MentalEdge

Nice. And you made sure to mention Anubis, but without it being a clickable link.

Perfect for many of the fun-policing prudes I’ve worked with. (They will never ever actually google a keyword themselves.)

Anubis is not out to make money, as such it has absolutely no obligation to try to appeal to corpos who would use it without contributing back to it.

Either your coworkers have to get over their hangups (have they not noticed that some of the best software that exists is made by furries?) or you’ll have to re-implement something yourselves.

Anubis is open source. You COULD fork it and modify it for your own purposes.

If your coworkers can’t separate what a piece of software is able to do from how it is branded, that’s their problem.

I cannot fucking wait for Control 2.

Remedy’s (!remedy@sopuli.xyz) recent games have ton of “every frame a painting” in them. I’m praying so hard their new CEO doesn’t mess it all up, but I am not hopeful.

there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power

I think that’s a partially false equivalence. Acting on those feelings would require that you be OK with harming another person, and a child, no less. Most people aren’t. The overlap comes from the fact that the rich and powerful often are, because that’s how they got rich a powerful.

But the same way a normal person can be attracted to adults, but have no desire to rape, most pedofiles will have no desire to hurt anyone. (That, not the law, is why I think it’s so rare).

Not hurting anyone and respecting consent is the easiest thing ever. Have you ever be so horny you’d fail at those things? I haven’t. And I am a VERY horny person.

Nothing about pedofilia changes that part of how human self-determination works.

You only get the worst of the worst when the type of person that would rape, overlaps with pedofilia. The ones that act on it, DO choose. They are the literal worst among us.

them being in the DMs of their favorite video game creators.

THE most dangerous part of Roblox. The child dev studios led by adults are fucking horrifying. “Developers” becoming well-known Roblox game creators has given credibility to some absolutely horrible people to be around kids in ways that should never have been allowed.

And Roblox basically enables it with their Roblox -> Private Discord integration.

Because these child-labour powered “dev studios” is how they get their freaking games!

What games are you thinking of?

Fallen Order is 2019 and Survivor is 2024. I’m specifically commenting on recent EA games.

Star Wars Jedi is the title of this most recent series by Respawn, currently with two entries.

I’m referring to the way the game lets you earn everything. There is no upsell after you buy the game. If you want something from the game, you get it by playing.

The Star Wars Jedi games are genuinely good self-contained no bs single player games.

I can’t comment on anything else.

Yes.

Yes.

Absolut yes.

Completely immersive in-world UI with Alien Isolation vibes and WORLD TIER audio design. No hand-holding, almost no “yellow paint”, instead everything is done in realistic in-world context.

It’s about 5 hours to complete if you’re fast and care about that. But it’s a 5 hours with IMPECCABLE attention to detail.

You may want to try to deliberately get away from the “unreal fivey” look.

I like the underlying style but the strong reflections and resulting high contrast image really hits that “unreal five” look in a bad way, which I suspect will turn a lot of people off.

It’s unfortunate but “indie unreal five game” is the new “steam asset flip”, in that it is something that makes people skip a game. It’s easy to slap realistic lightning into games now, so it has stopped being an indicator of quality, and slowly become the opposite.

Try to find something that works with the games style that you can do to the shading or post processing that sets you apart.

I might mute reflections a bit and add at least some grime and imperfections to surfaces. The cleanliness of surfaces together with unreals realistic lighting is a big part of the “indie unreal five” look.

Makes sense to me, actually.

It’d be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don’t have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.

So what is it you actually wanted to add?

If you aren’t bringing up practical difficulty to argue in favor of theoretical impossibility, what are you adding?

How is difficulty relevant in the face of the importance of preservation?

As for python… What?

Why would you emulate for python, when what actually happens is that new interpreters get written? It already runs across several operating systems and processing architectures thanks to interpreters existing for each one.

Python isn’t some hobby language anymore. Far too much serious infrastructure uses it for future interpreters not to get made.

So?

