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LuigiChalmersJr posted...

Are these not areas where creativity can be expressed?

No. AI cannot create something it already hasn't seen in much the same way that AI defenders cannot come up with a new argument.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

But I also seem to recall that it is kind of unfinished.

That's a way to put it. They made it with no budget, with no team, and with no interest in it at all. It was a quick cash grab that they vomited out in hopes that the name alone would cause people to lose their minds and just give them all their money. And when no secret billionaire decided to just hand them their entire fortune they just dropped it before it even got to the "half baked" stage.

HighSeraph posted...

Yah I noticed that too. I wasn't sure if it was from wotl or not tho.

It isn't. The original had many small choices like that where you could do the "easy" version of the map by choosing to save the ally on it or not.

MysteryMan923 posted...

At the end of the day, creativity is still human.

That is a pretty good way to put just how vapid and utterly uncreative AI is.

And how people that seriously use it are probably not even human.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5dfd9046.jpg

Evening_Dragon posted...

Yeah, it's topical. Just had a little internal flip before seeing the name because it is just believable enough that prager would do it in earnest.

Quite. I had a bit of a double take as well, but I checked the picture after reading the title and recognized that it wasn't them before posting.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Yea TC is just posting random stuff.

It's not random. It's a parody of the kind of stuff you'd expect to see from PragerU.

Tora_Sami posted...

What game is this?

Silksong.

MJOLNRVII posted...

You must have gone a different way than I did because those were like the only enemies that were a threat.

I guess. The route I took had something like three enemies before you hit the citadel, none of which were a particularly relevant threat, and four or so once you hit the citadel (of which one was a potential issue).

That one isn't even the hardest Oil to get. And isn't even harder than the main game.

havean776 posted...

Oh dear is it like the flower quest in the first game?

Yes, but it's quite a bit easier. The optimal route has very few enemies and doesn't have anything that really constitutes as a roadblock akin to a couple of the more awkward jumps you had to do with the flower. You can also mess up three times (assuming you use the shoes that make you run faster) versus the flowers' not letting you mess up once.

MJOLNRVII posted...

In this one(because there are a few deliveries in Silksong) your cargo is on a timer that also goes down if you get hit, so you can at least get hit a few times but you better be quick if you do. Pre-killing the enemies on your path just like Hollow Knight is the smart thing to do, but I am stupid and impatient so I didn't <_<

You cannot meaningfully pre-kill in Silksong. The pretty much the only enemies that stay dead are ones that drop rosaries and there aren't any of those that you'd have to face on the route for the delivery.

Yes to all of the above.

You can really feel the pain of the guy transcribing Trump's deranged nonsense with that post. JFC.

MysteryMan923 posted...

Fiscally conservative and small government isn't inherently evil although the GOP doesn't really believe in either of those.

"Fiscally conservative" and "small government" are just dogwhistles. Hence why there isn't a single government that has had a populace that called for them that has had them in the ways that people that want them are referring to.

Started the demo and now I'm half an hour late on going to bed.

Dang. >.>

You can really tell that the devs spent a pretty unholy amount of time on HoMM3 user maps.

"Exclusive."

Weird. Steam is usually good at notifying me that they've got a demo for games yet that one never gave me a notice.

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully the game is any good.

FF_Redux posted...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

You stay away from those beignets. They're mine.

The real question is whether or not we'll ever get a series that does connectivity near as well as Quest for Glory ever again.

Not really. Basically none of it is particularly realistic beyond the parts that are just "bad fighting." Like, both of them have trash footwork compared to real fighting but them not really doing anything, for the sake of making it easy to animate, technically is realistic in that real people can just stand around.

badjay posted...

Damn guess people have no clue what they're doing when they make toast.

I'm more referring to using it with knowledge of its existence for things that don't traditionally automatically use it. Like, you can't bake bread without the Maillard reaction coming into play, but something like toasting herbs and spices for use in a dish that will not naturally cook them is very uncommon.

