It's on the list of commercial failures in video games.
ryven
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I played one zoi through most of the idol career track. The career gameplay is very similar to Sims 4, in that you go to your work lot and try to perform all your work tasks before the end of the day. Similarly to Sims 4, I didn't feel like there was a meaningful sense of progression in my skills and career. I went from having 0 in the career relevant skills like singing and dancing to having them maxed out in, IIRC, a little over an in-game week, in which time I didn't perform in any idol shows because that didn't seem to be implemented: work was always training, never performing. (It's possible this has been updated since I played, which was in April, or that performing is hidden behind the very last level of the career track, which I don't think I reached.) Like Sims, you never struggle to advance a skill or have any kind of challenge to overcome, you can improve at anything indefinitely by practicing alone. I started a romance with a coworker, but it wasn't very interesting: it didn't cause drama at work, it didn't affect how my other coworkers thought of me (which was mostly "not at all"), and it wasn't clear to me if the other zoi had any skills, interests or hobbies outside of work. Similarly to the Sims, I think we were at the point where I could have proposed after only one date, which mostly consisted of hanging out at the park. It seems like, similarly to Sims, the actual game mechanics are fairly basic and you need to invent a good deal of your own fun.
I liked being able to customize items by importing textures. The AI texture generator isn't any good, but the option to noodle around in GIMP and then put my texture on something in the game is neat. I also imported images to make custom posters for my zoi's room. There is also an option to turn a photo of an object into a 3D model of a decoration to place in your house or wear as an accessory, which I had mixed results with but was at least novel.
Do the githzerai reject violence? They have a whole order of psionic warriors called the zerth. I got the impression they think violence should be used responsibly when it is necessary to defend the freedom of sapient beings against tyranny—they certainly don't regret the rebellion against the illithids, for example.
This article is about the big gap in similar games that occurred after the release of Icewind Dale 2 in 2002. And as the article says, it has nothing to do with their popularity among gamers, it was due to retailers throwing their weight around. There weren't as many good options for direct-to-consumer sales at that time, so you had to sell the game to retailers before you could sell it to customers.
This "fact sheet" looks like Lockheed Martin marketing material. I feel like an enthusiast's fact sheet would be more likely to focus on the plane itself instead of the programs and partnerships.
I have so many good memories of playing Rock Band in college. I just picked this up for PS4 for like $10, but it looks like the instruments are going to cost an arm and a leg...
The machine seems to be called "Cashnado Alert" so I think you're onto something about the touch screen mechanics.
I thought I knew which study this was talking about, and I was going to say "Yes, it's to help with situations where surgical intervention is needed to put the bone back together" but I went and found the article I read and that one was a team of American and Korean scientists, so I actually don't know about the Chinese one. I assume it's the same idea, that it's for use in surgical situations.
The one I thought it was talking about was this one, which is a cool idea but still has some kinks to work out.
Granddad was the Adult Pro Max in our family. Since he passed, Mom and I are both bad at adulting, so we just call each other to commiserate. :P
I'm almost positive that what actually happened is that the response the chef cut off included an instruction to mix the ingredients, but he cut it off before it could say that. I bet the LLM doesn't get any feedback about whether or not the voice module got through the whole response, so it couldn't account for him not having heard it. He probably could have gotten back on track by saying something like "I haven't mixed the ingredients yet, let's start over."
The ingredients list it was going through before he cut it off probably mentioned the pear too, which would have been a good time for him to say "We don't have a pear, is there a sauce we can make using only the ingredients visible here?" but he was afraid of going off script.
More like:
ME: Aw, hey, don't say that. You know things.
SOCRATES: Oh really? You seem well informed about me. Tell me, what is it that I know?
ME: Well, uh, you know that's a tree, right?
SOCRATES: Do I? What makes you confident that I know that?
ME: Uh, you know, you can see that it's shaped like a tree...
SOCRATES: Perhaps, but don't you think that other things could be shaped like trees, sometimes?
ME: Uh... like what?
SOCRATES: Hey, I'm asking the questions here, wise guy! Anyway, you seem to know a lot about trees, can you tell me how to know the difference between a tree and a large bush?
ME: Well I'm actually not, like, a botanist...
SOCRATES: So you don't know? But you seemed so confident that I knew! Perhaps it's not trees you're well informed about, but knowledge itself? Tell me, what does it mean to know something?
ME: *epistemological stammering*
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There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down
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Spoilers for the Wyrmway
In the room where you must demonstrate insight by striking down a representation of one of three writers, Amaps is represented as a tiefling:
However, the book he wrote clearly indicates that he was a halfling:
This is halfling erasure!
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