starman2112

starman2112, 3 miesiące temu

I never thought about it like that. If he makes an average of just $0.50 per sale after all the storefront fees and taxes and stuff, he would still have enough money to pay himself $200,000 a year for an entire lifetime, just from the sales he’s already made. No wonder he’s so chill about keeping the game updated for free. What an awesome guy

starman2112, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah, I chose $0.50 as an absurdly low assumption, because while the game nominally sells for $15, I don’t know anything about costs involved. A quick google search says his net worth is somewhere around 30-45 million dollars, which is about twice what I estimated. Which most people would use as an excuse to sell the game to Microsoft and retire forever, but Eric Barone is too good for that. I just realized I only own the game on mobile and xbox. Reckon I might buy it on PC next paycheck

starman2112, 3 miesiące temu

There’s something about that ™ next to the title that makes me want to give it a negative review without ever having played it

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu

Fun fact, the Stanford Prison Experiment was actually kind of a joke! Zimbardo really wanted the result that he got, and interfered with the “study” to ensure that he got it. People aren’t as easily predisposed to evil as he wanted us to be.

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu

In my case it’s just the same as hate for AI generated slop

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu

You can’t just say “excellent question” when someone asks you to clarify your point lmfao

“They’re trying to force our kids to get vaccines so they can manipulate them with 5g wifi”

How could they manipulate your kids with 5g signals?

“That’s a good question innit”

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

I love it when people get hyper defensive about this for no reason at all. Aesthetically, AI art is obviously better than a child’s scribbles, but the problem is that AI art is pure aesthetic, with no meaning behind it at all, and if you engage with art purely for the aesthetic, then you fundamentally miss the point of it. AI can’t mean anything when it produces art. It just spits out a series of 1s and 0s based on whatever nonsense you shout into it.

It doesn’t matter how many hours you spend working on a piece, if you use AI (Edit to clarify: if you use AI to generate the art in its entirety), then the AI made the art. An AI cannot answer questions about artistic decisions it made, because it made no decisions. It’s worse than tracing—at least an amateur artist can answer why they decided to copy another artist’s work.

Because charitable interpretation is dead, I have to clarify. I’m not saying that there is no valid use case AI generated art, nor am I saying that all human-made art is good. All I’m saying is that human-made art can have meaning behind it, while AI art cannot. It’s incapable of having meaning, so it isn’t really art.

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

There’s a couple of orthogonal arguments here, and I’m going to try to address them both: are you an artist if you use AI generated art, and why do I hate AI generated art?

Telling a machine “car, sedan, neon lights, raining, shining asphalt, night time, city lights” is not creating art. To me, it’s equivalent to commissioning art. If I pay someone $25 to draw my D&D character, then I am not an artist, I’ve simply hired one to draw what I wanted to see. Now, if I make any meaningful changes to that artwork, I could be considered an artist. For example, if I commissioned someone else to do the line work, and then I fill in the colors, we’ve both made the artwork. Of course, this can be stretched to an extreme that challenges my descriptivism. If I put a single black pixel on the Mona Lisa, can I say I collaborated on the output? Technically, yes, but I can’t take credit for anything other than putting a black pixel on it. Similarly, I feel that prompt engineers can’t take any credit for the pictures that AI produces past the prompt that they provided and whatever post-processing they do.

As for why I hate AI art, I just hate effortless slop. It’s the exact same thing as YouTube shorts comprised of Family Guy clips and slime. I have a hard time really communicating this feeling to other people, but I know many other people feel the same way. Even aside from the ethical concerns of stealing people’s artwork to train image generators, we live in a capitalist society, and automating things like art generation and youtube shorts uploads harms the people who actually produce those things in the first place.

starman2112, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

When art is commissioned, art is produced. If no human produced it, an ai did. If ai cannot produce art, then a human must have.

