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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

Sometimes you just gotta check shit out

[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Honestly one of the more relatable things he’s done

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of those concepts that, despite being done a thousand times by real artists, AI just can’t really capture in a meaningful way.

It’s very bleh. It’s got the elements. Hey look it’s a big star system and there’s kind of a big squid thing out of it and a bunch of eyes placed everywhere just kind of willy nilly. But there’s something the AI fundamentally doesn’t “get” that normally makes these types of pictures feel spookier or more interesting to look at.

It’s just kind of slop. Glad that it means real artists still have a place.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean… most industrial machines have a stop button present on them (though not on the controller). I’m not sure that the sub having a “stop imploding” button on the inside of the hull would have done much good though

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The controller is not a life support device. It’s an input device. It is designed with the express purpose as being an input device.

Again, any one million dollar “special submarine input device” they could have manufactured would be less tested and more prone to failure than a simple controller already subject to decades of research and both hands on and automated testing.

I’m not trying to be mean to you and I hope you don’t take it as such, it’s just really standard practice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I mean. Yeah. It does. The controller didn’t fail during the submarines trip lol. It was perfectly fine the whole time.

Trying to over engineer a specific entirely new device when incredibly developed options already exist is kind of an engineering mindset failure that would only lead to more problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This post makes a sweeping assumption Linux users would have women flirt with them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Yeah I know, it’s actually the same one I use on my CNC machine. The OP just said PlayStation as kind of a general purpose term

[–] [email protected] 118 points 7 months ago (23 children)

Just as a fun fact, it’s actually quite common for industrial machinery and the like to be controlled with a gaming controller. Like, a hundred things wrong with the submarine trip - but the PlayStation controller is genuinely one of the more legitimate aspects.

They’re simply made well, easy to use, and typically extremely durable and long lasting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

… it’s because I didn’t laugh at your joke?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

… this is all because I said you wernt the smartest cookie…?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is actually because I said you wernt “the smartest cookie”?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/23125646

Just figured I’d share. Regardless of if you’re a big monkey island fan or not (and you should be, in my biased opinion) you’ve almost definitely played games made by people inspired by it. Good video!

 

Just figured I’d share. Regardless of if you’re a big monkey island fan or not (and you should be, in my biased opinion) you’ve almost definitely played games made by people inspired by it. Good video!

 

Just wondering. The show seems to be in kind of an… odd state. I only watched the first episode, didn’t love it, none of my friends expressed positive feelings..

… but it’s got pretty good critical reviews, it’s getting a second season this year, and honestly it often “looks good” from promotional material.

Is it worth giving a second shot? Is anyone looking forward to the second season?

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There's no one in this community yet other than me, but I just figured I'd write a short little post just to start things off.

As a big Sierra fan, especially of the Gabriel Knight (and Quest for Glory Games), I only recently found out that two novelizations were made of the Gabriel Knight series! And well, I also like to read, so I briskly read through them.

The books are Sins of the Father and The Beast within, the first two games respectively. And they're... pretty good! They're essentially a beat for beat telling of the games, with only very occasional detours to say whats on Gabriel's mind, or maybe provide just a little more context and logic to make a video game mechanic make more sense in a written narrative. If you've played the games they're also incredibly fast reads - being basic in their prose and easy to visualize from the game.

Anyway. They are a bit hard to find these days. Sins of the Father goes for $20-25 on secondhand markets, and The Beast Within often has an asking price of $70! I'm guessing the vast majority of the books are largely just seen as pulpy fiction stories to the vast majority of people, so I can imagine that they're quick to get binned and otherwise neglected.

You can still read them online quite easily, and it's well worth it if you're a fan. Might be a good replacement of replaying the games!

I only wish they had made the third game into a book - seeing that it's nearly impossible to run and experience first hand these days.

Let me know if you've read or heard of them!

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