToP one half stayed at Namco and the other half left and formed Tri-Ace) were *easily* the most technically complex games on the SNES, they took ages to be properly supported and have translation patches. Early to…

Til the End of Time (Star Ocean 3) is definitely the one that gets held up as the high water mark generally. Fans seem split over SO3 or SO2 as being the best one.

It’s not that, actually, it’s just that if you unlock the story quest the characters become occupied and their underlying system only allows an NPC to be in one place and set up for one particular quest at a time. These story quests are not prerequisites for the 3.2 archon quests, they’re just blocking it because they…

It’s not like their writing is particularly good to begin with. It’s about twice as verbose as it needs to be, and it’s usually a character says some stuff then Paimon will restate the exact same thing like a moron, and then you’ll get two dialogue options that are just the one line split over two responses for some…

The Witness’ big issue is that most of its “puzzles” are actually just hearing or vision tests. It’s an interesting game but if eg you have hearing problems it is flat out impossible.

Never really had too much problems with that puzzle. The one that always shitted me in The Dig was the stupid “catch the rat” puzzle.

The good news for this artist is that when the conservatives call your stuff Satanic, it usually means it’s actually great. See also: rock music, comic books, Dungeons & Dragons...

The training set issue is a little more complex - if for example the AI included protected medical records by accident, I suspect that’s a lot more of a grey area than simple Fair Use - but agree, in most cases copyright law is pretty clear. I mean hell, at the core of this controversy we have an artist drawing a…

You definitely need some kind of sensor, but in the end the range of motion of a human is limited and if you assume that they’re not John Cleese doing the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, most movement is fairly predictable.

The best part is that in the end, it’s probably a win for us either way - we’ll likely get a cool VR world thing (but probably not made by Meta, someone else will sweep in and do it properly) and with any luck we get to see the demise of easily the most morally bankrupt bottom-feeder software megacorp as it’s burned…

Yeah, it further cheapens and commodifies the value of art and the work that artists actually do. And it will absolutely be exploited by corpos to do everything on the cheap because they don’t and never have given two shits about artistic integrity or anything like it except when it results in a nice payday.

Who actually owns the copyright for the AI-generated image anyway? Is it the guy who stole another person’s work and fed it into the algorithm? The inventor of the algorithm? Is it actually no one, the art can’t be copyrighted for the same reason that those photos taken by a monkey that stole a camera couldn’t be…

In European regions, we never got Xenosaga 1 and 3. Namco instead decided to only release Xenosaga 2, in an expensive collector’s edition that came with a disc that basically contained all of the first game’s cutscenes to “catch up”.

This is good to know, thanks. Time to go link it to something else so I can stop stressing out about losing this damn dongle and forever being locked out of my account.

It’s true that they do, but the last time I used it I found it’s also implemented in a fairly old-fashioned way which is pretty inconvenient - requires running their app or buying a dongle, requires entering it way too many places (eg every time you start the game - no way to ‘remember this device’), can’t link the…