Right, so this is what I mean when I say that charitable interpretation is dead. Taking my earlier assertion that AI generated art isn’t real art, along with my assertion that providing a prompt to an AI is essentially equivalent to providing a description to a human artist for a commission, should not have read as an argument for or against AI generated art being real art. Taking those statements together, the only reasonable conclusion you can make about my position is that prompt engineers aren’t artists.

I suppose I don’t understand why engineering a prompt can’t count as an artistic skill, nor why selecting from a number of generated outputs can’t (albeit to probably a much lower degree). At what point does a patron making a commission become a collaborator?

Never. It’s not an artistic skill in the same way that providing a description to an actual artist is not an artistic skill, which was the point of that paragraph. They become a collaborator the moment they make changes to the work, and the level to which they can say they’re an artist depends on what changes they make, and how well they make them.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

Recieved special weapon that perfectly fits the empty niche in my loadout

Have to spend 8 hours grinding out machine parts and kill ten of those fucking tortoises to upgrade it

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

The equipment was legit the reason I quit playing. That and the difficulty. I was able to 100% the first game and the DLC on the hardest difficulty. I had to take the second game down to easy mode in the bulwark melee pit. That was the first time I ever came close to breaking a controller. I genuinely don’t believe that the developers actually playtested the game.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

Nobody at Larion got laid off. Larion worked closely with some people at Wizards of the Coast to make Baldurs Gate 3, and those people got laid off.

Larion could make a game entirely on their own with no involvement with Hasbro or WotC (and they have), but they can’t make anything related to Dungeons and Dragons or the Forgotten Realms without Hasbro and WotC’s cooperation.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

Adding this edit to the top because what the FUCK you only get one save file EVER? There’s no new game? And it costs $2 to change your character’s appearance ONE TIME? Words fail me

Rift crystals? Is there in-game currency for this single player game?

Edit: they have an arcade game style “insert a dollar to continue” option I’m dying

Get out of jail free for a dollar card? The more I read the worse it gets. I’m glad I saw this before sinking more time into the first game. Good to know it’s safe to skip.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

A lot of “downloadable content” for a game that requires an internet connection to play. A lot of “downloadable content” that allegedly already exists in-game. Studio execs need to be fired for this shit

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

One save file has been a thing since the first one.

And it was stupid then too. No modern single player RPG should limit players to a single save file. I understand there are many great RPGs that do, and I still think they shouldn’t.

There is a new game plus

Making players play through tens of hours of campaign as a character that they want to delete is a pretty bad decision on capcom’s part.

and you can obviously delete your save and start again.

No you cannot. There is no option to delete your save data within the game. There is a workaround if you play on PC that involves turning off cloud saves, opening the game’s files and deleting your save data from the file explorer, starting a new game, then turning cloud saves back on, but that is a hack, not a feature.

I’ve seen plenty of people say that the character customization stuff is super cheap and super available in the game. I just don’t get why it costs an in-game currency in the first place on this single player, offline rpg. Seems like it should cost nothing within the game to change your hairstyle or whatever. Like, this doesn’t even fit in with the hardcore, no fast travel stuff. It’s just a pointless in-game currency sink. Virtually every other game that allows post-creation character customization allows it for free. I just don’t see the point in making it cost something that you can pay for with real life dollars.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

The microtransactions are the reason I’m not buying the game. That they sell a lighter tent tells me that the tent in the base game is too heavy. That they sell rift crystals for real life money gives them incentive to raise prices in game. Microtransactions that make the game easier necessarily inherently give the developers incentive to make the base game worse.

If all of these microtransactions are innocuous and don’t make the game any better, then why do they want $40 for them? If all of these microtransactions do make the game better, then they shouldn’t cost $40 when you already spent $70 on the game. This is the kind of head start bonus that you would expect to see in a shitty free-to-play mobile game when you use your favorite youtuber’s discount code, not something you should expect to see after spending $70.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

Depending on what you liked about BG3, I might recommend Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s much more linear (if my DM ran it I would accuse them of railroading), but it’s also based on 5e’s SRD. It offers much less freedom in how you play, but makes up for it by how well characterized the player characters are, especially considering they’re all entirely customizable and fully voiced. It’s easy to forget that the party isn’t made up of premade characters when they’re all sitting around a campfire having a conversation with each other.

