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2 days agoI’m still not clear if she’s an executive in charge of AI or an AI simulated executive. Neither would surprise me given Microsoft’s direction at the moment. Has anybody counted her fingers?
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18·3 days agoThe better question is, should we?
2·4 days agoLa Rage by Keny Arkana
3·4 days agoI don’t know about your specific area, but there are charities and nonprofits that take old hardware, refurb it and give or sell for cheap to disadvantaged folks. I guess there’s less need for them these days now that everyone has a phone, but there might be say, students that need one for typing stuff up, unemployed that need to write job applications, etc.
17·4 days agoI mean, no shit. I thought that was obvious from the … everything about it.
3·12 days agoI’m not in a tech field now, but I used to be. I jumped ship when everything started moving to ‘cloud based’ because I don’t trust anything I can’t kick when it breaks.
I had to check if this was real, I honestly wouldn’t put it past modern Heathcliff to pull this shit.
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10·15 days agoProbably about the same, '97-'98. We’d gotten a PC in maybe '92 or '93, a 486SX-33 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. My primary school was still stuck on BBC micros, and our C64 had long been given away, so my parents shelled out for a new machine for me for high school and of course I instantly started trading games with all the other nerds, spending my allowance on gaming magazines, playing coverdisk demos, buying shareware disks from the local newsagent. We started hearing about this “internet” thing in about '96, so my father eventually took me to this “intro to the internet” seminar, and at the end there was a single PC hooked up via dialup that we could fool around on. When it was my turn I went to the only website I could remember off the top of my head, the local gaming magazine, Hyper.
Preserved on archive.org, and magazine scans here.
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Debian is … fine. It’s the Toyota Corolla of distros. It’s reliable, it’ll likely do what you need it to do. It’s not fun or exciting or packed with the latest tech, it just does its job with minimum fuss.
13·23 days agoIt’s not even really a game engine. More like a 60 second interactive hallucination.
Man I hate it when my access is recubed.
103·26 days agoI don’t know why but I find this viscerally unpleasant.
This isn’t even that farfetched.
22·28 days agoHow many times is this now that they’ve nuked users’ PCs with an update?
No, I don’t. It’s just meaningless. You might as well have posted “water is wet”.
Hmm yes very smart. Add a useless platitude to a thread you have no idea about or stake in. No background reading or nuance here, just thought terminating cliches! I wonder why nobody is praising your amazing intellect.
Oh yes of course, you were just saying some words. You freely admit not knowing the context but it didn’t occur to you to, idk, educate yourself first? Nah, more important to just say words because idk, freezed peaches or something.
This is why no one likes Seppos.
I am not Australian and I don’t know the entire history or context
And yet you decided to weigh in anyway. Amazing.
Started and finished TR-49. Gameplay-wise you’ll probably enjoy it if you’re a compulsive researcher like me who can’t help pulling on threads. Unfortunately I went AFK and missed a timed event that I had no idea existed. This left me incredibly stuck and I had to resort to a walkthrough so I can’t really comment on the majority of it. Plot and theme wise it feels very much like a commentary on AI, given that
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The central premise is a machine that eats books, and enables the rich to maintain control of society by rewriting reality via people’s perceptions.
Recommended if you like puzzlers, but stay in your seat.
Also been doing a replay of Dustborn, now that it’s had all the content updates and QOL fixes that I’ve been seeing in my Steam feed. So far, I haven’t noticed massive changes, although I think most of the content is towards the end. It’s definitely a middle finger to the “is it woke” crowd. For that reason alone I’m glad it exists, and I’m glad I paid for it, but it still kinda falls flat and I’m honestly running out of motivation to even reach that extra content. The game tries to be too many things at once; it’s a rhythm game, it’s a 3rd-person beat-em-up, it’s a telltale-style adventure game. Props to the dev team for trying something a bit different in that respect, but you can absolutely tell they didn’t have the resources to pull it off. Rather than excel at any one thing, which I think they totally could have done, it’s just kinda mid at everything. The rhythm sections are … fine. The combat is … okay. The character-based adventure bit is … whoa boy do I have some thoughts about that.
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It could have been a really interesting exploration of the “bad powers, good people” trope (CW: tvtropes link), because the player character’s abilities are all … kinda icky at best. And while it’s fun as hell to use them to fuck with fascist cops, there are sections where you are railroaded into treating your friends like crap just to move the plot along. It feels absolutely gross. Which, credit to the writers for making me feel empathy for pixels, I guess. But there’s a couple of specific sections where it feels like you should be able to just … not do that. Which is where it becomes clear that they didn’t have the resources to do that style of “choices matter” gameplay properly. Because your choices -don’t- matter if you don’t have them, and it -really- feels like you should.
The whole thing is so frustratingly -almost- brilliant. Like with a bigger team, more time and money, it could have been amazing. There’s the bones of a good game there, it just needs … more.