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  1. Comment on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 source code in ~games

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    Not a name I expected to see here, but the reality is that cross-section of interests is wide enough that it'd be bound to happen eventually. I had pretty much the same reaction to Hammer after a...

    Not a name I expected to see here, but the reality is that cross-section of interests is wide enough that it'd be bound to happen eventually.

    I had pretty much the same reaction to Hammer after a few years of not using it, but recently something clicked and I've been enjoying it again. It's a fun, creative outlet where the barrier to entry is so low that most anyone can create a map. And with this update, I think that'll be possible for much longer, maybe in a similar spirit of how ubiquitous Doom is.

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  2. Comment on What are your favourite let's plays? in ~games

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    Fire Emblem: Binding Blade. Yes, the one with Roy in it. While it is a text & image LP, it is by far my favorite. And given the nature of this site, I figure someone on here might enjoy the read....

    Fire Emblem: Binding Blade. Yes, the one with Roy in it.
    While it is a text & image LP, it is by far my favorite. And given the nature of this site, I figure someone on here might enjoy the read. Fire Emblem's story and gameplay can be convoluted at times, but this writer put in a ton of effort to fully capture the game and spice it up in hilarious ways.

    For reference, Binding Blade (released 2002, #6 in the series) was originally only released in Japanese with a English, fan translation eventually released about a decade later. So a lot of fans of Fire Emblem have actually never experienced the story that Roy (one of the many Fire Emblem sword users in Smash Bros) comes from. This game also preceded the first Fire Emblem game released in western markets, so if you played Fire Emblem Blazing Blade (a prequel to Binding Blade) there are a ton of references that piqued my nostalgia.

  3. Comment on Artist win: AI lawsuit advances in ~arts

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    For the most part I read news/stories through aggregators like Tildes, so I'm not sure I've read much if any from venturebeat before so maybe I'm missing context. Anyway, what is the author trying...

    For the most part I read news/stories through aggregators like Tildes, so I'm not sure I've read much if any from venturebeat before so maybe I'm missing context. Anyway, what is the author trying to construe by specifically using an AI generated image for the article header and then proceeding to draw attention to it with a disclaimer? Actually irks me for some reason. Is it tone deaf or trying to convey some sort of bias?

    Or maybe now that I've thought about it far too long, something that's purely out of the author's hands. Maybe the editor chuckled to themselves as they generated the image.

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