Yep, hence the “may or may not” part of my statement. The practice not entirely new either, since a few publishers have been doing that for a while now as a “platform-agnostic” way to handle collector editions. Just weirder for Sony, since they only have one platform they’re releasing on, but presumably they want it to be interpreted as giving the “choice” (read: opportunity to give us more money) for people to also choose between the standard and digital deluxe edition.
Does two high profile releases make a trend?
I mean, from Sony’s own mouth, it is. They’re done with discs, it’s the whole big controversy lately. Physical collector editions will be nothing more than a bundle of game tchotchkes that may or may not come with a code to download the game itself.
This. Also not sure what the law is like where you live, OP, but there are often cases where it is permissible to withhold part or all of your rent payments if the landlord refuses to perform necessary repairs and upkeep.
Get it in writing that you’ve requested your landlord address the washing machines. If they refuse, clean it yourself and then deduct the cost of supplies plus reasonable cost of labor from your next rent payment.
Right, I just mean that, unless including the X is a prerequisite, this is simpler:
I feel like you could do that in a much less complicated way without the weird X going through it.
Just draw a square starting from the top left going clockwise, and then when you close the square back in the top left corner, keep your pen on the page and cap it with a triangle.
I believe so. It’s some solid sci-fi. I’ve heard grievances from a lot of fans of the book because it is not a very faithful adaptation in the slightest, but I think they managed to put together something that works better for TV and manages to tell an interesting story in its own right.
Some parts of the narrative fall a bit more flat than others, but the highs of the series have (so far) done more than enough to make up for the lows for me.
And I’m just thankful to have more space sci-fi that isn’t trying to be another Star Wars.
Knights of Guinevere is an animation series by Glitch, the creators of some other amazing works that are freely available on YouTube.
Just to add some more context, the specific creator behind this series is Dana Terrace, who also created The Owl House.
Knights of Guinevere is easy to interpret as something of a hit piece against Disney, who canceled The Owl House for not being “on-brand” despite being a commercial and critical hit.
This. I played it a bit at launch and gave it another fair shake recently. There were some QoL mods that fixed a few major issues I had with the game, and some of the updates they added since were appreciated.
But I think the game is just flawed at its core. It’s got a lot of neat set dressing around it, but it’s missing some key central pillars to support its gameplay loop. I can’t say it’s a bad game because I still ended up sinking a good few hours into it, but both times I walked away from it, it was from lack of motivation to continue.
For me at least, I think I couldn’t stop comparing its various systems to better games.
I could play Starfield for the story and RPG mechanics, or I could play Cyberpunk 2077.
I could play Starfield for the planetary exploration, or I could play No Man’s Sky.
I could play Starfield for the base building and resource economy, or I could play Satisfactory.
Now, none of those other games individually attempted to do what Starfield did in a single package, which you’d think should still give it a niche of its own. But when all of these systems in Starfield just sit in isolation and don’t really cross one another, it means you’re basically playing several “meh” games instead of one decent one.
When I was younger, I always found it comical when you have alien characters in movies and such disguise themselves as a human. Because you think “Haha, that disguise is so bad, there’s no way anyone would believe it,” but then hilariously a lot of people do.
This is that moment.
Gavin realizing he will never be president, so he is trying to secure his future as a Silicon Valley lobbyist.
And the engine work is a lot of extra development time added on, because it can’t be done concurrently with much of the later game design work.
In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650
Just to contextualize this, the average house in Maine will use about 100 gallons (about 379L) of heating oil each month in winter. Older homes will use more. At the current average of $6/gal, you’re looking at paying $20 per day for heat, or $140 per week. And that’s assuming prices don’t continue to get worse as oil reserves are drained.
I am in the camp of “try it anyways”. Worst that can happen is what would happen anyways if you didn’t.
I’m a serial pessimist, so it’s more of a reflex at this point to avoid disappointment, but I still believe in fighting the good fight.
Maybe, but the courts are also stacked in favor of Trump. They can go all the way to the Supreme Court with it, but it’ll end in his favor in a 5-4 split decision.
I don’t really use it personally (other than times I log in on a work computer, look something up, and Google’s AI search defaults). But I also don’t really condemn it as strongly as others seem to, I guess. It depends on how it’s used.
When it’s used to take work done by humans, then regurgitate its own version of that work to replace those jobs, that’s a problem. If actual artists, writers, designers, engineers, coders, etc. can no longer earn a living after being replaced by AI, we run the risk of complete cultural and developmental stagnation.
But I think my main point of disagreement with a lot of the AI conversations happening here revolves around how we look at waste and environmental impact. Not in the sense that AI isn’t still a problem in those aspects, but that it seems like a very convenient boogeyman for people to blame while ignoring the myriad other wasteful aspects of the world we live in.
Basically, with the environmental impact of data centers and energy costs of hardware in general, why do we focus so much on what that compute is used for, as opposed to addressing those issues in a more comprehensive sense? Does it matter if a data center is built for AI or for any other hosting provider? Or if someone runs a local AI model on their PC, is that any more detrimental to the environment than someone who plays video games for several hours each day?
I feel like there are lines that people who claim to primarily care about the environment are afraid to draw, when it’s easier to pin the blame wholly on AI. So if someone says that they used AI to help make their spreadsheets cleaner, to translate a website, or to summarize the content of a book, I don’t really jump straight to blanket criticism. Otherwise I’d have to take the same criticism towards people who host a plex server, who play MMOs, or who run Lemmy instances.
If you have balls, just make sure you keep them clean.
If you have a vagina, that is how you get a UTI and the practice should best be avoided entirely.
I considered that, but the water that comes out of our well is ice cold. Not the most pleasant of sensations to grace your sensitive bits.
I’d ideally like to get one of the electronic ones that can regulate temperature and has a few different modes. But I don’t currently have an electrical outlet anywhere close to the toilets, and rewiring the bathroom isn’t high on the budget priority at the moment.
Sony did it for Spider-Man before this: https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/collectors-editions-without-game-good-200013882.html
Happened for Dragon Age Veilguard: https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-veilguard-collectors-edition-rooks-coffer-1851623607
Diablo 4 as well: https://www.psu.com/news/diablo-4-limited-collectors-edition-costs-nearly-100-but-doesnt-include-the-game-itself/
There’s a bunch more, but that’s just what I grabbed in a couple mins of searching.