we are in a golden age of medium good action games. lies of p, stellar blade, khazan the first berserker, another crab’s treasure come to mind for me.

non-fromsoft soulslikes are starting to find their voice. they’re not quite great yet, but they’re competent now.

i used it when i traveled to japan to ask it for english->japanese translations. it gave back results for multiple contexts, politeness levels, and broke down each sentence into its parts. my native speaker friends validated a few responses.

if youre going to be pedantic about “perfect” then nothing, not even a human, is going to live up.

willful ignorance about the things ai can be good at today is not going to do any favors for your fight against ai in the future. know your enemy and all that.

the counterpoint to me not liking a song from a Video Game because it of its association with Internet Culture has to be something other than “get out more”

my hot take is that even though portal is a masterpiece this song is so cringe because i associate it with unfunny “the narwhal bacons at midnight” type redditors

piracy is preferable over buying a key off of greymarket sites like this tbh

i love its anticapitalist take on ocean pollution. unironically smart stuff

the game is a moba, the pve sections are there to facilitate pvp play, like farming and map control.

id be pretty down for a coop pve shooter in the style of the old hero sieges from wc3 though: fighting off waves and waves of creeps until you get strong enough to push into their base while defending key objectives.

“i would totally be a founder right now if it weren’t for [excuse xyz]”

the soundtrack is undefeated. i put it on when i need to focus or when i want to act like i listen to jazz

is there a city sim that prioritizes green cities and quality of life? the first cities skylines was shockingly america-centric with the city designs it let you build, even with the european devs.

you can find docker images for ollama and open-webui pretty much anywhere.

it’s literally just money

agreed, making video games has gotta be the worst ROI software job in the world. bad hours, bad pay, bad management. anyone who wanted to be lazy could do so anywhere else but video games.

“we gotta find the guy who was in charge. why didnt he stop it?”

i worked at fb a long time ago, it was already exactly like how you describe. everyone was optimizing for their performance review—juicing metrics and prioritizing for the short term. accountability only existed in a 6-month cycle.

that was extremely poorly communicated

you don’t have to understand people to make this move. just market trends

i think the characters and story are a definite high spot. the game is saying something about pollution and capitalism and how the two enable each other. it’s a little hammy but i really respect the devs for going for it.

but… the game feels really janky to play. it doesn’t have the tightness of the fromsoft souls games. it feels like a souls game was shoehorned into the default unity physics with no finesse.

nobody’s stopping you from enjoying funko, just making fun of you for enjoying something dumb