It’s my fav FF.

I don’t think the author gets it anymore. Like they’ve played many JRPGs since, got pigeonholed, went back to FF8, and compared it. FF8 does not feed the narrative. It’s a PS game using every trick in the book to create a huge world, cultures, and with expanse in the adventure.

Just going down the road is supposed to feel like you’re well into a long adventure into a big world of many different things, stories, and cultures. It’s not disconnected writers, lol.

And they don’t know what GFs are for. There are so many different ways to play the game. You lock into your main party characters because that’s the play style you’re going for and it’s like building a deck. You can play the game a completely different way again. You can pick your main party at random before starting and have a hoot forcing yourself into a play style you’ve never thought to give a go before.

They lost the magic. When they first played it, they were creative and imaginative. Now they’re playing it again, they’re used to RPGs doing that all for them.

“She was very shaken, but with complete professionalism she flew the plane to the airfield and made a perfect landing,”

Dude may have been having a rough time, but definitely knew his students.

This is a couple mins in an old Photoshop version if you’ve got an old low quality screengrab and can’t be bothered finding remastered footage to rip the frame yourself.

“AI sloppage” is about as synonymous to this as calling a 2004 Toyota Camry a robot.

The were savages back in 2014!

Worth checking bottleneck calculators whenever doing upgrade of CPU or GPU. Apart from that, nothing huge going on. Maybe confirming your PSU has the required wattage and plugs too if it’s a significant GPU upgrade.

Also I tend to skip a Gen or two. Bang for buck, I imagine not seeing much difference in a 20xx to 30xx and would just keep saving to 40xx.

I’ve been rocking my dressing gown and undies. I grab a t-shirt on my way to the computer and hang it off my boom mic for any meetings.

Oh, that’s it! Neighbour had it for DOS, I think. Was a loooong time ago. They weren’t allowed violent games, yet parents got them Goldeneye on the 64 like a year later.

I played one of these. It was Wolfenstein but the player was Noah with various slingshots, shooting seeds at animals on the ark so they’d fall asleep.

There being more than two of each animal totally broke immersion.

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Righteous

Grind it and start moaning.

This seems to be a tech corp script. Have one good thing, get rich, spend the next few decades failing at everything else you try.

At some point you just have to admit you’re really shit at stuff but just got lucky once. The odds will land on someone and that’s about as special as you are.

That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.

Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.

Wouldn’t be the first time. It seems so normal now, but it was only a little over half a century ago we learned mattresses have consciousness. Back in Galileo’s time everyone thought quarks were real and some people still do.

We think we know so much about the universe but we don’t.

He looks like he’s missing bolts in his neck.

Ths is gonna cause some fun at work. I know our IT team would not be on top of this until one day a portion of employees can’t SSO in. Then mayhem will ensue by heels being dug on both sides.

Side note: That would make an excellent exposition for an apocalyptic horror, like a zombie film. Some industry billionaire infects themselves with a parasite or virus that’s been dorment for millions of years…

“This summer, the rich fuck over humanity one last time…”

It’s concerning that people aren’t immediately picking up that it’s satire. After setting up for a zinger, here it comes…

I placed my laptop on the table, opened a browser window to ChatGPT, and prepared to do what I do every single day in my actual scientific practice: type a prompt and receive a coherent, well-structured response that I would then lightly edit and present as my own thinking.

It’s at exactly this point you should realise, laugh, and then immediately feel upset because Dr Simmons is making their point. The rest of the write up is them giving us an upsetting insight into the realities of a world they’re intimate with and show very valid concern for, just as we should now be after reading it.

Then to top it off, I come read the comments to have a laugh and discuss it, but instead now I just feel extra gloomy about the rot of our thinking and discerning skills and how easy it is to just take advantage of this. Now I can’t stop thinking about how many users fall for misinformation and how many times each day if this is already the kind of thing breaking their acid tests.

I now imagine some people’s pride will just default all that I just said to a superiority complex and that just makes things even more depressing.

I don’t know if the writer intended this extra provocation, but bonus points. Or they’re reading the discourse around their write up is more about whether it’s satire or not and instead are now at a “I fucking give up on this world” point.

I can’t believe this is the thing that has people get upset at their politicians… But, sure! Keep it up!

Ew. I like my ice fresh.