I liked it, but it does get pretty dull in the end game. Lots of repetitive body management, and you get into a perfectionist mindset where you want to only put top-tier bodies into the ground or to work as zombies, so you end up burning a lot of bodies and grinding for good organs.
Plus, the story goes basically no where even with the expansions. A lot of fun, good for that Stardew Valley itch, but flawed. Hopefully their sequel is a richer game.
Makes sense if you consider how LLMs work. No expert starts off a piece of writing with “I am an expert in math, here is a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.”
You’d get better results prompting it for a style of document. Instead of “you are a screenwriter” just start it off “Script for Harry Potter Goes for Surf n TERF. Scene 1: The Sweaty Troll, a wizard gay bar” and then let it run from there.
“Artificial Intelligence” is a very broad term that, within computer science, covers a range of techniques and tools that broadly cover the study of “human-like behavior and impersonation.” Before the current fad of calling LLMs “AI”, the term was most often used in video games and covered techniques for pathfinding, decision making, reacting, seeming to speak, etc. Before that, pre-90s basically, “AI” had already undergone a few boom and bust cycles of hype with chess playing machines and, as always, chat bots.
In many fields, many of these same techniques and their descendants are being used to model and simulate and predict. All of them have trade-offs and limitations, that’s what computer science is all about.
A fun and unique RTS, really trying to break the StarCraft\C&C\TA mold and do some unique things. I don’t know about the MP strategy or macro, but the morphing units and the perimeter itself plus energy management make for pretty good gimmicks and a decently fun SP campaign.
As others have said, marijuana is almost never adulterated. At best, you could mix some CBD or non psychoactive hemp to stretch it, but it’d be less potent and weed buyers today often buy for potency. (Not me man, I’m old, gimme that weak dad grass any day!) And of course, everyone has a story about the kid that bought a pound of oregano and thought it was ditch-grass.
For other harder drugs, you do sometimes get adulteration. Fentanyl, being a very powerful opiate, is sometimes mixed in small amounts into other “white powder” drugs, like heroin or cocaine, sometimes along with cheap non-reactive filler like talc. This is to stretch supply and make more money for the dealer. Ideally, this wouldn’t kill their users but:
The people are calling him Mua’Roo, they say he is their prophesied messiah.
We must crush this Mua’Roo, and his witch mother Kangessica.
Pepperidge Farm remembers…
Actually their logo has really only had the 2 iterations (and apparently a couple of real goofy attempts in the early 00’s)
U7 was one of my first favorite games and probably set me uo to hate EA from a very young age, you know, along with watching them wreck all my favorite game studios for my whole life.
Really cool! I kind of love it 😍
If I may ask, what’s your process like? Do you draw the path or the maze first? Do you ever do labyrinths? Do you follow some heuristic or just let the maze flow?
I also underwent a shift from atheism and materialism (in reaction to my Christian upbringing) into a more syncretic form of personal spirituality. I’ve really taken to heart the idea (which i think I learned from Jodorowsky) that magic is a language which speaks to the unconscious, and so spirituality isn’t just comforting woo, but actually can shift beliefs and ideas, impacting behaviors and outcomes. I also think spirituality is vital to community and buidling better societies.
This suggests that one day, Rick Astley would give us up. I’ve been personally reassured that he would never do that.
There are a lot of tools out there not pretending, let alone the AI ones.
I love how noodly and lanky they are! Gorgeous setting too!
Is that date important? I forget
For all these former-AI-booster takes and realizations about the nightmare they’ve ushered in, I’ve yet to see anyone really comprehend why this is happening and why it won’t stop. It isnt just “shareholders like AI.”
This is the final bet. If one of these companies figures it out, they genuinely believe it’ll be the end of workers, the end of labor cost, and the dawn of an era of unlimited profit. They believe that. I mean what’s far more likely is that it rapidly gets hooked into the MIC and we get actual Skynet kicking off the Apocalypse. Or maybe just the complete annihilation of the economy as we all get a global experiment in what it looks like when “consumers” don’t exist anymore and everything is 100% supply side. But not one of these “rational actors” can bear the thought that they’d miss out on a bet with an infinite possible payout, therefore any amount must he wagered.
I completely agree. I’ve been sharing some art I’m doing for inktober, but only because it’s doodles for practice, and could only make ai art worse for it’s inclusion.
But my writing (on my personal website) or my serious art works or my persona open source code projects? Yeah, I have lost all enthusiasm to share them online. If people want to see my work, I’ll send it to them directly.
I think the era of free and open sharing on the Internet is dead, which does sadden me. I think we’re ultimately moving to a new dark age, the Dark Net Age, where all communication and sharing will go into various private chats and sites, where people can be vetted and held accountable.
Well people that care, which will end up being like the early internet: smart kids, embattled minorities, and crotchety, paranoid old folks. All the people too busy or ignorant to care are already deep into the algorithmic treadmills of X and TikTok and I don’t think they’re ever coming out.
This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.
I’ve really enjoyed getting to see your other artistic skills this month! It gives me a new appreciation for the skill and effort you bring into the heathcliff edits!
Awesome interpretation of the theme! And who doesn’t love drawing a cool sword or two?
This explains that recent “new footage”