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And what's the idea getting stoned in the middle of the boss fight?

Mad Gods taking passwords again?

At least the textile machines could mass produce a product of equal or better quality than what came before, though.

AI is putting people out of work to mass produce crap.

So you're blessed and I'm damned, then?

Well, at least it's good to know the RNG still likes me when it rolls for hit points.

And if they do, the dumbass voters will blame them for the discomfort and vote the predators back into office.

Dr. Strange needs to read the possible futures find us a long term outcome where we're not all screwed.

Like I said, I think if you take down the Big Foozle it might let you type in the password again post endgame.

Bigbad, I mean.

IIRC it might only work before you enter the mad god dungeon the first time or after you beat the bogbad.

It's an Easter Egg in all but the original port of BT. Courtesy of the late, great Becky Heineman. Type "burger" as the password to the mad god temple and you get a couple more challenging 4x99 fights.

Ah, -that- fight.

You plan on doing the "burger battles" at some point, too?

There's an ethical dilemma. If the AI -is- at the level of Data from Star Trek, such that it is really sentient and/or sapient, then it being corporate owned is somewhat problematic.

Ouch. Dealt with that sort of crap from my not quite ex for 7+ years now.

Just ignore her. Block all communications except on one channel (that has good archiving in case you need evidence later), and don't even dignify stupid BS with an answer.

Harry Truman often referred to that political tactic as "the big lie".

Well they did, but how could the ones we met in the game even scratch the paint on the Tiger's Claw?

That menu looks familiar.

Yup. Penneys closed than location a while back, though.

Too lazy to dig up a video, but Back to the Future.

My first job was at the JC Penney that was in the background of the parking lot where they first activate the deLorean.

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Was it inevitable?

Or have we just been conditioned to believe that (like the AI bros are trying to condition us now)?

If you count the Portal games (which exist in the same universe), it's 2011.

I mean, it could be worse in this case, but I consider the death of all forms of physical media a bad thing. Last thing I want in life is a corporate landlord controlling my access to the things I enjoy.

Would be nice if they wanted to revisit their gaming IPs more often, instead of milking the cash cow. My 13-year old daughter played through and enjoyed every Half-Life title, and it's kind of frustrating that the series just drops off a year before she was born (we aren't counting the VR title).

Portal 2: 2011.

It's been a while for them.

Is their publishing platform keeping PC gaming alive? Who knows? I guess they deserve some kudos for insuring EA's platform never took off.

Love or loved? The game company or the publisher? Can you name the last Valve game you enjoyed?

Star Wars bagels doesn't qualify as a weird kink?

"He has to go"

Great. I'm sure we all agree with that. But.. who are you going to replace him with, and how are they going to get better results?

I mean, it might be true, but we're talking about the word of a gutless scab, so who knows?

Modern Street fans wouldn't even know. Original Gordon, Orange Oscar, no sign of the insipid red moneymaker.

Yeah.
I guess if you asked the Bellbot in Starship Titanic about the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, the game will pick some variation of the "I don't know about that" reply, where an AI might crib something plagiarized off the internet for you, but how does that make the game any better?

I used to own that one. Developed by Douglas Adams, and they even got Python Terry Jones to play the obnoxious parrot.

I'd say its ability to parse context from the typed text wasn't noticeably worse than what we see today.