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OneSpookyGirl posted...

What makes you say this? I don't think the MCs are dramatically younger than Emma and she's at least 26 in Z-A. The rest of the gang read as young adults, worrying about rent, college, etc.

She is confirmed 21.

ATfire567 posted...

I should have typed non-human animals to counter the people who like to find loopholes in these topics >_>

Nah. The only way to make it work would be to make it so humans became deathly allergic/unable to digest to any non-insect animal meats. Otherwise you'd just leave yourself open to the massive apocalypse that would happen if, say, all of the fish died (or 100% chance of death to humanity if basically any seriously large group of animals of a given genome all just suddenly evaporated into the mists).

Because they are copying millennials.

I'd be dead if insects were the only animals left, so I wouldn't care.

sephiroth068 posted...

Since its related, pretty sure James Earl Jones did the same for Darth Vader in signing the rights of his voice for AI use

Yup.

And then people used his voice to slur/praise Hitler/etc. in Fortnite.

Truly highlighting what "consent" means in the context of AI.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

If I were to ever do my thought about FFX-3 fanfic I'd instead take trashing on the novel and the radio drama as a challenge and address Yuna's... just her conduct. All of it. Why the fuck would YUNA become a priestess of a religion she knows is a fucking sham!? As a sign of character degredation she needs to grow out of.

The challenge of criticizing the post X-2 stuff is that there is so much to criticize. They're just so bad on such fundamental levels.

They are just insultingly bad.

AceMos posted...

i know thats what i was saying dont exist both that book and that audio drama

Ye, a major part of being a fan of X is actively pretending that stuff after X-2 doesn't exist outside of knowing the trivia that it technically does exist. They are just so... bad.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

As to obtaining 100% completion being *easy*...no, it is not. It is so incredibly easy to miss a detail. I suppose it is possible to get 100% completion on the first playthrough if you follow a guide to the letter but even then, there are probably things the guide expects you to do that aren't written.

Ye. It may not be hard, but it absolutely isn't easy to 100%. "Tedious" is the word I'd use. It's 99% walking around and talking to the same "key" characters after basically every event + doing a bunch of kind of bleh mini-games, and making sure you didn't miss one of them can be a bit of a pain.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Getting 100% on your 1st playthrough is near impossible without a guide. There's tons and tons of stuff that's not obvious at all as well as stuff the game doesn't tell you. Such as skipping cutscenes will stop you from being awarded percentage points.

Mate, if you are skipping the cutscenes on your first playthrough you *deserve* to not get 100%. Yeah they don't tell you that, but I can't have any sympathy for people who are skipping the story on their first go.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I legit can't tell if your post is serious or sarcasm. Especially with that part about not being allowed to criticize the reuse of FFX assets. With a handful of exceptions like Kilika, the dungeon at the start and the dungeon at the end. All the new areas in FFX-2 are non descript ruins, caves and corridors. It's lazy as hell. With the same locations and enemies from FFX reused without thought

No, that's you misunderstanding me. I was saying that the reused assets was an actual flaw with it and that the battle system itself was gold.

Hambo posted...

I always heard there were a lot of times where you need to talk to NPCs in specific orders and make particular choices even beyond the faction choice. Not to mention the Commsphere stuff in ch4 which is pretty specific even if you're just trying to get all areas' Mission Completes. Rin.

The Commsphere bit would be one of the times I would consider one of my "five some odd things." As I alluded to, there are a couple that are a bit tricky to say that you would do it on your first go, but the overall number is not particularly high overall (five being more a spitball than me seriously counting).

And there are a fair number of times were you need to talk to NPCs, but none that really require that you talk to them in a specific order or you're boned: something that I would actually consider a bit much. Every FF has a "guy A says to go talk to guy B who then says to go talk to guy C..." style quest, and the fact that X-2 has it isn't particularly noteworthy in the slightest. Similarly an overwhelming amount of the choices you have to make just boil down to "do the hardest thing", and I feel that anyone seriously going for a 100% would always chose that sort of thing in the first place so its existence is hardly an argument for it being notable versus any other game. Don't get me wrong, 100%ing X-2 is a pretty arduous task but it's hardly anything compared to the rest of the series or gaming as a whole. VI's pixel hunt is waaaay worse than anything X-2 brings to the table, and even that pales in comparison to basically any obtuse point and click adventure.

Hambo posted...

With New Game Plus, right?

Frankly, it's not really all that hard to get 100% the first time around so long as you understand that one of the routes just cannot get 100%. "Do everything that you come across" really isn't that hard of a task, and there's, like, five some odd things that are actually a bit obscure that you might miss otherwise.

And ye, X-2 easily has the second best ATB system in all of FF. Anyone that complains about the battle system for anything other than the low-effort reuse of X's stuff is just telling on themselves.

MorbidFaithless posted...

Did they explain how these digital creatures left the digital world?

