PonyOfWar

In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.

Nah, that’s just not the case for Pokemon. Looked it up and in the Japanese version he says 「たんパンうごきやすくっていいぜ」or “It’s nice that shorts are easy to move in”. Same meaning basically, dude just likes shorts in any version.

When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.

So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.

Where do we draw the line though? Humans assign emotions to all kinds of inanimate things: plush animals, the sky, dead people, fictional characters etc. We can’t give all of those the rights of a conscious being, so we need to have some kind of objective way to look at it.

Fundamentally impossible to know. I’m not sure how you’d even find a definition for “suffering” that would apply to non-living entities. I don’t think the comparison to animals really holds up though. Humans are animals and can feel pain, so of course the base assumption for other animals should be that they do as well. To claim otherwise, the burden should be to prove that they don’t. Meanwhile, Humans are fundamentally nothing like an LLM, a program running on silicon predicting text responses based on a massive dataset.

Will I finally get the single player portion of the pack-in game that came with my Radeon R9 280?

Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been “vaguely fitting images you found on Google”.

This is only in regions where they’re being forced to do this. And if the implementation in Japan is anything like what they did in the EU, it’s essentially worthless, as there are way to many hoops to jump through for alternate app stores to make it practical or useful at all.

Wonder how many of those courses are AI-generated themselves…

Except for the “developing concept art” bit. That’s not some unimportant intern’s work and does have the potential to displace artists. And while no AI-generated content may make it into the game, it does suggest that there will be art in the game that’s based on the AI-generated content. That’s what concept art is for, after all.

Welcome back! BTW, there were some users wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: https://pawb.social/post/33129287

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.

Yep, very common sound to hear in European forests and a sign that spring is here.

What’s also interesting about them is that they don’t build nests. They just lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let them take care of their young. The baby cuckoo will throw the other baby birds out of the nest so it’ll get all the food.

With the Android app, I believe you’ll need to write the data to something like an NFC card which then acts as an Amiibo. I got a Pixl.js device off Aliexpress for 12€, which came preloaded with all amiibos (up to that point).

I managed to put the Prime 4 amiibos on it now as well. The unlocks are nice, but far from essential I’d say. The music gives the motorcycle sections some variety, but I kind of prefer the original ambience, as it gives more of an eery desert vibe.

I didn’t. I actually recently bought one of those Amiibo spoofing devices, but I haven’t found any .bin files for the MP4 Amiibos yet. From what I’ve read, they unlock a number of musical tracks you can play while on the bike, as well as some visual bike customization options. The music especially would be nice to have, as it would make trekking through the desert less monotonous.

That does sound like an interesting scenario. I guess the big challenge here will be getting the actual self driving implemented and approved across manufacturers. Also, if we had that, couldn’t the car just as easily connect to a physical docking port of some sort? But I guess a wireless charging pad would be more friendly to various car shapes.

Good point. Personally, I haven’t actually encountered a charger that was vandalized to a point where it didn’t work though. And I’m not sure whether these are more or less prone to have technical issues compared to regular cable chargers.

I got it a day early yesterday and I’ve played around 4 hours now. I quite like it so far. Graphics are gorgeous and the soundtrack is amazing. Gameplay-wise it’s pretty much the familiar Metroid Prime gameplay loop of exploring, puzzle solving and getting upgrades. Riding the bike is fun, but the hub world itself is pretty empty and pretty much just a way to get from one area to the another. Due to that structure, the various zones you explore aren’t as interconnected as they were in older Prime games. Overall, the 8/10 ratings it gets on average seem about right to me. It’s not groundbreaking, but still a very good entry in the Metroid Prime series.

Cool, but 10% still seems like a lot for the small convenience of not having to spend 10-20s connecting a cable. Doesn’t seem worth it to me.

I’m 2 hours in and I’m really enjoying it. Visuals and soundtrack are fantastic. Gameplay is mostly classic Metroid Prime so far. Story seems a bit formulaic (Collect X of object Y to escape the planet). Despite what some people have said I don’t find it overly handhold-y, especially for a Nintendo game. The first major NPC you meet, Myles, is a tad annoying but not as bad as some of the previews made it seem.

I think it’s pretty cool. The game does have a lot of pre-written dialogue as well, so it’s just an additional interaction you can have with NPCs. It also does require a detailed backstory, motivations, personality etc to be written for each NPC you can chat with, so I wouldn’t exactly call it lazy.