Fun fact: Roko’s basilisk is not from QC. It’s a thought experiment about AI that predates the comic character by about 6 years. The character’s just named after it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

Alternative image for C: Mr. Incredible: “A PARAMETER IS A PARAMETER!”

See, when people say Democrats need to start DOING things to push back against Trump, this is what they’re talking about.

Is this a foolproof idea? Probably not. Could it backfire? Possibly. Will it really help? If it makes the admin second-guess what it can get away with, yeah, that’s helpful. This is the energy we need. Stop playing softball with these fascists.

I mean, Nazis fighting is Nazis fighting, sure, but it’s still all running over an undercurrent of Nazis veing in charge of the country.

Bro, we all already fucking knew that. This says WAY more about you than it does Trump.

Either you’re just drawing the obvious conclusion, like the rest of us, in which case, this statement is pointless, and you’re an idiot. Or you actually DO know it for a fact, and you’ve been cool with it, this entire time. Also, in case #2, we gotta wonder how you learned that fact. The obvious answer is “because you’re on there, too”.

I played it for about 70 hours like 8 months ago, and quite enjoyed it. Will definitely go back, at some point, to see what’s been improved. There’s a REALLY solid foundation there, I think. I like to say it’s the factorio/automation genre, but distilled down to nothing but the gameplay, in its purest, most-concentrated form. My wife and son picked it back up immediately today, when they realized the big update dropped.

One thing they’ve talked about doing is improving the high-level progression. Specifically, they said their concept for better progression will be that milestone products will feed into future milestones, rather than having them just get thrown away, just like you describe. Not sure if that’s made it into the game yet, or not.

For $25 in Early Access, I think it’s a deal. If you’re really worried about there being enough gameplay/progression to keep you interested, wishlist it, and keep an eye on what the updates are adding.

What I want Supergiant to do is… whatever the fuck they want.

I don’t see the game getting either of those things.

Duos, you can already do, you just have to take on a rando as a third. They could scale the difficulty down for 2 players, sure, but Elden Ring’s mutiplayer scaling is notoriously terrible, in part because no amount of scaling can account for the lost potential for splitting aggro, in a game where splitting aggro is king.

Voice chat is something that FromSoft has INTENTIONALLY never included in any prior game, despite there being co-op in all of them. Making players coordinate with each other with very limited communication tools is one of FromSoft’s signature design choices. The fast pace of this game compared to prior games makes the lack of communication tools hurt a lot more, for sure, but it’s still very much playable. Anyone who dislikes this design choice is absolutely free to, but it’s not gonna change.

Poking his fragile masculinity is the entire point.

Normally, I’d be on board with you, but it does strike me as notable that Coffee Stain has apparently ALREADY been under the umbrella of shareholders this whole time, and is still fucking THRIVING. I’ll also note that Coffee Stain is based in Sweden, where all the things that make them great (I.E. the way devs are treated, which lets them thrive and make great shit) isn’t about to change.

So, I think it’s worth tempering the pessimism a bit, for now. We’ll have to see how it plays out.

What makes you say that? Do you say “everything else” to mean all the studios that aren’t splitting off along with Coffee Stain? From what’s here, I don’t see why Coffee Stain is in any different boat than everyone else underneath “Coffee Stain Group”.

I hope Pritzker understands that opposing this will LOSE him votes, whether it’s for Governor or President.

It doesn’t even fucking MATTER how you feel about Israel, how the hell is outlawing boycotts and divestment EVER acceptable?

I’ll take another look, but I didn’t see any such setting when I was trying to diagnose. And I haven’t changed any Plex settings since the last time we had an internet outage and it worked properly, just a month or two ago.

I recently discovered that Plex no longer works over local network, if you lose internet service. A) you can’t login without internet access. B) even if you’re already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access. So, yeah, Plex is already there.

Is the BlueSky OP here not a native English speaker? Cause, BOY that was tough to follow.

Yet, it seems to me that your argument is, ‘We get to keep on doing it until everyone who is potentially harmed by it figures out how to file a lawsuit and hire a lawyer.’

Nailed it. Because they know full-well that most people DON’T have the capacity to file a lawsuit and hire a lawyer. They are ignoring laws because they know no one will make them stop.

Can’t wait to see the court vote 6-3 the other way.

The Steam release of Persona 5 Royal, unfortunately. Which is kind of insane, it’s a single-player game.

There’s some others that I can’t personally attest to, but that sure look good from what I’ve seen. Monster Hunter: Wilds, for example. And the new Doom from a few days ago, if you’re into that sorta thing. Metaphor Re-Fantasio. The new Prince of Persia from last year. Hi-Fi Rush. Rocksmith, of all things.

As of a few months ago (IIRC the timeline) Steam shows this directly on the game’s store page. You’ve got to scroll down for it a little bit, but it’s right under where it lists features of the game, E.G. single-player, controller support, etc.

On one hand, turnabout is always a good time. Maybe it’ll clue some folks in to how bullshit that decision was, from the start.

On the other hand, lol, no it fucking won’t. They’ll just make up some other new bullshit reason that “no, that doesn’t actually apply, in this one specific case, where the person we want to prosecute doesn’t agree with us”.

This isn’t just a horrifically-misleading headline, it’s straight-up false.

The bill originally was written to directly establish personhood of a fetus, but Democrats got an amendment in that keeps the “pregnant mothers get to use the carpool lane” part, without the language that establishes personhood for a fetus. They literally called the Republicans’ bluff on “this bill is about supporting mothers”, by making that specific. This caused one Republican to retract his vote, because the amendment “guts the pro-life purpose of the bill”.