I like the idea that there’s some media out there in which people aren’t straight up motorcycle magicians - using some kind of dark magic to circumvent physics. I think it’s good that a normal person/non-mutant/non-super doesn’t have impossible motorcycle skill/the ability to ignore reality.-

What happened here is that the community chose something “fun”, that supplements/adds to the depth of their adventure, rather than two things that simply make their adventure easier.

I still don’t understand the hate for Joy-Con D-pads - I think they’re fine. Also, Switch Lite is a proper handheld, and has a D-Pad. Also, you can buy Joy-Con replacements with full D-pads. Also, also: Pro Controller. So many options. It’s a system and ecosystem of options.

Front panel is dual USB C now, too, it looks like.

PS2 slim losing firewire and HDD support was a bummer, but the built-in LAN port sealed the deal for me, and it being so much smaller and thinner was a big bonus.

Game isn’t fun. The Blizzard that made D1&2 doesn’t exist anymore - D3&4 are only Diablo in name and themes, not in quality and integrity of experience.

They just need a second AI to run every request with a forced inquiry of “is this is bad taste based on the most common values and opinions in our society”, and if it returns “yes”, cancel the initial request.

Why?

We’re gettin’ there. Give it 20-30 more years, we’re going to have some legit mecha walking around (pending some new materials discoveries/power delivery breakthroughs).

I’m not a fan of “fake code”. With that said, I’m not 100% convinced it’s fake. Could very well be verbose OS start-up output. If I had to choose between actually seeing the system doing things, versus a boring, tame splash screen made to keep the average consumer from feeling alienated or intimidated by the tech, by…

Balthier refers to the airship “Ifrit” as If-Reet in a voice overed cutscene in FFXII.

This.

Your argument hinges on the assumption that emotion is inherently, and uniquely human - that AI will never “feel”, or have a true sense of “self”. The moment AI starts to feel the want to convey emotions via creation, your argument falls apart.

Also, if he’s already been paid tens or hundreds of millions of dollars - more than a thousand regular waged workers lifetime earnings, combined... it would be no skin off his back to not be paid... you know... for the rest of this life.

We could take it all the way and say the root cause is, ultimately, fear (of not having enough - touched by dysfunction, thus birthing “greed”).

Maybe Meta is working on these things in order to bring them all together and make something really cool - like, in thirty years. For the time being, everything they showed/everything they feigned excitement for was a waste of time.

You can’t have it both ways - you can’t work for a company, reap all the benefits of working for that company as it finds success, then when it starts to fail, cry about taking a hit. Being an employee doesn’t mean you get to take the good, and ignore the bad. And no job in the world has perfect job…

I’d like the take up skating.

This is, like, the fifth Returnal recommendation I’ve heard in the past day and a half, and it’s weird, because I didn’t hear anything good about it until just now. I really want to play it now (I’m just not in the market for more games at the moment).

Well, yeah. Trusting someone who clearly doesn’t play by the rules... to play by some rules, is dumb. There is no honor among thieves, and you can’t trust a liar/active criminal to do anything good or logical - they’ve already established they’re don’t care for those things.