Ye, that stuff is crack. The Maillard reaction is probably the single most important food technique that people don't know about.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

The topic is about Pocky though.

Then you aren't making any sense at all.

Go back to bed.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I just don't see the point in fighting for distant distant distant second place.

Then don't go in the topic? Not that hard.

Buy a third copy of Ghost Trick.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I dunno, I feel like the trophy for worst snacks will always be USA.

What exactly was giving you the impression that I was in any way saying that the US didn't have a lot of bad snacks?

And I'd go with China for worse. China's industry is massive and there are a *lot* of duds that don't go overseas.

sfcalimari posted...

Really depends on what. A lot of Korean snacks are great but a lot are cheaply made garbage.

And a lot of Japanese snacks are cheaply made garbage. Korea is not unique in that respect.

markconig posted...

V3s ending didn't imply that either.

Yes it did? Well, it more just overtly and explicitly stated it. Literally the entire ending of it was that it was that everything was always a game show. It even makes it pretty clear that 1 and 2 were unambiguously a part of it when they showed the titles off.

Prestoff posted...

I'm usually against lawsuit ninja Nintendo, but this is a fair next scenario.

Same, but there have been plenty of fair next scenarios that people adamantly rag on Nintendo as if the thing that they are doing is somehow not justified to a pretty comedic degree.

I'm sure this somehow makes Nintendo look bad.

No, everything I own has been made within the last couple hundred years.

Eating is gross.

YugiNoob posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1cb545fe.jpg

Gotta remember that CE is pretty illiterate before you make these topics.

Dang.

That's a lot of wind.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Short black hair and clean shaven when he was young
Then bald and goatee when he was an old fuck

Crazy to think that no one ever did that until the 1900's.

firedoom666 posted...

Like the love ball only increasing the catch rate of same gender pokemon

To be fair that's pretty based.

Or Roman. Hard to say.

MC_BatCommander posted...

Even crazier when the Mew glitch was discovered like 15 years after the games came out. We were all ready to dismiss it as just another made up way to obtain Mew, then people tested it and it actually worked.

? I had a friend show me how to do it well before then and Bulbapedia lists it as having been discovered in 2002.

Reincarnated as a man who levels up every time someone breathes I must travel the world in order to kill the Demon King and stop their plot to mildly inconvenience old ladies as they cross the street by blowing lemons at them. Unfortunately my level up notifications are visible to every one and will blot out the sun, plunging the world into eternal darkness, if I don't solve the CAPCHA on all of them.

This just sounds like me going onto someone's farm and stealing a cow. But legal.

HashtagSEP posted...

You can get Roggenrola prior to Lenora. Wellspring Cave. It sounds like you tend to grind and so you don't see where people have issues without doing so.

Oh shoot, you're right. For some reason I was thinking that was just after her.

And naw, I never grinded in the pre-"EXP All" era (ie. the modern games). I just solo'd everything with the starter, which meant that I was usually 4-5 levels above (at least) everything else even when only doing required battles. The games were trivial that way, and while Gen V was arguably GameFreaks' first real attempt at making anything even slightly challenging I can't say I found it different than the previous four.

HashtagSEP posted...

Well, my point is that since you don't expect it, it's easy to lose. A lot of people lead with their best Pokemon, and Retaliate has a very high chance of taking that Pokemon out, meaning you have less good Pokemon to face it beyond that. For what it is, it's actually a pretty good setup, since Herdier goes down pretty easily and you don't expect her to then just... Murder your Pokemon. Crunch is there for Rock types, and then Hypnosis is there to be annoying to your weaker Pokemon if you lost your best.

I will trust that people other than me had to go at her twice (or more) then. It, however, still hasn't changed a single part of my point: Crunch being useful against a type that you cannot have yet (without Wonder Trading... I think that was available at that point?) doesn't make it relevant, and a move that only exists to be mildly annoying (but it, at least, gets to count) doesn't inspire anything resembling a "good design" award.

