I have two games running, one single player with Stardew Valley Expanded, and one vanilla co-op. I guess I will have to deal with "unlocking a bunch of stuff right away when I load up my old save". Unless the update breaks SVE...:dizzy:

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Quoting: GuestI got so excited for a moment seeing the headline. The things I would give for them to mash PoE 2's combat and multiclass system with the original game.. Had so much fun with the systems in 2 but not so much the setting and plot, the exact opposite with the first.

I agree 100%.

That was also true with Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (although in that case number 2 had superior mechanics and writing), and Beamdog improved BG1 significantly by including class kits from BG2 in BG1 Enhanced Edition. If we wait 10+ years, maybe they will do a PoE1 Enhanced Edition and make our dream come true. :grin:

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Quoting: NodHere [External Link] is a counter opinion that might give you a bit of hope.

But there will be silver linings to The Great Robot Spam Flood of 2024. It will drive us into healthier online communities. It will spotlight and boost the value of authored creativity. And it may help give birth to a new generation of independent media.

Robots will make the internet more human.

Essentially he argues that AI content will turbo charge the already dire enshittification of content on the internet such that the experience is so bad that it drives people towards sites just like this one. Ones that prioritize content "by humans, for humans".

I wish it were true but I don't believe it.

When both smartphones and social networks appeared, internet was suddenly flooded with pictures (and later videos) shot with cheap cameras by people who had almost never taken a picture before. That was human work, sure, but I think it's comparable to the rising of AI because we saw a brutal increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Did that raise the interest for quality pictures by photographs ? Maybe for a very small fraction of humanity, yes, but the rest of us takes, posts and watches even more crap pictures and videos than we did 15 years ago...

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Although I share your concerns about what the web might when AIs are (even more) all over the place, I see something interesting there as well : AI has the potential to render the whole idea of intellectual property obsolete. And if it's OK for AIs to disregard it, why would it be any different for humans ?

After all, AIs are just doing on a way much larger scale what humans have already been doing for millennia : any creative work is inspired (consciously or not) by many other works that preceded it. If the border between inspiration and plagiarism is so difficult to define, it may be because it does not make much sense to create one. If AIs can help the world understand that and promote other ways to generate money from creative work, it could be for the better.

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I suppose anything with pixel graphics will slowly become tagged as "Boomer something". Can't wait to see Dead Cells tagged as both "Boomer Metroidvania" and "Boomer Roguelike". :grin:

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I played 52 different games and my most played this year is Slay the Spire.

My most notable achievement is having played 0 game released in 2023. Why the hell am I reading a blog about gaming news ? :tongue:

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Every time I see these stats, I'm amazed to see Stardew Valley so high in the list. A 7 years old one-developer game being the 4th most played among some of the biggest recent productions is an incredible achievement !

It's absolutely deserved, but still, wow !

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At first I wondered if it was really different from any medieval RTS in which people ride boring animals, like horses or camels. Then I see a dino charging into a castle wall and destroying it.

I guess that's the difference. :happy:

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Inspired in parts by OpenTTD, Mini Metro, Two Point Hospital, Lets Build a Zoo and Opus Magnum

So... a puzzle game where you gain money from building efficient railroad networks to transport sick animals from zoos to veterinary clinics, so they can be cured with alchemical potions ? :happy:

Yeah, I think I want to play that ! :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe non-apology, take-no-responsibility apology is taught in PR/corporatelawyercritter 101. Say what you did was actually wrong and it could be the basis for a lawsuit, goes the reasoning. Some of the more up-to-date corporate flacks who took recent PR 201 have actually been told "The non-apology apology is so cliched that everybody notices what you're doing; they just annoy the public. Genuine apologies are much more effective." Apparently the Unity folks don't have any of the more recent PR graduates.

Or maybe they went to PR 301 and are ahead of their time. At some point, the public will start noticing that every company does the fake genuine apologies taught in PR 201 and they will have to try something else again. :whistle:

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