I’m not terribly concerned if people write code and test it with AI, so long as they verify the results themselves.
I recently saw someone try to add a PR to something on github with thousands of lines of changes and then they got mad when people didn’t want to do the free labour verifying it. That is a bullshit use of AI
The biggest mistake everyone makes is that they watch videos about how to play first. It’s fine to watch a bit to see if you’d even be interested but once you make the call, if you want to be immersed in a game just play it and experience it yourself!
I noticed you mentioned games with strong stories. I tend to play more open ended games but my first suggestion has a stronger narrative and that is The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human.
The rest are games that sucked up way too much of my time lol:
I had a great time playing this with friends. It reminded me a lot of Wurm Online but is much more approachable than that game while retaining a lot of its depth.
I was well within the top 1% of World of Tanks players, my friends and I were getting scouted by top clans and we played a lot of competitive rounds as well as the normal gameplay most people experienced. We knew the timing of when scouts would/could show up in specific spots on the map, how long it would take artillery to line you up in different places, etc…
It was funny to me that some people thought win rate was essentially random, it really isn’t.
All that to say I knew the game very well and I could describe with intimate detail exactly what was wrong with the game. Honestly my info would be out of date by years now so I’ll spare everyone that and just say the biggest mistake that I know is still in the game: premium ammo. It utterly invalidates armor making entire trees of tanks pointless to play. Was it hilarious the first time we drove a Maus over the front of an IS-3, crushing it? You bet. But the Maus got shelved pretty quick because it kept dying to frontal attacks with premium ammo.
I didn’t play War Thunder at anywhere near that level (gave up once the grind really set in, couldn’t bear to do it again) but I could see a lot of the same problems cropping up.
I focus on games that don’t abuse my time these days.
Arrowhead has lost a lot of respect due to the way they run Helldivers 2 and I say it’s quite deserved. Every time you get a new piece of kit it comes pre-nerfed. New enemies are often so intensely frustrating to play against that people will simply stop fighting them. Old bugs keep returning CONSTANTLY, telling me that their internal version control and review process is not working. If something is fun, they will stealth nerf it and hope we don’t notice.
I have largely stopped playing.
This and World of Tanks have the same degenerative disease. It really sucks when you get maybe one or two good matches out of ten, and then you slowly begin to realize that the very obvious problems you see are not getting fixed and the developers are doing it on purpose. The only winning move after that is not to play.
Stellaris traded away so much of the games soul when they removed the alternate FTL drives.
Best examples I have for each
The amount of times boomers on worksites called me retarded for not knowing how to do something I’d never done before astounded me.
Meanwhile these fuckers would get real butthurt and start yelling and making a fuss when they’d struggle to find a file they just saved on their PC and you do anything besides silently assist them.
I vowed to be different, to teach my people what it means to be competent and respectful. I tell them I expect to see the same level of professionalism and respect I show them going to everyone around them. It’s working! They aren’t coming to work high or hungover, they aren’t being pieces of shit, and they’re communicating with each other instead of yelling insults at each other (well except for when its funny lol).
This has made me unpopular with the boomer leaders but fuck em: we get shit done, we get it done right, nobody gets hurt, and everybody feels respected and doesn’t dread coming to work.
It died before that, with things like the Driv3r debacle.
Modern YouTube reviewers are an improvement over the access journalism of the print mags of the past.
lmao that would make a good April fools bit
I don’t want a big loud box near a tv.
With mATX or ITX you can make a shockingly small and attractive computer; examples include this mATX case or this ITX case. People have even designed 3d printable cases, plans for laser cut/CNC acrylic and metal, etc… If that’s not small or classy enough, the miniPC market has really taken off and depending on how modest your needs are, you can get by with things like Zimaboards or go all the way to something like the MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro - a very capable machine that has an Oculink port that allows you to connect an external GPU if you need even more power.
Generally speaking you’re never driving a media PC hard enough for the fans to ramp up, but if you somehow are, just buy quality fans and/or watercooling. I can speak for Noctua fans not just being a meme; they are actually very quiet.
How would you even control it ?
I have a small keyboard with a built in trackpad. It’s a bit bigger than a TV remote but not obnoxiously so, but given you get the ability to actually write stuff in instead of using an onscreen keyboard with an IR remote it’s a worthwhile trade.
This post is odd because you’re talking about on-rails shooters but Call of Juarez is not one of them (it’s an FPS).
voting with their wallet I’m onboard with your argument but I really don’t think voting with your wallet works in cases like this. When there are so few players in a system and they’re all colluding to make things worse, there is no vote.
I am deeply frustrated that people aren’t getting more involved. I link them to groups, I show them the consumer rights wiki, I talk to people about getting involved politically at the local level… So few people care. Things are going to have to get much worse before they take action, best thing we can do is have the framework in place for when they finally wake up.
Can you describe an example of detailed mass surveillance that has not been used against us?
I am not willing to trade a modicum of safety for one of the greatest privacy and ownership violations of all time.
Investors have very big brains and are never wrong, so when a company drops staff they say it’s good to see the company losing dead weight.
Us stupid small-brained normies see a company struggling to have an original idea shaving staff to stay afloat and say “that doesn’t look good”.
Then the big-brain investor loses money and posts on social media about how you can’t win them all. The joke is that us normies also lost money; the investor didnt lose their money, they lost yours, because they were managing your pension fund.
Do you think that generated depictions of the sexual abuse of children are ok in any context?
I do not understand why they used OnlyOffice as a starting point rather than LibreOffice. I’m guessing because it can be embedded in web shit? I can see why NextCloud pushed for it.