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  • If you need someone to remember completely useless trivia like Pokémon type matchups and the years of video game releases, I’m your guy.

    If you want me to remember what I ate yesterday, I couldn’t tell you. If you want me to remember what cities I visited on my trip to Europe two years ago, I’d literally have to look at my notes; the specifics of my autobiographical memory, even for major events, quickly dissolve into a blur of impressions and images.

    Once my boss, looking for someone to blame for some infraction, asked me “Did you work yesterday?” I couldn’t recall what I’d done the day before, so I started to “umm” while I thought about the schedule and tried to remember if I’d already had my days off that week, but I couldn’t bring it to mind… so I had to admit that I didn’t know. My boss said, disbelieving, “You don’t remember if you worked yesterday!?” I said, “You know, the days all blur together…” and he just shook his head and walked off to bother someone else.



  • Pokémon Infinite Fusion is really good. It’s Kanto but you can splice Pokémon together for fun and/or advantage, combining their types and movesets, and a ton of the possible combos have custom sprites. (The ones that don’t have custom sprites use old auto-generated sprites, which are at least usually funny.)

    There are about 500 canonical 'mons, which means over 200,000 fusions!

    Don’t trust Google, people are making fake download sites. Get the game from the Discord.

    (Yes, Discord is a terrible place to keep the canonical download links. No, I don’t know why it’s like that. Yes, this whole thing was made in RPG Maker, somehow!)



  • I am just about to start the DLC, but I think the quality of the major bosses in the base game is pretty good. I would actually say that my main complaint is that they aren’t balanced around using all the new bullshit, so it ends up being more fun to fight them without it. Like, I’d love to mess around with spirit summons, but most of the bosses have terrible decision making when there’s more than one target available, so you just get a bunch of free hits. For my replay I just used a bastard sword and restricted myself to “fair” Ashes of War that feel like normal parts of a weapon moveset, like Stamp (Sweep) and Impaling Thrust, and only used a shield on fights where I couldn’t figure out how to do the fight without one, like Radahn, and it was a lot of fun! I also tried out perfumes for the first time and I think they might have to be relegated to the “overpowered” section in future playthroughs: Uplifting Aromatic in particular giving on-demand Opaline Bubbletear effect is extremely powerful and let me win some fights that I wasn’t actually proficient in. (Also it’s not especially fun to farm snow trolls for Arteria Leaf once you run out.)

    My secondary complaint is that a lot of minor bosses, especially in the overworld, have a lot of terrain jank and camera issues, like Lansseax going down the nearby cliff and then having weird geometry issues with the tiny raised section down there, or the tree spirit “miniboss” in the rotten pond in the Haligtree that is encircled by raised roots that make the proper part of the boss arena too small, and which it regularly clips through during its animations, making it even harder to see what it’s doing than usual.













  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldTimmy the Pencil
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    6 months ago

    Right, it’s shocking that he snaps the pencil because the listeners were playing along, and then he suddenly went from pretending to have a friend to pretending to murder said friend. It’s the same reason you might gasp when a friendly NPC gets murdered in your D&D game: you didn’t think they were real, but you were willing to pretend they were.

    The AI hype doesn’t come from people who are pretending. It’s a different thing.