This is actually a very important way of looking at it, because I think some people are picturing very different ideas of what ‘bursting’ means, and that results in everyone talking past each other.

When the dust settles, a lot of investors will have lost a lot of money, and that will have a big impact on the wider economy. That’s what it means for a bubble to burst, and it absolutely will happen. But I think people who are hoping that a burst will lead to AI going away for good will be sadly disappointed.

Print and play, means everything you need is in a single PDF.

“Hey ladies, hey fellas, and the people that don’t give a FUCK” - inclusive king Fred Durst

Let people enjoy things.

Looks like 4chan found this site. Now the question is whether they’ll kick the fascists out or let it become a nazi bar.

The Switch has been showing its age, but I do feel like the Switch 2 should be good enough, l would be fine with freezing the industry at these specs forever. Any game that can’t hit 60fps on S2 ought to just cut back until it does.

The real problem is that developers won’t cut back, will they?

I played FF7 for the first time a few years ago and I was honestly expecting that it might not have aged super gracefully, that the transition to 3D probably came with a lot of growing pains that would be excused as a product of its time. I was actually pleasantly surprised by how well it held up for me.

It definitely does still have some small growing pains, summons would’ve drove me insane without the Switch port’s fast forward, and every time it tries to wow the player with VFX I had to remind myself that this was cutting edge in 1997. But overall, the nitpicks I had weren’t much, it was a lot better than I expected.

I haven’t played Remake though, don’t plan to do so until it’s done.

I love riichi mahjong, and I’ve been on a quest to watch/read every mahjong anime/manga. You’d be surprised how much media exists for a board game.

Akagi is peak, my favorite anime/manga of all time, and everything else by Nobuyuki Fukumoto is fantastic too. Saki has very entertaining moments during the games… but is kind of insufferable between games. Legend of Koizumi is hilariously silly, though the manga ran way too long after the joke had run its course. Tohai starts off very strong, becomes ridiculously edgy, and then kept going until I just ironically enjoyed how stupid it was. Legendary Gambler Tetsuya feels like it was made to piss me off as a mahjong player.

But the most underappreciated manga-only hidden gem has gotta be Tetsunaki no Kirinji. This one really feels like it was written for serious mahjong players, the moment it started lampooning the differences in playstyle between online and IRL play I knew I was reading something special. Praying it someday gets an anime adaptation.

If it continues to get bad enough, you can lock the forum down from new accounts so they can’t make alts.

The reason it got this bad was because they didn’t nip it in the bud sooner. If they had been more proactive from the start, there wouldn’t be 700+ threads.

At this point, just nuke them all and ban everyone who made a bigoted troll thread. It’s gonna be a game of whack-a-mole for a little while, but once you start handing out bans, the trolling will start die down.

Yup.

What do you want Steam to do?

Moderate, like every other half-decent platform does.

They’re not just trying to remove negative reviews for being negative though, this is about bad actors weaponizing the review system to push bigotry. That should not be platformed.

Steam has a serious problem with a lack of moderation, which has made it a very attractive platform for fascists. Gamergate never ended, and remember that began with Steve Bannon realizing he could exploit gamer outrage to push propaganda. They keep inventing new scandals to repeat their past success.

One of my favorite games had a very minor patch to revise some cringier elements from early in the game’s lifespan. Years later, the forum is still unusuable because it’s been colonized by right-wing weirdos with 0.3 hours on record who have dedicated their lives to crying about a game they never cared about pre-patch, because they saw it as an opportunity to push their propaganda.

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You might be right about the relative impact of AI alone, but there are like a dozen different problems threatening the job market all at once. Added up, I do think we are heading towards a future where we have to start rethinking how our society handles employment.

A world where robots do most of the hard work for us ought to be a utopia, but as you say, capitalism uses unemployment as a threat. If you can’t get a job, you starve and die. That has to change in a world where we’ll have far more people than jobs.

And I don’t think it’s as simple as just having us all work less hours - every technological advancement that was once said would lead to shorter working hours instead only ever led to those at the top pocketing the surplus labor.

OK but would it have killed Balatro devs use vector graphics like many modern card games on Linux?

Why should they change their art style just for you? This is nothing more than a you problem.

In the English-speaking world, we use the term ‘anime’ to specifically refer to animation made in Japan. Other countries do make animation, we just don’t call it ‘anime’ unless it comes from Japan.

But in Japan, ‘anime’ simply means animation. I remember seeing a video where someone interviewed random people on the street in Tokyo asking what’s their favorite anime. The most popular answer was Frozen.

Takopi’s Original Sin

I think this is something that should be handled at the platform level, Steam and consoles should just let you freely roll back to any version of the game. Keep every revision archived for preservation’s sake.