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@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

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@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.

BoF4 is not my favorite one, but it's real interesting that it has just been re-released...

@Trundlebug Agreed. There's nothing more annoying than when a review tries to put some controversy on the forefront like it matters for duck all. Do that separately, or not at all.

But but if Nintendo lets Nightdive do it how is Nintendo going to bolt on nuisance features like forcing mouse mode with backwards-ass controls (that cannot be remapped) designed by Miyamoto-san himself?

@jesse_dylan 100% correct. It's a demo, a proof of concept. But hey, can't do anything with AI without the fearmongers throwing a fit.

@Profchaos if you look at the battery and it isn't puffing up like a balloon, you're probably fine. If still in doubt, show it to the staff at a phone/tablet repair shop.

Sometime late last year we had not 1, not 2, but 4 (!) lithium batteries in our household get bloated. One from a laptop, one from a Switch Pro Controller, one from a cell phone, and yes, one from an old PSP.

Though idle lithium batteries blowing up is a rare thing, it's still dangerous. Keep tabs on all the things in your house that use lithium batteries.

Still better than Final Fantasy 11.

I like it.

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I don't wear watches, but if I did it'd be one of these.

@smoreon A true pioneer. RIP though.

Just goes to show that gaming journalism has always been rather mid.

@MARl0 V-sync will only fix one of these things lol

The "Place vs. Place, Japan" meme made manifest.

Oh man I'm a huge fan of Infinity Gene. I can't wait to not purchase or play this because ***** Apple Arcade.

Bring back Pac Man 99

Gotta grab this before Nintendo Nintendos.

@drypaphmrbro Yeah. It's a simple platformer but it plays well. If you need something deeper though, it may not be for you.

@drypaphmrbro It's a great game! But I haven't played it in a while; I don't recall who voices who.

Nah, one is hopeful and the other is just a bitter man's fetishization about the end of humanity.

I liked my Arzette special edition stuff, and am currently wearing said t-shirt under my work shirt. So good on THAT, but yeah, LRG been taking loads of Ls lately.

He makes a very good point.

@slider1983 Here's hoping.

Even though you could, you shouldn't.

This looks like the Amico version of the game, which admittedly looked like fun.

Shame about the Amico. Some of those games looked cool. I hope they see the light of day on other platforms.

You need both: a) to be superhuman; and 2) to be extraordinarily lucky with RNG.

Devils you know and devils you don't. The "sides" only pretend to hate each other as they rile up their demographics against the others.

That said: no, it won't affect the things I'm going to buy, but I'm already pretty frugal with my gaming purchases and prefer to play what I have than yearn for what I don't.

Seems easy to read looks like about 25:80 GM.

@poyo_pie Agreed 100%.

For this alone I hope someone finds a way to rip the models from the PS5 version. Just to piss off these puritans.

Also @poyo_pie is most likely correct; they couldn't port it well so they're virtue signaling instead.

I'm torn because while I do think these companies should provide free rollback when they can AND SNK has been one of them before, I also get that doing so ain't cheap.

BUT some of my sympathy evaporates when I remember how so many people 15 years ago begged and pleaded with Capcom, SNK, and ArcSys to PLEASE use rollback netcode like SF2 HD Remix did so well, and all three were like "lol but what if we don't."