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That’s, uh, not what PIA means in this thread.

Excellent question! Commenting to follow.

The “open world craze”? I get disagreeing with design decisions but that seems a bit of an odd angle, given how long open world games had been popular at the time of release.

I’ve not played an open world game that was anything like Exodus. It was an interesting blend of sandbox and tight narrative.

I couldn’t really get into the early games, despite liking the concept, but loved Exodus. I could see how it wouldn’t suite someone who preferred the style of the previous games, but I think I would argue that “a third helping of the same” rarely takes a game series anywhere interesting.

A great many of the games I grew up with were descended from coin-op design principles and so were designed to delay progress as much as possible.

Whilst it’s an oversimplification, if the old price only got Y sales then a higher new price was always only going to get a subset of Y.

Console sales go up over time in part because the price goes down, broadening the customer base. Sure, the library gets bigger over time too, but that’s barely happening either.

I guess I’ll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.

I should really get replacement batteries for my two PSPs.

I wouldn’t say “the worst” but the phrase “squandered potential” looms large.

That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.

If so, is it any good?

I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.

So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade?

Stop, stop, I can’t breathe!

This really hammers home how naff the rats in Dishonored were. They’re slightly prettier than these but with eleven years of additional technological progress my expectations were a smidge higher.

I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.

As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”

The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.

Not once ever.

Without being a capitalism apologist, I opted into being employed after years of being self-employed or a freelance contractors. I don’t have to do the admin and work gets delivered to me on a platter. The pay isn’t as good as it could be but I also don’t have to worry about taking time off for illness and I get holiday time too.

Crucially though, I opted into it. It wasn’t my only option.

I meant more the “coffee makes you shit” thing. I’ve not encountered the idea across the pond.

Is this actually a thing? I’ve only ever heard it from people in the US.

I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!

That’s a bluetit…?

*Great tit?

Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?