I don’t think I’ve ever desired to have speech as an interface for a device.
Yeah, I could yell at it “Open the browser and go to uhh the order of the stick comic index page” and maybe it would get it right. Or I could just… click on the browser, type oot and pick it from the drop down. Faster, no error, no expensive processing.
I don’t drive (cars are a bad form of transit and I’m lucky enough to not need one) and I’m not hands-full in the kitchen often.
As someone else said it really depends on what they’re actually asking for.
If they’re like “how do I make the screen turn off after an hour?” then telling them to switch to Linux is a bad response.
If they were like “I cant upgrade to windows 11, and I don’t even want to, and I don’t want to spend money. I just want a web browser and steam with security updates” then talking about Linux is a viable conversation path.
I really liked midnight suns. I enjoyed picking what cards to use. I enjoyed the gameplay where you can use your cards, environment, and movement to win effectively. I even liked the socializing parts. Yes, I want to play videogames with Spiderman and hang out with Captain marvel.
Thinking about it, a combination of “You need good gear to win” AND “You need good player skill to win” might not be my cup of tea.
I only have ~250 hours in Path of Exile 1, but I never got really deep into theory or build craft. I don’t really love the spreadsheet and forums mode of the genre that much.
I guess we’ll see!
This sounds more my taste. I played a fair amount of PoE1, but a lot of it ended up feeling like I was just running my stats around. I’d win or lose because of gear. Like, I could hand control over to someone who’d never played before and they’d do mostly fine.
Contrast with like Sekiro where handing someone the controller they’ll probably just get stomped, since it has a bigger player skill factor.
A balance of those two extremes sounds nice.
It is a peeve of mine in a game where it’s like
I feel like this has become less common in the last decade though
I think i played this for a couple hours, and it was kind of bad. Not surprised it’s still kind of bad.
People don’t understand externalized costs
Would rather they invest in, like, housing, food security, climate crisis, any number of other more useful things. I know you could say that about anything- like all the money being spent on movies seems frivolous next to that stuff- but AI is especially dubious.
Our society’s priorities are all wrong, and I don’t think it’s going to get better without a lot of suffering. Maybe not even then.
I don’t live in Ohio so I’m not one to talk, but like… why not protests? Are there protests and I’m just not aware? Like big fucking “make him afraid to leave his house” protests.
It just feels like bad right wing stuff keeps happening and everyone’s like “ok”.
But I’m just some dude living a sheltered life.
That would certainly help with a lot of problems, but won’t fix the underlying problem that hinders all of us. That is, that humans often weigh emotions more than they probably should.
It’s a good game, and I say that despite disliking DND 5e. Mods help
All of these stories I feel the same way: moving to another centralized privately owned platform is stupid.
It’s like…the solution is right in front of their noses. Just treat people better/not like robots
I’ve been saying this in response to a lot of things lately, but… people are emotional. It’s an emotional problem. Management feels a way, mostly contempt, and any studies about how treating people better would be cost-effective don’t matter. Studies show that a 4-day workweek is good for productivity and profits? Nope, feels wrong, can’t be true.
Essentially, people are stupid and I don’t know how to fix it. Can’t just bop a CEO on the nose with a newspaper when he’s being bad, unfortunately.
My work uses python and it hasn’t been bad for new code that has tests and types. Old code we inherited from contractors and “yolo startup” types is less good, but we’ve generally be improving that as we touch it.
Yeah I don’t think anything will change until disruptive protests happen. Like, republicans resigning from office because they’re afraid.
Unfortunately, the far-right has almost all the money and guns, and a lot of bootlickers. And no one wants to throw their life away by shooting some red hats senators or billionaires.
as an almost maximally privileged person (cis straight etc), i want my whining fellows to shut the fuck up. Just stop. Stop taking up all the god damn space. Just be quiet. It’s okay not to be included in every scene all the time.
Your point about not assuming people are straight by default is valid. But I mostly just want some cis-het folks to stop embarrassing me by being fucking insufferable.
A dark souls kind of slow paced combat game, but built for co-op. Except I don’t have any friends who are on the same skill level and schedule.
More broadly, I really want more games that you can play co-op in where the players are vastly different skill levels, but it’s still fun. I don’t know how to solve this.
I can imagine like a game where one person is playing dark souls and the other is playing candy crush, and they interact somehow. Like making matches in one give estus in the other, and killing bosses gives stuff.
Basically I want to play games with my frienda that don’t play the same games, somehow.
Seems kind of bland, but I guess we’ll see