Regarding Order of Ecclesia, it’s even less connected than Portrait of Ruin, which at least has a central hub. Only the very last part opens up a bit but it’s not a big area. The rest is almost completely linear and made of separate, small levels, featuring a bit of backtracking for specific quests. Calling it a metroidvania is almost a stretch at this point.

It is pretty good though and I liked it a lot. It almost feels like the missing link between classicvanias and metroidvanias, especially in hard mode.

I had no idea there was a trademark on the JavaScript name.

Return to Dreamland is an original game though. Which is even more confusing in Europe where it’s called Kirby’s Adventure Wii, while being completely different from Kirby’s Adventure.

However, Nightmare in Dreamland (GBA) is an actual NES Kirby’s Adventure’s remake.

Kirby game titles are a mess, especially since they’re almost all different in every region.

IMO I think it’s less “understand” and more “find a way cheese those bullshit Iron Knuckle fights”. I’ve completed Zelda 2 a few times. Those are still torture and terribly un-fun.

I was going to recommend Bomberman. Super Bomberman 4 on SNES in particular is very fun, you can grab not only bombs but opponents too, and there are cool mounts with special powers. A bit chaotic in some arenas, but the classics are still there of you want them, and then when everyone gets better ot wants a quick laugh, you can go for the crazier ones.

The AI answer mostly just parrots whatever the site that has won the referencement war is spewing. If it’s easy enough, it can luck out and find an easy ready answer on wikipedia or something. Beyond that, most of those high referenced sites are the shitty aggregators that already pollute the search results.

I often search for the correct way to do do something. For example, there’s a lot of baseless bullshit in gardening. If there wasn’t an AI answer, I would not trust the first result and stop there, I would look for a few, check what sources they have. I would not even take the wikipedia answer at face value without at least confirming where they got their info.

We know AI doesn’t do that. We have examples of it not even recognizing obvious parody, it can’t be trusted with recognizing unsourced shit.

Given how wrong/ridiculously oversimplified those AI summaries usually are, it scares me that so many people would stop there like, “Ehh, good enough”.

I bet some people will find a way to disalign generation through the original model and get stuff like that anyway.

I had CPC Jaws, it was an action game.

Pure videogame logic. You had the tiniest submarine and you had to explore underwater caves full of killer starfish and other unspecified marine creatures. The goal was to fish out parts of the ultimate anti-shark gun and use it on the shark.

Said shark patrolled the area just below the surface. Not sure how big the submarine was supposed to be, but comparing sizes, I think that shark must have been a freaking megalodon.

A lot less than 20% when it comes to specific subjects. The great thing about reddit was finding communities around just about every topic or hobby. If 100 people had a passion for something they could meet on Reddit and still have a comfy, somewhat active sub reddit.

On Lemmy you’ve got generic technology, generic news, generic videogames, generic pics, and almost everything else doesn’t get enough traction to keep living. It’s a basic population problem, the fraction of people knowing about Lemmy is just not enough to gather around shared stuff. Even those that do use Lemmy are probably not aware of every community attempt that could interest them.

I still see more communities being abandoned than new ones appearing.

Mirror’s Edge technically was on console before PC. Only for like two months, but still.

high-tech gimp mask

Okay, I wasn’t sure how to describe this… This is perfect.

Chiropractics is brain waste in itself.

I don’t know what’s included in batocera, but obviously, there’s a big difference between GBA and NES/SNES multiplayer.

NES/SNES multiplayer is one system with 2 controllers plugged in. To do multiplayer on GBA each player needed their own GBA, and you’d link those together. So if you emulate that on one device it would have to emulate 2 or more systems at once.

You know, despite not really believing LLM “intelligence” works anywhere like real intelligence, I kind of thought maybe being good at recognizing patterns was a way to emulate it to a point…

But that study seems to prove they’re still not even good at that. At first I was wondering how hard the puzzles must have been, and then there’s a bit about LLM finishing 100 move towers of Hanoï (on which they were trained) and failing 4 move river crossings. Logically, those problems are very similar… Also, failing to apply a step-by-step solution they were given.

I mean, that sounds obvious to me after that one : https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/

Nevermind having to talk to human people to buy food, the zuck thinks your friends should be AI too.

I hate that both trademarks exist, but I’d say using a name form a Tolkien work to develop weapons is especially wrong. Like, abject.

Oops, my bad, didn’t want to antagonize anyone and possibly trigger a holy war of sort.

Enjoy your preferred form of altered yeast.

Hey, not all of us pal region people are weirdoes. I don’t want anything to do with marmite.

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

I don’t know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.