Vespair @ Vespair @lemm.ee

you're probably an idiot. I know I am.

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I hate the remake's combat so much. So so much. It's so fucking boring. God why couldn't they have just kept the core gameplay mechanic the same?

Yeah it's a video game. It's a blast, big recommend from me. It's definitely firmly inspired by Pokemon, but it's a pretty significant departure from the formula into being its own unique thing. Much more sandbox/open-world, modified combat system, etc. Worth checking out especially since it's a well-polished indie game for only $20 full price. I know this sounds like an ad but I swear to god I have no affiliation, I just like the game a lot.

Makes me think of Cat-5 from Cassette Beasts

I hear and understand your point, and I can't say that I disagree with it.

That being said, I sure as hell wouldn't convict the guy.

Jesus christ this comment deserves a noble prize. Incredibly succinct explanation of something I didn't get before.

I agree they don't have to be anti-consumer to be pro-developer, but my point is that that is how they are approaching being pro-developer - by limiting pro-consumer features at the behest of developers. Or perhaps I should be saying more actively publishers, to be fair.

I gave what I see as a significant example in my original comment. Not being able to see comments or reviews from those who have purchased games through the storefront is a problem for me. If a game has a bug or problem, especially if it is one that could potentially be tied to or unique to the EGS version, I would like to know about it. That EGS currently doesn't provide readily available user feedback when it frankly has been the standard as defined by steam, just doesn't for me.

So you have to ask yourself why they wouldn't include such a simple a rudimentary feature - the only result I can come up with is to appease developers who want to prevent being negatively impacted by bad reviews. Thus what we have is prioritizing the wants of developers at the expense of features which benefit consumers.

Some people prefer not to do business with entities whose business practices they don't support.

Steam doesn't engage in the same kind of strong-arming and anti-consumer practices, so it's not exactly comparable, is it?

I say this every time Epic comes up but it remains the same.

Steam is the pro-consumer storefront. Epic is the pro-developer storefront. What Epic seems to fail to understand is that by being so staunchly pro-developer, they effectively become anti-consumer. And as a consumer, I'm just not going to spend money on an anti-consumer marketplace.

When Epic considers adding necessary pro-consumer measures like actual user reviews so I can hear how a game actual performs from real end users, then and only then will I consider Epic a real storefront viable for consumers.

🤷 I think all coffee is shit, personally

We have replaced your American passport with Vietnamese to better accommodate your beverage preferences, please enjoy your new citizenship.

Americans who drink hot tea have them (source: have had one for like 20 years).

Americans in general are just more hot coffee cold tea people. Exceptions abound of course, but in generalities.

Yeah that was my issue too. It's absolutely fine to disagree, but no reason to take a sincere question as some kind of personal affront and start being a dick to the asker.

Just rubbed me the wrong way.

Anyway, sucks this played out how it did. Cheers to you.

I don't really have a strong opinion on either side of the topic here, but I will say this: people were wildly disingenuous when dealing with OP in this thread. So much double talk, goalpost moving, standing on plausible deniability. Some of y'all lose sight of things when the topic is something that ruffles your feathers, like LLMs.

Somebody said, "But points you made like the snide remarks one may also indicate that you’re having these conversations with assholes."

...I dunno, maybe the world has just gotten more assholes lately, because jesus christ did they show up in force in this post for some fucking reason.

For what it's worth, OP, I think you've got a point. ChatGPT and the like certainly can't replace spontaneous and genuine human conversation, but they also don't come with the myriad problems and bad habits of human conversation either (not to say they don't have their own). And especially if you're really just looking for a sounding board to work through an idea, that's actually a pretty fantastic use of LLMs, in my opinion, so long as you're the one providing factual data and working it through your own understanding conversationally, and not relying on the LLM for facts or figures.

Or at least, that's my singular lukewarm opinion. Either way, you at least deserved to be engaged sincerely and without the weight of insulting subtext, OP.

I can't decide if I'm proud or sad that this answer was buried so deeply into this post

🎵 "(dont) Give a fuck about tradition, stop impressin' the dead" 🎵

Corporations fund the big name democrats and their campaigns. These same corporations benefit greatly from Republican wins. They are buying intentionally ineffective democrats who are unincentivized to either win races or appeal to worker interests as they are typically directly at odds with these big bankrolling corporations.

I am not saying every democrat is paid for or every democrat is ineffective or democrats as a whole are an entirely bought and paid for organization, but what I am saying is that enough of the prominent enough democrats legitimately are financially disincentivized from helping the people they're supposed to represent so as to effectively gum up the works of the whole machine.

Live Action Cowboy Bebop was amazing, people just didn't realize what it was supposed to be because Netflix was stupid and coy about it. It was never meant to be a 1:1 adaptation, it was meant to be an expansion of the anime into a whole ass franchise. The show had to lay the ground work and deliver enough of the anime to show promise and appeal to fans, but as far as I can tell it was always intended to diverge in a way that allowed more storytelling and development in Cowboy Bebop's incredible and therefore tragically under-utilized universe.

Also the casting for the main three was perfect.

I'm a 4 and 7 with a touch of 1, so I guess I'm a hot commodity.

....my dating history tells me otherwise.