It has a much lower production value than BG3, but I feel it’s more authentic to the D&D experience. The only thing BG3 has on it is better throwing mechanics imo

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

I must admit it’s much shorter and simpler than BG3’s story. Objectively, I would give it a 6.5/10 for being overly simplistic and linear, but still a fully functional story without plot holes or many contrivances. It’s very easy to see where the story is going, there are very few surprises, your choices don’t much matter, and you literally meet in a tavern. Subjectively, I give it a 9/10, because although the story is simplistic and linear, it’s also easy to follow and fun to play, and it’s very reminiscent of every actual campaign I’ve ever played.

I especially like the second main campaign—it takes place shortly after your party resolves the story in the first campaign, when there are still problems going on in the north. I really like that people recognize the players as the heroic adventurers that they are, while still acknowledging that the new threat is more dangerous than the old one.

Edit: I will recommend playing with a friend if you have any that are interested. It’s always more fun to experience games with other people, and games that involve inventory management and role playing are especially easier when you can split the workload

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

And this is not even beginning to touch content and features from other released versions of these games from 20 years ago not present, like four-screen splitscreen."

It’s so cool and amazing that we finally have home theatre systems in every fucking house, and that’s when devs decided we don’t get split screen anymore. Modern hardware is wasted on modern devs. Can we send them back in time to learn how to optimize, and bring back the ones that knew how to properly utilize hardware?

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

I can’t do that, but you know who could? The people who originally made the game. Had they simply re-released the game that they already made, it wouldn’t be an issue. Us fans of the old games didn’t stop playing because the graphics got too bad. Even if we did, this weird half step towards updating the graphics doesn’t do anything for me. Low poly models with textures that quadruple the game’s size are the worst possible middle ground.

My flatmates and I actually played through a galactic conquest campaign on the OG battlefront 2 like 2 months ago. It holds up.

starman2112, 5 miesięcy temu

Wait, are you under the impression that this is a rerelease of the 2015 battlefront?

starman2112, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

60 year old Tannis, 5’2" Roland, I don’t really care. I’ve never seen Kevin Hart do a serious role—maybe he’s an Adam Sandler at it. Honestly, I can dig almost everything about this, under the paradigm of it being an alternate reality. Everything except Cate Blanchett as Lilith. If they’d aged up the character like they did Tannis, that’d be fine. If they’d gotten anyone else to play her, that’d be fine. But Cate Blanchett just has uncanny valley vibes playing this character.

I can’t wait to pirate this movie.

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

Ok but can you name 30 games that you’ve beaten all from separate series? Because I actually couldn’t

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

As someone who spent tens, maybe hundreds of hours on ark… It’s so much more fun than ark. I have some good memories from that game, but it’s so not worth logging in every single day to feed the dinosaurs

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

That’s the way I see it. Show me a slave owner who just kinda let their slaves wander around without any kind of restraints, and let them do whatever they want

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

Not even Xs, they get spirals. That’s how you know they’re just unconscious lmao

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s pretty fun

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

The player is the bad guy because of a mechanic that exists but isn’t encouraged? There are plenty of games that allow the player character to commit awful crimes. You only play as the bad guy if you’re playing as the bad guy.

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

The meme is drawing a difference between lowercase g gamers, who are normal people who play video games, and capital G Gamers™, who are insecure manchildren who tend to make up a vocal majority among gaming communities. If you disagree, spend some time in a CoD lobby, or on /v/, or in real life with men who spend their time playing video games. There are a lot more Azs than you think.