Yes, but it keeps changing for each iteration (for the most part). Digimon doesn't really spend a whole lot of effort on their story/writing in general, which hasn't led to anything resembling a cohesive narrative beyond "they digital!"

I didn't play 2 with a keyboard, but I did play the first one and it was pretty awkward to do, and the second feels waaay harsher in terms of wanting you to be able to accurately control the character so I feel like it will be worse.

And Steam makes it pretty easy to remap controls, though at least with the Switch Pro Controller the default controls were pretty solid so I can't say that I have any first hand experience with Silksong related remapping.

FL81 posted...

2007 specifically I'd say

right before things like smartphones/Facebook/Twitter took off

What happened in 2007 that was even half as good as Blood Ninja?

Tyranthraxus posted...

If they made these in the 90s they would probably be huge successes.

God, I can think of no greater insult to RPGs in the 90's.

Not wrong, though.

Nah.

Deteled posted...

I'm gonna lose my shit if One Piece becomes contraband.

Isn't it already being made illegal in Texas?

Outside of Exxon's original climate change study there haven't really been anything that is quite as damning unless you want to include their CEO saying that they couldn't change course unless the government stepped in + alluding to the fact that we were all going to die if we didn't change course.

YoungMutual posted...

They could definitely try harder as far as graphics and presentation goes. If Pokemon ZA is good, it would be in spite of the graphics, not thanks in part to them

True, but it doesn't change the point that graphics are easily the least relevant part of ratings in a game. Gameplay, story, and really just about anything you can possibly come up with are all things that matter more. Even then the entire point of rating a game is to show how much the average person will like it mixed with how much the people that are into said genre will like it. And creature collectors are one of the genres were the visuals for literally anything but the creatures means jack crap. And no one complains about the Pokemon themselves outside of the petulant whining about how they've made a garbage Pokemon (et al). In that same vein you are just reiterating my point about Stardew: it doesn't have anything resembling a style beyond "generic sprite work" and is easily trash compared to legitimate sprite games, but because it it arguably the best farming game ever no one gives a crap about that. The act of "they can do better" is pretty irrelevant: we got what they gave and we have to rate it based on what exists and not some made up garbage that exists only in our head.

SwayM posted...

No you're being absolutely obtuse if you can't understand that a game having piss poor graphics should negatively affect its review score.

You can't seem to understand that art direction matters and you don't need photorealistic graphics to produce a quality looking product.

This is a terrible example because Stardew Valley has great art direction and its world and sprites are excellent. It doesn't lose points because it's not trying to be a graphical powerhouse. It also just looks great because the artists did their thing.

Do y'all seriously not understand that the art style of a game matters?

No, being obtuse would be like acting like Stardew wasn't pretty weak on the graphical department and really a good game because the gameplay is that good. "Graphical style" isn't a magical phrase that you get to just throw around because you like or dislike a game and want to vapidly act like you have some sort of additional rationale for your opinions on something. ZA's graphics are fine, so "piss poor graphics" absolutely doesn't apply, and only furthers the whole "you don't get how scoring works" argument should you want to have it apply to you as well.

Raikuro posted...

Don't be obtuse. Nobody is expecting photorealism from a cutesy monster battle game. But do you truly think it's the best a Switch game can look?

My dude, just because I'm making fun of how dumb the thing you wrote was doesn't mean I'm being obtuse. I get it, you want to say dumb nonsense and make it clear you don't get what the point of a rating system relating to gaming even is.

gikos posted...

it will once people get bored of it years from now till then it will keep living and i will mostly get hooked to some of them ''goes to play FGO''

Nah, gambling won't die out beyond legislation making it so. And there is a lot of incentives in getting kids hooked on gambling under capitalism.

FurryPhilosifer posted...

That's not how 10/10 scores work

No, for you see we need to strip every game prior to this generation of 10/10's because they clearly aren't the pinnacle of graphics.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

survive

That one was just a bit unfair to the game. All of the hate centered on the fact that the people who bought it not expecting it to be a visual novel and lambasting it for that... as if it wasn't pretty well understood that being a visual novel was going to be a significant part of it.

Ivynn posted...

No, it's ouiaboo now, I don't make the rules

The Internet continues to ruin everything. *shakes fist*

Ivynn posted...

French culture is ouiaboo

That one existed prior to the Internet so it has a real name: Frankophile.

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When people say "AI" in this context they are referring to generative AI, which is not particularly used in medical research beyond making the most cringe-incusing research papers.

It will not, no. Those are not profitable so there is no real incentive towards having AI doing them.

>70% sounds about right for America, yeah.

Because generating videos with AI takes next to no personal time and the ad revenue is real.

I'm somewhat glad that I have no legacy to really piss on. What kind of trash do you have to be to piss on Mr. Rogers'?

Squall28 posted...

Republicans control the media.

