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darth_helmet , 6 months ago to games in The Anacrusis IGN Review (4/10)

The build system for different archetypes is relatively satisfying and interesting to grind through, it hugely changes how you play a match and I think it’s a really good addition to the formula. It’s a decent time with the lads, which is all it needed to be.

darth_helmet , 6 months ago to games in The Anacrusis IGN Review (4/10)

Back4blood doesn’t suck, but it did really take a while for the game to be tuned at the harder difficulties. It’s a solid upgrade over l4d2 in every way, but doesn’t benefit from nostalgia goggles. I wish it had l4d vs mode and mod support, but I still put in a hundred hours or so (haven’t checked dlc) which is pretty reasonable value.

The problem with back4blood is that it’s good: not great.

darth_helmet , 6 months ago to games in Paradox's The Lamplighters League adds new playable character and Events system in latest free update

It is a fun mashup of stealth and tactics, but there’s so much to play right now that I’ve only put in a couple hours. This just came out the wrong year.

darth_helmet , 6 months ago to games in Fallout TV Show - Teaser Trailer

… you know it omitted the last three books, right?

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to games in Waluigi Creator Reveals Scrapped Design for 'Walpeach' in Mario Power Tennis

A stealth-action game where walpeach kidnaps each of bowsers kids

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to technology in Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

Maybe it’s because cars suck now: filled with spyware, massively complex systems that aren’t better at doing car things than similar systems in the 90s, and with a price tag that considers this garbage as worth something to the consumer.

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to risa in What "sacred Bajoran trinket" do you suppose this is?

On mobile you have to remind it that you don’t want to use the fucking app, and also that you don’t want to fucking log in with your Google account, and yes really I don’t want to use the fucking app, and no I don’t want you to use cookies, and no I don’t care if the app experience is better and also no, thank you, I don’t want to log in

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to world in Right-wing U.S. media covered fiction as fact: A non-existent terrorist attack from Canada at Rainbow Bridge

There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to risa in Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home.

It’s a job in Lower Decks which I think makes it canon.

That being said, it would be hilarious if holodecks can be self-cleaning but they still make ensigns do it anyway to “build character”

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to risa in Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home.

We didn’t need any more supporting data to cement “cleaning out the holodecks” as the worst job in starfleet

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to risa in Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home.

Have you ever had a gas bubble in your gut that shifted and now you feel fine?

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to technology in Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated

“Excel sheet on steroids” isn’t oversimplification: it’s just incorrect. But it doesn’t really sound like you’re particularly open to honest discussion about this so whatever.

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to technology in Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated

Novel analogies. Very easy to prove this independently for yourself.

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to technology in Column: OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours

Give it 5 years and the board is going to have the “I told you so” of a generation

darth_helmet , 7 months ago to technology in Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated

It does a shockingly good analogue of “understanding” at the very least. Have you tried asking chatgpt to solve analogies? Those show up in all kinds of intelligence tests.

We don’t have agi, definitely, but this stuff has come a very long way and it’s quite close to being genuinely useful.

Even if we completely reject the “it’s ai,” we more or less have a natural language interface for computers that isn’t a shallow trick and that’s awesome.