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I was a PC gamer both before and after Halo. I'd still place Halo 1/3 as top on my list for FPS campaigns. There are few games that have such diversity of tactics to explore.

I don't think COD4 would even crack the list for me. It was fun, but if it weren't for the fact that everyone keeps buy COD games, I would have forgotten about it by now.

Oh shit. This comes out for rent and purchase digitally tomorrow! 

8 minutes ago, NeoJoe said:

Dune Messiah has been confirmed. They already have a script.

 

 

Denis Villeneuve's third 'Dune' movie is officially happening

EW.COM

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Legendary confirmed that they are developing a third 'Dune' movie with Denis Villeneuve, fulfilling the director's dream of adapting Frank Herbert's novel 'Dune Messiah.'

 

Oh I happily already know that  I was just commenting that it feels like we need it!

Yeah, I'll be giving this a whirl in early access.

It's weird that one of the few other great video game adaptations: Arcane, also stars Ella Purnell.

I finally saw it too. It's great as expected. I think the box scene in part 1 is still my favorite scene though.

It really feels like it needs Dune Messiah though. The end brings closure to the main arcs, but I feel like it more clearly signals that there is more to say about this story than the ending of the book did. I mean, it's been more than 20 years since I read the book, but my memory of that was it felt complete, even though I knew there were more books. In contrast, the movie feels like it has more to say about the burden Paul takes on and the cost of it to the world that was not resolved.

2 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

But I actually enjoy racing and feel the chocobos handle very well, making it less frustrating to try to win.

I liked the chocobo racing a lot except for those fucking doors! Actually really just some of the fucking doors. A lot of the time, you have enough visibility ahead of time to judge which ones would open/close when you got there, but there were a handful where it felt like you turned a corner and basically had to guess how far along it was in a cycle and could get fucked by chance. Those can eat a dick.

The star fighter mini game was the best. But I have a soft spot for Starfox64, so that tracks.

Good choice for #1.

3 hours ago, ThreePi said:

 

I meant subtlety in the grand story. One thing that made Sephiroth such an iconic villain was because of how little you saw of him. The first time you even see what he looks like in the original game is in the Nibleheim flashback. Now, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting him in the face. Cloud sits down for a cup of coffee and a black feather falls down and Sephiroth pops out and is all like "Cloud, that coffee is very black. You know what else is black? Materia. Get me the black materia." Everything is an escalation over the original, everything is dialed up to 10. It's just an exhausting game.

Counterpoint

1 hour ago, ThreePi said:

I wish they just understood subtlety and didn't have to constantly turn everything up to 10 all the time

Followed by

1 hour ago, ThreePi said:

At least Yuffie is great.

10 hours ago, sblfilms said:

These are all articles penned by people who think understanding the dominant technological paradigm of their youth is what makes one tech savvy. This is what every generation thinks about subsequent ones. What ends up happening is the tech doofus kids eventually become the managerial class and replace technology with what makes them comfortable, then the next generation comes along that grew up with a new paradigm and now they are the tech doofus kids who don’t have the right skills. Rinse and repeat.

 

Like, I guarantee some boomer manager threw their hands up in frustration when dealing with a young whippersnapper who did know how to use a word processor but didn’t know how to change the ribbon on a typewriter.

 

Those who grew up during the PC revolution needed to know more about the basic functionality mostly because the tech was kinda trash and didn’t work particularly well. Improvements in reliability and stability of both hardware and software has rendered many of the skills we learned less important today than even a decade ago. But people are slow to recognize the declining value of their own skillset and instead poo poo the kids for developing a different skill set relevant to the world they actually live in.

 

That being said, it is still highly frustrating working with gen z kids when something on a windows device isn’t working right and nothing makes me feel more like a grumpy old man.

In general I’m sympathetic to that. However, I do think this is slightly more problematic in that phones are not replacing computers in the same way computers replaced type writers. Computers will continue to exist and serve many business etc. purposes that phones cannot. 
 

Phones can replace some things, (various mobile communication can replace email for example), but there are a lot of things it cannot replace. 

* I'll add the exception that tablets with a keyboard can do many of the things a computer can, including spreadsheets etc. But that's basically just moving the same computer tech onto a tablet physical form. If the new gen is fine with all that stuff, but just doesn't know windows/macos, then I think that's fine. But that's not the impression I was getting from the article.

27 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

it’s gotten much worse as a browser with more open tabs than there are stars in the night sky has become people’s de facto organization method.

I do not understand this mentality at all. Multiple windows for different tasks and you should have few enough tabs that you can identify what each is easily.

