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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    INDIKA (2024) Finally I got this game. It always caught me eye. So glad I did. It’s so weird and interesting and well thought out, I was hoping for so long that it was what I thought, and it is....

    INDIKA (2024)

    Finally I got this game. It always caught me eye. So glad I did. It’s so weird and interesting and well thought out, I was hoping for so long that it was what I thought, and it is. Hopefully that excited mess of words conveys my enjoyment of the game.

    Sometimes the sound doesn’t match the animations in cut scenes, but the story and gameplay get me past those very rare and minor hiccups.

    11 votes

  2. Comment on What’s something you’re putting up with? in ~talk

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    This immediately brings to mind the episode of Broad City (S3 E5) where Jaime is discovered to be a secret hoarder. You're doing the right thing by not touching their stuff... That's all I'll say.

    This immediately brings to mind the episode of Broad City (S3 E5) where Jaime is discovered to be a secret hoarder. You're doing the right thing by not touching their stuff... That's all I'll say.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Cyberpunk 2077 - Phantom Liberty At the point of no return in the main story of CP, I downloaded the DLC and left it installed on my system, burnt out from gameplay and just casually roamed Night...

    Cyberpunk 2077 - Phantom Liberty

    At the point of no return in the main story of CP, I downloaded the DLC and left it installed on my system, burnt out from gameplay and just casually roamed Night City doing side missions here and there for a year.

    Then I finally had the time to sit and play this thing properly over the holiday break. I mean , my mind is blown. I wish I had the guts to write like a Choom or whatever but it still makes my shoulders go up and my face to scrunch in disgust when I read it, so…

    Man, this story is out of control. Living through such a movie/theatre play made me love the game all over again. Dogtown being a shithole wrecked by the Unification War has pockets of beauty, but overall just feels like a garbage heap. The cast is outrageous, and the diversity in missions… ghaddamn.

    I got the King of Cups trophy at the end. I guess I can finally finish the main story now, but that was incredibly satisfying.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk

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    Predictability? The milkman, the paper boy, and evening tv? So sorry, fellow Tildenoids. It was right there. (Edit: newsman - milkman, thank you @AnthonyB)
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    Predictability? The milkman, the paper boy, and evening tv?

    So sorry, fellow Tildenoids. It was right there.

    (Edit: newsman - milkman, thank you @AnthonyB)

    10 votes

  5. Comment on Lord Of The Rings author's writing desk up for auction in ~books

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    £3-400,000 for the original Warhammer cover art too? I feel like the Tolkien desk going for around £70k is more important, but maybe my bias is showing. It's all incredible either way.

    £3-400,000 for the original Warhammer cover art too? I feel like the Tolkien desk going for around £70k is more important, but maybe my bias is showing. It's all incredible either way.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Do you feel like you’ve had many lives so far? Why, why not? Which? in ~life

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    So many lives and so many deaths, rebirths, growing pains, deaths. There could be an argument that my first life was childhood to 18, then drinking for almost 20 years straight and now sobriety…...

    So many lives and so many deaths, rebirths, growing pains, deaths.

    There could be an argument that my first life was childhood to 18, then drinking for almost 20 years straight and now sobriety…

    Another group of lives could be career, from college, studying music in advertising, being in a band, becoming a sincere piano tech, then a bartender yoga bum, and then sincerely a piano tech again…

    Or maybe the four significant others I’ve loved and almost married, from the two year college love, to the band girlfriend, to the piano tech/composer girlfriend, to the actress/writer fiancé, to being single and lonely again.

    My musician lives too? Is this thing on… piano as a child, concert and jazz band as a student, indie rock band as a young adult, classical piano and an r&b electronic album as an adult, and now all of the above?

    What about my lives in different states and countries?

    What about the life I lived as hiker trash SOBO solo on the AT? It was only six months but it was a lifetime…

    That’s too many lives, man.

    I also believe in past lives.

    17 votes

  7. Comment on AI content warning label in ~creative

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    Thank you for understanding. I hate to have to put such a stamp on such things (I think back to Parental Advisory on physical music in the 90s) but a universal watermark could be useful for the...

    Thank you for understanding. I hate to have to put such a stamp on such things (I think back to Parental Advisory on physical music in the 90s) but a universal watermark could be useful for the future. I’m just not savvy enough to figure that out.

    6 votes

  8. AI content warning label

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    Edit: my post has been deemed malformed, and I’d like to apologize and clarify to the community. The concept of a digital watermark signifying that the artist didn’t use any image generation, LLM,...

    Edit: my post has been deemed malformed, and I’d like to apologize and clarify to the community. The concept of a digital watermark signifying that the artist didn’t use any image generation, LLM, GPT, etc is the proposition. I do understand it’s tough to identify the term AI in use, since most of our tech uses some form of code to modify our work without our knowledge. More-so, I mean to identify work, art, or content that did not specifically use tools to create. Again apologies!

