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Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games
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Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentI don't think it is in this case? This isn't a remaster, it's a pretty thorough reworking of the game for modern day. Based on what they've shown, there is a lot of new stuff and I expect there...I think graphic fidelity shouldn't be the sole reason to warrant a remake.
I don't think it is in this case? This isn't a remaster, it's a pretty thorough reworking of the game for modern day. Based on what they've shown, there is a lot of new stuff and I expect there will be a lot of very different stuff as well. I don't know if I'll bother buying it yet, but the idea of playing Combat Evolved without it feeling like a floaty mess is appealing to me (speaking as someone who put dozens of hours into the original back in the early 2000s). I do want to play CE again, but it really does not feel good to me after getting used to 25 years worth of improvement in game design and controls.
To be clear though, I think I agree with most of what you wrote. Only pointing out that this isn't just another new coat of paint.
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Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentYeah, I tried to be very neutral in my summary comment here, but it's definitely getting old at this point. I actually think a Resident-Evil style remake of CE, in isolation, is a great idea. It's...Yeah, I tried to be very neutral in my summary comment here, but it's definitely getting old at this point. I actually think a Resident-Evil style remake of CE, in isolation, is a great idea. It's easily aged the worst of the original games. There's a good opportunity there to update it for a new generation and refresh it for the old generation. But the endless, soulless mining of studios' back catalogs for nostalgia bait and easy profit without expending creative energy is wearing on me.
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Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech
all_summer_beauty Link ParentNo worries at all. It's all gone now!No worries at all. It's all gone now!
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Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link/offtopic /meta @mycketforvirrad, I think the "343 studios" tag should be changed. I get adding the "Bungie" one since they made the original, but "343 studios" isn't correct; the new company's.../offtopic /meta
@mycketforvirrad, I think the "343 studios" tag should be changed. I get adding the "Bungie" one since they made the original, but "343 studios" isn't correct; the new company's name was "343 Industries" but it's not even that anymore, it's just "Halo Studios". -
Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech
all_summer_beauty Link ParentThanks for the quick response! I love this idea and the app feels mostly great already. I'm still seeing the Cloudflare beacon though... It's totally possible I'm not understanding something (I'm...Thanks for the quick response! I love this idea and the app feels mostly great already.
I'm still seeing the Cloudflare beacon though... It's totally possible I'm not understanding something (I'm no web dev), but it still shows up in uBlock's main panel and in its full logger. The complete address is
https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v833ccba57c9e4d2798f2e76cebdd09a11778172276447. In case it was a cookie/cache thing, I tried it on a different device, then on the second device inside a private Firefox window, and saw the same behavior.Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help fix this!
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Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games
all_summer_beauty LinkReleases on July 28 at $50. See also the new missions trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G4sUx2nX5EQ Edit: Also on Steam, I missed that in the tags.Releases on July 28 at $50.
See also the new missions trailer:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G4sUx2nX5EQEdit: Also on Steam, I missed that in the tags.
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Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer
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Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech
all_summer_beauty LinkThis is not intended as a "gotcha" or accusation, I just want to understand more about how this stuff works! In the privacy statement, it says But uBlock is telling me it blocked...This is not intended as a "gotcha" or accusation, I just want to understand more about how this stuff works! In the privacy statement, it says
No analytics. No event tracking. No tag managers, no third-party scripts.
But uBlock is telling me it blocked
static.cloudflareinsights.com, which appears in "Peter Lowe's ad and tracking server list". The full URL points to a JS script (I think?). What's going on there? -
Comment on People who want less AI are breaking up with Google Search in ~tech
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkThe last few paragraphs have me worried for the author's tech literacy lol. A couple lines are so bizarre that I can't tell what they actually think web browsers and search engines are: Good on...The last few paragraphs have me worried for the author's tech literacy lol. A couple lines are so bizarre that I can't tell what they actually think web browsers and search engines are:
Perhaps the most optimal way to use a search engine, however, is by downloading it to your device, whether through a desktop or smartphone − just like you'd download Google Chrome or Firefox. Though it may sound counterintuitive, users can also change their default browser in Google Chrome.
To change the default browser on Google Chrome, click the three dots in the top right corner, then Settings. On the left-hand side of the settings menu, click Search Engine. Select Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo or Yandex as the default.
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Though Google owns the Android operating system, users can still change the default browser. Open the Google Chrome app, click Settings then Search engine. Select Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo or Yandex as the default
Good on them for helping people switch from Google, though.
Edit: A friend said they think it reads like an LLM. I can totally see that, but maybe from an LLM of two to three years ago. I honestly think this feels too obvious for the kind of mistakes they make nowadays. Maybe USA Today is paying for/running a really bad one lol?
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Comment on Sokoban idea in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentFor sure! Happy to help test. Also, see my second edit above - the color difficulty may have been due to a screen issue on my end. Though I do think it might still be worth it to differentiate...For sure! Happy to help test. Also, see my second edit above - the color difficulty may have been due to a screen issue on my end. Though I do think it might still be worth it to differentiate them even more strongly!
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Comment on Sokoban idea in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentThe two-headed snake kind of just seemed like a necessary modification to make the snake mechanic work in this format, tbh. I feel like not being able to flip around would make movement too...The two-headed snake kind of just seemed like a necessary modification to make the snake mechanic work in this format, tbh. I feel like not being able to flip around would make movement too cumbersome and tedious, and mistakes too costly, even with an undo button.
Is the "cloud" coloration intentional?
