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  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.worldTIL Stein Gate is also a game
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    idk, i kind of can’t stand this format of visual novel.

    i love books. i love story driven games. virtual novels like this somehow manage to capture the worst aspects of both. like, it’s a book that forces you to read it slowly, or at least at a somewhat fixed pace. i hate being locked to a computer to read, i hate having to either continuously click to advance to the next slids after every 2 sentences or less or have to read at a fixed pace, i honestly hate having low quality badly mixed sounds effects in my ear while I’m trying to read.

    these aren’t low gameplay games. these are just extra tedious books. I’d so much rather just read a manga every time.


  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.worldTIL Stein Gate is also a game
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    i mean sure, but we’re actually approaching the edge of what can even be considered a game.

    i don’t call those games personally. they are vaguely interactive novels. imo a physical choose your own adventure book has more “gameplay” than most of these virtual novels.

    i honestly don’t think game is the right term here. these are books with an odd format. stein’s gate included.


  • haha, i suppose so. funny to think that people generally have not respect for what bit has to say because he’s a fake AI written by a human. now the we have real AIs writing things like that people don’t like it and want to discredit them.

    what we have now just creates derivatives of existing works, but a true ai in the future would probably be built off of the foundation set by these LLMs. will that be derided in the same way? maybe some entirely new social or political issue will come into play. I doubt many people could have predicted three major political opposition to ai being artists worried about copyright and environmentalists worried about power consumption. who knows what the future will hold…






  • yeah no, this is just fixing the wording to better represent the truth that has always been.

    this is because a California law recently passed requiring these kinds of purchases to inform consumers that they don’t actually own these games. valve decided it would be easier just to do this for everyone.

    this has always been true for all digital games you purchased. the fact that you didn’t realize this is why the law was needed.

    thanks California for being the only force fighting for consumers rights in the United States. i can see why conservatives give you so much shit. you do things that matter.







  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    twitter has always been very confusing with this.

    it’s basically like a forum chain, where each reply is added over the top of the last, except the chain is upside down after the top level comment. so when you quote someone theit post will be below your post, if someone then quotes that post your new text will be placed below the first quote. at the bottom of the tweet. so it stacks new quotes at the bottom with indentation. so the top is always the newest. the bottom is the second newest, then follow the chain up from there.

    it’s a terrible system that is unnecessarily complicated and difficult to read.







  • obviously a news show isn’t going to feel the same rewatching it. that’s not the point lol.

    that would be like saying it’s dumb to preserve newspapers in libraries because it’s not going to feel as good rereading the “Hitler is dead” headline. people don’t look at old news to have a good time.

    boy was it silly of us to preserve that kind of thing and it totally never comes in handy/s

    that’s not even what people are upset about anyway. comedy Central mostly makes entertainment programming that isn’t news based and can still be enjoyed whenever. believe it or not, comedy Central has a lot of content that will stand the test of time. especially when looking at their stand-up catalogue.

    this is the destruction of a library. a digital one, but a library none the less. that’s what people are mad about.

    but you’re right. we should just dump all of our old movies and shows. they’re worthless moldy junk anyway… 🙄