When people get the insane number of tabs, their ability to find what they're looking for is so slow that I can get what they were looking for faster with a google or a search on the appropriate site if its an internal thing.

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

lol I’m sure there are of course some people who are talented and probably would be either way! Just a comment on seeing hiring practices in IT companies where they prioritize computer science majors over people with experience and then the person has no idea at all how to even work. Like, people hired for network engineer jobs that don’t know what a switch is despite their major. Lots of wasted time training people with no real talent to design or troubleshoot or do anything without direct instructions.  

Not knowing what a switch is would be pretty bad, but more generally that's because computer science programs don't teach for IT jobs. Yes, computers are involved but computers are far too big a field to assume that because someone learned something about computers that they'll be well prepared for anything that involves them. If IT divisions are seeking computer scientists for IT then they're just being dumb. If you're going to be hiring from college for IT you should be looking for people with majors in information systems (or whatever the equivalent is for any given university)

Fuck yeah. I go back to n64.com and remember reading the mail people sent in.

Well if you find yourself experimenting with the system then maybe that will be okay! But just make sure you don't go so low that you don't need to do that anymore. I remember trying story mode at one point and I was just blowing shit up way too easily with a regular hunter bow. Maybe easy strikes a good enough balance. (I often check difficulty in case my wife might be interested who usually, though not always, plays games on easier modes)

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

Yeah that looks about right! Though for me even on easy I’m playing like that still - it’s really story mode where it totally busts the game (or I’m sure easy for more skilled players)

Haha well glad you're still pushing yourself even on easy! For me the most fun is when I find a strategy and combination of moves and suddenly what wasn't easy, is now easy  Without some push of difficulty, the victory of finding something badass just isn't as sweet.

Incidentally, this was also part of my problem with FF16. It didn't really push me to do cool fighting. I kind of forced myself to do more because it just was just too boring otherwise, but it never felt as good as when being a bad ass was a requisite.

For example, some fun stuff in this video that you'd never do if you play on too easy of a difficulty and miss the fun. (Sorry, the video is hosted on twitter, so I'm breaking the rule)

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

The problem with that is if you do a straight story run like the guy who did my save did, in about 17 hours, you are like 20 levels behind. So any of the BS content, those dinosaurs just take too damn long to kill even if you don’t get killed yourself, it doesn’t work well.

 

You have to do story mode to take down an enemy 20 levels up in any reasonable time but then story mode is too lenient with the damage you take to where it’s almost like playing with invincibility so that doesn’t work well either and you wouldn’t want to play the new content like that.

Yeah I'll second that difficulty is important. There are some really cool things you can do in Horizon's combat, but if the game is too easy, you'll never be motivated to find them and it will all feel boring as hell. Instead you're just going to shoot things with your hunter bow endlessly and wonder why anyone likes the game.

I'm down. I liked the graphic novel, but it felt like it need more room to flesh it out. Maybe a movie can do that.

33 minutes ago, Moa said:

I cannot believe that this show began in 2000. It’s been a while since I watched the earlier seasons but I really don’t associate it with that era. 

Yeah it's shockingly close to the end of the Seinfeld. I didn't remember them being that close together. But I was still a teenager then, so small intervals of time could feel much longer  

14 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

That's how humans learn though

Narrator: It isn't.

On 4/8/2024 at 11:20 AM, Greatoneshere said:

And that's a wrap on Curb Your Enthusiasm! Twenty five years, one special, and 12 seasons later and we're at the finish line. Overall, the series finale was solid, pretty indicative of good but not great late stage Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was nice that Larry David (and Jerry Seinfeld, who shows up here) got their do-over on the Seinfeld ending, and it was great having Jerry back, even if only for a bit as his energy with LD is very different from everyone else's since he's far more similar to LD. Some great cameos as usual and some fun fan service. It's sad to see the show go but I do think it's been well past time for it to officially end since things haven't been the same with the show since the big time jump gap (in real life) between season 8 (2011) and season 9 (2017). Larry David stopped solely writing every episode and the longer episodes later in the show's life were shabbier and less tightly edited than the previous seasons. That being said, I'm glad we got so much Curb Your Enthusiasm, there are so many things I'll remember from this show from pants tent to "13 unbelievable hours" of Jerry Seinfeld having sex with all of his female co-stars during Seinfeld. 

Yeah I also enjoyed it a lot and liked how they closed it out. I really enjoyed

12 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Yeah but have you considered that saying your model has 10x the input as competing models could boost your short-term stock dividend by up to 5%?

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?

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Apparently they're now at the point of just feeding LLM outputs back into the LLMs because of how desperate they are for additional training material.

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."