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But what does any of this have to do with Mathilda from Léon: The Professional?

(Is the app I’m using showing the wrong image? That’s something that’s been known to happen occasionally.)

using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile

[citation needed]

There was a PS2 game called Anubis II, but no Anubis I. Though it was technically a sequel…to Ninjabread Man.

The Gorky series started with Gorky 17, followed by Gorky 0, and then finally Gorky 02.

The Clock Tower series kind of did this in reverse. The original was Japan-only, so when Clock Tower 2 was localized they dropped the number. And the same with King’s Field.

He should try emailing the text of Ezekiel 23:20 to his coworkers and see what happens.

Are you sure that was Nintendo’s doing? Just off the top of my head, both Castlevania and Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins had religious imagery and references to death on the NES.

Yeah there’s definitely overlap, especially considering that every single racist is necessarily also a racialist. But the inverse doesn’t hold; it’s like squares and rectangles.

Racism is the belief that some races are better than others. Racialism is the belief that races exist at all.

The argument also ignores that these platforms don’t charge more than the original brick and mortar distribution systems they replaced, under which the industry developed in the first place.

The thing that has changed is that AAA budgets have ballooned to the point that their sales targets have to be unrealistic. The author suggests that needing 4 to 8 million sales to break even is too many, but a game that currently needs 8M sales would still need well over 5M even if the platform’s cut was 0%. And I don’t have any confidence that the publishers would actually reduce their expectations for units sold even in that case.

Oh wow, they really nailed the visual presentation. If you presented those screenshots as being from a lost Impressions city builder I’d have believed it.

That’s not true. I care very deeply about avoiding them.

Another that comes to mind, Colossus is…well, not this exact scenario, but relevant.

“Rich people invented homelessness in the 16th century and they’ve been mad about it ever since.”

The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.

I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.

No, no we don’t need more anti-Nazi slop. We need the real gourmet shit; anti-Nazi fine dining.

A simple mistake: he meant to say “gilded age”.

I’m sufficiently unfamiliar with New York that I had to look it up, but Rochester and Tribeca appear to be at opposite ends of the state and are presumably not served by the same physical Target store. Displaying the actual price at a location near you seems completely reasonable to me, if that’s what they’re doing.

But yes, there should be a mandate to explain what data is being used and how.

Not enough. Omega, ADoM, Angband, Crawl, and Nethack are roguelikes. Nearly every game mentioned in this article is a roguelite.

Yeah, the film winds up coming off as campy or even outright silly as the weirdness cranks up. The manga is still incredibly weird, but manages to hold the creepy tone better. Probably mostly due to what you can get away with in drawings vs live action; the screen adaptation probably would have been better as anime.

I propose “orphanware” for that subset of abandonware that has no clear owner.

Consistent with the broader term “orphan work”.

I imagine you could do something entertaining with that premise, in a Typing of the Dead sort of way.