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On 4/1/2024 at 9:12 AM, GameDadGrant said:

Nice! Let us know how you feel about Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. I bought that when it launched and played it for an hour or so. To me, it was a little “stiff” but once I got used to it, I was having fun. 
 

It gave me pretty good Jet Grind Radio vibes so that helped in the ye olde “Fun Factor.” 

I've only played a bit and I'm enjoying it but could do without the combat. That first battle was annoying with constantly having someone off-screen that you need to fight. Other than that I love how much this game tries to be a spiritual sequel to JSR(F) games, it's why I picked up a copy.

Any update on whether any publisher was picking up FM2 for a physical release? I'd love to ultimately get all 3 games in physical format for switch.

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Apparently the epicenter was at Trump's NJ golf course.

The staff jokingly changed his diet to Taco Bell to clean the pipes.

I want to get an EV sometime after my building installs chargers (sometime later this year), it will not be a Tesla.

 Will companies stop putting stuff on sale! I'm running out of space for my switch backlog...

Recent switch physical adds over the past week:

* Star Ocean The Second Story R

* Made In Abyss

* Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

* Demon Slayer- The Hinokami Chronicles

11 hours ago, DPCyric said:

Don't have a Switch  Maybe this is my excuse to buy one though  

I don't mind sending it to you but don't want to put you in more debt to play it. Maybe lets see if it goes on sale soon and I can get you a copy for your platform of choice (providing it's not PC where it doesn't exist).

The board needs to be fired as well.

@DPCyric interested in a copy for switch?

It would probably be in the GOPs interest to have a few people go missing on the day of the vote and let the Dems put up their own. Then they can spend what little time remains complaining how the dems stole the speakership from them.

The RNC & Down ballot republicans are fucked this election cycle. There won't be any money to support them.

Nice, will have to check the demo out when I can. This game looks really cool.

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

Here's the other crazy part, both of these places were condos. I've seen some condo hate on this forum and you guys are just completely wrong. It's about the right place, and the right neighborhood. That's $550,000 tax free in about 6 years.

No condo hate from me. I love my 2bdr condo in DT Toronto. My building is a bit older but is well maintained and because of that the floor space is huge (1350 sqf). I feel like I would die of depression if I had to move out to the suburbs. I just personally feel the price of housing/condo here in Canada/Toronto is ridiculous (the houses near me are all 3mil+ starting).

6% is nuts. It’s 5% here in Toronto which is split between the realtor and buyers agent. When even a 1 bedroom condo is going for 700k+ it’s an absurd amount of money. Some buying agents will even make you sign in their contract that you’ll pay the difference if the seller doesn’t give them their 2.5%. -.-

They said that before in the Carol case even after they had one secured. I'd wait till we get to the day of the deadline before buying anything his lawyers say.

On 3/15/2024 at 3:26 PM, Biggie said:

Did I win?

Have you beaten the title screen on the demo yet? Prove you'll actually play the game and play the demo till Rolf joins the party (about 1h 30m in) and post proof.  (probably do this on switch so your save transfers over).

@GameDadGrant you get one yet?

These long drawn out last 3DS releases are kind of funny but I also think it's such a late release that most are ignoring that it even exist unlike the previous two.

Just now, stepee said:

 

Awesome!! And happy bday!

Thanks but just fyi, it was on the 9th. :P (I just didn't really post about it before).

On 3/8/2024 at 9:44 AM, AbsolutSurgen said:

My boys bought two copies of Helldivers 2 last night.  After watching it on streams, its all they've been able to talk about for days.

I found a deal on GMG for 17% off, and they said they still said they wanted to wait for next weeks Steam Sale.

My response to my son -- "The game is a month old, and published by Sony -- do you really think it will be more than 17% off next Thursday".

His response "Of course -- do you know how many people have this on their wishlist?  They would be crazy not to include it in the sale.  So many people would buy it."

My response:  "That's not how video game sales work.  Games don't go on sale right away."

Followed by: "You're on March break next week.  You can either wait 'til next Thursday, and not get to play the game you're super excited about on your vacation until then.  Or, you can buy it tonight and play it during your week off."

His response:  "Can you put it on your PayPal, and I will give you cash?"

 

My kids have mostly been into FTP games up until now, and are finally starting to transition to Steam games.  They haven't learned how to manage sales.

Your kids just though it was another Ubisoft game is all. 

I've got a Analogue in my Pocket and it's happy to see me (bday gift to myself, it was new and luckily the markup wasn't much to the point it probably would have cost me the same to buy from analogue + their shipping to Canada). I was going to get a black one but kept dragging my feat and they went out of stock again but I'm happy with a clear one.

I also got a 3ds game but I'll save a photo of that for the 3ds thread!

We did this at my last company (Software), it worked out well for our scale & remote setup. To make it work you have to do more than just saying you now only work 4 days (Like cut down on meetings) but as long as everybody puts in the effort it can work.

TikTok was already close to selling from the push in the past. Most likely they will just sell and users won't notice the difference.

1 minute ago, legend said:

 

Yeah I thought it was a really great model and with a fantastic interface (in terms of the kinds of inputs the model can work from) that allowed for a lot of great uses. It's wild to me that word of mouth for it didn't take off the way LLMs did, but I suppose that's because LLM's are a magic trick that fool people into thinking there's a ghost in the machine, whereas segment anything is actual practical tool  

I think the issue is the way it's shown to people and it's sample use case is the problem. It's shown as just some way to extract an object from an image which most will just question why that matter when their iphone can do the same. Yet this could be a good thing for it's use in tech as people won't be flipping the **** out like they are with GenAI.

39 minutes ago, legend said:

[...] and have a bunch of vision models like segment anything (or something like that). 

Yeah it's called Segment Anything. It's really impressive and the work done with forks of it HQ Segment Anything has been used in some really awesome projects. I'm kind of sad I didn't try to get some VC funding last year to build an idea I wanted for AR space because people are now actually releasing stuff close to what I wanted to make back then. If I do it now I'll probably be playing catchup for a long time.