the Night in the Woods incident

I’m so out of the loop (it’s great for my own mental health) that I never heard of that one, and I quite enjoyed playing NitW

Wasn’t there a similar shit patent headline about sony doing that?

Oh yeah, there was, “ghost assistance”, aka “no need to look up on youtube”; something which I’m pretty sure exists as “previous art” in some game or another - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-patents-ai-generated-ghost-support-system-to-assist-stuck-players

Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are “something that already exists, but on a computer with AI”

Broken clock miracles or something, go figure :)

For some reason, you made me think of 4chan and how it’s always been a cesspool, no capitalism needed. Little did we know how most social media would devolve into “4chan, but with ad-friendly moderation”

Took me a while to realize that for most people, it’s less about religion and more about maintaining rituals and, more importantly, belonging to a community. To my knowledge, atheists don’t have the latter outside the internet.

That a dictatorship led by a “good, strong leader” would be enough to fix any country. Held that belief from ages 16-22. With time, I understood that it would devolve into a bad strong leader anyway, especially because any one single person cannot realistically do everything at such a large scale, nor can they ensure that everyone down the chain of command is “good”. Paranoia would seep in, more and more resources would be spent hunting “the bad ones”, innocents would be wrongfully accused either by honest mistake or by malicious enemies.

Nowadays, I really enjoy the idea of “Do not take for yourself any power that you would loathe your worst enemy to have” and I wish it could be applied to all levels of politics.

I feel the same about Eternal. In 2016, once I got the upgrade that gave me infinite ammo while at full health and armor, I had some of the best fun in the game, using the railgun like a maniac

I didn’t finish Eternal, I think I stopped before the cathedral where you’d kill the 2nd evil archbishop or whatever. Combat was annoying and the parkour more so

The UI and every interaction is unnecessarily slow and that really builds up stress, not to mention the many times your aim is pretty fucking clearly centered on a vegetable or box or whatever, but the interact will target a nearby NPC because fuck you.

Learning alien words is one of the worst chores of NMS

Nah, monkey brain would still think “THIS time I’ll win for sure!”

Vtubers are people pretending to be anime girls

Entertainment is a “social lubricant”, so it’s not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.

The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.

Celebrities, French language

Emacs is a table saw, vim is a chainsaw, nano is a scissor. Every problem those 3 solve is a differently sized single sheet of paper.

Gamewinners. While GameFaqs has largely taken over and a lot of games no longer offer actual built in cheat codes, GW was one of the best resources and even had cheats that aren’t on GF. Thank god archive.org still lets me browse GW

Also CMGSCCC which had soooooo many gameshark codes! It still kinda exists as codetwink now

I supposed the alternative would be browsing i2p or freenet sites, pretty much nothing but weird small blogs, almost all of them focused on security and privacy tho

Mine happened over the phone back in 2012. One of the best decisions I’ve made was to break up with her. We were arguing about something (no idea about what, anymore) and I angrily shouted (in ptbr) “You don’t need to call me anymore, ever again, it’s over for us! Good bye!” - She was very angry at me and tried to call me back several times, I turned off my cell phone and disconnected the cord of the home phone. Since those weren’t working, she called my mom, to which I replied “Whatever you have to say, I don’t want to hear.”, finishing the call without letting her speak.

The relief I felt then was HUGE.

a locked down device is more simple to support

Not really. Locked down hardware specs are simpler to support, because, well, it’s the same hardware everywhere. Hence why standardized computers and phones like Apple’s stuff are theoretically easier and simpler to support: there’s very little variation.

The main support problem tends to be drivers and that’s a vendor-OS problem (nvidia on linux being a classic example). The experience is also entirely reliant on how well the OS behaves once it’s fully up and running, the boot sequence being locked or not makes no difference for that experience.

Normal users rarely, if ever, boot into recovery mode. To think that having full access to a well hidden feature that only advanced users are likely to even bother with will affect their experience at all makes no sense.

KolibriOS and MenuetOS are there, but are so tiny we can’t see them at all.

AROS was there, but the kitty mascot refuses every pill

Dunno, but I bet it tastes like pemmican

I vaguely remember that the point of LucasArts’ adventure games was that they were tired of the bullshit moon logic of Sierra games. I guess it’s the equivalent of someone who was so pissed off with Kaizo Mario that they made Dark Souls or something