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Comment on Sokoban idea in ~games
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkI stared at this for like 30 minutes feeling like an idiot until I somehow noticed that some squares have a cloud(?) that's almost the same color as the background, which I assume is what's making...I stared at this for like 30 minutes feeling like an idiot until I somehow noticed that some squares have a cloud(?) that's almost the same color as the background, which I assume is what's making the box's movement so unpredictable. I'm surprised I even saw it, honestly, the colors are that close. That seems like it can't be intentional, but I can't think of why the color would be messed up for me, I have all my content filtering/dark mode extensions turned off. I'm in Firefox 151.0.1 on Linux if that information helps you at all.
It also would never have occurred to me that I could move the box by dragging myself past it (only realized that due to some comments here), though maybe if I hadn't been distracted by not being able to see the cloud I might have figured it out. Additionally, it took me a while to realize that the levels/world are presented side-on, rather than top-down, and that the box moving by itself sometimes is due to gravity. It could be that I'm just not familiar enough with the conventions of the sokoban genre though, I suppose.
Edit: I think some of the UI text is getting pushed off screen for me too, no matter how I resize my browser window.
This is what I see: https://ibb.co/whvGvcn5
Edit 2: Hmm... Looking at that image on my phone now, the different colors are much clearer. Guess I need to go calibrate my monitor!
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Comment on What new poems have you come across this year? in ~books
all_summer_beauty Link ParentNeat, TIL. I like it! Any idea what it was used to mean? Does it mean something specific or different to you?Hapax Legomenon (n).
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.Neat, TIL. I like it! Any idea what it was used to mean? Does it mean something specific or different to you?
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Comment on The user is visibly frustrated in ~tech
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkPLEASE. I go out of my way to avoid being empathically hijacked when interacting with these things and this would make it so much more straightforward. Give me the Star Trek computer over this...Maybe I would prefer a more radical solution: drop the human pretense entirely. Make the agent sound clinical, robotic. Dispel the idea that I’m interacting with a person
PLEASE. I go out of my way to avoid being empathically hijacked when interacting with these things and this would make it so much more straightforward. Give me the Star Trek computer over this nonsense any day. Pretense of personhood is not a requirement for a natural language interface.
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Comment on Bernie Sanders: The public should own half of the big AI companies in ~society
all_summer_beauty LinkIf passed, this legislation would do two crucial things. First, it would give the public a direct role in determining the future of this technology. No longer would the future of A.I. and the transformation of human life that it will bring be dictated by a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The federal government would have the power, through its voting shares and an equal representation on each company’s board, to block decisions that hurt our citizens and to push for policies that help them.
Second, this legislation would guarantee that the trillions of dollars potentially generated by A.I. are used to improve the lives of all of us — not simply to make the richest people in the world even richer. If the big A.I. companies continue to grow as rapidly as many analysts expect, then the value of the sovereign wealth fund will grow as well — and the benefits to the American people will grow along with it.
This is not an original idea. It has been proposed by scholars. It has been endorsed by some of the leading A.I. companies in America. OpenAI, for example, recently proposed creating a “public wealth fund that provides every citizen — including those not invested in financial markets — with a stake in A.I.-driven economic growth.” Anthropic, led by Mr. Amodei, similarly proposed the creation of “national sovereign wealth funds with stakes in A.I.” Mr. Musk, who runs xAI, wrote [Twitter link], “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.”
Dozens of sovereign wealth funds exist all over the world to ensure that ordinary people benefit from national wealth. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the largest in the world, was funded from the country’s oil wealth and is now worth more than $2 trillion. Instead of a few oil executives pocketing all the benefits of this national resource, Norway made the decision that this wealth should be used to improve life for all of its people.
This concept has already been put into practice right here at home. Fifty years ago, Alaska created a sovereign wealth fund from the state’s oil revenues. For decades, it has paid annual dividends directly to Alaskans. Moreover, public pension funds in states across the country already hold hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock of companies throughout America. Even President Trump, in an executive order, has proposed establishing an American sovereign wealth fund.
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Needless to say, I recognize that for the government to have a major stake in a company, particularly one for which A.I. is only part of its business, is complicated. More details — including the specific spending priorities and the mechanics of implementation — will be included in the legislation I unveil in the coming weeks.
But the principle is simple: When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth. A.I. is being built on a public resource far more valuable than oil: the accumulated knowledge, creativity and labor of mankind.
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Bernie Sanders: The public should own half of the big AI companies
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Comment on What new poems have you come across this year? in ~books
all_summer_beauty Link ParentI did in fact enjoy it twice! As well as the new one, thanks for sharing! Does "Flother" rhyme with "mother", "bother", or neither?I did in fact enjoy it twice! As well as the new one, thanks for sharing!
Does "Flother" rhyme with "mother", "bother", or neither?
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Comment on If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you in ~tech
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkIn the interest of comment diversity, I'll share this quote I liked: This is so good. I've been thinking a lot about how inexact language is, and this is an excellent way of illustrating that idea.In the interest of comment diversity, I'll share this quote I liked:
At some point, all interesting language has to reach down into the deep chasms of indetermination darkening beneath us. Any straightforwardly meaningful statement has to float on the surface of the meaningless like pond scum; poetry is when you stick your arm into the black swill beneath and stir it around.
This is so good. I've been thinking a lot about how inexact language is, and this is an excellent way of illustrating that idea.
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Comment on Just published my first game in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentYeah, I was just going to say what AaronNight said, it's all over the place in my experience. But it's also never the only option available and you're never forced to use it, so I can understand...Yeah, I was just going to say what AaronNight said, it's all over the place in my experience. But it's also never the only option available and you're never forced to use it, so I can understand how someone might not know it's there. It's a "both/and" situation rather than an "either/or" one.
There was CE: Anniversary in 2011 - it came out separately before MCC, it was H2A that launched as part of MCC. Other than that though, I'm not sure what they're referring to. Maybe Custom Edition was a separate (later) release? I was young at the time so I wasn't aware of that version until later.