^ That.

Also, this isn't inflation. It's just the given response to tariffs. Everything implicitly gets more expensive when you add an import tax to them as a fundamental part of capitalism. And this isn't even talking about all of the ramifications of Trump alienating/pissing off all of our trade partners.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Nazis.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

I never played HOMM3 to a high level so I'm sure doing the whole "have 10 Heroes and just train your most powerful units to your main one" is probably the Meta anyways?

It depends on the map and game type, but yeah. Generally you had two trained characters that you would swap dudes around from. That said, I think the most popular way to play the game was single hero on maps with pretty super swingy map generation (loads of unit recruitment spots, Pandora's Box as a thing that actually existed on the map, etc.) so that it would go by super fast.

Being one of the consistent, yet very random, ways to have chuds out themselves.

Prestoff posted...

If he is spelling it using the specific accent, it's the Southern way. Many Vietnamese refugees escaped Vietnam due to the fall of Saigon, so it makes sense why Vietnamese Europeans and Americans would pronunciate it the Saigon dialect way even though the "Hanoi" dialect is the "official accent". I do know plenty of Pho places near me in Los Angeles that will secretly give non-asians extra broth and noodles if you pronunciate Pho the southern way though.

True enough.

My barb, however, still remains.

SoIidLegacy posted...

because I like to feel smart for pronouncing it correctly.

The south Vietnam way or the north Vietnam way?

Yes. Kirk, while he was alive, repeatedly made it out that empathy was a made up thing and conservatives don't really have thoughts in their head at this point so they just followed what he said.

Oh hey, The Hero Yoshihiko. What a blast from the past.

Evolician posted...

Why Florida?

Because Florida is the redneck state with enough of a population that you actually hear about what goes on there. Places like Louisiana don't have anywhere close to the population needed for "normal dumb" to go viral onto the Internet.

Hollow Knight.

CountCorvinus posted...

This is one of the most pot calling the kettle black posts I've seen on this forum.

How many "submit your post to an AI image generator" topics are you up to now, Error? Sixteen?

"You are calling a guy that posts nothing but ChatGPT posts an AI poster? Guffaw! For you see, your statement is hypocritical because you have posted a piece of AI art in the past yourself!"

Tyranthraxus posted...

But like think of how big the explosion would be

For one brief moment you would get to see the greatest fireworks display.

BakonBitz posted...

I wonder if it's safe to eat one. I always wondered why "banana flavor" never tasted like bananas until now, lol.

They are, they just can't be mass produced.

Because it will eventually get explained. Then it's science and not magic.

Def waking up.

Starks posted...

Capturing emotion, including confusion, can be creative.

So now it's "can"? You've gone from trying to chastise people for belittling your enjoyment to already waffling on whether or not creativity comes from your laughter? Mate, your entire argument hinges on the "if funny, then creative" argument. If you are allowed to laugh at things that are not just not creative but actively thoughtless then saying "Am I not supposed to laugh at AI output when it's actually humorous?" stops being an argument about the creativity of AI and instead becomes just an attempt to declare that anything you like must ultimately be creative. And that's being charitable about whether or not you're even still talking about the concept of creativity.

Choco posted...

he clearly succeeded at being born wtf

The act of doing something doesn't mean that that's the success. Avoiding stubbing your toe on the door is the "success" state, so if you stub your toe on the door that doesn't mean you've succeeded just because you've succeeded in stubbing your toe.

Zikten posted...

Whats the significance of the cat roaring at the monkey?

Old chud crap. Neo-Nazis have been referring to themselves as "apes" for a while (part of why Bored Ape Yacht Club got so big) and they like to think of "the other side" always getting pissed off and yelling while they smugly stare back.

Starks posted...

This sort of rehashes my previous post. Am I not supposed to laugh at AI output when it's actually humorous? Is a novel or remixed idea intrinsically creative or intentive when the process itself apparently isn't? Image models don't tell us anything or give chain of thought while they're doing all their diffusion and processing.

People laugh at the one girl wanting to pet a bear while saying "Can I pet that dog?" Are you trying to say that her confusion is creative?

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Also, I don't understand his picture. Is that some sort of Nazi meme? I'm not very up to date on the latest Nazi memes.

Unless there's something I'm not aware of it's pretty "on the tin." It's saying that Mr. Beast is also a Nazi and that they want to kill people on Reddit (it also calls them "robots", which is just a dehumanization label in the same way that "NPC" was used a while back).

LuigiChalmersJr posted...

That doesn't really address anything I said.

What you said doesn't need addressing. Someone without any artistic grounding will have no meaningful understanding of anything you said, and anyone with artistic grounding will understand (or, really, a talent for anything to the level that they have basic empathy towards what it means to be creative) that what you said would reduce the artistic process down to just "picture is made." A limp, pathetic attempt that thinking that two different "talents" are actually the same one.