Emulate.

As long as the application doesn’t rely on something external like a server that no longer exists, it can always be run.

This isn’t about a hardware system changing. If you can either find the original hardware or simulate it, it should run. Not just go “expiry date passed, fuck you”.

You’re saying it can sometimes be practically impossible. That doesn’t mean it has to theoretically and actually impossible, too.

You’re right.

Burning the book in case it might offend some future reader is reasonable.

/S

Yeees! I keep wondering how the hell they’re funding the remake trilogy. There are dozens of us!

Aside from it being split into 3 games, this is how I feel about the FF7 remakes.

They are so very full of love and obvious developer passion. The gameplay systems are internally consistent, the charachters are adorable, the world is beatiful. Once you own the game, it doesn’t ask again. You can just step into the world and live there until the credits roll.

I was worried, and I’m still worried, that some squenix exec will ruin it. But it hasn’t happened.

Remake and Rebirth are simply good games. Anything bad you could say about them is subjective. I know the gameplay and charachters don’t jell with everyone but I love it.

Same goes for the modern Resident Evil games, Armored Core 6, Horizon and GoW.

There are still good AAA games. But they for sure aren’t the rule anymore, but the exceptions.

They can’t avoid employing artists, and every now and then they fail to stop them from making something good.

I thought about it more.

I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.

Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.

It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she is truly gone, are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.

That’s just insulting. If you’re not gonna elaborate then don’t say anything at all.

TLDR: It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

Long version:

The part of her journey that’s in GoW/GoW:R happened before her death. GoW Laufey takes place after that, not before.

I’m worried that this new game is muddying the thematic weight of GoW, and GoW Ragnarok.

Fey is (was) DEAD. Kratos and Atreus accept this and spend the two games mourning, moving on, and finding themselves in a world without her. While honoring her life and living in a way that does not erase or ignore the fact that she lived. They learn many things about her that they did not know, and feel her love for them live on in the things she has set in motion. They embrace her presence even as she is truly gone. The narrative stresses this multiple times.

That she exists, anywhere (after her death), undermines this.

It undermines the underlying difference pinning Odin against Kratos.

Kratos and Atreus accept death, and that it is something beyond that which can or should be understood. Odin does not, and seeks to unravel it like it’s just another law of nature. Like gravity.

The mask should not be explained. Death isn’t a mystery to be solved. It’s an unknowable to be accepted as such.

The games are about being at peace with that.

Laufey not being gone literally means Kratos and Atreus are wrong in their acceptance that she is gone.

Hell. It means Odin had a point.

The only way this works is if it’s a spin-off that NEVER ties back into Kratos’/Atreus’ timeline, but that they are doing this at all is not a good sign to me. I do not trust them to not undermine their own themes in the face of the potential fanservice that reuniting Fey, Kratos and Atreus would be.

It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

They have written themselves into a corner that I suspect will inevitably lead to events I don’t think should happen, and explanations for things that should not be explained.

I’m genuinely confused.

What do you mean? What did I miss?

Why are you downvoting me for having an opinion, and why are you passive aggressively shitting on my ability to comprehend media?

And unless this comes to PC, I’m not in for any suprises. But I’m more than willing to give Laufey a chance if it does.

What?

Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous action.

The entire plot of the first two games can be boiled down to how a person who is dead and truly gone, can still be a huge presence in your life through the memories, places, and actions they undertook when they were alive.

Everything we see are things she said and did before she died. Some of it is on a somewhat supernatural level due to her abilities as a giant, but unless I truly missed something, none of it “occurs” after she dies.

In fact this entire new game (that Laufey is “alive” somewhere) directly contradicts what Kratos sees when he steps into the light of alfheim, basically confirming that’s where she (or what’s left of her) is.

This is a retcon.

I know the feeling.

It feels SO WIERD to think about how long I’ve been on the fediverse.

It still feels so new and fresh that the idea that I’ve been posting anime girls for years now just feel incorrect.