I choose to believe these are rage-bait and false flags. Otherwise, multiple someones managed to learn a language with so little introspection and contextual understanding that I’d have to downgrade them to an LLM.

I refuse to amplify that. Sounds like Cyberpunk “gonk and choomba” nonsense.

I’ll call them “comm(s)” as Izanagi intended.

Why are publishers speaking for devs about how much choice devs would have? Why not get devs to speak?

The only asari I’ll ever truly accept is Dr. Liara T’soni, my OTL.

Ah yeah, of course not. Who would live in a hellscape where having an apartment to yourself is a fantasy?

Ay, you live in Boston too?

Once again, we have lawmakers just making spurious if not outright false statements with no repercussions. When your words decide people’s reality, you should be afraid of what you say. And I don’t see that fear in legislators.

They just say whatever the fuck incorrect bullshit they wish, and walk it back at their leisure when the effect is already resolved in throughout news media. The world’s gotten their soundclip, the base started foaming when they heard their whistles, and then the politican quietly amends “oh, I obviously didn’t mean that.” If more politicans shut the fuck up because they were scared of the repercussions of walking their statements back, then maybe there’d be more reporting on what they’ve done then the inflammatorily idiotic shit they spew every other day.

You want to have a non-final product write the training for the next level of bot? Sure, makes sense if you’re stupid. Why did all these companies waste time stealing when they could just have one bot make data for the next bot to train on? Infinite data!

How is that weird? You can be fine with suboptimal stuff, and recognize it’s suboptimal. Some people like their relatives and wished they could talk together more readily. Letters were just the fastest (while economical) method of doing that for a while.

I should be given uncontested control of the world’s resources for 1 year.

My opponent: the mother Gaia.

I believe that if you wouldn’t be your own current-self’s friend, then you are not your authentic self. You aren’t doing what you like or acting in ways you find enjoyable.

This one is REAL rough, not much interesting I’ve seen

Yeah, it’s not trendy but I don’t think we can do trendy unless we do like I said and derive from standout games with identifiable suites of mechanics. You just have to be descriptive or accept heavy overlap.

“Auto shooter” is not very descriptive. In 10 years, someone would be having this same conversation about that term. Asteroids is basically an auto shooter because there’s no reason to not always be shooting, it’s effectively a QOL change. Some bullet hells too.

Video game genres are one of the few fields in which I’m not a prescriptivist. But survivorlikes only aren’t called RPGs because Vampire Survivor is embossed on the whole subgenre. The suite of mechanics rose to high prominence on the back of one game (or franchise, in the case of Soulslikes) rather than refined through years of experimentation.

We aren’t going to get more, simple names unless they’re similarly derived from a single, famous ancestor like your “Soulslike”. But you can always just be descriptive. Diablo/PoE are “top-down gear-grind RPGs”; it’s jargony but all subgenres are.

I’ve never seen Horizon Zero Dawn called an ARPG but that does seem to be the consensus. I’ve always considered games like that or new God of War to be “adventure games”.

Don’t tempt them. Or they’ll keep releasing Deltarune(-derivative clones) for the next 5 years

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I can’t say “yes” because I refuse to give Ted Cruz positive reinforcement.

But it’s appropriate.

Don’t put this evil on them. They were justifiably worried about Brittney

I do not like that man, Ted Cruz

I do not like him in the news

I do not like his stupid words

That spew from him like verbal turds

I pray to hear the day he dies

For once, a good, Ted Cruz surprise