The only real downside I’ve run into is it’s very opinionated about folder structures around authors.

The one I’ve enjoyed the most is https://www.audiobookshelf.org/, it may be “focused” on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).

Ah, if your preference is pixel graphics then Blasphemous 1 & 2 would probably be your pace if you haven’t played them.

To me, the GoW gameplay looked a little to heavy and stiff (especially for it being GoW).

If you think this looks good, then the newly announced castlevania game will blow you away - https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/belmonts_curse/us/en-us/

Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.

Examples on the page seem to indicate it does OCR then translates the OCR text.

It doesn’t seem as fancy as some translation tools that overlay the translation, if that’s what you meant.

Edit: actually maybe it can - https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/23834337

Sounds like we are talking about different kinds of “access”. My original post was just lamenting that to the general web, discord is like a black hole. Things go there and never come out as you can only access the content through its app.

That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.

A lot of discord content is private, and those that aren’t require you to have discord to search. On top of that, I’m pretty sure you need to join a server before you can search it’s contents.

Since I don’t use discord, there is no real way for me to access content hosted on it. Compared to Reddit or a Forum, I don’t need to be a member of the community to access information shared there.

That’s really weird

What?

Are there fighting games with real people?

At least public githubs aren’t difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.

Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.

It’s also such a detriment to sports. In the US they relaxed sports betting laws a while back and it’s ruined watching sports on the tv (and in some ways in person).

Its also been frustrating to watch sports betting scandals continue to pop up over and over again. The most ridiculous is the recent NCAA basketball point shaving, where a bunch of players on college teams (even low ranked ones) were purposefully rigging games to make millions.

Props for actually trying to break down the question and answer it.

Not sure if you really want to know, but a Google paper is where transformers (backbone of LLMs) were first mentioned (2016 I believe). Google initially used transformers for translations and eventually search, but OpenAI experimented with them for text generation (gpt 1+) eventually leading to chatgpt.

I feel like a majority of tech has been in this rut for a while. CPUs, GPUs, audio, wifi, 4g VS 5g, screens/tvs, etc. all seem to provide the most incremental upgrades each iteration. For a while phones seemed to be making leaps and bounds, but feel relatively the same generation to generation now.

I think the main area I feel like I’ve seen some movement is battery tech. Some new materials and better/longer batteries are making some movement, but tech hardware feels relatively static the past decade or so.

Surprised no one mentioned the Batman Arkham games or Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (2013-2018). Both are third person action games with simple, but enjoyable upgrade elements.

Arkham Asylum may feel a bit dated, but Arkham City and Knight should still feel pretty fresh. And I think the Tomb Raider games hold up well.

I also suspect you’ve played them, but the Uncharted series is also great.

Other mentions that fit the third person, decent-good story, and fast/fun action:

• Sunset Overdrive
• Hi-fi Rush (rhythm game)
• Bayonetta Series (DMC like series)
• Nier series
• Kena Bridge of Spirits
• Just Cause Series (I think the stories are a little weak for this series, more about sandbox play).
• Infamous series (superhero themed 3rd person action game made by the same people who made Spiderman)

That’s the whole point of science - Why is this the way it is?!

If they can make the steam deck for $350, why would the steam machine cost 3x more? Similarly if Sony and Xbox are selling their consoles for $500-600 it would indicate that something a bit more would be feasible. Sony and Xbox get some economies of scale, but most evidence points to them selling at cost or making some profit (from what I recall).

That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.

That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.