AndrasKrigare @ AndrasKrigare @beehaw.org

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https://youtu.be/l5uCkgxJrkc?si=ZoJm0E-UqdxICuop

That math doesn't work out

The 79,900 games available on steam vs 7,200 on PS 4/5.

I think it's more equivalent to someone making a meme of a standup routine and changing text in order to make fun of something else. The original was a joke about general data sanitization circa 2007, this one is about the dangers of using unfiltered, unreviewed content for AI training.

They give credit bottom right.

Stealing is a strong word considering it gives credit in the bottom right

Nice try, agent

To help give love to some games I think are underrated, here's a list of my favorite games with 4,000 reviews or less on steam under $25 ranked by my personal play time.

Neo scavenger $15

Post apocalyptic survival sim, that reminds me a tiny bit of Oregon Trail. There's a good chance a scratch will kill you, and finding a plastic bag so you can carry more than what you hold in your two hands makes you feel OP. I've put 74 hours into this game, have died and restarted countless times, and have hardly gotten anywhere in it, but it's exactly my kind of survival game

Fae tactics $20

Turn-based grid combat reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics, with just a splash of pokemon. The mechanics and setting I found really fun, although the difficulty can fluctuate a good bit at times.

Xenonauts $25

If OG XCOM went more crunchy than streamlined, it'd be Xenonauts instead of Firaxis's Enemy Unknown. The combat gives you a ton of control during combat, specifying how much time they should spend aiming before shooting, specific hours of overwatch, crouching, etc.

Star Renegades $25 (currently $5)

Roguelike turn based party RPG. It doesn't do a crazy amount that's new or novel, but it executes very well, and lining up a good combo with your build feels amazing.

Rogue Book $25

Slay the Spire with some smart additions. Instead of one hero, you play two, which gives some extra possibilities to mix and match between runs. Instead of an overmap with a couple branching paths, there's a hex overworld where you can use resources to reveal tiles.

Wildfire $15

Avatar the Last Airbender as a 2d stealth action game. The level layouts are great, and the ability upgrades strike a good balance between being impactful and not trivializing encounters.

Don't Escape: 4 Days to survive $15

A classic point and click adventure, except using human logic instead of insane Game Logic. Reminds me of a bunch of similar games I played at the height of Newgrounds. It's a tight, solid experience that doesn't over stay its welcome.

Alina of the Arena $15

What if Slay the Spire had a hex grid system? I've seen other games ask this question, but Alina is the best I've played. There are some really clever design decisions they've made where certain builds very intuitively form some classic archetypes.

Shardpunk $14 (currently $10)

Roguelike XCOM themed as a crystalpunk version of Vermintide. Combat is solid, but the theme of running to the exit while shooting rats on the way with crystal powered machine guns sets it apart for me.

The Case of the Golden Idol $18

This one breaks my "4,000 or less" review rule by a little bit, so I'm putting it at the bottom, but it is one of my favorite games. I understand the love for Obra Dinn, but Golden Idol is better in my opinion. Each puzzle is a scene more or less frozen in time, which you can click on things for clues as what's happening. What sets it apart is how you really do need to solve the mystery to progress; the game doesn't walk you into it nor really lets you brute force it. Hands down the best mystery game I've ever played.

Really fun GDC talk by spiderweb games https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs?si=mZdu6eyyWD4OEWGw

I think it highlights how perverse the stock market itself is. It doesn't really seem like it functions much as a way for riskier ventures to raise capital outside of a bank, but a giant casino that gives the illusion of not being a zero sum game.

It's hypothetically possible for a company to make more money in the stock market by investing in themselves than by creating anything (see Tesla). And if all companies could behave this way and somehow knew what the stock market would do for 5 years, I'd wager a TON of companies wouldn't meet it, invest in the stock market, drive up the "value," more don't meet it, etc. etc. until no one is making anything, and everyone is happy with their paper fortunes and try to sell.

In my experience, it has not generated results in real time. I've either gotten the exact same response, or a prompt asking "would you like to generate an AI response to your search?"

So it seems like, and would make sense, that in a given time period they only generate a response once per given search, and reuse that response in the future, since that's far more efficient

Not really, and I'm guessing it's part of their decision here since it could open them to possibilities they don't like if they say that an account is an asset. It's also probably fairly complicated, legally; they need to understand how estates are settled in every country they do business, open themselves up more to scammers, etc.

I doubt they're going to enforce this if you were to give your credentials to someone else. They're just not going to voluntarily provide the credentials for you.

I haven't seen it, but that was a big thing I noticed in the trailer, all the cg effects. It's a really weird decision to me since so much of the praise for Fury Road was the special effects.

https://youtu.be/uichEjBNqlg?si=EJucAkjquds16Y0s

I still don't know it. I don't have a huge amount of confidence in "a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community" as a source for Valve's internal finances.

Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor

TIL source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/complicated-legacy-morgan-spurlock-super-193308722.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK6_h64dM1XB5-l8jg1Hqw03M3z2qBDWLUhQeP-5zsfRsz3o2876r3D3JDnoKpuhDWYPJTDkYnfIEDm5gfOyyLVMwJG7irmj7fFO7iC3-uEiRY3UynyLYh_vPTSbubS9KiU-MgVudtzkLVvtyGg7TOvvC4xzmIhPG-V2UBT_baca

Yeah, I think all indications have been that Microsoft is getting out of the video game business. Or, if they were planning on staying in, why would they close a bunch of studios, including successful ones like Hi-Fi Rush's Tango games.

I really disliked the ability to get lost combined with the challenge in Dark Souls. In most games, if I come upon an area that's extremely hard, it's clear that I'm not supposed to go there yet. But with Dark Souls, I know it's supposed to be hard and had a harder time gauging if there was somewhere else I should be going.