Looks like it’s this.

Wonder how many of those courses are AI-generated themselves…

I don’t know about him specifically, but I’d say it’s a shift in opinion that many of us went through. 2008 was a very different world. Amazon wasn’t quite the evil empire it is today. It was one of the only usable online shops, leagues ahead of almost everything else available.

Welcome back! BTW, there were some users wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: https://pawb.social/post/33129287

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.

My company has 2 CEOs. One of them doesn’t ever really talk about AI. The other one is personally obsessed with the topic. His picture on Teams is AI generated and every other day, he posts some random AI tutorial or news into work channels. His client presentations are mostly written by ChatGPT. But luckily, nothing is being forced on us developers. The company is very hands-off in general (some may say disorganized) and we can pretty much use any tools and methods we choose, as long as we deliver good results. I personally use AI only occassionally, mostly for quick prototyping in languages and frameworks I’m unfamiliar with. None of the other devs are very enthusiastic about AI either.

Browsing various art platforms, when I see a user where I’m not entirely sure if their art is AI (usually I think I can tell immediately though), I check how old their profile is. If it’s older than 2024, I check how their art from before that year looks. If there hasn’t been a sudden and radical shift in style and skill, I consider the art human-made. Otherwise, likely AI.

That method might be a tad unfair to artists who are only starting out now, but I don’t know of any better way.

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With the Android app, I believe you’ll need to write the data to something like an NFC card which then acts as an Amiibo. I got a Pixl.js device off Aliexpress for 12€, which came preloaded with all amiibos (up to that point).

I managed to put the Prime 4 amiibos on it now as well. The unlocks are nice, but far from essential I have to say. The music gives the motorcycle sections some variety, but I kind of prefer the original ambience, as it gives more of an eery desert vibe.

I didn’t. I actually recently bought one of those Amiibo spoofing devices, but I haven’t found any .bin files for the MP4 Amiibos yet. From what I’ve read, they unlock a number of musical tracks you can play while on the bike, as well as some visual bike customization options. The music especially would be nice to have, as it would make trekking through the desert less monotonous.

I got it a day early yesterday and I’ve played around 4 hours now. I quite like it so far. Graphics are gorgeous and the soundtrack is amazing. Gameplay-wise it’s pretty much the familiar Metroid Prime gameplay loop of exploring, puzzle solving and getting upgrades. Riding the bike is fun, but the hub world itself is pretty empty and pretty much just a way to get from one area to the another. Due to that structure, the various zones you explore aren’t as interconnected as they were in older Prime games. Overall, the 8/10 ratings it gets on average seem about right to me. It’s not groundbreaking, but still a very good entry in the Metroid Prime series.

The sanctions did impact Steam’s operations in Russia. Russian users currently can’t use any payment methods to buy games aside from Steam Wallet funds.

I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.

In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.

I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean’s words here. “In the background” could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it’s another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don’t think Sean’s comment here tells us anything either way.

Tons of things. Instantly talking to a person the next town over, let alone the other side of the world. Turning on a light source whenever we want. Freezing a moment in time by taking a photograph. Etc

The pedant in me also feels the need to point out that the 1600s weren’t medieval though.

I’m sure that’s the case at some companies, but where I work, I can freely choose which tools I use for coding and whether or not to use AI, despite one of my bosses being obsessed with it.

Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. Last played September 2016 apparently. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.

As long as AI doesn’t take away our hands, it’ll always be perfectly possible to draw our own art, compose our own music and write our own code. And especially in the open-source space, there’s plenty of creative software not jumping on the AI bandwagon.

Even if that did happen, it wouldn’t defeat the point of the disclosures at all. In fact, people will appreciate it all the more if a game is made without any AI involvement and it will become a selling point.

I initially installed Bazzite when switching to Linux, but the development experience made me switch to Kubuntu after a few days. I’ve had various problems with development tools which probably related to Bazzite’s immutability. For example I couldn’t get Godot to connect with a code editor. I’m sure there were solutions to those problems, but I haven’t regretted switching. Development works great now and gaming feels just as good to me as it did on Bazzite.

You’re right, good catch. Canadian dollars makes sense.