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Terminator 2 with only John Conner as a human.

I got one that uses the same battery system some other tools (lawnmower, strimmer, drill) uses and oh baby it’s nice.

Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.

I didn’t take it to mean that the AI was exclusively trained on their own images, but good on them if they are.

mine is 5m, 1h, 2h, 1d, 4w, custom on gcal on a pixel. It might be based on commonly-chosen ones to some degree, but I rarely, if ever, have selected 5m so I’m not sure.

I tried to daily drive Linux. Updated mint and I had to manually fix stuff to even complete the upgrade. My video editing software, required for one of my jobs, no longer worked. At that point, I ran out of time to mess with it and am, at least for the time being, back on windows

The AI used was likely trained on sets of data without the consent nor compensation of the people whose works were used.

Come to Japan where they like to make everything images instead. Can’t select it, can’t copy it, can’t translate it without a camera, can’t preview the text of something, is bad for accessibility, etc.

I don’t daily drive linux at home because of the video editing software I need to use (Davinci black magic) not reliably working and often breaking on upgrades. Secondarily, some games won’t run. If I’m afraid to upgrade to not break things, that puts my security at risk which is not an acceptable situation.

I don’t know that FF had a specific hero as it were. DQ I suppose did in that they were at least named and had some story. Megaman is a good callout, though. We did have them in the computer gaming world in the more nebulous sense (like how I see FF). I guess I’m also thinking about how hero is used here; is it an existing character with a backstory (more like DQ or even megaman) or some character you create (FF again but also all the old SSI games on PC and many others).

I was thinking of fighting games but OP said nowadays it seems that all games are made for teenagers and adults. and I kinda threw the early SF and MK games into that bucket.

I’d argue that xennials didn’t really either. I certainly didn’t think of Mario, Sonic, Doom Guy, etc. as heroes. The closest that jumps immediately to mind as a named person is the protagonist of Wolf3d whose name I won’t attempt to spell here, but even then I didn’t give a shit about his story which, if memory serves, amounted to a blurb in a manual.

My heroes were in print in books and I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with that.

When I was still a fairly small human, giving me a screwdriver was a great way to find disassembled appliances (and a somehow-not-electrocuted gradeschooler).

Counterpoint for the general case: games also have a much larger playerbase these days and manufacturing of cartridges and components can be done at much greater economies of scale. In many cases, there is no physical media manufacturing cost to a lot of the sales.

For the specific point: Gearbox/Take2 have lost all faith from me so, while I don’t generally mind some games being in that price range, there’s zero chance pitchford and his ilk are getting that from me.

Souslikes, yes. For metroidvania, I would disagree. You did not mention soulslike in your post, unless I’m blind, or else I would have said nothing.

New metroidvania

Hey, hi everyone. We here at IronRaven decided to make a metroidvania, in the style of Dieselpunk and the 20s, art deco, art nouveau and so on. Tell me, what is the most important thing for you in metroidvanias, besides their appearance?

Chiaboard.

Just go to the normal human arcade with all the other totally real, normal humans.

How’s the doom port coming along? /s

Looks really neat!

Wait 'til the pigeon pope hears about this; pope wars, all over again.

/ very poopy pope wars.

I remember ours (I think both schools were built in the early 1900s) being rough but not that rough.

Have you tried going to a doctor to see what is wrong? PPE if you work somewhere hazardous? Moisturizing if you’re somewhere very dry?