Valentine Kozin

Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight

I play the piano, it's in the name
Why would you think that I sing?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is the best RPG I’ve ever played Henry’s marvelous medieval adventures redefine the meaning of ‘immersion’

Henry’s marvelous medieval adventures redefine the meaning of ‘immersion’

Text excerpt: In a "true" metroidbrania, what you know is the only real form of progression; a player who already knows all the secrets can start a fresh save and immediately go through the motions of beating the game, skipping over most of the game.

It's interesting that the author is baffled by the inclusion of Gone Home, but while it arguably maybe doesn't fit the genre in spirit, it very much meets the technical definition argued here? If you've played the game before you very much *can* just use that knowledge to immediately go and beat it.

Having a hell of a good time with Seance of Blake Manor 😊
We should be so lucky as to have both Blue Prince and Blake Manor come out within the same year.

FWIW I find grades inherently confusing in games! It's always very hard to tell what the top and bottom of the range is: D to A? F to A+? F- to A++? And what the heck does S mean? That's not a grade! 😅 Never played any gacha games, but stars (or equivalent?) does feel like a cleaner read.

I've just found out which Babylonian god people prayed to to get up early in the morning - Ninurta!
'To do business at the quay where traffic rushes swiftly by,
You, O unrivalled king of the world, rouse at daybreak him who else would not rise.'
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As a Locked Tomb fan I support this

Goddammit, with every single other one of these on this list a sheer personal 10/10, I really need to get around to trying 1000x Resist, don't I?

Infrared false colour photo showing a photo of cotton-candy-pink trees, blue skies and one featureless white flag.

Infrared false colour photo showing blue skies and one featureless white flag.

Infrared false colour photo showing a photo of cotton-candy-pink trees, blue skies and one featureless white flag atop a lamp post.

Too Far Left Off The Visible Spectrum

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Strange Horticulture was the cosiest puzzle game that was enormously fun, and Strange Antiquities is the perfect follow-up. Getting close to the end now and thoroughly enjoying it.

And also let's get rid of all our wires because why, surely nobody could possibly want to plug things in any percentage of the time now that Bluetooth is invented.

I wish just once they'd justify what they mean when they say any part of the left is a death cult and how it's a death cult. It's such a vague, nonsense claim that's can't really be argued against because it's meaningless, and yet is wielded with such fervor. Yet they never do, for obvious reasons.

Got to give it a poke when we briefly helped out on it, it had such gorgeous environments! Always such a shame for so much beautiful art work to not see the light of day 😔

The Lionel Hutz business card meme, but it's just one panel: "This meme makes sense on its own No context required"

Every time there's a cabinet reshuffle, I just really want someone to make a deck builder game based on parliamentary politics where you can literally reshuffle your deck and draw a new cabinet as a mechanic.

How... how does it not?! WTF US, every time I think I've wrapped my head around what an absolute hellscape US healthcare is, I find out some new depth of perversion like this.

This is very good.

the reason I’ve been so vocal about the water use of AI thing is that the most commonly cited stuff saying it’s bad doesn’t add up & I think it’s important to be accurate about the negative impacts of this tech. if 1/3 of your cited issues are wrong, an informed listener may doubt the remaining 2.

Yes! Having done blacksmithing before myself, I really enjoyed how it captures the feeling of it! I'd have enjoyed it to be 10x more granular, and I'm still a bit sad that you can't make your own pommels and cross guards, but it's a great minigame and IMO captures the process really well!

(Specifically, many of the recipes seem to be inspired by the 12th century Hildegard von Bingen's Physica)

Should only need to run it on the one high refresh rate display as it'll always render the top strip at the highest fps and then step down from there, so you can immediately see side by side 240, 120, 60 etc on the same display! Few different visualisation modes too!

Blur Busters TestUFO Motion Tests. Benchmark for monitors & displays. Blur Busters UFO Motion Tests with ghosting test, 30fps vs 60fps vs 120hz vs 144hz vs 240hz, PWM test, motion blur test, judder test, benchmarks, and more.

I challenge anyone who claims they don't see a difference above 60 fps to run www.testufo.com on a high refresh rate monitor and insist they look the same.

Turns out, this is what good, prescient science fiction looks like after all 🥹

Posted by bduxbellorum 7 years ago: Holy shit, that was by far the stupidest scene in the episodes for me. Let's build an ethical AI that's smart enough to figure out when it's necessary to change from protocol. But let's have that AI be too ignorant to actually use that capacity until it is challenged/coached through it by a smart lawyer-like prisoner! Her arguments were not clever! Her instructions were not clever! But the AI would have let her die if she hadn't asked for them specifically. Any AI smart enough to calculate the odds of escape would have taken action so long before being asked by a human, this scene should never have happened. This was mind-killingly earth shatteringly stupid. This multi-billion dollar spaceship has The Microsoft Paperclip for its AI.

Seven year old Reddit comment sums it up better than me

One of the scenes that made me stop watching Star Trek Discovery was in S01E02 where the protagonist, confined to the brig, enters an ethical debate with the ship's computer and convinces it to let her go. Little did I know only a few years later it would become the most realistic part of the show 😔

Big fan of how the Kingdom Come Deliverance series does this - showed the alchemy mini game once to my dad and he expressed scepticism that anyone would be preparing potions in real life the way the game presents it. After a bit of research, found nearly identical actual medical recipes!

I had to do a double-take, and then remembered again that there are non-Soviet Munchausen films too

Bad (or good?) news when you realise that arguably all software used in making games is ultimately just different, specialised and fancy types of spreadsheet editor.

But it sure is a pretty camera (I'm reassuring myself, mainly).