    Post: I’m wondering the world of Tildenisian thoughts on this. Say I make a piece of art, no matter the content, and it’s completely of my own hand. Should there be some kind of digital watermark to signify that accomplishment? Maybe accomplishment isn’t the right word.

    I must be looking for validation, because I’ve made art recently where folks have asked the question, “What tool did you use?” and immediately felt dread and disappointment.

    Perhaps it’s not even feasible to signify since “AI” is eventually impossible to circumvent when sharing your art over these series of tubes. Oh well.

    What do you fine folks think?

    19 votes

  9. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    After a decade, I finally have a computer I can record music with. I have the demo for a great idea tracked out, but now I’m trying to tighten everything up and am running into perfectionist...

    After a decade, I finally have a computer I can record music with. I have the demo for a great idea tracked out, but now I’m trying to tighten everything up and am running into perfectionist problems.

    The demo sounded so great, and has a raw feeling that I want to keep in the final song. The recorded tracks for that demo had pops and clicks/artifacts that I just don’t want in the polished track which after re-recording has lost some of that original feel.

    I want to be free with it all, but it’s a juggling game of what’s realistic, and what sounds best.

    Dunno! Maybe I’m just being too hard on it. I don’t have a pro set up so my limitations can be… limiting. Home studio!

    3 votes

  10. Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 1 in ~sports.american_football

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    I didn’t watch the Eggs and Cowboys play, but I saw the highlights and was real dissatisfied with how our fans seem to just excuse our player’s actions as “that’s just Philly.” I grew up outside...

    I didn’t watch the Eggs and Cowboys play, but I saw the highlights and was real dissatisfied with how our fans seem to just excuse our player’s actions as “that’s just Philly.” I grew up outside of that city and I moved to PDX right after college, tried to live in Philly and failed twice since to be closer to family. Carter’s disrespect, however misguided, is just unacceptable and telling of the Philly I know.

    All NE sports fans can attest that you’re born where you’re born and you’re stuck w those teams like it or not. I guess I just keep getting my hopes up that the teams that represent my family heritage will show class, but nah.

    At least the Phillies are fun to watch.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on What is a business/org that's so terrible no one should use if possible? in ~life

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    As a small business owner, I could tell Yelp to go into the sea for all I care, but they’ll still call me from some random local number which is from an overseas call center to “talk to me about...

    As a small business owner, I could tell Yelp to go into the sea for all I care, but they’ll still call me from some random local number which is from an overseas call center to “talk to me about my ad.” Eat a nice big bag of infested oysters you cheese clowns.

    16 votes

  12. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    About Death Stranding, once you get to the second location and really start building roads, I found it relaxing and even therapeutic to make deliveries so I could get the likes needed from every...

    About Death Stranding, once you get to the second location and really start building roads, I found it relaxing and even therapeutic to make deliveries so I could get the likes needed from every outpost. I would throw DS on in the mornings with my coffee while watching a podcast, and it was the perfect companion. It felt like reading a book.

    That all being said, and here’s the trope all of us will tell one another, not all games are for everyone. I’d give it more time to really sink in so you can get your mind’s worth out of it.

    The walking sim aspect of it is only a sliver of the game’s content in my opinion. It’s a wacky Kojima story, with vistas that I really did enjoy driving through in my van while dodging the death stranding. Also, Conan O’Brien is in there somewhere and he rocks.

    I played it through to the end. It’s a worthwhile experience that I won’t forget soon.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What are some cross-media adaptations/tie-ins that you'd recommend? in ~talk

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    Second! And all of the Eric Nylund books in particular.

    Second! And all of the Eric Nylund books in particular.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Diablo IV with it being on the PS+ monthly game list I finally gave it a shot. This being my first Diablo game, I somehow knew but didn’t know I’d love it so much. Rock Paper Shotgun has said that...

    Diablo IV with it being on the PS+ monthly game list I finally gave it a shot. This being my first Diablo game, I somehow knew but didn’t know I’d love it so much. Rock Paper Shotgun has said that it’s mindless fun, but I’m enjoying the story, and even more the gameplay and sound design. With headphones, it’s even more apparent how great the sound effects and voice acting are. The versatility of creative builds, which I can only assume is a cornerstone to a Diablo game is also astounding. Playing it casually on normal difficulty keeps my attention even when I only have 30 mins to play and clear a dungeon. RPS also likened it to Vampire Survivors and I do get that train of thought, but I end up thinking more about Hades and not just because they both deal with hell. The random encounters with other online players is also a plus.

