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I have, and I have wept for humanity over it There seems to be a real problem not just in shitty companies, but in investors being dumb fucking marks who are awful at their job. Why do these morons have so much money to throw around?

I honestly don't know why anyone would do this. It's standard folk knowledge that this is bad, and there have even been explicit studies for various generative models showing it's bad all the same.

It's almost like autocomplete isn't a path toward "AGI."

I have As on all but one (technically 2, since getting all As on the first set unlocks another track). Some of the piano tracks are pretty hard. The worst part for me is that because they play more notes than you control, it can make it hard for me to judge which notes I'm actually supposed to be landing That said, something that was helpful for me was to pay closer attention to the highlighted wedge, since that is the one you have to hit next. You would think that's obvious but I had to make a very active choice to put my attention there to get myself to do it well. Otherwise I was too easily distract by everything else going on.

Yeah I've definitely got my eye on this one. This one as been on my wishlist forever, but I never pulled the trigger because the reviews have been indefinitely saying it's buggy as hell with lot's of save corruption issues. Is this resolved yet? Yeah I was thinking isometric (other that cuscenes I guess) which might make it easier. But it also seems maybe harder to translate to isometric? Not sure. I'm not an artist, but I wouldn't mind an attempt from someone who is!

I'm not sure if it's possible to make it work, but it would be interesting to try and do a remake of VI that had the same style as the all the FF cover art/concepts from Yoshitaka Amano. I mean, I know he was also a character design for the games, but the games don't look like this.

Context: I saw some discussions about an FF6 remake, and naturally this brought up that Square doesn't think it's possible to do like FF7R because the cast is too huge (and maybe the world too big?). This led to people saying they'd like a 2D remake, which would be more doable. But the things people were posting were "Like Octopath Traveler" and other pixel art games. And that just sounds... boring? There are pixel art styles that I enjoy, but that seems way to safe and boring for a bigger scale remake. That led me to the question in the title: what are currently the most beautiful isometric 2D games that are not pixel art and also not trying to look like a retro game? For side scroller, there are some real winners like Hollow Knight and Ori. But isometric? Feels like there are fewer. The best ones that come to my mind right now are: 1. The Pillars of Eternity games 2. Disco Elysium 3. Hades The fist two happen to use the game engine. While Hades looks great, I'm not sure it would work for an RPG. I'd put something like Tunic on the list, but while that's not pixel art, it still feels like it's trying to be retro and I'd like something 2d that feels more like it's freeing itself from the aesthetics of the past. You can argue that PoE is also trying to be retro of a sort too, but the style they were inspired by leant itself to painted backgrounds that I feel like allows it to update itself more without obviously looking retro. E.g., PoE 2: What others come to mind for you?

I think an evolving dynamic narrative is by far worth the cost of "a few days without an enemy type" If you're really gaming so much that this blip affects you, you probably already have the trophies.

Tonight I took another crack a the mindflayer combat simulator now that I knew I had to kill the flayer first. That was indeed a fucker. I was doing okay managing my teammates to keep them from fighting the scrubs but I'm pretty sure the mind flayer's AoE attacks would kill them or something because their health would go from nearly full to "where the fuck did they go" Finally got him using the sleep strategy on the scrubs to keep them away and going all out to build synergy attacks as fast as possible and unloading tifa to kill him in the first stagger.

I hope you like breaking boxes!

Deus Ex MD is awesome. It's a fucking crime we're not going to get more.

This is tangential, but I'm honestly curious. How do you define good/bad taste @sblfilms? Is good taste the ability to recognize that something unconventional will resonate with a larger population despite it being new or is it something else?

I'd be down.

Great episode. They're doing a good job selling the great power great responsibility idea in a very brutal and intense way!

I think the only thing I remember about Resurrections is that Laurence Fishburne was tragically not cast and it's now the two instead of the one.

If they wanted to do a real-timish game, I think the core structure of FF7R's combat actually is a good fit. Both 7 and 6 were ATB games. If memory serves 6 has a bit more custom actions between different character than OG7, but that actually plays well into how have 7R has each character play differently with their own ability set. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to something more turn based either if we ever got this.

Naa.

I've been going back and doing some things I put off. I was hacking away at the mind flayer combat simulator, was feeling good because I got it, and then realized the requirement was to take the mindflayer down *before* the scrub enemies, not just win That seems pretty rough. Like you have to actively stop your party members from fighting them.

I suspect if they remake 6, they're going to split it into parts as well. Maybe after 7 part 3 and doing the full world map + air ship they'd be more comfortable doing this though.

I really can't stress enough how much I hate that generative ML is the face of "AI" at this moment.

This is my memory/perception as well.

I'm not blaming Phil per se. If my hot take assertion is right, the problem lies above him.

Hot take: the problem isn't "capitalism." The problem is some combination of investors being myopic idiots and bad mechanism design of the stock market that allows for day-trading nonsense.

If they're going under my radar because they're not assholes, then naturally I wouldn't seek them out in the purge