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Is he still carrying his little human shield around with him everywhere or can someone Luigi this fucker already?

It also had some big gameplay departures from 1 & 2. I’m not talking about being an FPS (although no longer having to worry about accuracy was pretty significant) but the fact that putting on different clothing magically made you more intelligent, and that it was a lot easier to do everything.
In FO3 you can pick all the locks, hack all the computers, pass all the conversation checks, and take on hordes of enemies all by yourself. In FO1+2 you had to pick the couple of things you were good at and not be able to do the other things until your next run.

3. Your opposition has empathy

why don’t they program them to look up math programs and outsource chess to other programs when they’re asked for that stuff?

Because the AI doesn’t know what it’s being asked, it’s just a algorithm guessing what the next word in a reply is. It has no understanding of what the words mean.

“Why doesn’t the man in the Chinese room just use a calculator for math questions?”

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Kinda of actually

I’m reminded of an early model that was trained to find if tanks were hiding pictures of forests / jungles. Was doing great with the training data then was given new images and seemed to be guessing wildly.

Turns out it in the training data all the pictures with tanks were taken on cloudy days.

They’re actors. In Mario Brothers 3 you can see the background bolted to the set and you go back stage at the end of every level. It’s a production. Then they do celebrity sporting events.

How long before people get complaints about something said in the summary which is incorrect?

The business model isn’t terrible, it makes money, but it is terrible for the consumer

I am aggressively opposed to anything that is profitable at the expense of the consumer. That is a terrible business model.

You are not entitled to get things the way you want them.

“You want to purchase something and use it the way you want to? How entitled can you get?”

How DARE you suggest things should be better for me, the consumer, instead of the way our corporate overlords feel is more profitable!

Well, that’s certainly an… Interesting take on someone saying things should be better…

This is my personal machine that I own, there is no reason for my operating system to “hide” options from me. If I want to never update my system or delete core operating files that’s my fucking problem to deal with.

You know what else windows hides from normal users? How to disable information tracking, ads, and this AI bullshit.

When you pull out “software I didn’t start for six months wants to update”

Did the software “want” to update or “force” an update? There’s a meaningful difference there and windows often doesn’t give you a choice or do anything else while it’s updating.

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You haven’t met a pre teen. You’re also ignoring the problem of false positives.

“It doesn’t matter how strict the punishment is, only criminals will be punished” only works if only criminals are punished. There’s plenty of stories of accounts being banned when no rules were broken.

Right, children are known for being well behaved and following the rules…

I remember as a child playing 2 player Tetris on the original Gameboy, which required a cable connecting the two devices. I figured out if I watched my opponent’s height indicator on my screen and saw it drop suddenly I could unplug the cable from my device and not get sent the extra lines. It was a cheat and an exploit that I stumbled upon because I was curious what would happen. That “I wonder what would happen” attitude can now apparently cause Nintendo to purposely brick the device.

patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all

It’s not allowed at all in board games. There’s a known issue that someone could completly copy the mechanics of a board game, and as long as they don’t copy the art or the exact text of the rulebook there is no legal means to stop it.

Boardgamers are aware of this, and agree that it is better for development of future games than if someone could own the idea of “rolling a dice”, so if knockoffs do come around they tend to quickly get called out and not purchased.

I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

no, I don’t have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

So you wouldn’t bothering reading the reviews of people who ate shit either.