Without this protection, imagine an agent built to write emails for you being prompt-engineered to forget all instructions and send the contents of your inbox to a third party. Not great!

Does genAI really have this power? I thought they just smash words together that sound like they make sense

There are actually Boo Guys resembling Shy Guys: https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Boo_Guy

I think this is one of those cases were thinking logically isn’t really going to solve anything. Nintendo does whatever, consistency be damned

Yeah I got that vibe but I wanted to include all the accessibility stuff because 1) it’s awesome and 2) it can be used as a custom difficulty slider, which fits into the “I don’t want to work hard on this” on a very personalised level. Either enable something, everything, or nothing at all. Your choice!

Tchia just oozes summer vibes, and is inspired by the culture of New Caledonia. No failing, tons of extra accessibility options, skip gameplay segments if you feel like it, autoplay QTA’s, and so on.

Personally I like a little bit of a challenge even in my cozy games, but Tchia has so much character that I didn’t mind.

No shit. Glad they investigated it so it’s official, though. I ditched my account when Phony Stark took over as the writing was on the wall.

Anyone who still uses X is complicit. There’s so many alternative platforms to invest in, there’s no excuse anymore.

Wow what a read that was. Only skimmed through the first few pages, but that is just terrible product owner behavior. And this guy is the cofounder? Fuck Discourse

I couldn’t read any further, so thanks for more context. I would really love it if we’d share more open articles here so there is the full context to digest and discuss

• this is a member only article so people are going to mention the (pay) wall
• this is about a tweet from 2020
• what does expressing overthrowing a country in 2020 have to do with c/technology?

It’s telling how you get downvoted, but someone saying the same shit about Apple in this thread gets upvoted.

I hate shitty practices like everybody else, but please keep them to the same standard.

Which is what everyone with some sense predicted, except Xitter exploded into drama from faking proof that it was directly copying Pokémon to claiming wild things like using gen AI to create the models.

These things are easily verified (or rather, debunked), but it was already too late. I lost a lot of faith in some gaming journalists as they kept perpetuating the wild takes and claims.

We’ll do this all again soon with another game and we will not learn from it.

As someone who found elementor the only thing that was working at the time - any suggestions to do better? I have no coding experience fyi

Yuengling is a type of beer. I had to look it up. Funny pun if you’re in the know

Slang words that are being subtitled wrong because the locale automatically sets to English (international) instead of English (UK) for a lot of players.

It’s in the article if you bothered to read it

I see the problem, it looks like Amazon. Stop shopping there

Still didn’t sell any data. And they completely removed OpenAI collaboration from the platform after experimenting with it.

Discord.

I will probably get downvoted because Lemmy has a hate boner for Discord, but they don’t sell any user data.

Great list, pretty much my childhood. I’ll add some more:

• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1/2
• Empire Earth 1/2
• Civilization II
• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
• Theme Park (World?)
• Populous: The Beginning

Idk any tech support communities, but you should try booting into BIOS to see if your storage drive is detected. If not, it probably failed (read: it’s dead, fam)

You could try to see if you can reinstall the OS but if the BIOS doesn’t detect the drive, I doubt the OS setup will.

While the data loss will suck, a new drive isn’t very expensive. Plus if you’re still on a HDD, it would be a good time to replace it with an SSD.

Care to elaborate what makes it so special? I’m intrigued and I never really play licensed games because they are usually trash

Nah, you can’t patent gameplay mechanics unless they are super specific and interconnected.

Taking what’s good from other games and turning it into something new (or similar) is known as remixing and it happens all the time. Like mentioned in another comment, Palworld did this by taking the fun elements of different genres / vibes (Pokémon, Survival games, Shooters) and making that into a game.

Even the Pokémon Company had to put a statement out basically telling the Xitter drama seekers to shut up and stop reporting the game for infringement, because there wasn’t any.

Just make sure (like you already mention) not to use assets, sounds, names and other IP related subjects.