Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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Thus far, the local models I've worked with have gotten a C- on coding, but an A+ on bullshit.

I work at a company that won't allow us to use a search engine but has a local model we're allowed to use, and this is a pretty apt summary.

If you're referring to that fuckup with the ToS or whatever, that's not what they've started doing. You can verify this by their Privacy Policy, which hasn't changed in almost a year.

But if you are pointing to other examples, I'm open to learning.

Same. Hard times are coming, and I have a suspicion it's going to be worse than 2008.

People will need to do what they can do, and I don't blame them for surviving.

It was, imo, the founder of the Vania part of Metroidvanias, so they didn't have the benefit of standing upon many shoulders. Hollow Knight is a great spiritual successor to that endeavor, and I agree that they took much of what made SotN great and improved upon it.

It's interesting watching people get so excited by HK, I have to wonder if that's what it was like when SotN and successive games came out.

Thanks!

Seeing it loop back on itself 10+ hours later is something I almost never see anywhere else.

Do give Symphony of the Night a try sometime! You'd probably enjoy it.

I have Shenmue III. Do I need to play the other two to understand, or can I just jump right in?

As an American, I'm already subscribed to !buycanadian@lemmy.ca and !buyeuropean@feddit.uk.

I'll eat those tariffs to ensure the companies that stood at Trump's side feel it in their stock portfolios.

The purpose of tariffs (in a normal world) is to make it harder for domestic entities to buy international goods. Typically, this will spur growth of a particular sector of industry within a country over time.

The way Trump is using them as a battering ram in an attempt to punish other countries, rather than incentivize steady growth, is why the US market is tanking and likely headed to another recession (or worse).

By retaliating in kind, the EU will be incentivizing their citizens and companies not to buy from the US. This will hurt companies that are based in the US, like Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc., further sending the US economy into freefall and bolstering the European economy, since they aren't trying to punish every single trade partner in existence.

There may be other ways they try to move money around to avoid the tariffs, but governments are aware of how big businesses operate and often try to close those kinds of loopholes. Since this has become a global political issue, I would imagine they'll be keeping a more watchful eye than normal on things.

Mini Apps version 1.2 makes mini apps load faster within the World mobile app, adds haptic feedback, enables customization, and allows you to pin your favorite mini apps to your phone’s home screen without needing to open the Worldcoin Wallet app, according to the company.

Eww, why would I want to have a garbage cryptocoin app that opens other apps?

Cryptobros are so weird. Like, their brains have been so thoroughly addled that they can't see reality except through crypto

Just for fun, I tried three more pens and writing in an inverted position (i.e. towards the ceiling):

• A Bic Crystal
• A Papermate Gel
• Some random pen from an auto shop with a nonstandard ballpoint tip (so probably some brand other than the first two).

All of them failed. Interestingly, the Crystal lasted the longest, but when it failed, it was almost immediate.

I'm not saying this is an especially scientific test, but I've now tried four different ballpoint pens, all from different manufacturers, and none could write upside down. Gravity is an important part of how they work on Earth.

It may be that you can still write in space, but I would hazard a guess that it has to do with whether you can keep ink on the ball. Since there's no "down," how you write or how you hold the pen when you take breaks might make things better or worse.

It's cool, though, that he put it to the test. When I just put my pens to the side, they get refreshed and are able to write again, which is why my hypothesis is that it's down to whether you can keep the ball continuously wet or not.

Yeah, I know it's not precisely correct, but it's a fable that's commonly understood as an example of over-engineering. I'm open to better and more factual examples, if you have any!

Just tried it, and the ink stopped. There's no wick in it and apparently any capillary action is stopped by gravity. It wrote for a little bit for as long as there was enough ink sticking to the ball, but that didn't last more than a few sentences.

In zero gravity, since there's no gravity pulling the ink in either direction, a typical ballpoint pen would likely write inconsistently as the ink shifts in the tube from inertial forces, like a pen that's drying out.

It is certainly unique in its art direction. One of the blessings of indie games!

You may be right. It's just easier to get the sentiment across that way than expound about how it's ridiculously complex and overbuilt to achieve menial results.

AI: The "pen that can write in zero gravity" when pencils exist.

If you liked Hollow Knight, you should give Symphony of the Night a try sometime. The gameplay loop is similar, and like Hollow Night, there's no hurry.

I think they're both good, with the older one being the one that, imo, defined the Vania side of things. But being on the older side myself, I understand having limited time to take on new games!

The art style is great, and the ability to choose your loadout adds a unique twist to how Metroidvanias usually work. I had a good time playing it, and it reminded me a lot of when I played Symphony of the Night many years ago.

Many Metroidvanias are boring because they lack character that would motivate you to do Metroidvania levels of backtracking.

This is a good point, and likely why I've not gotten that into many of the more recent ones (with some exceptions). I suppose in that sense, it's revolutionary next to many of its contemporaries.

Hollow Knight is clearly one of the best to ever do it in my opinion. It also totally transformed the landscape of metroidvanias, with subsequent games imitating it left and right.

Can you expand on this? I feel like there's some interesting perspective in there.

And I will probably play Silksong eventually, too but I'm just trying to understand why people think it stands above the rest.

Yeah, I'm not shitting on the game, just trying to understand why people are so excited by it.