    FBC Firebreak I’ve fallen in love with Remedy’s games and while this one is somewhat at the bottom of that list, I still enjoy it. Matchmaking can be difficult sometimes, and the progress slow, but if you find two other competent players who aren’t too selfish in finding just the collectibles, it can be an amazing hour. There’s definitely a lot worth griping about though. Being set on fire and it just slowly killing you happens way more often than you’d want, and until you can reload quickly, most guns aren’t fast enough to even justify using. Man, this sure doesn’t make it sound fun, but I do dig it.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Contemplating getting a digital piano to relearn how to play in ~music

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    I third this! Yamaha is a great way to get into the weighted keys, and they have so many different price points that you can always upgrade down the line. Their pianos are by far the best...

    I third this! Yamaha is a great way to get into the weighted keys, and they have so many different price points that you can always upgrade down the line. Their pianos are by far the best manufactured today.

    Korg also makes a pretty reasonably priced weighted keyboard too. So I’d look into them as well.

    Casio is a last ditch effort in my opinion, but they’re fine I suppose. Cheapest option there.

    Roland’s are pretty great! I love playing them, but they do have a higher price.

    Nord is a sincere gigging musician level keyboard, and will probably last you a lifetime, but also give you a hole in your wallet.

    I could go on and on about keyboards and pianos, so please DM me if you have any more questions.

    As for lessons, the computer, as said elsewhere here, will be fun, but in the long run won’t motivate you like a real teacher will. Online or Zoom lessons are a viable option and work well! I’d look into that. Having a fellow pianist with years of experience guiding you will be much more fun than a game.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Alaska man survives after being trapped face-down in creek by 700lb boulder in ~hobbies

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    Alaska has to be one of the last true frontiers in the world. I was lucky enough to take the Denali Star from Fairbanks all the way down to Seward, and during the majority of that four day ride,...

    Alaska has to be one of the last true frontiers in the world. I was lucky enough to take the Denali Star from Fairbanks all the way down to Seward, and during the majority of that four day ride, it was wilderness as far as we could see. That was just a small portion of the state. Alaska is massive, and these stories, while this one is relatively close to Seward with experienced folks, are crazy. Even hiking just a little off of a trail is disorienting enough, let alone trekking through the Alaskan wilderness. Seward is such a small town, that a ten minute drive and you’re out in it. Amazing tale.

    9 votes

  17. Where to find reputable gaming reviews

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    I was a fan of GameRevolution’s reviews for a long time. They always seemed to have a criteria to reviews that not only sold me on what to pursue, but what to truly avoid even if I loved the...

    I was a fan of GameRevolution’s reviews for a long time. They always seemed to have a criteria to reviews that not only sold me on what to pursue, but what to truly avoid even if I loved the franchise. (MGS: Ground Zeros, I’m looking at you.) They have seemingly reduced to one reviewer…

    I love the weekly Tildes thread of “what games are you playing” and it has truly opened my eyes to some games I would never have heard of, or even tried (Balatro).

    Anywho the point of this is to ask where everyone else looks for reputable/intelligent reviews currently? I enjoy listening to Luke Stephens talk about the industry, but it’s not as concise as an A-F or star or 1-10 rating system. IGN doesn’t have my attention… I just don’t know where to turn, as there are so many options.

    20 votes

  18. Comment on They paid $3,500 for Apple’s Vision Pro. A year later, it still hurts. in ~tech

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    I’m wondering is this is truly a surprise… Apple tends to make a first version of something that’s clearly innovative in that Apple way and then delivers on the following iterations. The Vision...

    I’m wondering is this is truly a surprise… Apple tends to make a first version of something that’s clearly innovative in that Apple way and then delivers on the following iterations. The Vision looks clunky as do all VR headsets. I had the first gen PSVR and while it was incredible, it was only fun when friends were around to share the experience.
    I suppose the RayBans by Meta are a closer resemblance to what true wearable face tech should look like, but they still look pretty bad.
    Until they can make it into a contact lens of some sort or actual aviator style sunglasses, it’ll never catch on. People want to see your face in public, to feel safe and for true communication.
    I’m just not sure why it’s such a surprise, which the article seems to have as an overall point.

    13 votes

  19. Comment on Why do you live? in ~humanities

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    Thanks for the laugh.

    Thanks for the laugh.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Millions of people are using abusive AI ‘Nudify’ bots on Telegram in ~tech

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    This is the most Tildes thread of comments not pertaining to the original post I’ve encountered so far. Love this place. Oh, and those people suck who use AI in a nefarious way. AI should always...

    This is the most Tildes thread of comments not pertaining to the original post I’ve encountered so far. Love this place.

    Oh, and those people suck who use AI in a nefarious way. AI should always be used to enhance life, not hurt it.

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