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I hunger for Mega Man 12 and X9.

And Legends 3, but I dare not hope.

@Exerion76 Yeah, a lot of 70s and 80s floppies were built to last. Now there is the issue of magnetic degradation, which no amount of careful handling will prevent, but the overall build quality really went downhill over the years.

Yeah no it won't. Just like how cars remain immensely helpful for ordinary folks despite evil corporations lining their pockets with gold via automobiles, AI will remain immensely helpful for ordinary folks despite big corporations using it to try to get even richer.

The only thing this AI fearmongering does is encourage a world where WE are denied it, but the rich and powerful still get to use it with impunity.

As long as they make only minimal changes to Metal Shark Player's stage. Best stage in the game: tough, brutal, but fair, and one that a steady hand and skilled play can navigate around.

@jygsaw Let the fearmongering commence!

Maximum portability!

@Slider2711 Literally everything, AI and otherwise, will be abused by greedy billionnaire interests. That particular argument against AI is about as valid as arguing against people using cars because big auto manufacturers lobby governments for handouts.

Automation, where it makes sense, is a GOOD thing. The BAD thing is the system that keeps us all afraid of one day not getting a paycheck.

Yay for more AI fearmongering!

Funny how there were no articles about Hideo Kojima's recent (and reasonable) tweats about AI.

I'd like a real DS Lite modded into this case.

Quick guys, let's all take this out of context and be offended by it.

@breach187 I break all sealz

Miyamoto seething right now lol.

Best nab it now in case Nintendo gets litigious.

I got one of those flower crown Eevees in Pokemon Go and it evolved into a Flareon that I then named Fireflowerz.

Some people didn't play Nintendo in NA and other parts of the world either. Maybe they were a Sega household, or had computers and played PC games, etc. I knew at least one of each.

Anyone actually mad about this is a grade A moron.

@AzzurraIrisLeaMonde I appreciate all that, but I caution against being so quick to raise pitchforks against others. Even if that person is indeed all of those things, it will accomplish nothing and serve noone.

@Grackler I wonder if Ubuntu Touch could be an option too...

@AzzurraIrisLeaMonde Are they actually any of these things or are you just looking to further a different kind of corporate BS in the form of cancel culture?

Yup. All corporate BS to serve their paymasters.

@Tomtomwho You're a tad younger than I am. Glad your kids like the thing. I also liked garbage when I was a child.

@N64-ROX I am 102% certain there is nothing on the Playdate that doesn't have a much, much, muuuuuuuuuch better counterpart elsewhere.

Rich kid toy for rich people and those with issues hanging on to their money. Not trolling to call it what it is.

@jesse_dylan Yes, and normally one of those benefits is that a device is not priced as though it DOES have a lit screen. Also not everyone has easy access to natural light.

@naxuu I'm sorry they took your money.

@ArcadeRacingCENTRAL I have replaced "slop" with "garbage" just for you.

Comment section is a fantastically depressing example of how brainwashed people are into defending IP law.

I still can't believe the PlayDate found an audience. People love overpriced garbage consoles lacking even a basic lit screen it seems.

@Johnny_Arthur There are way worse things, including 99.6% of modern anime.

Yessssssssss! So good.

While there are some "worst episode of anything in the history of anything" contenders (e.g., Curse of the Lion Men), there are some legit great episodes (e.g., Mega X). The good outweighs the bad.

@cyxceven Yup, and if you point that out, you're "unconstructive."

I love those old dubs. Nostalgia.

The article is paywalled so I can't confirm, but it seems clear the idea is to compare video game AI with how generative AI amasses and presents data.

It isn't an entirely outlandish comparison, if you boil everything down to its base. And like everything else to do with AI fearmongering, being mad about the comparison is silly.

@jamess It will never replace the "soul" of art because that is the creator's voice, and that requires a human being. Art is in the editing, in the chipping away, in the taking of what came before. Nothing is wholly (un)original, which is why the AI fearmongering nonsense is exactly that.

But as to the crux of your post on how AI continues to improve, it does continue to make impressive gains. AI is a fantastic tool for people, but barring a Dr. Light/Wily making an artificial brain, it won't supplant human creativity.

@xenobladexfan I've been playing games since the 80s and what you're saying is lunacy. There were politically charged titles back then, and there are great games without that nonsense today. You're just looking for a reason to be a retro snob.

Gamers exist in 2025 without developing deep resentments over nothing challenge (failed).

Oh no there's an NES cartridge in an SNES, the horror.

@Mario500 Yeah but the bible also puts prices, in shekels, on how much a human is worth. So I wouldn't worry too much.

I did know this, thanks to Cybershell.

There are valid reasons to hate on LRG.

This is not one of them.

Yay for more AI fearmongering. So good you guys.

@RextheSheep I will comment as I see fit, thanks.

@slider1983 people keep hating on him for no good reason. He probably thinks, "***** it."

@Omarzuqo Neither was butchered. Both are great. And yes I've been a fan of both since their original games.

@Damo k

filler

@Damo If AI "steals without permission" then so does any sort of inspiration drawn from consuming anyone else's work.

But again, we've been over this.

@Robbo870 I use em dashes in my writing all the time. And sometimes an en or em dash is more appropriate than a comma. Oh, and I'm a paid technical writer and marketing copywriter, so this isn't a personal opinion, it's a professional opinion. As is this: you shouldn't talk about what you don't understand.

@PHEAL Sure would be nice, wouldn't it?

@Damo Oh I know we don't have much to say, since everything I tried to say to you last time we went back and forth was thoroughly ignored, but unfortunately you're a mod and I can't put you on the blocklist.

It's not a "threat" it's a tool.

Whether he wrote it or not, it's true. Flat fines, fees, and taxes mean little to the wealthy. But the follies of late-stage capitalism require far more than just a fix to that system.

One of my favorite SNES games. I loved that you got extra scenes in the ending if you finished in one sitting without letting anyone's lives hit 0.

The thing is I find modern bullet hell type games waaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier than older shmups like Raiden and the like. The bullet hell games' player ships have tiny hitboxes and the patterns are fair and reward smart play. In older shmups there are way fewer bullets but your ship's hitbox is much larger and the bullets will come at you VERY quickly from enemies positioned to steal your quarter.

Gunvein is a recent bullet hell shmup that actually teaches some of the genre's fundamentals, and it wasn't that long ago that Jamestown+ dropped with an approach to, well, approachability which let players tackles levels one at a time with multiple difficulty levels and a great story to tie it all together.

@smoreon They're good and very melancholy games. Sadness abounds in backstories and in-game events both, including some that I still think about to this day, for better AND worse.