Pretty funny that the very first screenshot on the store page is of the player flipping off an enemy.

So stupid. The posts say this was back in 2023 as well, so the slop writing would’ve been absolutely godawful compared to the work of even a half-decent professional writer. Even now the latest models are still painfully mediocre in their output.

But:

Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

Demonstrates how Steam’s AI disclosures are basically useless if companies decide to simply not play along.

Why would any developer voluntarily disclose the use of AI when all it will do is result in some people not purchasing the game? Might as well just make a lie of omission. It’s pure theatre.

Was £1,235/mo in 2016, now a similar flat in the same block is around £2,000/mo.

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s not higher.

If it’s for iOS, is there any reason you’re not just using Notes and Reminders? Either one of them could easily handle the use cases listed, including sync between users/devices.

There’s a detailed wiki article about it here.

TLDR: it’s specific to the US and UK, has been in use for over a century, and is largely metaphorical.

The Vlambeer co-founder’s workgroup – entitled “We’re moving fast and losing what made us good (creativity, craft & the future)” – called for the industry to reject risk-averse decision-making, asserting that the reflexive avoidance of failure has become a greater threat to success than the inherent uncertainty of creative work.

Ultimately, the group concluded that unique products are forged through internal coherence and disciplined validation, rather than “sanding down the edges” to appeal to everyone.

This will never happen in the AAA space. There’s simply too much money involved for true creativity to be given priority, let alone to thrive. Anyone still looking to AAA for that hasn’t been paying attention.

The days of big publishers regularly and reliably releasing great and innovative games are gone and they aren’t coming back - that torch has been irrevocably passed on to indie studios and solo developers, for better and for worse.

I worked on a game where we added the ability for the player to react to messages from other characters, but was told we had to remove 👍 as a reaction because it’s offensive in some places.

Yeah a two-finger salute (back of hand facing them) is equivalent to giving the middle finger in the UK.

As others have already mentioned:

• Japanese convention is that O means yes (like circling an answer on a test) and X means no (like crossing something out).
• It’s a Japanese console so actually it’s the rest of the world that flipped it.

Another point to consider is that Japanese is typically read from right-to-left, so the ‘first’ button is O. See also: Nintendo controllers, which still use ABXY in a ‘backwards’ arrangement, with A on the right.

As for why western developers decided to flip the controls? No idea who started it or why, but it’s become the global convention. That said, I remember a lot of PS1 games using triangle as the back button.

I would think that whatever browser you use would, presumably, make little difference to how much data a website tries to send you? It would only change what’s displayed. (But happy to be corrected on that by someone more knowledgeable.)

If your connection really is limited to such a slow speed, you might need to find a proxy server that strips out as much as possible before it reaches you.

Rockstar and shoddy PC ports. Name a more iconic combo.

You’re kidding, right? There are so many weird or flat-out bad Worms sequels and spin offs. It could be a poster child for IP excess.

Worms Blast? Worms Golf? Worms Rumble?

They struck gold with Worms 2/Armageddon in 1997 and have been dining out on it ever since. The last actually good Worms game was WMD a decade ago, and that was because they returned to the old formula.

I realise it’s not really the point here, but calling Jeffrey Epstein a celebrity seems comically reductive.

Like, yeah, technically I guess it’s true? But it’s not the word that springs to mind when most people think of him. Made me chuckle.

Likening Sony’s latest crappy video game DRM to the abhorrent cruelty of the US medical insurance system is kind of distasteful IMO. There are no lives at risk here, just angry gamers.

I guess so? But that seems a bit like grasping at straws. They still have access to the games, unlike what the outrage-bait headline suggests.

And even in those cases, they could just switch to a rival service like GeForce Now, which still allows you to import third party libraries for streaming.

https://www.dualshockers.com/amazon-lunas-changes-has-players-panicking-but-they-dont-need-to/

Yes, it’s true that you won’t be able to access your third-party games through Luna anymore. However, you’ll be able to access those games through the third-party account you had to link to Luna to purchase the game. As an example, if you purchased a game from EA on Luna, then you’ll be able to continue playing that game through EA directly after these changes to Luna’s services go into effect. You aren’t getting refunds because you aren’t losing the games. You’re only losing access to them through Luna, which is fundamentally different from losing the game entirely.

It’s not just implied, it’s explicitly stated:

For the time being, we will allow Catalog titles that have used AI assistance in the coding process, but we will flag any title as such and specify the extent that it was used (for example, “Lua debugging”) so the customer can decide whether to support it or not.

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Yeah, I think I saw that it was an option in the menu and raised an eyebrow, then immediately forgot it existed. Classic EA move at the time to try and cram multiplayer into everything (see also: Dead Space 3).

It’s important to note that the mod is built for Half-Life: Source rather than the original version.

I assume this was to allow for the more advanced NPC behaviours, but targeting a delisted and near-universally panned remake is certainly a choice.