It’s pretty obvious when they all seem to be competing for the scariest “containment breach”.

Anthropic keep posting article after article about new ways their LLMs keep “surprising” them with unexpected behaviour. This year’s “uncontrolled, autonomous” hack news from every AI company are completely absurd boasts. In normal times, everyone would be wondering why they sound like they’re proud of obvious incompetence.

But since we’re in super-hype “keep the money coming, AGI is tomorrow” times, instead, those are used to sell the lie of mysterious superintelligence. Be enthusiastic, be scared, we don’t care, talk about it!

Yeah tell me about it…

Though I’m glad I didn’t go for P4 as well since they announced the remake literally 2 weeks later the sale. Kind of an asshole move honestly.

Got Persona 5R when SEGA did a sale a couple weeks ago, I’m about 12 hours in.

I’ve played a ton of Shin Megami Tensei games and spin-offs but it’s my first Persona (though I did play Tokyo Mirage Session, and it’s clearly more Persona than standard SMT).

An history of title confusion in the Metroid series.

1980s-1990s : no, no, the main character is not called Metroid, the lifesucking reptilian jellyfish are the metroids

2000s : OK, the lifesucking jellyfish are supposed to be extinct now, but she’s got some DNA of them, so technically, you know, she’s kind of a metroid…?

2020s : Metroid lady’s gonna eat your face.

Seems like that version of the game (2021 enhanced rerelease without microtransactions), was only on Apple Arcade, so it was already iOS/MacOS exclusive to begin with I assume.

I’m hoping they find a way to emulate/translation-layer it to PC though, it looks interesting.

That’s just a couple screws, right?

They could have made them more accessible, I agree, but nowadays even simple AA/AAA-operated toys tend to lock their battery compartment with a screw.

I’ve had to open a switch 1 to replace the fan. That was quite a bite more annoying, with many more screws and tiny connectors to unplug and plug again. At least no soldering, but, I hope I don’t need that again on my 2 any time soon.

The game I played that I feel needed them the most was F-Zero GX. So, obviously it’s still racing, but they’re not used for throttle or brake, they make you slide laterally.

Chronologically, it’s just after 1, starting right after Samus’s escape from Zebes. She doesn’t even leave Zebes’s star system.

When the other Prime games take place is not clear though. It would be weird to cram all of that before 2 but I don’t think there is any other hint pointing at when they could happen compared to the 1-5 series, including Prime 4.

If someone wanted a full main canon run, they’d have to insert that Other game between 3 and 4. Seriously, though, nobody deserves that punishment.

Every time I hear about Project Zomboid, it looks like exactly the kind of game I’d want to play… but on a mechanics level only. I never really cared about zombie survival stuff, and the huge craze around the genre in the mid 00s to 10s only killed it to me.

I have the game somehow, probably from a bundle long ago.

Oh, you’re right, it is. Thanks. Never really noticed they implemented that in lemmy.

Technically my first lemmy user was a couple months before, I’d followed a big reddit exodus around the time they killed third party apps, but I migrated to another instance a bit after that.

Probably. I’ll just keep avoiding those I guess.

At the time the SteamVR forum was flooded with reports of connection errors, mainly Quest 3, I think some 2 too. Nobody seemed sure what caused it exactly.

Some were adamant it was a bitrate/stream quality problem, but I reduced it till it was instant vomiting-level of quality and still couldn’t keep a connection for more than 5 minutes.

Some said it was a wifi bandwidth issue, but I ended up using a dedicated wifi 6 router with only the ethernet-plugged PC and wireless Quest 3 on it, at like a 4 meter distance with no obstacle and it was still not working.

The exact same hardware and configuration were flawless with VD, even better than SteamVR when it still worked.

So yeah, I’ll try again, if for no other reason because I need something that works better with linux. Unfortunately no VD there.

I meed to try SteamLink/SteamVR again. It’s been completely unusable for me for more than a year, so I had given up on it for a while.

I went for Vietual Desktop on windows and WIVRn on linux. VD worked perfectly, WiVRn was buggy but at least functional. SteamVR got utterly broken in an update and removed access to the previous functional build, Very shitty support for months.

I hope they finally got their shit together, because, they’re not doing that as a gift. They’re selling the games. Them fucking with compatibility of previously functional hardware for months was terrible.

I thought 4-player was already making it a bit difficult to see where you’re going… 8 must be complete chaos.

I wonder how it runs though. Even on Switch MK8 4-player’s framerate is a bit subpar, despite culling a bit of scenery and such.

I don’t design web apps but I’ve heard from some that do that firefox occasionally has problems with them, because it relies a lot on caching (actually they used the term “aggressive caching”, with a few extra choice words).

Anyway, usually not a problem. I use edge only for work since it’s the default browser and I barely do any actual browsing with it, mostly light app clients. On my own devices, it’s been firefox only for years.

Few years ago I completed the pokedex on Gen 6/7, using transfers back from Gen 4-5. That was fun. Especially Black, the way they balanced content in BW felt very fresh IMO, and the sprite work is very nice in Gen 5.

I kinda fell off the series after USUM, didn’t care about Let’s Go, there was the “dexit” debacle, the whole “get used to not being able to get eveyone in one game from now on”. And then the absurdly bad performance/glitch reports in new episodes.

Pokopia is my only Pokémon-adjacent game since Ultra-Moon, and that’s mainly because I heard it was great and I liked Dragon Quest Builders 2. And, to be honest, it is a very cool game. I just finished the base game’s pokédex.

Still a good thing to keep documenting the many reasons why people shouldn’t use it in my book.

I was curious how you were supposed to configure the thing’s output… and of course it has to be a mobile app.

I’d prefer physical buttons I can check and change whenever like an actual old school power adapter.

Real problems like gen AI’s impact on the environment and the cost and accessibility of technology?

Dude, have you seen Andromeda reviews ? We got it good.

… I am letting everyone decide if it’s about the thing with Kevin Sorbo or Mass Effect, or whatever other one I might not know.