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I had a dream I saw Just a Gigolo in a Youtube comments section for a video with like 10k views and was about to reply to him saying we (SPUFers) wished him well.

Steam Replay made me feel bad about my life, but not for the reasons most people would say that. It seems like I hardly spent any time at all gaming this year because I've been so busy. I would've liked to see it in any year before 2019... the glory days.

You just got that? I've been getting those since like 2017, and sometimes I even had multiple guys trying to scam me in the same day.

By the way, if you answer yes to competing in the tourney they still instantly direct you to the site to tell you to vote for them.

Yeah, that certainly is more useful than just having a permanent incognito window open with my email. Thanks!

I used to have my Firefox's cookies configured so that my Gmail login was my school account (so I could see them easily) while my Google search and Youtube were on my personal account, instead of having to swap back and forth every time I wanted to check my email or search something.

I had to delete my cookies (funnily enough, because of Google not letting me sign in without deleting them) and now I can't seem to get things back to the way it was. My life is now slightly worse as a result. So it goes.

Very nice work, I always knew translation was a bitch but I didn't think it would be that complicated.

Also, my personal perspective is that it's animal "hair" when it's loose strands that aren't on the animal... while fur is basically a large clump of hair. So it was correct to say "hair," otherwise I would've imagined that there was a whole pelt floating in the tub.

I'll be sure to let you know if I notice her.

Some companies might do it, but only HR would ever push it, and even then probably only nominally. Most white collar workers don't even turn their webcams on, there's no way any of them would bother wearing that crap, especially the supervisors. At most HR would "recommend" you wear it for the yearly corporate team-builder but even then 90% of the attendees would be VRChat desktop models walking around in t-pose.

It's all you need to set you up for computing success!

I use a different name for just about everything, so you'll never know if you see me.

And yes, my e621 account is no exception.

I don't share your guys' optimism. Personally I see art AI today as something like... Deep Blue a few years before it defeated Kasparov. By that I mean at the moment it's better than 90% of the human population (who are untrained in chess and drawing, respectively) and is about five years before it's better than the other 10%. Of course art isn't a game that can be solved... but does it need to be? You could argue about what art is and what it should do, but at the end of the day if the AI can fool most people into thinking the art was made by a human, I'd say it's "solved" art as well as it ever could.

It's easy now to look at what AI art does and say how silly it can sometimes look, just as a game-playing AI can sometimes make nonsensical moves that no human would ever make, but the mere fact that it can even make images that, at first glance, look like a human drew them is insane to me. Of course for now it's a subset of a subset, but for how long? Where will it be in five years?

I don't think this is a good thing, by the way. I'm not an artist at all but it still makes me feel anxious about the future.

Vinyl records are making a comeback, so I don't see why cassette tapes can't. You're just at the cutting edge of vintage.

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911 SATHREAD/wtc01.html

That's been happening to me and my friends too. It's just the next stage of Deepmind evolution.

On 8/26/2022 at 7:54 AM, FreshHalibut said:

For the most part, X360 generation is where publishers started pushing the boundaries of dumb dlc stuff.

Mass Effect 2 and some other games had that free dlc pass to combat the used market. Sometimes they even locked MP away from used copies unless you paid for an access pass.

A bunch of games started experimenting with on-disc DLC like ME3, Sports, and Fighting games.

Horse armor came out on x360.

ME2 had those Dr. Pepper codes that locked the best head armor.

 

But I'd agree that games were more complete over all. They usually weren't trying to sell us expansion packs for games that aren't even out yet.

 

Thankfully the fact that modern consoles are architecturaly similar to PCs means that most things come to PC now. Dead Rising finally came to PC ten years after the fact.

 

Also most things come out on both disc and digital now. So if hard copies are hard to find you can usually still get it digital.

There's still a bunch of PS360 stuff that's only on disc.

 

Yeah, it kinda fell off the wheels at the end there, but the beginning of the era was still more or less "pure." And you can thank Microsoft for that.

On 8/26/2022 at 6:13 PM, Gyokuyoutama said:

I still think that if we had destroyed Bethesda over the horse armor thing, then we wouldn't currently be living in a cyberpunk dystopia where car companies put subscription fees on seat warmers.

I honestly feel like phone games would've made that moot as phone gamers would've enabled the cyberpunk dystopia anyway. And I do think even Valve putting loot boxes in TF2 caused a lot of this shit, since they were basically untouchable in 2011 and them saying "It's alright to make your players gamble!" influenced a ton of companies. It's weird looking back on it just how shitty the first TF2 crates were - you didn't even have Stranges back then. You paid $2.50 for a FaN identical to the one that you already had. Sure a shitty Strange isn't much, but it's at least slightly better than normal quality items.

On 8/22/2022 at 7:43 PM, Moby said:

It surely can't be that baWhat the actual fuck he wasn't kidding.

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If the Steam reviews can be trusted (as in, they are not made by degenerates), they say the game is actually pretty good and has good gameplay and soundtrack. If you can ignore the... theme for the target audience.

Fat Princess for furries. My type of game. Fuck you haters.

56 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Consoles have basically been just PCs with less functionality since the PS3 era.

I think PS4 era was when that started happening. You still had the absolute batshit insane architecture of THE CELL and Wii wagglan bullshit gimmicks (although 360 was basically just a PC but it's Microsoft so what do you expect). During and after PS4 everything was just a tweaked AMD CPU+GPU.

Plus PS3 and 360 had a pretty heavy emphasis on physical media (Blu Ray vs HD-DVD) as well and games were still complete when sold.

Only problem I have with Rome is that it HATES multi-core processors so you're stuck with around 30 fps max even at low settings on modern rigs. Wish it wasn't so.

I have to imagine that most/all D.C. eateries just won't deliver to any important government buildings because of security concerns.

If the President wanted Pizza Hut I imagine they'd send an aide to order it and pick it up without ever saying it's for the White House.

My (West Coast) opinion is a modified version of what Wikipedia has on their article:

But with Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Oklahoma added. Never really thought about it though.

Both my university and my university's system are led by interim leaders because the previous ones stepped down due to mishandling a sexual assault case. But it wasn't the same case, they were unrelated to each other.

Kinda funny to see.

7 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

Nowadays I know that asking for tech gifts is either "directly link what you want on amazon, or just ask for money and buy it yourself"

Oh god yes, I remember asking my mom for peripherals like a mouse or a headset... and she would go to Target or something and buy the first thing she saw because she didn't know anything about tech and the stuff always ended up being horrible garbage. The headset was so legendarily bad my friends and I still joke about it, since they could hear everything I could hear.

I guess if you wouldn't trust them to install a program on your PC, don't ask them for tech gifts. Probably a good rule of thumb.