012yArthur0 posted...

Eh, I would say Norman was a challenge enough for a normal gym leader in gen III.

I will also trust that you also took more than one attempt to beat him then. I, however, will continue to find an entire team of "Faint Attack + Facade" to be embarrassingly poorly put together even when you ignore that it has two Slakings in it.

HashtagSEP posted...

You gotta consider the context, though. At the time you fight her, you don't have any great counters available. And since the gym leaders before her are pretty easy, there's nothing driving you to grind, so it kinda comes out of nowhere.

Also, Retaliate is great considering it's STAB and said gerbil thing is her second Pokemon, meaning you already beat one, powering it up more. Since you don't know it's coming, the chance is very high that it takes out your best Pokemon immediately.

I was more referring to it just being somewhat poorly put together than anything about "counters." Even then Gen V was the generation that gave us Audino grinding, so literally every Pokemon you brought could count as a "great counter." They also didn't do anything to dissuade the traditional "duo the game with your starter + a second carry" strategy, so your starter could easily clean her up even without it.

And Retaliate wasn't one of the moves I was talking about being worthless.

Lazy_Haar posted...

Have rock types ever been considered decent? This topic has got me thinking and I don't know if I've ever used one seriously. I just played Violet recently and when I was trying to make a team of Pokemon I typically didn't use, I was looking at adding a rock type and got frustrated at how almost no rock moves have 100% accuracy (or if they did, they were often low power). I always saw them as awful in Gen 1, too, but I want to say most (if not all) of them were Ground/Rock type and super weak to Squirtle/Bulbasaur (not to mention they were slow).

As a whole, or just in a couple of cases? In most generations they have a presence (Gen 1 has Rhydon, Gen 3 has TTar, etc.) but a lot of the time there are just so many bleh rock types that they end up being mid as a whole and most of the rock moves you'll see are on non-rock Pokemon.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Gen 5's Lenora kicked my fucking ass with that long gerbil thing >_>

The long gerbil thing had two useless moves and an ability that increased encounter rate. Whether or not you got beat by it that's a pretty embarrassing gym leader ace.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

The final boss of the game has fucking Ember still lmao

To be fair, it wasn't until Gen 4 that the champion wasn't an embarrassment, and Gen VI for the normal gym leaders.

Ye, despite having easily the worst writing in the series I still had a blast.

Lol.

Yes, though it depends on the individual and there isn't a hard limit for the species.

Playing Hundred Line and someone died. Someone knows who did it and rather than just say it he spends at least a minute waffling about. We are then attacked, only to find out that he was killed before we got back.

One of the worst writing tropes in gaming ever.

Piplup_Sniper posted...

Alright sounds solid. Its confusing because you hear different definitions of that word. They changed that tweet because of backlash since people thought they were calling that character pedo bait while people with anime pfps went around calling them tourists and saying that loli is about body type, ie short and petite.

Ye. That also has a bit to do with the separate thing that MNThunder brought up as that was all about the "doll like" look, which definitely had a bit of a body type going for it, but ultimately it is clear to anyone that the whole "body type" as it relates to lolicons (the pertinent one) is just a dogwhistle.

MNThunder posted...

Except for the fact that Lolita fashion was initially inspired by the book.

And that has nothing to do with the trend in Japan, so I can continue to ignore it.

MNThunder posted...

Pretty much but then you have to take into consideration Lolita fashion, which is all about Victorian style clothing and while also being inspired by the book has nothing to do with sexualizing of children.

I don't, no. The two, in spite of having a similar word involved, have flagrantly nothing to do with each other. The book Lolita has nothing to do with lolita fashion, the "lolicon" term has nothing to do with lolita fashion, etc.

Things being tied together sheerly because the words are similar is a childish logical fallacy, and I have no reason to care about it.