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

I spent 50 hours in starfield and honestly I don’t even remember the gender selector. I’m pretty sure it’s just a little toggle in the character creator that switches from fella to lady to neither, which… Isn’t that exactly the immersion this little guy wants? People referring to him as a him instead of a them? It’s not exactly staring you in the face throughout the entire game. Makes me sad to think this rant probably got famous because this kid has people who value his opinion.

starman2112, 7 miesięcy temu

I shouldn’t have generalized it. Some groups are actually good. Many, many groups are not.

starman2112, 9 miesięcy temu

Based

starman2112, 9 miesięcy temu

Lmao I got the answer 11 questions in, but because I called it a “microwave oven” instead of just a microwave, it didn’t count as correct until I asked “is it a microwave?” for my last question

starman2112, 9 miesięcy temu

I had fun anyway, and ain’t playing competitively. Long as I know I got it right, I’m happy!

starman2112, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m hesitant to say that the current word is a bad choice, but it feels far too specific to me. I’m curious what questions one could ask after finding out that it’s a type of f___ that would lead to the exact type of f___ that it is.

Again, I’m hesitant to criticize the decision, because it’s entirely possible that I’m just dumb and gave up too soon

starman2112, 10 miesięcy temu

So sad to know he’s actually a beta cuck in real life. Wish he was the man I revered when I was a boy.

starman2112, 10 miesięcy temu

I’d be living in the slums in Night City and have a higher quality of life than anyone I know in real life

starman2112, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean, how many civs actually get got by psychos in the game?

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Seriously fuck those temples. It already takes two minutes to walk from the ship, and now I gotta spend two minutes floating around in zero G?

TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TIMES?

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

Without spoilers, there are 24 temples, and to max out what you get from them you need to complete each one ten times

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

I can’t wait to play it after someone has made a complete walkthrough so my tiny glassy brain can experience the story

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

Earlier this week, I was listening to music on YouTube and saw a thumbnail that told me exactly what was up with the tadpoles. Not even the title. I don’t remember what the title was. It was written on the thumbnail in giant glaring yellow letters.

I wanna find everyone who posts shit like that and str–

<span style="color:#323232;">Wish them a very good time
</span>

I usually avoid that by not getting too hyped up about a game before I play it. It saved my playthroughs of Cyberpunk and Starfield, although Panam’s unwavering heterosexuality and my flatmate spoiling the end of Starfield kinda damaged my interest in both.

I avoid watching any videos about the hyped up new game, so youtube doesn’t recommend me any videos about the hyped up new game

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

Not really a spoiler. If you proc a wild magic surge on the last turn in the last fight, and it polymorphs your party into cats and dogs, they don’t depolymorph in the end cutscenes. It’s not a real ending, just a funny bug

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

Nothing is spoiled by this headline, it’s just a bug where your characters might not depolymorph after the last fight, and they’ll appear as animals in the ending cutscenes

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Aww, you won’t be able to bully people who don’t feel like fighting back? You’re gonna be forced to play with other people that actually want to fight? I’m so sowwy 🥺

Lmao get fucked

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Lame. They couldn’t just go for optional PvE servers, they have to lock most of the content in PvP servers. Guess I’m still not playing it

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Not pictured: Sarah and your character being the most obnoxiously affectionate couple

Has anyone here ever walked up to their partner and just blurted out “can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true” completely out of the blue? Cause that ain’t me

This is of course after “flirting” with her for a while. Is outright saying “I love you” even flirting? And why did it take three separate instances of outright saying “I love you” for Sarah to get the hint that maybe my character has feelings for her?

And while I’m ranting, why couldn’t I invite my parents to our wedding? We brought in her mom who she hasn’t seen in 20 years, but my parents literally live 5 minutes away from the lodge and I couldn’t invite them? “They don’t have a ship” I HAVE A SHIP

starman2112, 11 miesięcy temu

The real people actually doing the threatening were threatening offices staffed by low level peons