They meant the president of the USA

Elon Musk is technology because he’s powered by AI (but without the dataset to back it)

You said “I’ve learned” meaning it’s not common knowledge. This post also makes it sound like something you’ve recently learned. So you should have the source handy, no?

There’s a set story, but it’s discovered. The world is wide open, and the player can go anywhere right at the start of the game. There’s minimal railroading at any point.

Unless I misunderstood what you meant by emergent narrative. The progression through the game requires the player to learn what to do by interacting with aliens and also exploring a bit. There is an in-game hint system (an alien dialogue tree with prices), but there are often multiple solutions to each “problem”. The player can even get through the game being good or evil – whatever they choose!

The game plays very differently than ME, but you’ll probably find the dialogue trees very familiar. And I think SC2 actually does them better than ME.

What made you buy your monitor?

Having a monitor at all has plenty of killer apps: Anything that it displays that you want to use that you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise without a monitor.

But your particular monitor? Well, it looks like the Apple VR thing is about 10x to 20x the price of a basic VR headset. Is your particular monitor 10x to 20x the cost of a regular monitor? If so, there probably is some killer app that made you get a fancy monitor. And maybe it’s something that no other monitor can do… otherwise, why spend 10x to 20x as much?

If the Apple VR thing also has a computer built in (and its own specialized software), then comparing it to a monitor isn’t accurate. It’s not a peripheral when it’s a standalone device.

The conclusion I draw from this is that people don’t like having to wear special glasses or a device strapped to their face, even if it is relatively cheap to produce.

Bingo. I often used the 3D on the 3DS, but that’s because I didn’t have to do anything other than not move the device around too much. So it worked for gaming at home, not on/in a vehicle.

I forgot to mention that part – yeah, the series is still alive, and fans have been waiting for that sequel from the original creators for what, 30 years now?

A game that meaningful should always be given a look, even if it can feel a bit “dated” in some ways.

Thanks for bringing that up!

There’s the game that inspired them from the early 90s, Star Control 2.

It’s free on Steam as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, but the best way to play it today is Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod. So many QoL features!

The game also had some sequels, including Star Control Origins, which is a more modern game, but the story isn’t quite as good.

Star Control 3 exists, but sucks.

And then there’s the series from the 80s that inspired this one, Starflight. That one was too dated for me to get into, though.

Thank you for getting what I meant, lol

I think a lot of people are missing the point, but the commenter that replied to you got it.

What I’m saying is that many people are happy to BS and repeat things that they’ve read or heard as if it were fact. Meanwhile they did get it from their hairdresser. But because they repeated it with confidence, someone else would then repeat it because they read it on the internet from someone who seems to know what they’re talking about.

The cycle continues.

But if people say “I heard from my hairdresser/LLM”, then people know to take it with a grain of salt, or will call someone out on it.

I’m not saying the LLM is a good source, nor am I saying it’s good when someone uses one as a source. I’m saying it’s good when someone mentions that an LLM is their source for something they’re saying.

Hey, at least some people are citing their sources.

How often do people say stuff like that without telling others where it came from? It’s easy enough to accept things as true if they sound reasonable. Having a source means that grain of salt is already there.

Why would I want to subject my pet companion to being forced to pose for pictures with ghosts? That just sounds cruel!

Balthier is the real protagonist, though Asche is another contender.

Vaan is the player character, but he might as well be the silent “protagonist”/PC that gets dragged through the plot that’s led by the actual protagonist(s). He probably would’ve been better that way.

Rock Band 2. Bladder of Steel achievement playing with a full band of 4 (locally).

It’s playing the entire setlist of 84 or so songs all the way through in one sitting. Without pausing or failing.

We did it with all instruments on Medium, but we did it! (I could pass anything on Expert, but maybe not all the way through. My friends were borderline Hard players at best, so Medium was the only way we’d ever be able to do it together)

Also 0s and 1s!

The options are to hope the writing is accurate, or to change the connector to break cross-compatibility.

Buy cables from reputable sources and return anything that doesn’t do what it’s advertised to do, I guess. I like having as few ports as possible! Haha

Or the GameCube…or an add-on to the N64.

The N64’s codename was the Ultra 64 afterall!

the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

Am I missing some bit of context? Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy still exist (and came first).

putting it on stickers and menus imposes more work on the business whenever the sales tax changes.

Boohoo. Other countries have figured it out. If we can’t get fast and efficient trains like other countries have, we can at least stick the tax into the sticker price.

Keeping tax off the sticker makes the price seem artificially lower, this making people spend more money.

Definitely. I wish we’d ban tipping in North America.

And also put the taxes into the sticker/menu prices. No more of this price jumping at the register.